Skirmish Game talk
Added 2020-06-30 16:25:55 +0000 UTCHello friends, Adventurers and Merchants!
We have a quick announcement to do. You know we spend far more time sculpting then refining posts, let's keep Patron spontaneous ^^
Even before starting Artisan Guild adventure on Patreon we were developing 2 games (and more rough ideas!). Our two main goal is to have a unique RPG and a tabletop Skirmish game to use with all our sculpts. As you have noticed from the title we are now focusing on the Skirmish Game of course!
Thanks to your amazing support it's obvious that we don't need to crowdfund money to make this game!
By appreciating our models and providing feedback you all gave us so much motivation to create that we are more than happy and excited to continue work on this and share it with our patrons.
The Skirmish Game it's not something you are paying for by joining, it will in fact not distract us from our sculpts or subtract any time we are investing in our 3d printable miniature line.
You can enjoy the building of this game and test it with us as free bonus, or ignore it if you wish, it will not be invasive.
Most of the game talk will take place on Discord in a Game Channel (click to join)!
We prefer to not invade Patreon space too much as we understand many of you are here for the models and nothing else :)
Skirmish Game will be free for our Patrons
We started working on this Skirmish Game on July 2015, but we obviously didn't worked consistently on it till now. Today we are not making a post about rules of the game, but we will give you some key information.
- As mentioned before, game is free to our patrons.
- It will stay in Alpha, then Beta, for a while, with feedback in our Discord.
- Models: All our models will slowly get stats and rules to be used in the Skirmish game.
- Rules: We will provide the updated PDF rules in our Discord.
- Cards: Use the Digital PDF from your phones or print if if you prefer.
- Dices: we started with custom special dices, but we are testing with common D6 now.
The Skirmish game Goal is about our sculpts to take life in tabletop battles. Quick game, simple rules, charismatic characters and heroes, little armies (Guilds?) building.
But with simple rules we still want you to feel the burden of those heroes who risk their life in gruesome battles.
We received many messages about making a game for our models since the beginning and well, we are already doing that since a while :)
A quick note, we are doing this on our own just for fun, as we mentioned in past we love to give life to our sculpts, and having games for them is perfect to make them shine. It's something we do spontaneously as a passion.
Thanks for supporting us guys, you are the best!
Comments
Well. This is exciting! I bought in mostly for great sculpts for Song of Blade & Heroes and Frostgrave, but I'd love to play what ya'll have to offer officially for these wonderful models.
evanbanjo
2020-08-01 01:13:42 +0000 UTCI would like to point out that it can be very hard to find information on discord sometimes. I know that this is a back burner project for you, but would like to suggest that you could make a section for the game on your Patreon and just update it quarterly with the information released to discord.
Michael Scanlin
2020-07-20 22:56:46 +0000 UTCAte the links down? I can't load the page here...
Danilo Cruz
2020-07-07 14:38:06 +0000 UTCsounds great when would the alpha rules be out and will they be posted here or do i actually need discord?
Lee Johnson
2020-07-05 18:09:32 +0000 UTCThis might be the wrong forum but are you also working on the rules for TGG range at the same time? If so, are they going to be similar or completely different? I’m still receiving the nice “coming soon” postcard with my RG orders and am very curious. ;)
Eddy
2020-07-02 18:32:55 +0000 UTCIntrigued! I think my only comment as this time would be perhaps think about a D10 system instead of a D6 based system. I believe you’d get more variety & different units could have a broader range of abilities between them.
Tim Wollweber
2020-07-01 17:34:41 +0000 UTCAs we stated in the post, we don't really care what other companies does. The core rules for this game had been written in 2015 (back in time we didn't had models to play with lol). Possibly something changes during the Beta with feedbacks, but we avoid comparing with other people games.
Artisan Guild
2020-07-01 08:04:28 +0000 UTCnot at the moment, sorry
Artisan Guild
2020-07-01 08:02:39 +0000 UTCBy the way, i don't think skirmish game should be similar or compatible with Bloodfields (nothing against TF, except when they 'borrow' minis form Artisan Guild). I want Francesca and Andrea delevop their own idea and give life to their world with absolute freedom, since they have created the sculpts.
Bernat Rovira Lastra
2020-07-01 06:41:04 +0000 UTCIs it possible to at least share (only) the pdf rules in patreon? I don't use Discord... Thanks!!
Bernat Rovira Lastra
2020-07-01 06:29:39 +0000 UTCThis sounds great! I can't wait to try it out.
2020-07-01 01:06:04 +0000 UTCSounds awesome!
Abdul Rahman Khan
2020-06-30 23:10:53 +0000 UTCI'd definitely recommend getting help from a game designer
Scott Wilkinson
2020-06-30 23:05:53 +0000 UTCIs there a timeline in mind for the game?
Rich DiLorenzo
2020-06-30 23:04:27 +0000 UTCCool, have you considered a sci-fi miniature line to go along the fantasy ones?
2020-06-30 22:43:07 +0000 UTCAwesome. Best miniatures now have a game😃
Michael
2020-06-30 21:45:01 +0000 UTCWould be glad to have reasons to dedust my figures in between dnd games :)
genuxb
2020-06-30 21:29:26 +0000 UTCAwwww yeah!
Markus Jorissen
2020-06-30 21:02:44 +0000 UTCLove this idea. count me in!
2020-06-30 20:50:02 +0000 UTCThis is great I am very pleased to hear about the project.
Silver Version
2020-06-30 19:54:30 +0000 UTCYou are great! These miniatures looked very sad on the shelf without having a specific use other than decoration! It's amathing
Carlos Fuster de Aguilar
2020-06-30 19:33:32 +0000 UTCAwesome, I've recently been enjoying Frostgrave with my nephew
2020-06-30 19:29:31 +0000 UTCI would love to see some kind of campaign attached to it with model growth similar to mordhiems
Leon bermudez
2020-06-30 19:08:50 +0000 UTCNice to hear. I am not personally interested in it, but it is definitely a good thing for people to have more options and I believe you will do it well.
Filip Milinković
2020-06-30 18:37:38 +0000 UTCsounds great.
Dwayne Spencer
2020-06-30 18:00:22 +0000 UTCawesome and also backed bloodfields, so any crossover would be great
Murray Oates
2020-06-30 17:30:43 +0000 UTCI second also this, compatible with bloodfields could be amazing.
javier pena
2020-06-30 17:25:21 +0000 UTCI second this. I backed Bloodfield and am super excited but having them compatible would be incredible.
2020-06-30 17:12:44 +0000 UTCTitanForge just finished a Kickstarter for Bloodfields. It's a skirmish game with printed models too. I wonder if you guys could collaborate on rules so that both Artisan Guild and TitanForge could produce models for the same game? I already have a lot of GW factions, both AoS and 40K, plus Infinity and Warmachines. I love the idea of printing minis for a game, but it would suck if every Patreon has different rules. If you all collaborated on the rules though, then... then you would be able to build a game to rival GW. Kind of like an open-source ruleset. I went all-in on Bloodfields, so even though you have awesome models, I'm not as hungry as some others for another set of rules. Printing 2-4 factions each for 2 different games is going to take a while.
Simon Kingaby
2020-06-30 17:03:57 +0000 UTCShot fired
2020-06-30 17:02:20 +0000 UTCI like the idea and would love to hear more :) To that end, I’d be quite alright to get the occasional update about the game on Patreon so that we know when rules are available for minis that we got through our subscription. Perhaps there could be a post for major releases (such as the launch of the official rule set), while small updates could be embedded towards the end of the regular mini updates. At the same time I’d still prefer most updates to be primarily focused on the minis themselves.
Stephen Pfann
2020-06-30 16:54:33 +0000 UTCSkirmish with the possibility to improve heroes stats through campaigns, but this part will take place in a later stage
Artisan Guild
2020-06-30 16:47:57 +0000 UTCNice! I know it's early days, but will it be a fixed Stat skirmish or something with a campaign element and character development?
Sebastian Spandl
2020-06-30 16:46:20 +0000 UTCThis is awesome can't wait
2020-06-30 16:44:34 +0000 UTCSuper glad to hear this is happening!!!
Lee Perry
2020-06-30 16:43:53 +0000 UTCNice
2020-06-30 16:38:39 +0000 UTCSounds good, especially quick and simple rules.
Obscurities in Miniature
2020-06-30 16:38:39 +0000 UTCThis is soooo sooooooooo sooooooooooo good!
Esteban
2020-06-30 16:37:52 +0000 UTCWow, I'm really excited to see this!
Nate
2020-06-30 16:35:58 +0000 UTCSounds like a blast. I'd love to see rules included for larger scale battles, as each of your sets have so much variation that you can create whole armies
Andrew Franco
2020-06-30 16:34:52 +0000 UTCit's tabletop, for our printed miniatures .)
Artisan Guild
2020-06-30 16:34:51 +0000 UTCPerfect! I've always thought each set would be perfect for a Mordheim scale game!
Ian R Moriearty
2020-06-30 16:34:34 +0000 UTCi am so exited about this, this will be a table top physical game right? not an internet game? or both
Lane Davis
2020-06-30 16:34:25 +0000 UTCYou are making my midlife crisis so much more bareable :D
Microversonauta
2020-06-30 16:33:54 +0000 UTCIncredible announcement. You guys are the best!
2020-06-30 16:30:26 +0000 UTCAmazing! I can't wait! I always wanted to use your models for some nice games and it's even better that the rules are coming straight from you!
TheMorrigan
2020-06-30 16:29:14 +0000 UTCGreat news!!!!
Jean-Claude Tremblay
2020-06-30 16:28:19 +0000 UTCNeat
Dan Beake
2020-06-30 16:28:05 +0000 UTC
