Monolith started there Kickstarter for it’s new Batman Mini’s game. And funding it in 15 minutes.
The game is a full miniatures board game themed around the Batman family, where 2 to 4 players can take on the villains of Gotham in a cooperative campaign. The game will come with 2 core boxes which consist of a heroes box and a villains box, as well as 1 rulebook. While you can pledge whatever amount you like, there are only two tiers that come with rewards.
The base pledge is $140 and will come with the core game and all unlocked stretch goals. Right now that includes Man-Bat, Hush, Talon, Owl Katana units, Owl Gun units, and Solomon Grundy.
The second tier is $320 and features the game, an extra dice pack, all unlocked stretch goals, and all of the expansions. That includes the Wayne Manor expansion, Arkham Asylum expansion, Batmobile add-on, and the Versus expansion.
Batman™: Gotham City Chronicles is a scenario-based miniatures board game where 2 to 4 players control the Dark Knight and his allies in their never-ending battle against crime through an asymmetrical and open game system.
Each game involves an action-packed fight where two sides face off. One of the players assumes the role of the Villain and controls the most notorious criminals of Gotham City. The remaining players take control of the Heroes, who must work together as a team to foil the Villain’s plots. Each side takes turns, pitting their strategies against each other in order to achieve their objectives.
Each game of Batman™: Gotham City Chronicles is played according to a scenario which describes the plot, location of the action, setup of the game, number of turns, and the specific objectives each side is trying to achieve in order to win the game.
The game involves two opposing sides: the heroes and the villain. We wanted to represent that dynamic up front by making it obvious from the art on the boxes. That’s right, boxes, because one box will not be enough to fit everything you will get.
Something of note, about this Kickstarter, ALL THE CONTENT OFFERED DURING THIS CAMPAIGN IS KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE AND WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE IN RETAIL.
As to why Monolith chose to do the Kickstarter exclusive they stated
For a very simple reason: the game contains a lot of work and high-quality components on top of the cost of the Batman license.
To be able to offer you this game at a reasonable price, we had to cut our margins as low as possible. We cut them so much, in fact, that we cannot reduce them any further. Therefore, if we were to sell this game to a distributor, who then would sell it to retailers, the final price of the base game for you gamers would be multiplied by 2.5. That would be more than $350 for the base game only!
We talk from experience as we offered Conan, our first Kickstarter project, through retail a few years back, and it turns out, that we had to lower our selling price to the distributor so much that we did not make any money on this. And you will understand that this is not a very good business model for a company.
As I said, the Kickstarter funded within 15 mins, so it’s all stretch goals from here on out, you have 31 days (as of this posting) to jump on the Kickstarter.
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