All orders through West Wind have shipped as that stock has indeed arrived. Furthermore, I have asked Wendy to go ahead and ship all European orders that came through this store (that do not have an additional miniatures component) from her stock and those have also shipped. Thank you Wendy.

For those of you in the North America, Australia, (and one order from Indonesia), I ask for your patience just a little longer. We will ship the day after we get the stock. I am happy to offer refunds if you just can’t wait but I imagine there won’t be any takers on that :-)

Here’s the worst case scenario: We ship worldwide from the European stock. That would bankrupt the Grindhouse so I’m calling it the nuclear option! I’m confident we won’t come to that but I just wanted you all to know that your confidence is well placed with us.

Jim

“Hi Jim,
Just to let you know three pallets came in just now, all in good condition.
Andy’s comment – “Game absolutely gorgeous!”
Off to pack some boxes now………….."

Now, just awaiting the US shipment. Looks like Wednesday.

Jim

All is good. I now AT LAST have confirmation that both ships did indeed reach port last week for the European and the US shipment though both were a couple of days late (well, things are now a month late in total). Both shipments cleared customs and are now in ground transportation mode. The stock should be at West Wind literally any minute. The shipment to Grindhouse in the USA will be here in San Antonio in a couple of days but then has to get sorted and dispatched from a local warehouse.

Long story short: we’re shipping to all you fine folks next week.

Thanks all for your patience and your trust in us. I really really appreciate it. Be assured that I will make a blog post within minutes of each shipment’s arrival!

Thanks guys. Feel free to email me if you have any individual concerns.

Jim

Quick update: US shipment is due here at the Grindhouse next week. UK shipment is due at West Wind later this week/early next week. Things are still on track from my last blog entry. The waiting is unbearable!

In other news, Ian at Fenris has developed some lovely resin 3D upgrades for your 40mm counters. These will not be available for a few weeks and we have not set a price yet but I thought you folks might want to join me in drooling for a bit. In Ian’s words:

“Three sets – 5 x generator control panel(set of 5); doomsday device, hidden tunnel, zombie pinger and cave-in markers (set of 5); and faction/side markers (set of 9). All based on 35mm squares to suit 40mm boards, and easily adapted for use as generic SF/pulp objective markers.”

Enjoy! :-)

Hope your holidays were swell. On my end I must say it was nice to spend some time with the family. January is upon us so it’s back to the grind!

I have just received notice from the shipping company that our precious was delayed at the port of Shenzhen for 2 weeks but has been en-route since last week. I wish the story was more exciting. Maybe a typhoon or the ship was attacked by Indonesian pirates or something but no.

Anyway, the US shipment will be at the port of Los Angeles on January 19th and here at the Grindhouse the next week. We have all the sets of miniatures in tins, resin bases and doors and free miniatures sitting here in great big stacks, ready for shipping when the precious gets here. Shipping labels are printed, customs forms are filled out, and shipping boxes assembled. Giant bags of foam peanuts await their duty!

Not long now!

Jim

This morning, at about 9:30 am, Jenni called me and said “it’s here”. Almost two years after this mad quest for the Incursion started, “it’s here”. Unfortunately I was stuck in client hell at my real job and couldn’t open the fedex box of the advance copy for two whole hours!

Here’s an iphone shot of the proud papa:

I couldn’t even bring myself to open the shrink wrap but all of my supportive colleagues at Alamo Architects were gathered around and made me do it :-). It’s fantastic people, simply fantastic. It took two months of trading paper and stock samples and discussing print sheen and paper tooth and weight and coatings and durability planning and lots of really technical dialogue about pre-press stuff. Don’t tell anyone but I sent “Age of Conan” to the manufacturer as the “match this or do better” starting point ;-). IMO, it’s better! This sucker is heavy. It clocks in at about 4 pounds: the stock is all that thick. The silky sheen is magnificent.

Here’s a crappy iphone shot of the box:

I look back over the development of this thing and I am deeply humbled. So many people worked so hard to make the little dream happen. Without all of you who have supported this madness, our merry band of designers (see the “about the team” page) would have been just jousting at windmills. I thank each of you so very much for what you have done. Your supportive emails and posts got this thing through the dark times and your faith in us as shown by your massive pre-orders sight-unseen has made it a reality. YOU made this happen. I am still in disbelief about the volume of orders for a product that did not until this minute exist…and no distribution network! Thank you for your trust.

We’re not over the hump yet. This is just a little run (but a massive financial risk) that will bring the whole venture to break-even and finally get the Grindhouse out of hock:-). There are about 300 copies left of the run so get yours now if you haven’t yet. Please spread the word. Let’s get this thing going, do another run, and get it into every game shop around the world. Let’s show the powers that be that the little guy CAN! Anyway, stock is being loaded into a shipping container for January delivery to UK and USA as promised…

We’ll get some professional photography done at some point soon but for now, because I can’t stand not sharing…as you probably know by now, here’s another crap iphone shot of the unboxed game. Note, the plastic stands are invisible down in the vac-formed tray because they are all black :-)

Thanks again everyone!

Oh, ps: vote for Incursion minis at TGN!

By February 15, 2010, post pictures of your entries on the forums in the appropriately labeled thread! You may enter any infantry unit of 5 or more models that is legal in either SoTR, Incursion (at least 5 models from one side or the other), or the Berlin or Bust beta OoB. Dioramas are cool! All entries, to be elegible to win, must contain at least some West Wind or Grindhouse elements on every model. This could be just heads for example. Winners will be chosen by the community on the forums as is our tradition. You must sign your name to your vote :-). You may not vote for yourself when voting time comes around. Note that since the judging is by the community, technical painting is not necessarily king. You just have to put up pictures models that all your peers want to take home :-)

Let’s have some prizes. Winners may claim their prize from either the West Wind or Grindhouse online stores.

1st place: 45 pounds or 70 dollars worth of whatever you want
2nd place: 25 pounds or 40 dollars
3rd place: 15 pounds or 25 dollars

Cheers!

If you have already pre-ordered your game from this website, you can add a set of doors to your order at no extra shipping charge by sending $20 by paypal to jim@alamoarchitects.com . Note that these doors are not required to play the game as lovely stand-up doors are included in the box. This is an upgrade set!

Please note also that if you forgot to order your sets of 30mm and 40mm resin upgrade bases when you placed your package deal order, you can do the same. Paypal $8 per set to the address above.

Please send a note along with your payment with your name and address so we can get the orders matched up correctly.

And we’re still taking preorders! About 350 copies left…

Jim

Bowing to extreme peer pressure, we have posted a pdf of the final rules pamphlet to the downloads page for you guys. It’s only mid quality resolution because the print-ready file is about a gig.

500 sold and we’re only 6 days into pre-order. Wow. You guys are really making this thing happen. Thanks to all of you for your support and words of encouragement.

Should have an advance copies by second week of December. Will share photos when they get in.

Jim

West Wind will have a pre-order button up in the next week or so.

The final proofs and whiteboard mockup were approved and sent back last week. Production began in earnest on Monday. It’s even nicer than I expected. Production is estimated to be complete by December 11 and delivered to us mid January.

We’ll put up photos of the finished product when we get our advanced copies next month.

Please note that there is also a special package deal that you can opt for.