Yesterday around 10pm EDT Soda Pop Miniatures started a Kick Starter to finally get their full version of Relic Knights out to fans. Within 120 minutes the goal was accomplished and the first two stretch goals were reached within 12 hours of the start time. Each stretch goal giving access to another faction past the first two until all six are set to be release at 100k.

So what is Relic Knights?

Relic Knights is set up as more of an Anime Miniature game that ditches the complete randomness of rolling dice and give you the chance to plan out how powerful attacks will be with a hand of cards. Soda Pop Miniatures has been releasing models slowly to let fans get their hands on some of the game before they had worked out all the rules. This also gave the fans a chance to start painting and collecting a lot soon than if we had to wait for all the development and funding to come in first. From what I can find, they have been running demos of the game with some of the models at conventions since Gen Con 2011. There are videos on YouTube showing these demos and some of the game play is explained. The system is different than some of the other games I have played but looks fun. The models also have a very different aura about them than just building an army of identical units.  I will be trying to stay up to date with new information being released and as it gets closer to the shipping of the products will try to get some more information about the game.

Below are some of the models being rewarded through their kickstarter.