Mercenaries & Privateers Late Backer / Pre-Orders

Created by Jason R. Williams

Mercenaries & Privateers is a card expansion for the Swords & Sails epic game of diplomacy, conquest, and intrigue set in 1000 AD. You can get all the original items which were available with the original Kickstarter while supplies last. You can even add items from our Tali, Roman Knucklebones and Micro-Role Playing game if desired. Look for the Separate Shipping Add-On to request shipping the current items (previously manufactured) as soon as we can and not to wait for everything to come at once.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

What stretch goals does everyone want to see?
over 2 years ago – Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 07:51:49 PM

Hi everyone,

As our funding has slowed, as it always does after a few days into launch, I would like to see what would excite everyone and maybe help drive more backers or selections of a higher reward level.

We do have several more cards which we are planning to add to the deck, but maybe that is not exciting enough.   If we get to a high enough funding level, I can offer a free minor player to certain backing levels, but we need to get to that level first (maybe $3500.  I could offer a new Minor player as a stretch goal but again, this can only be down for about a $2 to 3K additional funding.  It seems most of you may not need or want the existing minor players, or the Neoprene Premium Map as maybe you already have them from the first campaign.  Would a streamlined Minor Player which has only the 11 Army, Fleet, and Diplomat cards, but reuses the wooden tokens from the existing minor / major players be a good option?  I could create that option for less than the $2 to $3K value of the original formats.  Any and all ideas are welcome, I just want to find out what everyone would like to see.

Thanks, now start telling me your thoughts.

Jason. 

We have funded and unlocked 2 stretch goals
over 2 years ago – Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:35:27 PM

Hi everyone,

We have funded in roughly within 1 day of launching.

Thank you everyone, now we are working toward even more stretch goals to grow the size of the cards we can produce.  We may sneak in a free Minor Player add-on at some point for some of the higher award levels, so we should try to keep unlocking these stretch goals.  The next stretch goal is the Peasant Revolt development (Green) intrigue card.  This card will allow a player to force another players captured territory into revolt.  Just need to add the Peasants which can taken from your player armies.  Of course if the player whose territory is revolting can play a Call Up Militia war (red) intrigue card, then they can put down the revolt.


Thanks again everyone who has gotten us through funding and beyond.

Wednesday Morning, over 80% funded and #1 on Kicktraq Hot list for Tabletop Games
over 2 years ago – Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 05:13:48 AM

Morning everyone,

I want to thank you all for helping us get to over 88% in less than 24 hours and achieve the number #1 spot on the Kicktraq hot list for tabletop games for Wednesday August 18th.  

Mercenaries & Privateers is #1

We are trying to get to the $2000 funding level before 48 hours to unlock our first special stretch goal of the Siege Engine War card.  And if we can do this in the next 2 hours (in the 24 hours from launch) I will release another new Privateer card stretch goal of Rode's Raiders.  We only have a little ways to go, so share the project and see if we can spread the excitement.

I again want to thank everyone for helping us get the #1 spot in Kicktraq so quickly.

Jason.

And we are off and running!!!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 07:44:45 AM

And we are off and running the KS.  

Please feel free to reach out with any questions, and I will try to build the FAQ section as we get questions.  Our goal at the moment is to get 50% funded within 24 hours and we will unlock our first stretch goal.