Mech Board Game Coming Soon!

Hello everyone! This last month I've been working tirelessly on two exciting big projects and I'm excited to share about one of them with you all; it's a new board game called OreFront!

OreFront is a grid-based strategy game for 2-4 players where each player commands a crew of mechs to mine the last ores of a dying Earth. Instead of taking turns to command and pilot their mechs, OreFront features an exciting and novel mechanic where all players plan out commands 4 steps in advance, before all simultaneously acting out those commands.

With 4 crews of mechs on the board, your carefully laid plans are sure to run into trouble so you'd best plan well to avoid or disrupt your opponents!

Since all of you here are 3D print enthusiasts, the part I think you'd most be interested in is the Print-and-Play version of OreFront. A digital version of OreFront will be available on the Kickstarter with all the 3D model files and digital card files for you to print out at home. There'll be 2 new mechs and 2 modified existing mechs for the game, for a total of 4 mechs in this first version. The board pieces are 3D printed as well! If you're interested, make sure to follow the project!

Follow the OreFront Kickstarter here!

We just did our first playtests of OreFront and it went great! Here are some sneakpeek photos so you can see what the game looks like.

Here's what the board layout looks like:

You can see two familiar mechs, the Dumptruck (renamed to T ransporter) and the Drill Mech. They've been adapted to hold ore pieces. For prototyping, I printed cards at home and put them in sleeves:

Our second playtest had updated rules, re-balanced the Transporter Mech which was originally signficantly over-powered, and made some map changes:

The gameplay loop has been fully worked out and is exactly how I wanted it! The next steps are re-doing the card graphics and some more re-balancing before I launch the Kickstarter campaign. I'll have more to share soon, but feel free to drop any comments or questions below! This will be our first Kickstarter campaign, and if it goes well we plan to do more games like OreFront as well as expansion packs such as PvE, more mech crews, and other game modes. Hope to see you all on campaign launch!