Saturday, October 10, 2015

Hysterical Games: Panzerfäuste: Mechanised Warfare in a Mythical Realm Kickstarter



Hysterical Games: Welcome to The Land and the world of Panzerfäuste, our exciting game of mechanised warfare in a fantasy world. Enter a world where Dwarves, Orcs, Gnomes and a plethora of other creatures continue their millennia long struggles, but with modern advances of tanks, sub-machine guns and grenades. Fight on battlefields where death is impersonal and only a heartbeat away. March your troops across green fields, through muddy trenches, over snow-capped mountains or into dank caverns... Come fight in the world of Panzerfäuste and see if you can reign supreme in The Land!


Panzerfäuste is a fun 'Historo-Fantasy' miniature wargame setting, in which 28mm scale miniatures are used to depict the everyday struggles of standard 'Tolkienesque' fantasy races such as Orcs, Dwarves and Elves fight out battles with 20th century weaponry. We have started designing the first three factions and we are in a position to release the first two; The Dwarves and the Gnomes, with no problems. Our goal for this Kickstarter is to release some additional units for those two factions, as well as the Orcs and, if things go well, more factions on top of that. So welcome to Panzerfäuste, welcome to Hysterical Games, make yourself comfortable, for you are in for a treat! For more pictures, don't hesitate to visit the ongoing Kickstarter here.


Inspired by Tolkien, Pratchett, the history of the two world wars and everything in-between;Panzerfäuste is split into two rule-sets. Both the Skirmish Game and Mass Battle-Game rules simulate all of the vagaries of modern warfare, including fatigue and morale, but also mix in a flavour of fantasy through racial traits, magickal spells and fantastic abilities. 


The game can be played using the Skirmish rules, with a Section of infantry or played using the Mass Battle rules which cater for collections at Platoon to Company level, with two or three Sections of troops, armoured support and a character or two making up the bulk of most games. This means that the average game of Panzerfäuste requires no more than 30 or so miniatures.

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