"How Long Since You Backed a Kickstarter?" Topic

How long has it been since you last committed to back a crowdsourced military wargaming project?

Very loosely defining military wargaming as STL files for a 28mm Type S Traveller scout ship then it would be about a month. Otherwise, never.

Um… about an hour? I may have a problem.

I never have done it. Nothing has been enough of a desire to prompt me to join in.

A couple of days ago I backed TwoHourWargames Kickstarter for their newest 5150 SciFi combat rules.

3 months ago for Fighters of the Pacific

Think it was Bones V.

A few months ago. Simple SPI type wargame for $1 USD, I think.

A year ago spring. The new HeroQuest from Hasbro. It should arrive next month.

A few months, how many? uhhhh not sure. STL files foe Star Gate" figures.

48 hours, the He Man boardgame. Definitely been burnt big time on several though.

Slightly over four months ago – yet another regimental level Gettysburg board game.

2 years

Early last year.

Never have.
When I commit to buy something, I want it by Thursday.

3 March 2018. War and Empire III West Wind/Forged in Battle. Still not fulfilled on the rulebook.

never

Yesterday I backed my first one ever. 6mm World War 2 from a reputable outfit.

The last kickstarter that I backed was a setting book for the RPG "Troika!" in april, but that was $5 USD for the PDF, which delivered a few weeks later.

The last major one was the Battletech Clan Invasion in august 2019 (I only pledged for Inner Sphere mechs, but still spent a fair bit), which delivered early this month.

I actually wasn't kidding. I backed Anycubic's latest 3D resin printer this morning!

Never. I am not about to send someone money in the hopes that they might produce what I want.

I pledged to the Brittania Boardgame kickstarter and then covid hit. I got the game eventually and am very happy with it even though it had a few less of some and more pieces of other than the rules stated. Yes I counted them all.

Now all I need is another 3 players who are willing to commit to the time to play a full game.

I have yet to ever do so. Mostly because I have not had the time to notice many announcements or solicitations, nor to actually look into the details

That's a lovely machine javelin, but a tiny print bed. I was briefly tempted by the Elegoo Jupiter KS, but its at the other end of the spectrum (thing has a beast of a print bed).

Few weeks…been burned a few timed but all in all it has been awesome.

Jut last week. One for 20mm printed modern Brits and another for some fantasy figures.

Never have – kind of like the OFM, I want it NOW,
and prefer to buy off the shelf in the FLGS.

2 months ago for RPG — Fantasy Trip Fanzine.

3 months ago for board game and possible miniatures campaign engine — Napoleon 1815.

3 months ago for board gaming — deluxe pieces for Ticket to Ride.

5 months ago for miniatures terrain — Napoleonic building STL files.

Length of time subject to change by the time the poll actually runs!

I've seen Kickstarters that I might have bid on, but I lost interest in them a few months later.
As Vince MacMahon sez…. "I wish them well in their future endeavors."
Vito Corleone said much the same thing to Virgil, but that didn't work out well.

If it counts, the PSC Britannia kickstarter. "Thanks" to the pandemic, I haven't got it to the table yet.

If not, the 3rd War & Empire one. I've painted a good chunk of the minis and used them in anger.

A couple of years I dabbled a couple of times. Once for Ramshackle's Brotherhood of Iron and once for Knightmare miniatures old school chaos minis.

Both worked well enough, I got everything I backed for, but there is something about, getting all excited, for some new product and then waiting months to actually get it (and judging but stuff I've seen online getting isn't guaranteed) that put me off.

By the time both Kickstarters had arrived I'd moved onto other things I painted them both in the end. I guess I'm one of those guys who'd rather order his toys on Monday and have them in his sweaty hands by the following Wednesday.

Never.

Like John, when I want to buy something, I want to just buy it.

Maybe a year back – Firelock Games pirate stuff. Last one I received was Privateer Press' Neo-mechanica.

February was the last one for me. A Solo Boxer Rebellion board game. I am waiting on that, and two others, some plastic Satyrs and Amazons, and the last Blood and Plunder one.

Two years. Maybe more.
Been burnt a couple times and am tired of waiting 1-2 years for delivery.
I've decided it's better to wait if/until the company brings an actual product to market.
In the meantime, I'll paint some of the minis I already own.

2 months.
Provided a Eurogame of Napoleons' Wars counts. Yes, I have used the apostrophe correctly: there is a game for both Napoleons (I and III).

I'm not sure my first figure Kick-starter would have counted: figures for Noggin the Nog. Including guards who are really not very military at all – one is asleep leaning on his spear.

Never have, never will.

Never a gaming KS. Backed one, around 6+ years ago for a motorcycle automatic brake light, but I pulled out of that after they posted a 6-month delay. I lost confidence, and they offered full refunds, so I took it. Ended up buying a totally different product in the same venue, last year.

I did help run a KS, around three years ago. It was a modest success, but happily, everyone got what they signed up for, two months before the promised delivery schedule, and they were all satisfied. I was not the owner, I just assisted him in running it. Interesting experience. Cheers!

6 months ago. Some are hit or miss. One has to look close at the delivery times. One KS the owner of the KS filled customer orders first. He had my money and it took months to get my items.

5 months. I'm still waiting on one I backed 2 years ago.

I have only ever done one, with the now defunct Defiance games. After that experience I am staying away from kickstarters.

Never.

My last two were a Keith Rocco book on the French army of the Hundred Days back in May and some 28mm French Emigre miniatures (and supporting Chouans) for the 1795 Quiberon campaign back in June.

Looking forward to both in the next month or so!

Reaper Bones V

More Napoleonic buildings STLs coming to KS in the next few weeks for Borodino and the Peninsula — so I'll be backing that one, and probably before the poll runs!

Bob Murch's Dangerous Dames … Last year.

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