Crooked Dice: Pirates of Lunar City Kickstarter

Aktuell sind Crooked Dice mit einer 7TV: PULP Erweiterung auf Kickstarter unterwegs.

Pirates of Luna City – 28mm pulp sci-fi miniatures & terrain

A retro sci-fi Feature Pack for 7TV PULP! Play a cliffhanger serial that never existed with new 28mm miniatures and terrain!

THE STORY SO FAR…

The League of Planets has maintained peace throughout the Solar System for over 700 years. As the fortunes of worlds have risen and fallen, the Guardian of the Solar System has remained a neutral arbiter, keeping order with a brave force of Radium Rangers.

But now that power hangs in the balance. The current Guardian – King Leonidas – is dead. The wise monarch had maintained peace for decades from the neutral ground of Luna City on Saturn’s forest moon, Titan. Now, as custom dictates, Leonidas’ son, the Crown Prince Leon, will take on the mantle of Guardian until his father’s term of office is concluded.

However, the Uranian Emperor Ro is determined to marry his daughter, Princess Xuri, to Prince Leon to gain greater influence for the Uranian Empire throughout the ­­Solar System. Fearful of the threat posed by the Emperor, the other League worlds agree to the marriage, hoping that the adage “keep your enemies closer” will maintain peace. The political alliance between Leon and Xuri was agreed to secure stability… but on the eve of their wedding, the daring Saturnian Scarlet Pirates kidnapped Prince Leon!

Can Rick Rhodes and the Radium Rangers track down the prince and reveal the perpetrators of this sinister plot against the League? Or will the Solar System descend into war?

HELP US SAVE THE UNIVERSE!

With this campaign, we hope to fund the production of:

• a new feature pack – with five scenarios and unique characters to use with the 7TV: PULP skirmish game.
• over 30 highly detailed 28mm white metal miniatures. Sculpts have been brought to life by the very talented Ernst Veingart and Andrew May and will be cast in white metal, with some pieces including scatter terrain cast in resin. All miniatures are supplied unpainted.
• We also have a digital terrain bundle available with 15 larger terrain pieces better suited to 3D printing. Designed by Scott Reid of Tired World Studio.
• And if we are successful, we have a number of stretch goals that include freebies and add-ons of even more figure sculpts.

THE FEATURE PACK

In this expansion set for 7TV: PULP, players can pit their wits in a short, linked campaign and enjoy a planet-hopping pulp space opera in the best traditions of the Saturday morning cliffhanger! 

Players can play a cast of heroic Radium Rangers or the villainous Uranian Empire. Each cast can play through five chapters fighting to save, or conquer, the Solar System!

Designed to be used alongside 7TV: PULP, new material expands on the rules and profiles presented in that box set – providing bespoke chapters and characters based on these epic adventures of Rick Rhodes and the Radium Rangers!

RETRO VHS PACKAGING!

Packaged in a retro VHS case, the Feature Pack contains a five chapter serial adventure with bespoke characters, gadgets and maguffins. An 80 page episode guide details the game and goes  behind the scenes to explore the making of a 1930s cliffhanger serial that never was.

 

BEHIND THE SCENES

In 1946, during the Golden Age of the cinema serials, Spenser Packard’s Pinnacle Pacific Pictures produced ‚Rick Rhodes and the Pirates of Luna City‘, a twelve-chapter serial  charting the daring exploits of their most popular rocketship hero.

Seventy years later, Crooked Dice researchers working in the Sidney Barron Memorial Archive at the BFI rediscovered a near pristine print. Over the last two years, Crooked Dice have adapted ‚Pirates of Luna City‘ for 7TV: PULP.

PLEASE NOTE

• You will require 7TV: PULP to play this expansion set – available as an add-on to this campaign.
• All miniatures and terrain are produced in white metal or resin and are supplied unpainted.
• STL files included are for TERRAIN ONLY – no digital files of figures are included.

MINIATURES

This campaign hopes to fund over 30 new sculpts designed to use with the feature pack – but also suitable for any retro-sci-fi or pulp gaming. Miniatures will be cast in white metal, with larger figures and small terrain pieces cast in resin.

All Crooked Dice miniatures are 28mm scale. This means they are 28mm from the base of the foot to eye – so stand approximately 32mm tall. Comparable ranges are Hasslefree, Copplestone and Artizan.

There is also an opportunity to add miniatures from the existing Crooked Dice Pulp range. Feel free to browse the website for all our pulp products.

DIGITAL TERRAIN BUNDLE

This is our first foray into providing STLs for a campaign. The home printing market has exploded in the last couple of years, so we are hoping to offer something for dedicated digital fanatics too.

The models in the digital terrain bundle have been designed with home 3D-printing in mind, ready-to-print right “out of the box”. Models have been parted to fit on the most popular printers and tested on a range of machines. Some models use OpenLOCK under licence.

Please note that STL files are NOT available for the figures in this campaign. All stretch  goals listed are for physical products.

STL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 

FDM printing

The terrain kits are designed to print on primarily FDM printers and have been designed to print without supports or include pre-supports where appropriate. Models have been designed and parted to get around some of the limitations of FDM printing to give you the best result.

Please note that STL files are NOT available for the figures in this campaign. All stretch  goals listed are for physical products.

STL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

FDM printing

The terrain kits are designed to print on primarily FDM printers and have been designed to print without supports or include pre-supports where appropriate. Models have been designed and parted to get around some of the limitations of FDM printing to give you the best result.

DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO 3D PRINTING?

If you really love the digital part of this campaign and want physical prints, but don’t have a 3D printer – then never fear! Crooked Dice have partnered with Proteus 3D Modelling to offer prints of all terrain pieces once we have supplied you your files. We’ll share full details of this once the campaign has ended.

Pledges:

There are a range of hero or villain themed pledges or a chance to get all 16 miniatures at a discount. Plus we hope to unlock further add-ons and freebies packs as the campaign progresses! There are SEVEN simple pledges to choose from:

•  Space Monkey – just show your support and crooked love!
•  Feature Pledge – Just receive the Feature Pack in all its retro VHS glory!
•  STL Only Pledge – will get you access to some amazing pulp-sci terrain and vehicles STLs is this digital reward.
•  Hero Pledge – eight heroic miniatures cast in white metal PLUS the feature pack!!
•  Villain Pledge – eight villainous miniatures cast in white metal PLUS the feature pack!
•  Director Pledge – all 16 hero and villain miniatures  cast in white metal PLUS the feature pack!
•  Producer Pledge – all 16 hero and villain miniatures and a feature pack AND the STL Digital Terrain bundle!

Stretch Goals:

There’s always room for some extra rewards! So as a thank you to our loyal backers, we have some extra sculpts that will hopefully get unlocked along the way. At key milestones, your contributions will unlock:

• FREE models for all Feature pledge backers (or £18) and above
• paid ADD-ONs for new miniature packs to add to your base pledge

Please note that all stretch goals listed are for physical products. STLs are NOT available for figures.

• 2k – UNLOCKED! FREE! A3 Movie Poster upgrade in each Feature Pack.
•  4k – UNLOCKED! FREE! Lion Statue objective marker for all Feature Pledge backers and above.
•  6k – UNLOCKED! ADD ON – Shieldmasters x2. Just add £9 to your pledge to include these two white metal models in your rewards.
•  8k – UNLOCKED! FREE! Lion’s Claw objective marker for all Feature Pledge backers and above.
•  10k – UNLOCKED! ADD-ON – Luna City Stars. Just add £15 to your pledge to include these four white metal models in your rewards.
•  12k – UNLOCKED! FREE! Horn of Saturn objective marker for all Feature Pledge backers and above.
•  14k – UNLOCKED! ADD-ON! King Iago and his Ice Pirates! Just add £15 to your pledge to include these four white metal models in your rewards.
•  15k – UNLOCKED! LIMITED ADD ON! Rocketship 3D resin print. Once unlocked we will offer 50 lucky backers the opportunity to be able to purchase a resin print of this rocket ship.
•  16k – UNLOCKED! FREE! Lava Beast Skull objective marker for all Feature Pledge backers and above.
•  18k – UNLOCKED! ADD-ON – Magma Apes. Just add £18 to your pledge to include these four resin models in your rewards.
•  20k – UNLOCKED! FREE – Venusian Rose objective marker for all Feature Pledge backers and above.
•  22k – UNLOCKED! ADD-ON – Mechanical Men. Just add £15 to your pledge to include these four white metal models in your rewards.
•  24k – UNLOCKED! FREE! Spanners figure for all Feature Pledge backers and above.
•  26k – LOCKED! ADD-ON – Uranian Death Ray. Just add £20 to your pledge to include this resin model in your rewards.
•  28k – LOCKED! FREE! Professor Karzov figure for all Feature Pledge backers and above.
• AND MORE TO COME…!

Add-Ons:

Versand:

As a long standing mail order business with a successful web store, we ship packages all over the world, every day. So you can rest assured that your parcels are in good hands and will reach you safely.

We always try and charge a flat rate – or pack in multiple parcels if cheaper for you – but as I am sure you have you may be aware shipping costs have risen significantly since lockdown – especially to Rest of the World and the USA.

The shipping will be added AFTER the Kickstarter, so is not included in your pledge. Shipping cost will be calculated by weight and size of your pledge plus any variables that you may add in the webstore. Where this requires multiple small parcels to fulfill, additional costs may be required. All pledges requiring shipping in a small parcel.

Crooked Dice are not responsible for any additional shipping, handling or custom charges.

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