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Author Topic: [KICKSTARTER] Wolfenstein The Board Game by Archon ex Prodos Games  (Read 2213 times)

Offline diehard

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Surprised to see that this was never mentioned here. But as an old SotTR player I try to check over here whenever I come to check out the Cthulhu board. There is a Wolfenstein board game on Kickstarter right now, shortly to go within the last 48 hours. Never played the video games but as a WWWII fan I check out anything that catches my eye. While the game itself looks pretty intriguing I personally find the miniatures to be pretty impressive and would back for them alone. There is also a nice set of optional 3D terrain. If you want to check it out (hopefully I did this right) :

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonstudio/wolfenstein-the-board-game?ref=user_menu
« Last Edit: May 14, 2020, 05:55:01 PM by Westfalia Chris »
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Offline Overlord

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Re: Wolfenstein The Board Game **WARNING Archon=Prodos**
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2020, 02:04:14 PM »
I personally wouldn't touch this with a very long bargepole.

Archon Studio is Prodos. Same people. Same address. Same sh!t.

For just one thread about them on LAF look here:
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=59007.1290

Search Prodos and/or the AvP kickstarter to see the way they treat their backers. 
You won't find the original AvP KS as they hid it, but try looking here:  https://web.archive.org/web/20131128142050/http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/513277403/alien-vs-predator-the-miniatures-game

Buyer (or backer) beware!!!
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Offline Wyrmalla

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Re: Wolfenstein The Board Game
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2020, 09:34:52 PM »
I'd say that under the auspices of a large company like Bethesda then perhaps this has a better shot than their other Kickstarters. However Bethesda's own track record of giving a damn is fairly shoddy.

The Kickstarter Exclusives seem rather odd. There's just so many of them, and for central characters in the games - rather than just alternative poses. For a character based dungeon crawler like this players want to have as much choice as possible. Seems like a crappy move on the creator's part.

As does it come across like they were expected a high number of backers. Given that they're mixing in the phyiscal tokens among the stretch goals. There's no use in having one type of token modelled, whilst another's card when it comes to thinks like spawn indicators.

The Stretch Goals in general are a bit sparse. There's a lot of them, but it would have been nice if they'd included the extra scenarios and thing for each character as one thing, rather than having the base character goal, then a load of extra goals for them spread out. So you may wind up with one character who has all their stuff, others with a few extras, and some with none at all. Which wouldn't make them fun to play in games.

I wouldn't be backing this regardless - leave that up to others at my club who're into collecting these boardgame sets (you always need others to play them anyway). I dislike that certain sets have single poses, whilst others have multiples (i.e. the robot dogs). How oversized the guns are, and unrealistic some of the poses are too. Besides the company's track record of shafting their customers.


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Re: Wolfenstein The Board Game **WARNING Archon=Prodos**
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2020, 09:45:08 PM »
I personally wouldn't touch this with a very long bargepole.

Archon Studio is Prodos. Same people. Same address. Same sh!t.

For just one thread about them on LAF look here:
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=59007.1290

Search Prodos and/or the AvP kickstarter to see the way they treat their backers. 
You won't find the original AvP KS as they hid it, but try looking here:  https://web.archive.org/web/20131128142050/http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/513277403/alien-vs-predator-the-miniatures-game

Buyer (or backer) beware!!!
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Offline Dolmot

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Re: Wolfenstein The Board Game
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2020, 09:52:56 PM »
Interesting. I was eyeing this because I have fond memories of original Wolf3D. However, I also have my own dreaded pile of mega-epic Kickstarter miniature board games which haven't seen enough play yet. Luckily enough, I've received everything I've backed thus far, but sometimes the fulfilling schedules and delivery methods have caused major headache due to two-year scatter rolls and poor communication.

Most of the stuff in this campaign didn't really manage to touch that specific Wolf3D spot, thus I predicted just another boatload of plastic gathering dust and possibly more hassle with fulfilment and courier companies. Nothing essential in the extras either so I felt that it's more convenient just to buy it from a store when/if it really reaches the shelves. May have been a wise choice. Let's see. :-I

Offline Agis

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Re: Wolfenstein The Board Game
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2020, 05:27:58 PM »
I was tempted, but since they did not ship to Germany I was out anyway...
cheers and keep on gaming, Agis - http://www.adpublishing.de

Offline Grimmnar

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Re: Wolfenstein The Board Game
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2020, 07:59:58 AM »
I was tempted, but since they did not ship to Germany I was out anyway...
You could have moved. ;-)

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Re: Wolfenstein The Board Game
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2020, 04:53:39 PM »
You could have moved. ;-)

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