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In the game, players use their dog cards to claim trees, with cats allowing more dog breeds to compete for the same tree. My brother was at UK Games Expo 2015 and tried out the prototype, saying "it seems like a decent short game". No other details, but he's not working for me, so I get what I can from him. (KS link)
• The miniatures portion of this post is occupied by Blackout: Journey into Darkness, "a post-apocalyptic dungeon crawler set in the Northern Wastes" from newcomer Richard T. Broadwater. I'm not sure whether the Northern Wastes encompass the Yukon, upstate Montana, or North Dallas, although this past week North Dallas seems the most likely option. (KS link)
• Hmm, here's another miniatures game of sorts: Empires At Sea from first-timers Zach and Amy Silverzweig. Players sail around the Atlantic Ocean, representing one of four countries and trying to amass power, defeat pirates, and navigate the waves of historical event cards. (KS link)
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• Street Kings from Luca Vince Caltabiano and Board to Death is another worker placement game, with players upgrading and racing street cars. (KS link)
• Healing Blade: Defenders of Soma is a sequel/reworking of Healing Blade: Infectious Disease Card Battle, and as you might be able to guess from the subtitle of this game, the subject matter is somewhat unexpected. The short description of the new game: "a fantasy battle card game between antibiotics and infectious bacteria". If you've ever wanted to fight — or, alternatively, take the role of — E. coli, now's your chance. (KS link)
• Ed, Albert and Kevin Mach — publishing as Mach Brothers Games appropriately enough — are trying to fund Vikings of Dragonia as their debut title, with players fighting off both rival clans and wild dragons to become ruler of the land. (KS link)
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• Corné van Moorsel's Samara was part of a recent c.f. round-up, and now this worker-ish placement, time-management game is on Spieleschmiede, with the combined funds from both projects fueling stretch goals. Man, running one of these projects seems tough enough, but stacking them sounds like madness. (Spieleschmiede link)
• Also on Spieleschmiede is Il Gioco del Ponte from Luca Macelloni, with this game recreating an annual battle for the bridge that's taken place between the north and south sides of Pisa since 1568. Aren't those guys tired of fighting yet? Although come to think of it, they must be zombies at this point to keeping fighting for hundreds of years. In any case, Macelloni participates in this event each year, and now he's created a board game version of the battle that features elaborate handmade and hand-painted figures. As noted in this project description, "Due to the elaborate manufacturing process, only 50 games per month can be completed". (Spieleschmiede link)
• In Deal: American Dream from Alejandro Vernaza, players compete "for the dominion of drug trafficking in the Americas", which makes the "This project is U.S. friendly" label highly amusing. (KS link)
• Wait, more minis? Yes, more minis courtesy of the second edition of Defenders of the Realm: The Dragon Expansion from Eagle-Gryphon Games, which has a giant table of contents at the top of the KS page to take you through all the details of this project. (KS link)
• Yet still more minis and another use of the word "defenders" comes courtesy of Defenders of the Last Stand from Richard Launius and 8th Summit, with players living in the western United States following a nuclear war, mutations sprouting on their bodies as they bathe in their glowing environment, fighting off invading clans led by Bramble, Bama, Krank and Puke. Imagine the dinner table conversations between them... (KS link)
• And to break from minis for this final item, Simon Junker's self-published Heldenteufe features artwork from the always glorious Mathieu Leyssenne, with players traveling back and forth from the Upper World to the Netherworld to trade goods, complete missions, and sic monsters on opponents when they dare enter the world below. (KS link)
Editor's note: Please don't post links to other Kickstarter projects in the comments section. Write to me via the email address in the header, and I'll consider them for inclusion in a future crowdfunding round-up. Thanks! —WEM
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