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There will be the inevitable “this will kill 40k” nonsense … and when it does what it realisticly can do (= get big within a niche) those people will claim it is ‘dead’.

One Page Rules didn’t have a boxed set either … and that’s grown pretty big despite all of that.

Trench crusade definitely struck a cord with the kickstarter.
They do appear to have quite a bit of momentum to get the community itself kickstarted to a level that will keep it active.

The only real ‘problem’ for this game is that even a bare bones army will require either access to a 3D printer or a ton of kitbashing.

3D printing has matured quite a bit though … so maybe this could be the one game that can beat the odds and live. Other games have tried this route, but (AFAIK) none have gathered this much momentum/hype when trying to do so. It could be the thing that sets it apart from all the other games that have tried to go this route.

And again … even if a significant portion of backers stop playing (as they follow the cult of shiny) … they may have enough fanatical/obsessed fans to end up with a big enough community to keep it going.

Games don’t need huge GW killing amount of followers to stay afloat.
Fans just need to be realistic in their expectations and accept that non-historical games are always going to be rather ‘small’ when compared to anything GW does. Xwing has IMHO been the only game to ever come close to those dizzy heights.

tl;dr;

It won’t kill GW games, but it will be a brand folk will recognise for a few years at the very least. Especially if things like the Red Brigade kickstarter help expand the setting and hype.