Mythic Games Introduce Next Big Project, Reichbusters: Projekt Vril!
August 1, 2018 by brennon
It looks like many of us were right when we thought that the next big Mythic Games property was going to be one focused on the Weird World War. Their newest project, Reichbusters: Projekt Vril, was announced this week just ahead of Gen Con.
Here is what Mythic Games had to say about Reichbusters ahead of us hoping to unlock more information from them at Gen Con...
“Reichbusters: Projekt Vril is a co-operative game set at the end of an alternate WWII. Miraculous Vril energies power the latest Nazi wonder weapons, and the tide of war is about to turn. To stop this, the Allies have only one option: a do-or-die mission against the castle where the experimental Vril weapons are made. If they can be destroyed before they reach the front lines then the Allies may still win the war. An elite team is quickly assembled and sent into the heart of the Reich. The fate of the world is in their hands.”
The game plays with one to four players and uses 32mm scale miniatures, some of which you will see below...
You will be taking on the role of Allied operatives who are heading out there to smash some Nazis (B.J. Blazkowicz would be proud) on assassination, sabotage and capture missions.
Each of the characters has their own unique set of skills which makes them fun to play with and indeed allows for plenty of replay value as you dive back in with another character.
You'll also find that the game features some familiar mechanics from plenty of other games like hand management and loadout customisation. It would be neat to know if there are going to be alternative versions of some of these heroes with different weapons!
You are going to be seeing Reichbusters: Projekt Vril on Kickstarter towards the end of 2018 so make sure to have some cash at the ready of blowing up Nazis is top of your priorities list.
I'm very interested to see how this all turns out as it is another big step in a new direction from Mythic Games.
What do you think?
"B.J. Blazkowicz would be proud..."
I’ll be in my bunk
And 32mm because? Make them 28mm and people can use them in other Alt WW2 games. More importantly lets just keep the hype in check until we see what the actual game play is like.
I agree about the scale being any issue. Why these companies don’t research to cash in on cross game use, I will never understand.
I would have preferred 28mm too.
Dust is around 35mm and these miniatures would fit right in so I think the size is a good choice.
^^^ This… I get people don’t look at it that why but Dust is still the most popular of the WWW2 games. I get a lot of people Play K47 but tournament wise it doesn’t have a lot of support unfortunately which I think hurts it. Don’t think it’s surprising someone would make mini’s that where the same as Dust for that reason especially when Dust Studio’s unofficially supports kitbashing in a major way.
The miniatures look quite nice.
Not sure I would have chosen the SVT-40 for the Soviet Sniper given how inaccurate and troublesome the weapon was 🙂
@tankkommander – what would you pick?
The Mosin M1891/30 would be more period correct, but you are sacrificing rof for accuracy.
Well Mythic have changed minis in the past because there are better options so who knows maybe they will listen to you 🙂
Interesting, I personally know nothing about real life weapons.
How do they stay standing up on those tiny feet?
Happy I wasn’t the only one who noticed that.
Good spot. Particularly noticeable on the two male “allied operatives”.
The guy with the two machine guns must be about 6’4″, 250lbs and a size 5…
@tachycardia – I would say the perspective of the photo is having an effect.
@tankkommander @foehammer888 @tachycardia – feet look fine.
Have a look at the images on this page for some reference: https://www.istockphoto.com/gb/photo/side-view-of-army-soldier-standing-with-machine-gun-gm512081239-47398536
Remember these are 32mm and therefore don’t need proportions to be as heroic as say a 28mm range like Bolt Action.
These are pretty similar to proportions found in the Dust range which is also around 32mm.
Interesting – will follow the hype train to see where it leads 😀
I wonder if they are working with Paulo of Dust as arn’t the Vrill on his baddies?
Well the Vril were from “Vril: The Coming Race” by Edward Bulwer-Lytton a work of fiction popular in Germany prior to WW2 about subterranean humans more advanced that any on the surface who were going to conquer us eventually when they felt like it and probably use us all as livestock. Paolo Parente doesn’t own the concept and it’s almost certainly public domain by now and so will turn up in lots of Weird War stuff. Hellboy mentioned Vril energy a few times.
Vril also in Hollow Earth Expeditions RPG.
Nazis and occult as a very old theme. Be nice to have a spin on it for a change…
Maybe have the french dabble in the occult and defeat nazis… then become a threat for British to defeat with a reborn King Arthur, the Once and Future king, with Merlin and the knights…
Can I copyright that idea now please?
“I wonder if they are working with Paulo of Dust” – wouldn’t think so, just a similar scale.
Paolo did some of the artwork for Pantheon so not out of the question. Although unlikely it’s connected to Dust.
Reminds me of good old “Castle Wolfenstein”. Cooperative is always nice so I’m interested. The two-MG-wielding figure is much to exaggerated, to my mind. But the other figures look nice. And really stunning paint-work.
Looks a little bit like the AE-WWII stuff Blackball games did.
Looks cool. May be good for a convention game to get people to watch and participate but agree that Weird War ( i used to read the comics back in the days ) is slowly starting to ‘jump the shark’
Is it possible for Weird War to ‘jump the shark’?
Hmmm, maybe if they have sharks with lasers on their heads!
I don’t like that the games Mythic releases are all Kickstarter exclusive so will give this (like the other Mythic games) a hard pass.
Only Solomon Kane has been KSE.
What about Mythic Battles Pantheon (No longer a Mythic Games product I know) and Joan of Arc? I was under the impression that those were all KSE.
JoA isn’t KSE. MBP is Monolith.
When was retail release for JoA confirmed? The last I heard from Mythic at the end of the KS was that due to the sheer volume of plastic it was unlikely to be viable at retail.
JoA and MB:P were both KSE. SK had retail pledges which Mythic said were a lot more popular than they expected. And I believe they’ve said RB will be the first time they have a proper retail option.
JoA isn’t KSE. There are issues with getting the range as it is into retail distribution. We’ll be assessing our options once we’ve delivered to backers. Solomon Kane is KSE. There will be some limited retail availability due to the retail pledges but it won’t ever enter retail distribution. We aren’t a KSE company though some campaigns can be KSE. It’s assessed on a campaign by campaign basis.
Well the minis look good, but the subject does not interest me in the slightest so for me I m going to pass on this. Which is good because I need to stop doing Kick Starters:-)
“but the subject does not interest me in the slightest” – we know lol 🙂
@Lloyd Just saying…lol
It is strange I can get my head around monsters and weird stuff in JoA, but Weird World War! I really don’t understand…
I still hope it does well cos Mythic deserve to be successful because they are so good at what they do and really have great community engagement 🙂
I’d bet on a variant of Soliman Kane rules.
no, this is a completely new game.
Except for the fact that it isn’t… weird war two has been done countless times… this is just a coop version vs occult nazis instead of 2 player occult nazis vs allies… or RPG of occult nazis vs allied PC’s
This looks like a (SHIELD) Fury type unit great for fighting enemy’s supper soldiers.
@Mythic Games:
If the final game shows symbols like the swastika and others it is very likely illegal to sell the game in Germany so you might want to consider this.
I asked Mythic about this at their Games Day @ Warboar a few weeks ago and they said they recognised the issues with Swastikas and Nazi symbology, and that they would be ‘culturally sensitive’.
Looking forward to this, while I’m waiting to get my copy of Solomon Kane.
Probably won’t as already have a ton of Dust stuff which is identical.
Hmm… Meh… unless there’s more interesting stuff coming I’ll stick to the Wolfenstein Video Games for my “stop their newest secret weapon” mission….
I have already have DUST Tactics, DUST 1947, Incursion and Tannhauser weird WWII , this will have to be special to get me on board..
While revolvers were issued as service weapons in WWII, if this is a special forces team then I want to see an Colt M1911 and not revolver. I agree with whomever said they rather see a Mosin for the sniper. I rather see the sniper with a better stance versus this unbalanced one they have her in. The dual wielding machine guns is laughable but I get what they are trying to portray. Hope we hear more about the game play on GenCon
This looks weird even for weird war!
I agree on the foot sizes and the revolver being “off”. The foot problem may be due to both male Allied having baggy gaiters. I’d expect a .45 semi-auto and not a Wyatt Earp long barrel (unless this is one of the heirs from Wynonna Earp). And besides, it wouldn’t fit in that holster unless there’s an unseen hole for that extended barrel in the bottom of it.
Nice paint jobs.
Tannhauser, anyone? Although this is co-op instead.
Meh, this genre is quite overdone IMO. It;s cool, but to me not very exciting. Easy pass.
I love it, but yes, the dual machine gun guy is pretty ridiculous, lol. And his feet are tiny!
Love the over-the-top action implied by these minis; I hope the gameplay captures that feel. Great sculpts, although the small feet struck me as well lol. Excited for the campaign! I was really impressed by the Mythic crew’s professionalism and communication during the Solomon Kane one.
realy looking forward to this game,it looks nice figures look ace.Also I havnt played any other games but 40k so be nice to have a change.Is there a release date yet ? sorry if ive missed it im a noob lol im only 6months in collecting 40k after 30 years out,and didnt realise how big table top gaming has become. so realy looking forward to exsperiancing something new.