USE ME Alien Safari – delayed

Artwork of SHM 15mm aliens

Artwork of SHM 15mm aliens by E.Jackson

Those of you who read this blog and also speak to me via email and phone will know that the month running up to the Salute show (which we are now in!) is the second busiest of my year on average.  The biggest wargaming show in the UK occurs in London in April and its an annual bonanza of new releases and special officers at my work.  This year, despite the apparent weak economy, the company is having a mighty busy time with pre-orders and other orders taking advantage of the offers that are available.  This has leant on me rather heavily and as a result a little bit of sad news for you all.

UM012 USE ME Alien Safari is not being released until later this year.  Booooo!  Hissss!

I know, I know.  You are all looking forward to it but I had to make a hard choice.  It is just not ready.  The rules engine needs more playtesting and as its primarily a solo play game the tables covering this need to be bang on for it to work correctly.  Better that it is right than it is rushed.  But I do think it will be by or before the summer for release.

I will post when I have a release date confirmed and also based on a couple of emails I have had please post in comments here if you would like me to do a ‘designers notes’ post or article about the game too.   This might be here or over on Barking Irons Online.

GBS

p.s a lovely little look for you in this post at a sheet of artwork that will feature in the game. Enjoy!

I now also see Lead People!

A current project on 'I see lead people'.

I have the good fortune to be able to count the talented fellow Eli Arndt among my friends in the world of miniature wargaming.  Though we have never met we do speak a lot on email and as some of you might know Eli is a miniature designer (among other things) who has worked with 15mm.co.uk under my SHM brand for aspiring designers.  I rate Eli highly and his design work goes from strength to strength.  In fact I am often surprised as how diverse his interests are with aliens, super heroes and board games all coming up in the last week or two alone!

Most recently with myself Eli has another ten 15mm scale miniatures released (SHM26-SHM35) this month.  He is working on more…

I asked Eli if he could give me his blog address so that I could link to him and tell all of you about him.  He was kind enough to send me the link to his blog – I See Lead People.  With the link now on my blog this posting is really just to let you all know to go along and have a look at what Eli is up to.

Enjoy!

GBS