Dark Potential The Wargame

parker781 · Joined: 25 Aug 2011 Posts: 149 Location: Fairfax, Va

Hey all, just taking a minute to share this wargame in development with you guys because some of you may be very interested. So I don't know if any of you guys go to MiniWarGaming.com often for their battle reports and what not, I watch them pretty regularly because they actually know what they are doing when shooting and editing video.

If you aren't familiar with them I suggest you check out the website, especially if your into 40k as thats their favorite.

Heres the reason I am posting this thread, Matthew one of the owners of MiniWarGaming has been developing a wargame called Dark Potential for a few years, but has been full steam ahead the past 4 or 5 months. His belief behind the game is taking all the good rules from games he loves like fantasy, 40k, warmachine and others and creating something great. He is also really into lore behind the game especially the technology, this is something that really turned me onto it. The game is based on the world we live in today, except around 3 to 400 years into the future in a post apocalyptic world. Not nuclear or anything, just the population is gone and all thats left is overgrown buildings the the factions that have formed after the apocalypse. Matt goes deep into the technology and how it has evolved over the time before the apocalypse and he bases it on how we are theorized to be at the time, with a few fantasy concepts thrown in. One concept is dark matter, this is a real theory in astro physics that this material actually manipulates gravity (explains why planets on the furthest point from the center of the galaxy move at the same rate in orbit as the planets or systems I guess in closer points of orbit). Matt takes this to the next level in the game and say we have found it understand and use it for fuel and weapons etc. This is the reason for the name Dark Potential.

Bit of a rant but I wanted to give you a brief overlook here before you gotta watch videos and whatnot.

The game seems awesome and there are Alpha rules on it to look at and lots of concept art.

The reason I am posting this today is that Matt is not going venture capitol or bank loans or whatever a small company would do to raise their capital to start a wargame company. He is doing a community fund raiser and the reason that he is doing it is probably well debt and the fact that the community has helped him develop the factions, models, lore and rules.

http://igg.me/p/84886

The above link is a link to the community fund raiser, and as you can see there are perks and a serious amount of people donating.

http://www.miniwargaming.com/

The above link is to their website where you can find battle reports, online store and forums where all the dark potential rules are etc, and movies on the development of dark potential. If your interested watch the videos of the lore and development, they are pretty awesome.

I figured that if I were to help and share this, that this is the best place for me to do it, so check it out guys.
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m14 · Joined: 13 Jul 2011 Posts: 112

Hey, another miniwargamer!
I'm not going to donate money to them, as I have no money to donate. If you want to try out Dark Potential with 40k figs, let me know and we can play it once BETA rules are released. I haven't read the discussion on their forum regarding the game, but it seems Matt has a good bit of work put into it, and over 10 grand towards developing the game certainly helps.

-EDIT- Just logged on to MiniWarGaming main site to check for new videos and they have raised $17,702 in a day or so. The game is going places, fast.

parker781 · Joined: 25 Aug 2011 Posts: 149 Location: Fairfax, Va

Yea we should definitely try it out sometime.
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m14 · Joined: 13 Jul 2011 Posts: 112

Let me know when is a good time for you, and I'll print out the rules and we can test the game out.