OPERATION COMPLETE, MAGGOTS! BY GOD, WE REALLY HIT 'EM HARD! WE STOLE [$29,695 CAD] IN LOOT FROM THE ENEMY, AND BY GOD WE'RE GUNNA REINVEST IT! BIGGER GUNS, MORE TANKS, CUPHOLDERS!

Thank you all for the immense support we've received over this campaign! Your generosity has ensured Hammer City Games is going to be doing very well this year for the next few projects we have slated!

Our next steps will be further commissioning Hodag's art and getting the writing edited and nice and sexy. So far, 85% of the writing is complete, so right now we're finishing up the Planetary System Generator, and fleshing out some things we feel are useful for the zine in general! We don't have an ETA on the digital fulfillment, but I can definitely say: SOON.

As of now, I'm working on the Battlefield Hexmap so we can begin printing that ASAP, which means manufacturing should be done for that about...September? Books print faster so that's why we wanna print what will take the longest ASAP.

Otherwise, we will keep the lines of communication open, and of course feel free to reach out and scorn us about whatever it is you might want to complain about! Thank you again!

- BC

C'mon people, WE GOT 48 HOURS TO TAKE THIS ROCK AND HOLD IT! MAN UP, GET THOSE GUNS, AND HUNKER DOWN!

Spread this near and far and wherever you are, let's try and get that last stretch goal! FOR VILANTIS!

PLUS: New art from Hodag just dropped!

I was putting all the updates into the DISCUSSIONS part of BackerKit! Gosh, I can be such a dolt. Let me recap EVERYTHING then!

Update 1: FUNDED

Well hell, Maggots, you all do a damn good job shaping up and putting your wallet where sweet Liber-Tea is!

From all of us at Hammer City Games and the collective Terran Forces fighting for freedom and the Settled Worlds across the galaxy, thank you for making this project a reality!

We are already hard at work crafting this beauty (as of this moment, 80% of the writing is complete, and we are awaiting Hodag's art to come in!), and hopefully we hit those stretch goals and pack it with even more craziness!

See y'all off-world!

- BC

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Update 2: Stretch Goals #1, #2, and #3 FUNDED!

Well Ho-Ly Shit Maggots, you have decided to impress me the tiniest bit by blowing THREE stretch goals out of the water! Almost brings a tear to my eye...

BUT THEN AGAIN SO DOES MUSTARD GAS, AND THAT AIN'T SPECIAL NOW IS IT?!

Thank you all for your incredible generosity! As such, we are now adding:
- The Planetary System Generator in Part II of the book gets an overhaul and enough tables to make GURPS and Traveller sweat. Like seriously...its gunna get NUTS. Exotic planets, exotic atmospheres, exotic stars (do NOT look up what a Quark Star is) and more!
 - More Battlefield stuff! More tables, more ways to kill, more airstrikes, more DEATH FROM ABOVE! We're implementing a new Pay-As-You-Go Air Support System, where you get to use your hard-earned Freedom Bucks to purchase trucks, heavy equipment, napalm strikes, nuclear missiles, and more while boots-on-the-ground!
- We will add another alien race for you to kill: the Slin! Think discount T'au! Living on the gas giant Slin Prime, these bipedal air-surfers have learned to harness the floating islands of their home planet and rare resources to create a truly odd and anachronistic society. Expect a meaty appendix with the Slin detailed in all their glory, AND an expanded battlefield table for determining which planet will be glassed next!

Keep up the firepower and the momentum, WE STILL GOT 24 HOURS UNTIL YOU CAN'T GET THE FREE TEMPORARY TATTOO ANYMORE!

Stay frosty.

- BC

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Update 3: Stretch Goal #4 FUNDED!

Apologies, maggots! I was overcome by the need to rest after a horrifying space-flu caught me unawares. Thankfully, it seems none of you were able to bungle up this operation in my absence, hoo-rah and all that! You even managed to knock off a stretch goal!

- The Poster will be laminated and double-sided with more HodagRPG art on one side, and the hexmap on the other! That way you can use it for battlefield representation, OR have it stuck to your wall to drool over!

Because of your contributions and insane work ethic, we have instituted a NEW stretch goal!

- $35,000 - Post-War Vignettes - You know what the most boring part of war is? War. It's 99% boredom, 1% shit-your-pants scared. Instead of the rinse-and-repeat jump into the fray of battle, between missions, you need to relax, go on separate missions on space stations, infiltrate enemy ships, or even deal with - *gasp* - POLITICS?! With this new appendix, roll for vignettes between battlefield missions which can turn the tide of war, or find ways to relax so that you aren't stuck just playing battle after battle in a Sector 86 campaign!

That will be all maggots! BACK TO WORK!

- BC

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Update 4: Sneak Peeks!

GOOOOOD EVENING MAGGOTS!

Hope you're all staying warm in these chilling times (February) and enjoying the post-holiday, pre-spring doom and gloom! We have one way to lighten the mood: Hodag has been busy drawing and arts-ing away at some stuff for S&S, and he recently sent me a preview of the Human Infantry and the Halgian Ghasts. Have a look!

We have plenty more on the way, covering every empty bit we have in the book! On the other hand, writing is about 75% complete, just sprucing up the Planetary Generator and ensuring all the rules make sense.

We wanted to make it rules heavy to ensure you get ALL the information you could possibly need when traipsing through the stars!

Until next time recruits, keep on chugging!

- BC