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New Releases & Offers From Sally 4th

Thursday, 20 September 2018 11:31

Written by Mike

September is a great month for Pulp gaming fans. Pulp Alley have 4 lovely new packs of miniatures, a scenario of the month based on Agatha Christie's Murder at the Gallops and a new an improved fortune deck. These are all available from Sally 4th and Pulp Alley themselves.

As usual Sally 4th has a FREE Plot Point of the Month, this time a bookcase full of clues, which we are giving away for free with every purchase that includes at least one Pulp Alley product, and as the scenario of the month cards feature our classic movie miniatures 'Murder most Equine' packs, we have put together a couple of special offer deals that feature them.

Full details from our Pulp Alley New Releases page HERE

Regards,

Chris Abbey

Albedo Miniatures Game ACP164

Friday, 07 September 2018 12:57

Written by Mike

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ACP164 is a 28mm miniatures game based on the ‘Albedo Anthropomorphics’ comic written by Steve Gallacci. The product line includes a campaign sourcebook, rules system, a miniatures range, vehicles, buildings and terrain items.

The Albedo Miniatures Game Campaign Sourcebook
The ACP boxed set will contain a sourcebook for the Albedo universe. This explains the concepts behind the Albedo Comic book series, which are central to the game. We’re trying very hard to not have a game that’s “WW2 rabbits”, or “random space critters”. Steve Gallacci did a lot of work in establishing a rational basis and storyline for his universe, and we’re aiming to stay true to that.
Unlike the previous RPG versions, which are based in the ‘present day’, we’re delving into the history of the Albedo setting, and exploring the detail of the First Lepine War. If you’re a fan of the comics, this is the war Erma Felna’s Dad fought in, and which established the way that critters fight.

The sourcebook comes in four parts.

The first explores the history of the Albedo Universe, and provides a general overview of how things work. We’ve not gone into exhaustive detail on all these things - that’s because we’re staying consistent with the RPG. If you want to know how space travel works, that’s the place to look. Besides, it’s largely immaterial to a ground level infantry combat game.

The second part of the book looks at the First Lepine War from a historical perspective. We’ve looked at each of the four phases of the war, highlighting the development of technology and military thinking, as well as the key operations.

The third section looks at the military, organisation, weapons and technology. This section contains organisation charts for the HomeGuard, EDF and ILR over time, as well as painting guides for each force.

The final section details a dozen linked scenarios that form the Almata campaign. This explores the escalating conflict on the planetary surface, and depending on the Kickstarter, will also include a mini-campaign set in a space station in orbit above the planet of Coteipi. This campaign is set in the modern period, but later expansion packs will look at the earlier war period in more detail, with associated miniatures. We’re hoping that interest will be high enough to produce the miniatures needed to represent the Almata Home Guard!

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Albedo Miniatures Game

Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:19

Written by Mike

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Background
Albedo is a hard science comic, featuring anthropomorphic animals or “critters” in a universe apparently created just for them. The opposing factions in this universe are the Independent Lapine Republic (ILR), which is a society dedicated to advancing the causes of Rabbits and crony-capitalism. They are engaged in a war of expansion against everyone else, which has forced the creation of the ConFed, or Confederation of Planets. The ConFed is represented in firefights by two different forces, the Home Guard, who maintain security on individual planets, and the Extra Planetary Defence Force, an elite force dedicated to defending systems and recapturing systems taken by the ILR.

Rules System
The Albedo rules system, Albedo Combat Patrol, has been written by John 'Buck' Surdu, retired US Army Colonel and prolific and innovative games designer whose previous works include Gaslight, Look Sarge No Charts, Fire Team Vietnam, Blood and Swash, Beer & Pretzels Skirmish and many, many more. The rules feature innovative, fast play card based combat mechanisms that bring out the detail of tactical ground based combat operations.

Miniatures Range
The miniature range has been digitally sculpted and the figures are supplied as multi-piece metal castings to allow a wide variety of troop type to be depicted. The miniatures have been designed to overcome many of the problems associated with multi-piece metal castings. Heads are cast with a neck that finishes in a pin that locates in a hole in the body; where possible pairs of arms are cast as a pair holding a weapon with pins at tops of arms that locate in to holes in shoulders. This ensures that components align perfectly and are easy to glue together. The Albedo comics feature a vast range of sapient mammals so using our multi-piece approach we hope to be able to make all species that appear in the comic available to gamers as miniatures.

Timings & Approach
Sally 4th will be running a Kickstarter campaign between 15th October and 19th November to raise additional funding for the project, however we are adopting a slightly different approach, which we hope will benefit backers and customers. We have funded the Albedo project as far as we can with internal funding and now need the support of the gaming public to take the game to the next stage. The miniatures that we have already developed are going to be made available for purchase just before the Kickstarter launches. They will go on pre-order on 24th September. The reason that we are doing this is that as gamers we have backed many kickstarters over recent years and have been very excited during the kickstarter period and then frustrated by having to wait a year (or more) to actually play the game. Also, The Albedo Miniatures game is a new gaming concept. As far as we know there are no other ranges of anthropomorphic sci-fi miniatures available to use as proxies, and we want backers to be able to start playing and be able to participate in the play test of the rules, and also to experience the quality of the miniatures. A PDF copy of the introductory rules, cards and other player aids will be available to backers to download from 15th October.

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Classic Movie Miniatures Episode 2

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 11:19

Written by Mike

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We are proud to announce that we have just launched our second Classic Movie Miniatures Kickstarter.
The campaign starts with three packs of 28mm miniatures, inspired by classic movies that were suggested by backers of our first campaign.
The miniatures are all sculpted by Mark Fuller, cast in lead free pewter and are supplied unpainted. Our showcase models have been painted by the very talented Jon Atter.

The key feature of our classic movie kickstarter is that once we have funded production moulds for these first three packs of figures, we then invite our backers to nominate the next packs of miniatures to be sculpted.
At each stretch goal our backers vote to decide what the next pack will be from the nominations that have been supplied.

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Pre-order News From Sally 4th

Wednesday, 06 June 2018 09:30

Written by Mike

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Following Brigade Games successful Kickstarter campaign for Spies and Patriots, the range of iconic cold war era spies, agents and henchmen, Sally 4th is pleased to announce that we are now taking pre-release orders for the range.
This is especially useful for gamers in the UK and Europe as it enables ordering without incurring trans Atlantic postage and Customs / Import Duty.
We have all of the Pre-Release / Kickstarter special offers available including discounts and free book and miniatures.