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February 2024 Preview
🕑 Added 2024-01-30 17:42:28 +0000 UTCHello everyone! February is just two days away and I'm happy to say that January was a huge success here in getting things out on time. There are still lots of ways to improve things, but we started shipping January in January and I believe all of it is out the door by now. The one exception will always be UK since we send everything to UK, it goes through customs and the UK hub sends to you. Those are always about 2-4 weeks behind the US. But some SERIOUS progress here. And it really feels great to have such a the huge weight of the old BGOTMC lifted. It was just too much and we were just too deep.
Remaining 2023 packages
I'll continue to bring this up each time until they are all gone. We sent a whole bunch of these out in mid-January and the next batch will probably be mid-February. It'll be Picky Pixie, Moving Pictures: Marked For Mystery, a few postcards, and 2 of the role playing games (for those at the role playing levels in those months). More on that in about a week or so as we lock in the contents.
How did we do with last month's goals?
Let's see how we did.
1) I said "I'd like to see it out a week before the month starts."
We're two days before the month starts. So that's a step in the right direction. Still lots of room for improvement.
2) I also said "I'd like to have all of the content ready for you to make this as awesome as it should be. That means full flavor and descriptive text, full product images, PNPs for all included games, etc."
We have most of it, but I did find an issue for the PNP. We won't upload the PNP until it's the featured month, so it will follow the previews at the beginning of its featured month.
But speaking of PNPs - Make sure to grab the January ones before the month ends. We will pull them on Feb 1. If you need links, see the January Preview post here at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/january-2024-95656053?cid=125989600
3) Finally, I said "The preview will also include a link to choose your wallet game right there instead of a separate post."
As I was thinking about this one, I realized we could have new backers at the end of the month that would be eligible, but they wouldn't see the update, so it'll come separately at the beginning of the month. And overall we might just make this a public post going forward and then have all of the private stuff behind closed doors at the start of the month.
QUICK NOTE ON THE BELOW: All patrons at $18+ will receive the below items. If you are a level under that, you will not receive these.
Battlecrest: Metronn Base Set (featured Wallet Game)
Metronn: a massive city filled with neon color and alien architecture. In the labyrinth of alleys between districts a grinning sentrybot chases a twisted figure, bent by dark magic. As their battle explodes suddenly in the middle of the street, bystanders run for cover while cameras broadcast every move to giant screens. Finally, a spectacle worthy of Metronn.
The Metronn Base Game includes two heroes, Kaladeos and Exa (and her minion, Sparkles), and the Metronn map. All in just 18 cards, packed in our little wallets. No additional components are needed to play, though it is compatible with all other Battlecrest products (including the Fellwoods Base Game, the Imperator Solo Expansion, and the team play rules).
Designers: Dustin Dobson, Milan Zivkovic, and Roshni Patel
Artists: Jesse Turner and Fachri Maulana
Player Count: 2 (with separate solo mode and online rules for team play)
PNP coming in February
- A quick note on the Battlecrest solo mode: We made a second set of solo cards (Imperator II) and they are coming to BGOTMC members. But in order to keep things moving and on time here, we needed to bump them to the April package, as the BGOTMC allotment of those are not going to arrive until then. If you added on the extra heroes via our website, all of those should ship together in April.
Ancient Realm Leaders: Set 1 (6 card expansion to Ancient Realms)
The course of history can be steered by powerful leaders. Achieve their goals alongside other major milestones to make the most of their singular talents.
Leaders - Set 1 introduces 6 renowned leaders from major eras in history. One leader takes control of your civilization at setup, adding a new scoring requirement that must be met at the end of the game. Another is used for its milestone. Milestones are events which happen during play; on completing a milestone, you are bound by a new rule that impacts your society for the rest of the game. Meet your leader's goal and complete your milestone to secure your civilization's enduring legacy!
Designer: Steven Aramini
Artist: Startraphell Talbot
Player Count: 1
PNP coming in February
The Greatest of Art Thieves (9 card game)
A master art thief requires two things: timing and taste. Secure the finest artwork before your rival can to cement your status as a world-class art thief.
In The Greatest of Art Thieves, two rivals square off in a bid to secure the most valuable pair of stolen artworks. Each turn, the active player chooses one of the two pieces of artwork in their hand to drop, placing it into either the face-up Exhibition or the face-down Private Collection. Then they burgle the top card of the area they didn't choose, replacing the card they dropped. The heist ends when the Private Collection has been fully pilfered or when one thief pulls the alarm using one of a few specific cards in their hand. Each player then tallies their score based on the value in their hand, scoring extra points for nabbing a pair from the same artist. Play another round until one player reaches 21 and proves themselves to be the superior thief.
Designer: Luke Wolyncewicz
Artist: Marty Cobb
Player Count: 2
PNP coming in February
That's what's coming in February! Wish we had some more info here, but it was more important to get the update out and keep things moving. Catch you in the next update.
Comments
L D
In Vino Morte, please.
teuchy
Thanks! The e-mail came through today. so I'm all set.
Chris E
Alasdair, you can do a swap for something else in stock for Metronn Base. Follow the instructions in the email/post. Here: https://forms.gle/jVA9RWqPRqqyVu3C9
George Kowalski
Would be nice is us that joined after feb 1 should get a way to pay for Battlecrest and get added to the order.
Ernest Smith
I just received the email with the links today, Friday, Feb 16
Robert Prior
Silly question, but when will the link to the February PDFs be posted? I've checked my spam folder and haven't seen anything, and I can't see a post in the 'recent history' section.
Alexander Noehl
Question: in a Patreon post a while back about Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan and catching up, it says that if you are a bgotm member (at $10+ level) for Oct, Nov or Dec you will receive Marked for Mystery, but afterwards says if you’re a member for only some of those months, that arrangements can be made. Since I joined in November+, does that mean I will receive it as well? I’m really hoping so, because it sounds awesome :) Thanks!
teuchy
New member here, so this might be a dumb question - what happens if I backed Battlecrest Year Two on Kickstarter in September and already have the Metronn Base Game and two heroes coming to me through that? Thanks
Cameron Scott Owen
Has anyone received their copies of ROVE yet?
Christian
They have definitely started shipping, but it depends on what you ordered. I know any orders that contain The Walking Dead are still a ways off. Not sure about other games. My Black Friday order of River Mild arrived in the past few days.
Chris Ferejohn
Cool. Thanks for the response :)
Steve
As a first-timer, I'm excited! I've thought about joining the club for a few years, glad I finally went for it.
JazzFlight
Are the Black Friday games almost ready to ship?
Button Shy
From Michelle: I paid customs fees on the shipments today so they should get here tomorrow. As long as everything is good, I'd say January packages will ship before the end of this week and Aug-Nov catchup packages early next week
Button Shy
The only thing that can swap is the featured wallet game. When we toss in expansions, not everyone will have the base games, but it's the only way for us to really get those out there. I think there's a solid community for trades at our discord if you ever wanted to try to get something else.
Sarah Schreffler
Usually anything outside of the wallet is considered a bonus and not swappable.
Richard Hicks
Is there any chance of getting a UK Hub update on 2023 packages? Appreciate they are another hop in the chain and customs are a pain but if the UK Hub could just post a "they're out!!" When they get around to it, folk can start keeping an eye out for parcels rocking up :)
Luis
Same question about Ancient realm! Thanks for all the work you all put into this.
Chris Ferejohn
BTW loved the Appropos of movies.
Chris Ferejohn
So if I don't have ancient realm is there anything I'll be able to swap that expansion into? Also, question about Converge: should we expect the other sets to show up in GotM, or is the idea that if we like it we could order the rest off your site? Just trying to get the feel for the flow of this. Thanks!
