Draft warbands, upgrade heroes and craft legendary weapons as you battle an inferno of horrors on an epic quest to forge your destiny.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Fell Fire Forge - Prototype Press Proof images
about 9 years ago
– Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 09:28:32 PM
Prototype Proof images
Schedule
Figure #1
Prototype (proofing) Photographs
We have received our first proof!!! As you can see in the photograph there are a myriad of cards included, and the game box will be absolutely overflowing with goodies. For backers of the "Fell Fire Forge", the entire game will fit into the box, and for those backers who supported at the "Premium Edition & The Fell Fire Forge" pledge level and above, all your components will easily fit into the Premium Edition game box for a nice consolidated travel package.
Figure #2
We have been executing a number of updates based on the proof we received, including color corrections, and one final editorial pass allowing us to create the most comprehensive and accurate learning and playing experience. Figure #2 is page #23 and #24 of the Rule Booklet and highlights the graphic design that will pour throughout the games documentation. We have also posted a copy of the Fell Fire Forge Rule Booklet on our website, so if you have any feedback on content or presentation, please chime in! We would love the support, and will sincerely review all editorial recommendations for improvement.
Figure #3
The card stickers (earned through in-game feats and based on your own decisions) to improve your cards are just awesome! Our entire team is thrilled to see how they came out, and we've even elected to add more stickers, just so the experience is more extensive.
Figure #4
Just another image to show exactly how many cards are involved!
Schedule
End of Feb 2017 delivery has shifted to Mid or End of March 2017
Due to numerous improvements we implemented including thickening of the gamebox material, additional stickers, and the conflict of the "Chinese New Year" our production schedule has shifted 1 month to the right to Mid or End of March 2017. The most significant schedule impact is due to the 1/25/2017 beginning of the most important Chinese holiday the "Chinese New Year". During this approximately 2 week period our manufacturer will actually stop production (for all projects) and enjoy the holiday much like Christmas and Hanukkah holidays are celebrated in many parts of the world. As a corrective action the Castle Assault has begun to procure the parallel components and periphery items, in a pre-emptive corrective measure to minimize schedule impact due to this holiday. We will continue to keep you all abreast of the schedule, but please note, this delay will only result in a better and more refined end product. Thank you all for your understanding.
Figure #5
And one final photograph Figure #5, of the Neoprene Rollable Playmat with the prototype in the image. Full grown cat for size comparison.
Fell Fire Forge Blazes to Life!
over 9 years ago
– Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 09:30:03 PM
On-time, On-schedule
Backer Kit updates
Grim Harlequinn Fae
On-time, On-schedule
The Fell Fire Forge remains on schedule for our estimated ship date of Feb 2017. Of course we are making every effort to expedite, however currently we remain right on track.
Thank you all for completing the backer surveys! To date we have collected 85% of our backers surveys and we are marching closer to completion. I estimate 'locking-down' the surveys Friday 12/16 so please complete them sooner rather than later. Please know you can always return to BackerKit and edit your desired shipping address.
A unique one-off addition we added as a backer exclusive Add-on is Alpha Un-cut card sheets of the Castle Assault Premier Edition KS warbands. We paid our manufacturer for a number of these un-cut card sheets for the winners of our tournament convention play, and we have a very very few (less than 3 total left, if I recall) of these remaining. We have made these last few un-cut card sheets available in Backer-kit (Black Vigil photographed below).
We have begun to procure all our dice and playmats, and we cannot wait to share prototype images on these materials as they come in!
Stay tuned!
Castle Assault: Fell Fire Forge - Campaign Manager is Live!
over 9 years ago
– Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 09:31:36 PM
Shortly, or perhaps you have already received your invitation to the Castle Assault BackerKit pledge manager.
For those of us who elected to pledge money for Add-ons during the campaign, there will be a pledge question to specifically write in what Add-on's you selected. Please complete this text box, as we will review each pledge to ensure you receive exactly all the items you desire in addition to any BackerKit add-ons you may like to add. Please use the link https://castle-assault-the-fell-fire-forge.backerkit.com/ if you do not get a campaign manager invitation.
Grim Harlequinn Fae
We are excited to share a number of art pieces from the Grim Harlequinn Fae warband we all unlocked. The Fourth Fell Fire Forge warband are best described as viciously passionate with a heavy dose of daemon and a low dose of chivalry, and commanding the Grim Harlequinn Fae will be a completely unique experience. The entire warband is incredibly versatile and compliments one another with the Fae's impressive cohort of rapid strike rogue units and heavy duty lumbering mythical constructs. The Fae royalty is like observing a basket of vipers, always in motion, shifting, exploiting any possible weakness, but do not be confused, this nomadic group falls into perfect harmony and extreme tenacity when threatened... which is often as they storm into others lands without concern for unseen lines, and hidden agendas.
Mechanically the Harlequinn Fae reflect their castle-less nomadic lifestyle with abilities allowing them to appear mid-battlefield and to not originate from your the castle area as with other warbands. They provide recon, quickly assassinate an opposing unit, then in a flash... disappear vacating the battlefield. They are also supported by massive mythical beasts and constructs of lore, which hurl massive boulders of granite at both opposing units and castles, or simultaneously attack all units within their blast range! None can withstand their synergy of erasing threats on the battlefield as their monsters storm down the battlefield eradicating all.
Striking from a distance, crushing all resistance, looting the spoils of war and departing leaving only smoldering remains is nothing short of a Grim Harlequinn Fae victory!
On-time, On-schedule
And as always, a friendly update reminding folks that the project is currently right on track. All files have been submitted to the manufacturer, and within the next week the first proofs will be shipped to us, and another week later we will have them in hand and sharing pictures with all of you!
As usual the proof submission will result in a number of color corrections, and grammatical edits to the Rule Booklet and the Campaign Guide Book, so if you have been reviewing the Rule Booklet, please don't hesitate to share your thoughts!
Thank you,
TJ
Castle Assault: Fell Fire Forge excitement!
over 9 years ago
– Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 01:59:02 PM
On-time, On-schedule
Rulebook updates
Campaign Manager coming soon
Art updates
On-time, On-schedule
Happy November Castle Assaulters! This update is primarily to share that while on the surface there does not appear to be too much action, we are behind the scenes kicking butt, and have currently compiled the nearly 150 unique pieces of artwork, 2 Stamp Booklets, Rule Booklet, Campaign Guide Booklet, Game Box designs and submitted them to our manufacturer. Our proofs are currently being created, and once these are shipped to us we cannot wait to share photographs of the proofs with all of you!
Rulebook Updates
After numerous editorial reviews both through iterations by the same reviewers, and also implementing 4 different editors, our Rule Booklet (32 pages) and Campaign Guide (28 pages) are nearly where we desire them to be. While this process is not easy, only by doing numerous revisions can we ensure an amazing Fell Fire Forge experience. We have posted a review copy on our website, and if you would like to also share your feedback, we would love to ensure all aspects are 100% bulletproof.
We've also engaged a French Fell Fire Forge backer who is currently translating the Rule Booklet into French. While not formalized yet, it is our intention to also offer that translation on our website!
Campaign Manager
Within this week we are incredibly excited to share our BackerKit Campaign manager. This will be an excellent service to help with shipping and fulfillment.
Art Updates
We are just thrilled to continue to share more and more exciting Medieval War-Engine. art with you. I wish to communicate we took all of your feedback and clarified every card in regards to font clarity and layout. This update shares these improvements.
Next week when the Campaign Manager goes live expect a healthy dose of our Grim Harliquinn Fae!
TJ
Castle Assault: Fell Fire Forge - On-schedule and Rocking Hard!
over 9 years ago
– Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:08:57 PM
Manufacturing and Project Summary
Art updates (Medieval War-Engine)
Pledge Manager - Backer-kit coming soon
Manufacturing and Project Summary
Castle Assaulters, we have only good news to report here on the frontlines, as both manufacturing and illustrations are on schedule. As a friendly reminder due to your hard work sharing this project with so many folks and achieving all those stretch goals we have doubled the amount of artwork in Castle Assault which our art director Andrew Pearson Giaume is wonderfully crafting with his depth of imagination. Together we also unlocked a myriad of optional side quests and plot lines, which I have been feverishly compiling into a deep, challenging, and most importantly a great fun story.
Solo Campaign:
Today we completed another iteration of our storyline and will go for our third external editorial review. At this stage, these edits are considerably more minor than previous edits so this is excellent knowing we are nearing the finish line. As a reminder the campaign is non-linear and an absolute thicket of paths and choice offering depth as you earn in-game or make out-of-game choices. I have actually doubled the possibilities of options including recruiting units, and also options to improve your units. Nearly everything in the Fell Fire Forge has a consequence, and not necessarily a bad consequence, but a result for actions that occur. Even if a recruitable unit perishes on the battlefield, other options unlock with his departure and the replayability is exponentially growing and I could not be more excited about it!
Playtesting:
Castle Assault has now been played nearly 100 times with my personal oversight and at least another 100+ times by external folks at our local hobby shops. All this culminates to wonderfully balanced and fun campaign scenarios, as well as amazingly diverse and clear text for all our warbands. We are very excited to introduce numerous new abilities as well as devious innovations on old favorites. Believe me when I say even the most hardened Castle Assault Premier Edition player will have an excellent time re-twisting their favorite warbands with all the new abilities, and of course blazing new strategies with our 4 brand new warbands.
Whats next
We have elected to use BackerKit (an external pledge managers) to manage our surveys and add-on content. Our priorities in the upcoming days:
Art (its gotta rock!)
BackerKit pledge manager
Edits to the storyline
Submit files to the manufacturer
Our entire team is really enjoying the castle assault experience, and honestly I think it shows. We are not a 10 game a year company, and for us to have the bandwidth and creative flexibility to create our prefect opus, is just a wonderful feeling. Thank you all again for making the Fell Fire Forge a reality!
