Valiant Wars: Call to Arms

What's Valiant Wars?

Valiant Wars: Call to Arms is a brand new Valiant Wars game. It can be played by itself or be combined with the original Valiant Wars.

Valiant Wars is a press-your-luck deck building game. Each round, everyone plays their cards simultaneously, from the top of their deck, competing to have the most power. Whoever has the most powers wins the location and gets them one step closer towards victory.

But if no players win before the Valiant Throne comes up, then players play one last round that's a winner-take-all battle!

Stand Alone Expansion

Call to Arms is a stand alone expansion. You can combine any and all cards from the Valiant Wars base game and Champions Expansion 1 with all of the new products found in this campaign. The Call to Arms rulebook will provide guidelines on how to add new cards in.

New Features

New Champions!

Valiant Wars: Call to Arms: offers a deck of brand new champions to recruit with new strategies and strategies to discover!

New Locations!

Location set the stage for a new, epic battle! Locations in Valiant Wars: Call to Arms, now have effects! These new locations will add modifications to each battle, some good and some bad!

The Champions Expansion 2

The Champions Expansion 2 is also included at the Veteran Tier. It includes advanced Champions that you can mix in with either the base game or Call to Arms to change the feel of play.

The Champions Expansion 2 contains 50 expansion cards with wooden Sword Tokens, and a printed cloth bag.

Landsknechts Booster Pack

Want an alternative to purchasing soldiers? Try Landsknechts! You can now hire these mercenaries instead of soldiers for zero gold each. They are stronger than soldiers, but beware! They are fickle; if another plays a Landsknecht, they'll steal all of yours.

The Landsknecht Booster Pack comes with 20 unique Landsknecht cards.

Promo Booster Pack 1

Every promo card available at a convention will be included in this 10-card pack. Never worry about missing out because you can't attend a convention. We've got you covered.

Reviews

Reviews for Valiant Wars:

“The game plays really quickly, I found it to be really fun. Super simple. It’s a game that almost anybody can play.”

– Tom Vasel, The Dice Tower

“The game is fun. If you want a game like Mystic Vale, but you want it to be quicker, a little more aggressive and lighter… then this is the game for you.”

– Michael Wright, Unfiltered Gamer

Overview

Valiant Wars is a press-your-luck deck builder where players play their cards simultaneously!

Each round, players will draw cards from their deck, one at a time, simultaneously.

The player with the most power wins locations worth Victory Points.

Beware! Draw 2 Dark Omens and you lose everything for the round!

Use the gold you draw to purchase new Champions to bolster your deck.

Components

Rewards

• $15,000: All Backers receive gold foil enhanced Treasure Cards in Call to Arms  Games.
• $20,000: All Backers receive foil-enhanced Dark Omen Cards in Call to Arms Games.
• $25,000: All Backers receive foil-enhanced Elite Champions.
• $30,000: ???? You tell us what you want by voting!

Add ons

Imagine an entire book dedicated to the amazing art of Valiant Wars. This artbook showcases lore and art of the Valiant Wars world! It also has rules that allow you to play your favorite Champions as a Roleplaying Game. The Valiant Wars RPG is based on SMG's new Envoy system. Any player can learn to play in just minutes, and each Champion's abilities will be in their lore description, or build your own custom Champion!

The art book will be approximately 125 pages and feature an adorable 8" x 5" format.

Shipping

We have done our best to estimate shipping costs; actual shipping will be added to your pledge after the campaign has ended through Pledge Manager. The cost of shipping will be determined based on the backer's country and the items in their pledge. This allows our team to give each backer the fairest and most accurate shipping price for their location and desires.  This campaign is EU and Canada friendly!

Once the campaign has ended, you will receive a survey to confirm how your pledge funds should be applied to your order. Backers can make changes to their pledge while the Pledge Manager is open. Pledges must be completed as soon as possible. Incomplete pledges (missing addresses, incorrect payments, etc.) will be held until they are complete.

Pledge Manager will close (2) two weeks after the boat leaves the manufacturer's facility. Items or Pledge Levels may be locked without notice in the event that orders for these items reach the maximum quantity ordered before fulfillment.

Late backers can Pledge with the Pre-Order button at the top of this page after the campaign has ended.

Risks & Challenges

This Kickstarter isn't our first rodeo! Strange Machine Games has experience creating and manufacturing board games such as our Robotech® titles; Attack on the SDF-1, Ace Pilot, Cyclone Run, Brace for Impact, and our original titles like Valiant Wars and Iconoclash.

Like any start-up project, there are possible risks involved. Our team has taken extra care in prepping for this campaign to make sure that we can deliver our backers a swift and smooth Kickstarter experience. We've got the numbers, found our partners, the art is almost finished, and are ready to print this game! All we need is the funding to hit "print"!  

Communication is our number one priority. It is our goal to post updates every 3 weeks on the production process of Valiant Wars: Call to Arms and the inner workings of Strange Machine Games, whether the news is about rain or sunshine. We have a very aggressive timeline for production after the campaign ends, and expect to have plenty of exciting news to share with you each week.  

Thank you for your support! 

About us

We're a small tabletop company, originally started by Jeff Mechlinksi in 2013 originally named Strangelet Machine Games, and made several TTRPGS Age Past and Super Age. In 2018, Strange Machine Games really got going with Darius Hambleton, a childhood friend joined and together they created Robotech®: Attack on the SDF-1,  Robotech®: Ace Pilot, Robotech®: The Macross Saga Roleplaying Game, and Charm Role Playing Game.  Around that time, they met Quinn Washburn at Origins Game Fair, and he's been designing games for Strange Machine Games ever since, including Robotech®: Cyclone Run, Iconoclash, and of course Valiant Wars. 

As a board game publisher, Strange Machine Games aims to make the most dynamic and interesting board game and RPG products on the market, even if it means using strange machines to get there. In every SMG product, we aim to provide play experiences that provide a unique experience. We hope to win over the hearts of those who give SMG products a try.

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