(KICKSTARTER) "Dark Skies in the Land of the Empires" Weird Wars dogfighting

[Fortescue-Smythe]

I have stumbled across an interesting looking kickstarter project. Sort of Weird World War II(ish) air combat, at a decent scale with model concepts ranging between 'cool' and 'eh, ridiculous, that would nevah get off the ground'.

Plus the kickstarter has a cameo appearance of Andy Chambers, of GW notoriety.  

Anyways, here's the link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/922026722/dark-skies-in-the-land-of-the-empires

[Elbows]

This is a shame...some beautiful art, and design (the box looks fantastic) but the models look simply horrid...and the names are beyond ridiculous.  I really hope the final products look 10x better than the greens, because they really really lack interesting design.   

This is absolutely something I could get into...well the idea, not the models.

[von Lucky]

24mm - God's own scale!

[Xenomrph]

Well it ain't no Crimson Skies, that's for sure. 

[grant]

I think the most overused term in gaming today is "faction".

Someone should come up with a new phrase or word for that concept.

[Maxie]

I'm not liking the models.

[CptJake]

The scale would make a nice visually interesting convention game, but is way too big for dog fighting with room to maneuver at home (in my case anyway).   Too bad.   I do like some of the designs.

[Cosmotiger]

but the models look simply horrid...and the names are beyond ridiculous.  

Not sure why they are taking aircraft makers' names from the real world and changing one letter?  
Vickers --> Vikers
Fokker --> Foker
Sukhoi --> Sukhoil
(But for some reason, they keep Mikoyan as is).

Annoying. If it's concern over trademark issues, they should drop the manufacturer's name altogether. Or do spelling changes make it more "alternative history?"

[Westfalia Chris]

Not sure why they are taking aircraft makers' names from the real world and changing one letter? 
Vickers --> Vikers
Fokker --> Foker
Sukhoi --> Sukhoil
(But for some reason, they keep Mikoyan as is).

Annoying. If it's concern over d trademark issues, they should drop the manufacturer's name altogether. Or do spelling changes make it more "alternative history?"

It's a Kickstarter. They'll possibly have to achieve a certain pledge level before they can afford proper orthography.

Apart from that, as a big Crimson Skies fan since '98, this one warrants a decidedly derisive "meh" in my book.

[Wirelizard]

I tripped over this one earlier today (being off sick from work after a bout of food poisoning does have some advantages...) and was confused too.

24mm (1/72nd, supposedly, so why not just call it that?) is freakin' huge for tabletop aircraft, the background is bland and deeply unoriginal, and a lot of the designs are even more aerodynamically confused that some of Crimson Skies best.

If they played up the Cthulhoid aspect and dropped the scale of the models to 1/300 or something smaller than 1/72 and had a more original or at least more interesting background, I might be interested despite a mild allergy to Kickstarter. As is? Meh, as has already been said above...

[CptJake]

I don't understand why they don't cancel it at this point.   The creator hasn't posted a new comment in quite a while, and the pledging is obviously stalled and not going to make the goal.