As I write this, it’s the night before we take a very big step into the arena of crowdfunding. I’m exhilarated. I have butterflies. It’s like being eight years old on Christmas Eve and not being sure if Santa got your wish list or not. I can’t wait for it to begin, and I look forward to its completion.

Previously, I wrote about our intentions and the reasons behind them: we’re making a WARMACHINE video game, but we need your support to make it a reality. Today we launch our Kickstarter campaign to fund WARMACHINE: Tactics, and the better we do with it the more incredible this game is going to be!

We’ve created a pile of rewards, both digital and physical. And we know where your passion lies, so we’ve made sure there’s something there that everyone will want to put on the tabletop.

The activity behind the scenes is finally starting to die down, but it’s just the calm before the storm. For months a select team from WhiteMoon Dreams and Privateer Press have worked together to plan this campaign while the game was being developed to a point where we were ready to show the world. As the launch date grew nearer, the project rose up to consume the lives of the entire WhiteMoon Dreams studio and a great deal of Privateer Press. (In just the three months I’ve been counting, over 4,000 emails have been generated about this project—and those are just the ones that came through my own inbox!) Privateer and WhiteMoon Dreams have worked furiously and without wavering, and together we’ve created a presentation I very much hope will leave you impressed and as excited about this project as we are.

I must thank everyone at Privateer Press and WhiteMoon Dreams for their amazing effort and admirable excellence, and for tolerating my own obsessive determination to see this game come to life. And to you, our community of players, I thank you for the support you have given us thus far as we continue to expand the vision and the experience of WARMACHINE and the Iron Kingdoms.*

And now, our fate is in your hands. I just hope you want to play this game as much as I do!

Matt Wilson

*HORDES players, do not despair! When this thing takes off, you’re next.