Home Raiders Enters Final Few Days On Kickstarter
June 2, 2015 by brennon
Vesper-On are entering the final few days of their Home Raiders Kickstarter. If you're looking to get in on this charming skirmish game that can be played anywhere you like then now is your chance.
The Pledge
The game comes with a very nice starter set that features the New Lilliput and Gremlin factions alongside all the tokens, cards, dice and everything else in between you'd need. You also get the exclusive RAF The Pilot model.
Other factions have been unlocked including the Fair Folk and Lords of Dust with the Freeloaders next on the list when they hit the £30,000 mark with their stretch goals.
Better Than Babar?
Maybe you'll remember that particular cartoon elephant? If not, no worries, just know that Mortimer the Buccaneer is probably better than him and he was unlocked as a mid-campaign bonus.
As you can see he has been render up and is looking rather spiffing indeed as a model. I particularly like the rather snarky looking parrot on his shoulder who is very pleased with himself.
Have you pledged?
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Yes I’ve pledged (expensive month I’ve also Pledged Route 666) and I’m sooo sad to see the backers leaving this project.
..no, I use Mr. Sheen! Yes, but it also cost me a few days in the doghouse and a bottle of mead!
There’s 13 early bird pledges that are available on this Kickstarter.
Man! now we’re even below the last unlocked stretch goal money-wise. So disheartening. I still think it’s a great idea and I can’t wait to play this with my two girl (age 5 & 7)
Pledging from the onset and following throughout – I am lacking the understanding of why others are not seeing the potential in this as I am. Rarely does a game really spike my imagination so much and appeal to so broad a spectrum. It just seems like so many people who may have passed this over have missed a great opportunity. That being said – I imagine once this is rolled out retail – and it starts getting played – it will massively increase.
– Sean
http://www.reddragongaming.co.uk
I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I was a day one backer and I can tell you why I pulled my support from this project:
1. Vesper have been rather lazy with this KS. Few updates, little presence in the comments, just not a very fun KS really.
2. Vesper are not willing to bend to what their backers want. For example, many backers wanted the option of picking the factions in their starter pack (this was a big one). And they were not willing to change unpopular elements of their concept- the Peter Pan look-a-like for example had very little love from backers.
3. For more hardcore gamers this project seemed to get progressively ‘dumbed down’. This game was supposed to be aimed at a wide audience, and all members of the family. Fair enough, one would expect light and easy rules etc. But when the points were replaced with a star system, and vesper seems concerned over issues such as ‘is a blood splatter symbol going to upset the kids’ this game began to seem more infantile. That’s a problem for me as I don’t have kids, nor do I enjoy spending time with them lol.
Those are my own reasons, and just my opinions of course, as to why this KS was a great disappointment and the game began to move away from something I was originally interested in. Best of luck to vesper- I hope it is a success for them.
Although I’m not personally interesting in this game, I think it’s a cracking idea, and I hope it does well. It ought to be a great way to ease new victims, er, I mean players, into wargaming.
And that elephant guy does look amazing!
*Incoming rant!*
Damn, how I wanted to like this game… The idea seems to be so cool, fresh and cute. And boy oh boy, did the people at Vesper-on Games drop the ball on this one! }:/
Each new update robbed the idea of its charm. Now it’s just an over-glorified kids’ game with stiff and uninspired minis, the smaller of which are the size of a SM terminator. I don’t want to show it to my kids, they will make fun of me. “So… This is the hobby you devote so much time to?!”
Anyone up for specific gripes? It was supposed to be a game of little critters stealing and using our everyday stuff. So, where’s the stuff?
One faction is, basically, “humans in retro-space suits”. Very inspiring.
The gremlins, who are supposed to be looters and scavengers, have zero “real-world” items on them. Sure, the Ragmen have some gears for shields, but they look like gear-shaped shields, not like something snatched from humans.
The “Egyptian penguins” are simply ridiculous, and not in a good way.
The fairies are just dull. The developers knew that and tried to reinforce them with Peter Pan. Doesn’t work for me.
…Freeloaders could be an interesting faction, besides, the artwork finally displayed a critter armed with a needle and a button. Guess what, it wasn’t funded. And, IMHO, it won’t.
None of these minis will look natural, if placed in a home environment. They are fundamentally NOT WORKING.
Three days until the end, and people are actually withdrawing from the campaign. Why? Because everyone took part, hoping to unlock something exciting, and we received nothing.
I took part to bring this game to life, and it is. To me its great -, the perfect building block to introduce the kids (my youngest being 4). As a parent I don’t like the idea of blood in games or introducing younger kids to a game with big guns and death etc…Something else would be much better in my opinion – and this is it. But I completely see why other gamers who like the concept are finding this kickstarter tedious etc… I love this game because I want to play with my family – If i didn’t and it was purely me wanting to play with my mates on concept alone, I would sadly skip over this I think.
-Sean
http://www.reddragongaming.co.uk
Kids these days hey? When I was that age I would have only been interested in a game with guns and blood lol! We had cartoons about fighting and warfare (he-man?). But these days…. the don’t like hunting incase you hurt the fluffy bunnies, and even here in Wales, the primary school boys are playing tag rugby! Tag rugby! Lol
But seriously I take your points, if vesper wish to regime it more towards the ‘parent and child’ market then hats off to them- we certainly need more ‘entry games’ to get them addicted to toy soldiers young lol