Born To Be Wild With Road Warrior Devil’s Run: Route 666 On Kickstarter
May 10, 2015 by brennon
The Devil's Run: Route 666 has hit Kickstarter meaning that you can take your road warrior tendancies onto the tabletop with some awesome 20mm scale vehicular combat.
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In the set you'll get the following as a basic pledge for the game allowing you to play out some awesome scenarios on game tiles with a huge range of different components and such to play around with. You even get beer mats!
The idea of the game is that it's a fast paced and violent tabletop game for between two and six players where you use a variety of vehicles in story driven missions on 'rolling road tiles'. The two factions in the game are The Law Haulage Company and The Haul's Angels who are both vying for dominance over this particular stretch of blasted wasteland.
If you'd like to know more about the rules then they can be downloaded in PDF form soon over on the Word Forge Games website.
The Miniatures
As mentioned above you'll be taking 20mm scale vehicles onto the tabletop with this game and below you'll see some of the renders for the various buggies, trikes, bikes and cars alongside two of the 3D prints...
One of the great things about this game is that while you can use their miniatures they have decided to make the game in 20mm allowing you to utilise any Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars you might have in your possession! This should allow for a great depth of customisation and hours of hobby time as you revamp those tried and tested car models into something for the Wasteland.
Stretch Goals
As you might imagine with a Kickstarter campaign there are some Stretch Goals and below are the first two that you'll be looking to hit if you join in with the campaign...
There's plenty more planned where that came from with new equipment and of course vehicles on the horizon. If this all sounds like an interesting game to you then head on over and check it out.
What do you think so far?
"...they have decided to make the game in 20mm allowing you to utilise any Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars you might have in your possession!"
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Hmm… looks like this might have some potential.
Looks like Dark Future, has the same scale (Matchbox cars! Woohoo!), gameplay looks a little more involved whilst being way more fluid than Car Wars.
Obviously, correctly timed to coincide with Mad Max (if they didn’t do that, you’d assume that they were idiots and wouldn’t go near it); the big question is $80, or a quick little $40 job?
Oops pounds, not dollars.
Too much time spent on Kickstarters, methinks…
I’m backing this, raided my son’s toybox for some matchbox cars to try out the beta rules
Exactly Dark Future was the first thing I thought of too. Nice but a little too £££ me thinks.
I don’t think that the price is too bad. Dark Future was what? £20, £25? That was 25 years ago.
You got two Renegades and two Interceptors which were decent and four not particularly impressive bikes in plastic; this one has a reasonable selection of vehicles in resin and there are still the stretch goals to go.
Admittedly, Dark Future had more road sections (but I guess that the gameplay has a slightly different focus, here) and the addons aren’t exactly cheap, but the base game seems fine to me.
I guess you’re right, it strikes me though that this all seems a little vague, you pay X and you get Y’s worth of stuff but what is the stuff? I think they need to be more specific let you know exactly what you are getting for your money.
I’ve been following a few games on Kickstarter recently and to my eye the best ones have been the ones who have been most open, setting out clearly from the beginning all stretch goals and letting you know exactly what you’re getting for your pledge.
I’m assuming that it means that you get to spend £50 (or whatever) on addons.
You are right, though – it doesn’t actually say that and I could be completely wrong.
I will stick with dark future, sculpts look too clean for me – just a preference thing
weathering powders man ! 🙂
Weathering powders don’t change crispness of sculpt or uniformity. Which is my issue
This is why Jesus turnt water into knives?
So basically World Forge Games is owned by one of the founders of Prodos Games (Mark Rapson), and Prodos Games is making the minis for this game. So this game should be considered a new Prodos Games KS project. Considering they still have to deliver the Aliens Versus Predator KS, it find it highly dishonest to launch antoher project, even if they want to benefit from the new Mad Max. A very bad point for Prodos IMO 🙁
As someone who is part of the founding team of WFG but nothing to do with Prodos (except as a KS backer and player of their games) I can assure you this isn’t a Prodos project. Prodos now make miniatures for several other games, Wolsung included, some of which are, or have been run through KS. They have incredible sculptors and a wealth of experience we’re calling on but this is not their game. Mark is the major shareholder in WFG and is indeed part of the Prodos team but we are separate entities entirely.
Why dishonest…you know this cos they told u…Mark Ratsen sed on Weegamers and over places that he was part of prodos too. Youre comments make no sense and are wrong
Did think about that too, but giving them the benefit of the doubt. At least this is their own IP so shouldn’t get held up waiting for some exec to sign off his approval
This looks very cool, definitely think there is room in the market for something this original !
Reasonable price and great timing as well with the Mad Max film, hopefully they should do well from it.
already backed cant wait to see what is unlocked
Yeah I’m the head of Sales at Prodos. Although I wish this was our product to sell, as it is cool, it isn’t our product to sell.
Our focus is getting Warzone out there as much as possible and making sure AvP ticks along as quickly as possible.
Will you be releasing any board game spinoffs for warzone? Like the old citadel boardgame? Think you can do better than assassassinorum badly executed force!
i thought this was going to be a war game not a boardgame…. Oh well i guess i will have to wait to have my Twisted Metal road rage fantasies acted out on the table top.
Its is a bord game and has rules for advanced game like necromunda or Bloodbool
There is some ambiguity with the stretch goals. The pledges say “and all appropriate freebies” but none of the stretch goals specify if they are specific to a pledge or not. Also 2 of the unlocks are simply an additional “free card”. Just 1 card? $2500 gets everyone 1 card? Every game is different but that is compared to most Kickstarter projects a pretty miniscule reward for what is 50% of the funds requested. I like this project a lot but these stretch goals could use some work.
They siad on the Pledge that they wer going to do Stretch goals every £5k but added smaller ones one every 2.5.
You are rite skelly they should give u every thing for free and pay psotage. Haha! Maybe you have too much time with Cmon. this is a reel KS not a preorder hahaha!
I’m not sure where the ambiguity is but I will try and help. If a stretch goal gives a new add-on that it something that can be purchased with the ‘goodies’ money. Anything that says ‘free’ (such as the motorbike at £15k) will be added to the base box set unless stated otherwise. The idea of the cards is a small item every other £2.5k rather than just big items at every £5k. This is WFG’s first KS project (although, as stated, various people have different levels of experience with KS) and we don’t know how big it will be.… Read more »