April Compendium

NB: Not an April Fool. ;)

The Patreon has got a bit deep, these days, making it hard for folks to find things that might interest them.  So I'm going to do a monthly compendium post with hyperlinks to the most recent and/or most significant content people might be keen to see.

Free Rules!

Most people are here for tabletop wargames content, so these links are for you:

Horizon Wars: Infinite Dark 

Due for publication late Mary/early June 2021, the beta edition can be found here. Horizon Wars: Infinite Dark is a spaceship combat game built upon mechanics familiar from Horizon Wars (currently OOP) and Horizon Wars: Zero Dark.

Skrapyard: Devil's Reach 

This fantasy skirmish game was my first attempt to get a commercial miniatures wargame off the ground. Whilst a spectacular failure, commercially, I stand by the quality of the rules. At some point, I'll rewrite this game concept to bring it more in line with Precinct Omega's winning formula. ;)

Zero Dark: Millennium 

Most of us have some grimdark sci-fi minis sitting around, somewhere. These rules are a bit of a fun project for me that I work on when I need a break from more commercially-demanding things. Currently, the rules cover inquisitorial-style kill teams and posthuman starmarines. In due course there will also be rules for more divergent phenotypes within the human clade, such as the Robusti and the Graceful, as well as Bits, Hogres and Warfs.

Merch

I'm not a big one for merch, but I do have some Notebooks still available to purchase.  And to everyone who's already asked for one and to whom I promised an invoice... I'm sorry.  I had to reconcile a whole heap of outstanding bills and invoices before adding to the pile.  They're all done now.  You'll get your invoices soon.

For new patrons who would like one, they are £8.00 + VAT + P&P.  If you're outside the UK, I won't charge VAT, but you'll be liable to pay it on delivery (although there's a good chance they won't bother because it's such a small-value item).  UK VAT is 20%, so the total for UK patrons is £9.60; UK P&P is £2.45, so it will be £12.05 all-in.  Outside the UK, P&P will be charged at cost.

I will also - unless you specifically ask me not to - graffiti a Zero Dark character design or an Infinite Dark ship+pilot design in your notebook along with a scribbled illustration.

First come, first served.

There will be more patron-exclusive merch in the future.

Zero Dark Miniatures Development

This is an on-going project that some are interested in following.  It started with concept art by me, then moved on to 3d sculpting by my project partner, Adam, at Desert Island Designs.  The initial two concepts got finished up recently.  And we all got to see the (rather hard to make out) 3d prints a couple of weeks ago.  I have started test-painting the prints before deciding whether we need to make any changes (spoiler: we do).

FYI, the STLs will not be for sale.  Resin master castings, when ready, will be exclusively available to patrons.  There will be some sort of crowdfunding campaign to launch the white metal castings, but I've not decided whether to go with KS or some other model of crowdfunding.

Anything Else?

If the veteran patrons can think of anything else in the history I should pull out for monthly refreshment, let me know in the comments.  I'll cut and paste this update for next month and update on the basis of your feedback and anything new that's fallen out for patron consumption.