Preview of the Nippon Expansion
about 5 years ago
– Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 04:43:38 PM
Preview of the Nippon Expansion
Our social media stretch goal unlocked the Nippon Expansion, which our backers will all receive for FREE. This expansion adds a new army, a new board, and some new rules with which to fight a different style of Blitzkrieg!
As you’ve probably guessed from the title, the Nippon Expansion involves the military might of Japan. However, the setting may not be quite what you’d imagined…
What if the Axis coalition had won World War Two, and Germany invaded and occupied the United States of America? And … what if Japan then turned on its former ally and invaded German-held America? With the help of Godzilla?
The Nippon Expansion explores this hypothetical scenario. One player controls the German forces and the other player controls the Japanese forces in a battle for domination of America in an alternate universe 1946.
The game’s board works in a different way to the core game – each theatre of operations has only a single campaign, and only four campaigns are fought at any given moment. Once a campaign closes, a connected location opens.
In addition to a complete set of Japanese counters, Paolo has created two new special weapons and Godzilla (who fights for Japan, of course)!
Here are a few preview shots for you…
A little peek the solo mode
about 5 years ago
– Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 07:26:55 PM
A little peek at what David Turczi and Nick Shaw are doing with the solo mode:-
“The solo mode is an artificial opponent you play against, playing as the Axis side. It siimulates an opponent's actions by going through a set of choices to decide where and what to place, but also has a small deck of cards or tiles, not sure yet, which give it a randomised stratagem to aim for each turn, adding unpredictability to its actions. The end game is the same as the 2 player game: if you get to 25vp first, or otherwise have a higher score than the bot at game end, you win.”
Not a lot of “meat” on the bones at the moment but they are working hard on it with Paolo.
More reveal as it arrives……………….
More info on the Nippon Expansion on Thursday morning………..
Stretch goal 7 @ GBP £11,000 - UNLOCKED!!
about 5 years ago
– Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 06:01:04 PM
Stretch goal 7 @ GBP £11,000: A new game! - UNLOCKED!!
Well done, everyone!
We thought we would do something a little different...… Blitzkrieg! is such an excellent little game with a solid engine we thought it would be a great idea to use that engine to create a new game with a different theme and let you lovely backers decide the theme by way of a survey! If this stretch goal is unlocked we will send all backers a poll where you select one of five choices, the choice with the most votes will be created sometime in the near future:-
1. Ancient Rome
2. Vikings/Saxons
3. Medieval
4. Napoleonic
5. American Civil War
New Stretch goal 7 @ GBP £11,000 announced!
about 5 years ago
– Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 04:09:13 PM
Stretch goal 7 @ GBP £11,000: A new game!
We thought we would do something a little different...… Blitzkrieg! is such an excellent little game with a solid engine we thought it would be a great idea to use that engine to create a new game with a different theme and let you lovely backers decide the theme by way of a survey! If this stretch goal is unlocked we will send all backers a poll where you select one of five choices, the choice with the most votes will be created sometime in the near future:-
1. Ancient Rome
2. Vikings/Saxons
3. Medieval
4. Napoleonic
5. American Civil War
New Artwork
about 5 years ago
– Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 07:25:43 PM
As posted on the 12th March update…you’ve all unlocked the new art stretch goal, thank you.
The images show some of the unchanged art, but also the new pieces. Which include a new Allied airforce and army counter, a new Axis airforce counter, and new art for the Special Weapons army, airforce and navy.
