Progress update
over 8 years ago – Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 04:27:16 PM

Greetings survivors and Global Defence officers,

It’s been a fortnight since our last update, but rest assured that the First Contact team has been at work all along. The Core Rulebook, Check and Mate, and The Darkest Hour have all been completely translated and are being thoroughly proofread as we speak.

The additional adventure unlocked as a stretch goal is currently being written and will be included in the Check and Mate supplement, along with the additional archetype and the new Chandra, as planned.

Besides, you should all soon receive a Backerkit mail to help process your Reward Tier and your add-ons. 

So keep your eyes peeled in the next few days. In any case, we’ll announce that in our next update.

In the meantime, keep saving the world from the Chandra!

Back to work!
over 8 years ago – Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 07:25:56 AM

Greetings everyone,

We did it! 

 Thanks to each and every one of you, we have completed our incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign. Nearly five amazing weeks together!

We’ve received messages from some backers saying there were issues when Amazon tried to apply the payment. Kickstarter said they would contact you if this was the case. You can also check to make sure it worked correctly by logging into Kickstarter. They give 7 days to correct your payments, so please check it soon. After that, your pledge and reward is cancelled, and surely, you don’t want that to happen. 

If your tier contained any rewards where we need to gather details about you to be used in the book, we will soon be doing so through Kickstarter. Keep on the lookout for this notification. There is no need to update your shipping address yet as we will collect it when we get closer to the release of the game.

So, now we’re back, working on the game, creating new products, translating, proof-reading, editing, to be on time for delivery. We’ll made a new update very soon, when our website is ready, and many other ones to keep you posted on the progress of the book and the other rewards. 

Feel free to contact us any time if you have any enquiries.

Humanity Stands Strong
over 8 years ago – Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 09:50:59 PM

Greetings again Survivors and Global Defence officers,

Thank you so much for your trust, for your support, and also for all the good vibes you’ve sent us these 35 days.

You’ve made this campaign successful, and now we’re gearing toward delivering a game you’ll definitely enjoy running and playing, along with the stretch goals you unlocked. 

Let us tell you this from the bottom of our heart: you’re awesome!

Now, what’s next?

Once Kickstarter has validated everything, we’ll send you a survey to fill out with your contact details. By the way, and this is important: if you have already included add-ons to your pledge level, keep track of what you picked up as we’ll ask you the details at that moment.

But, now, we have to deliver...

The Last Message

I don’t know if you can hear me. 

I don’t know if there is anyone else alive. 

But I have to send this. I have to hope. 

The aliens came a month ago. We knew about the asteroid, we heard about the attack on San Francisco. 

But then they just fell on us. Ships descended from the skies and disgorged wave after wave of aliens and their hunting dogs. 

Most of us ran. What else could we do? 

We heard there was something called Global Defence being formed but they never came. The police didn’t have the firepower, the Army never arrived. We were alone. 

A few of us tried to escape the city, but the aliens were everywhere. Most of the escapees were rounded up, the rest were killed. I never heard any stories about anyone getting out of the city. Those of us who hid fared a little better. The Chandra had captured so many of us they never tried going door to door. Why bother anyway? With the city surrounded by them, where else were we going to go? 

The ones they didn’t kill got herded into the camps. They set them up everywhere, rows and rows of identical huts. They have some sort of fast building technology, so it wasn’t long before these small towns grew like wasp hives. We’ve not managed to get anyone in and out again, so we don’t know what they do there. But we’ve heard the screams, the screams never end. But we have started to fight back. 

A few of us managed to find each other between the patrols. We even managed to find some guns and ammunition. Not enough, but once we discovered these bastards could bleed it would never be enough. Last week we managed to destroy one of their anti-aircraft guns, soon we plan an attack on the generator. But don’t think we’re brave. We just have nowhere to go and nothing to lose. I’m scared every day, but getting killed fighting is the best option given the alternatives.

Some of the others think there is someone out there who can rescue us. They say the aliens wouldn’t have the gun emplacements if they’d already taken control of everything. Maybe there is a Global Defence, and maybe they are coming to take the city back. But they are taking their gorram sweet time about it.

So I’m sending this message to anyone who might be left out there. I don’t know if you can help us, I don’t know if there is anyone listening. The rest of the world could be like us, alone and forgotten. But if this message gets out, maybe, just maybe there is a way we can help each other. 

I pray that the optimists are right and that somewhere, there is enough of humanity left to fight back.

And another one!
over 8 years ago – Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:24:46 PM

And here again... goes a new stretch goal!

You're just awesome! We’ve managed to unlock the 18k stretch goal : a full color cutout token sheet in pdf to use with your battle maps.

This reward will be available to the following Reward Tiers: Dragonmeet Survivor bundle, Resistance Fighter bundle, Army Volunteer bundle, Taccom soldier bundle, Taccom officer bundle, Stratcom officer bundle and Ghost Wolf Officer Bundle.

Like the previous stretch goal, this is created for you, our wonderful backers!

Thank you so much! 

And now, maybe the 20K stretch goal...Three exclusive scenarios, for survivors and Global defense units, created especially for this Kickstarter.

Here goes a new stretch goal!
over 8 years ago – Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:24:36 PM

Thanks to you your incredible support, we’ve managed to unlock the 17k stretch goal which adds to the Check and Mate book a new Archetype and a new Chandra NPC (as a nod to the Falling Skies TV show).  Like the previous stretch goal, both characters are specially created for you, our loyal backers. 

So, what now? 

 With a handful of hours left, we still keep our hopes high and we’re adding a 18k stretch goal: a full color cutout token sheet in pdf to use with your battlemaps. This reward will be available to the following Reward Tiers: Dragonmeet Survivor bundle, Resistance Fighter bundle, Army Volunteer bundle, Taccom soldier bundle, Taccom officer bundle, Stratcom officer bundle and Ghost Wolf Officer bundle. 

 Soldiers, this is our final push, so make it count!