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Our Italian distributor pointed out to me that people probably have no idea what we are working on now. So maybe you guys think we are asleep at the wheel.

Well in fact we are very busy right now, and I will share with you some of the things we are working on.


• Firstly Andre is preparing an awesome new website for Godslayer. That will go live very soon. This will have more features and will be more professional.

• Photos of all minis are being redone with new layering software to create better images for the product packaging. This will solve the problem that our box-art images look weak.

• As I already posted we plan to make a new release every week for the next 5 weeks; Godquester this week (DONE), then Filthlings, Moloch, Technocrat, and Scarjarl, then Reaver Runts. And following those, the rest of Wave-1 will all be released without any undue delays.

• We will officially start the Omeganauts program in 1-2 weeks with an announcement and details sent to all Omeganauts.

• At the moment I am writing a campaign which will be the first of 3 Godslayer campaigns. The first will focus on Banebrood and Halodynes; the second will be Wyldfolk vs Mortans and the third will be Nordgaard vs. Troglodytes. However, the actuall factions are only thematic fluff - the campaigns can actually be played by any faction, and each scenario can stand alone. the campaigns will move forward the time-line of the game world.
The first campaign will focus on the Banebrood invasion of the Halodyne heartland city-state of ganymon. Yes the BAnebrood are here knocking at the door. will the Halodyne culture rise to the challenge or continue its tragic slow decline? the story starts with the epic crushing defeat of the Ganymon army by the Banebrood of the rising Tauran Empire. the Banebrood army now has a 10 day march to reach the apital city of Ganymos and destroy its defensies, while reinforcements from other states and temples will only arrive in 30 days. the rag-tag remnants of the crushed army must delay the Banebrood army by 20 days in order to buy time for the reinforcements to arrive, or else Ganymon will fall! Meanwhile the vanguard of the Banebrood army is tasked with clearing the way for the army's advance.

So the action focuses on warbands of the Banebrood army vanguard and the Halodyne survivors in a series of linked scenarios. But the Halodynes have the helpo of some serious heavy-hitters - a famous Godquester and veteran general of many wars.

The campaign introduces a new warband points system and rules for use in campaigns, as well as Lords of Renown who are special warlords, characters and creatures with specific names and equipment etc.

• We are currently re-sculpting some parts and models:
 new spear arms for Hoplites
 Scorpio crew
 new staff for Priestess
 2nd alternate Ursapine pose
 complete new Wyldfolk starterbox re-sculpt!
 New Mongrels
 Thicker chains for the Gorelord
 Models with too many parts will have some parts combined whereever possible.

• Already new harder metal is being used in casting all small parts of most miniatures. We hope this will solve the bendy-spear issue.

• At the same time we are getting 2 additional troopers sculpted to add to all starter-box units.

• Wave-2 first half of the models are being play-tested and designed. Most designs first draft are now complete and will soon be commissioned with professional artists.

• Once the Hoplites, priestess and Mongrels are sculpted, they will form part of a Godslayer battle box (which we plan to release around middle of the year). This will include 2 warbands plus a slim version of the core rules (no minis stats in there).
After this is released we should have the Halodynes-Banebrood campaign play-tested and read for launch. this will tie-in perfectly with the battlebox since they will have the same factions.

• At the same time I am spending several hours every day building awesome terrain boards. These will be used at conventions in Europe and we plan to focus on UK this year. They will also be used for making professional photos of battle scenes advertisement and articles etc.

• We have a new warehouse, and stock is being moved in there. This will allow us to keep more stock and also be more organized for packing and shipping. This will reduce missed parts and increase speed of processing orders.

• In a few months we will also begin a print advertising campaign in one or two magazines.

• Faction bases continue to be sculpted by Microart Studios.

• Once all Wave-1 releases are complete, we will put together a faction deck for all factions in English and German. This will be priced economically so people can replace cards, and German speakers can change over language to full German even though they started collecting Godslayer in English.

• Finally, we were in discussions with a scenery manufacturer and we reached successful conclusion, so we will start designing Godslayer terrain in the near future.


So as you can see we are working earnestly to improve the quality of all our products so that we can have all wave-1 models looking awesome, and a totally professional image before the release of Wave-2. That way you can proudly show the Godslayer range to new players and they will be impressed.

We are also working to increase the quantity of products with Wave-2 and new campaign.

And finally we want to make Godslayer even more accessible to new players with the battlebox, less miniature components and sturdier minis.

We truly appreciate the dedication of all Godslayer players.

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Thanks guys.

We have currently no plans to use a Kickstarter for Wave-2.

What we will do after Wave-1 if finished is release some extra trooper models for the starter-box units and a few re-sculpts of some minis, plus improving quality with thicker spears and staffs for Halodynes and Wyldfolk, a few small parts combined to make less parts, etc. This is so we can make wave-1 minis all awesome, functional and with a good variety of troopers. The sculpts for this are already underway.

Wave-2 models will be released regularly, step by step with releases every month. At the end of Wave-2 we will compile a book which covers all Wave-2 models, (like the Wave-1 book).

Wave 2 will be a small wave, so we can get it done faster. We plan 8 releases for each faction: 2 warlords, 3 units and 3 various. this is much easier for us to control than Wave-1 which was 12 releases for all factions.

Wave-2 minis will focus on filling the gaps in order to make every sub-faction individually playable. It will also introduce cavalry for all factions (except Mortans). It also will fill a few urgently needed functional gaps like cheap infantry for Mortans, buffing characters for Trolloth, third sub-faction for Banebrood, etc.

Wave-3 will need to be handled differently because there will be new important core rules which will be necessary for using the minis (flying rules for example). So we might consider a Kickstarter for Wave-3 or when we introduce new factions.

That's the plan so far. So at the moment we are not planning a Kickstarter. Of course plans can change....

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