Black Rose Wars

An infernal shipping >B)
about 5 years ago – Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 02:31:57 AM

 Hi everyone, 

this week should be the one, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that some of you will start receiving your BRW packages.   
Ship Naked sent us an email to share with you all, to give you instructions and help you solve any problems:

 
  "Greetings Black Rose Wars Backers!

As of March 15, 2019, we are preparing to pick, pack, and ship Black Rose Wars reward packages out to US backers. We expect to begin shipping this coming week,  March 22, 2019. If we run into any snags, we'll provide an update to Ludus Magnus so they can let you know here. 

All order information has been forwarded on to our foreign partner depots for this project. We will be providing updates once we receive confirmation of start dates from our partners worldwide.

You should receive a shipping notification to the email you included in your survey or pledge manager when your package label is printed or scanned through the local facility.  Your package will typically leave the facility 1-3 days after your label is created. Based on your location, shipping times will vary.

Please note it is extremely difficult to assist you in the comments, so please submit your shipping inquiries to us at [email protected]. This is key for timely assistance.

Thank you for your support of Black Rose Wars and Ludus Magnus

- Ship Naked"

We too are waiting for extra copies and can’t wait to share the initial feedback on the game with you.
But don't worry, while patiently waiting for our copy of BRW, we’ve been keeping busy tying up all the loose ends for the second Wave. 

Inferno
This expansion has sparked our enthusiasm here in the studio. 

Beating Lucifer in his own territory is almost impossible, it will be a true test of survival for all mages. Only the best will succeed.
Inferno significantly heightens the difficulty of the game, speeding up the conclusion times. 

But let’s start from the beginning, with what’s in the box.  First of all, the miniatures: Lucifer, Barbariccia, 3 Centauri (Centaurs), 5 Farfarello and 8 Arpie (Harpies).

 
Lucifer is a huge model, able to compete with Crono, one of the most beautiful miniatures sculpted by our studio. And considered a mage for all intents and purposes.

Barbariccia is the most annoying character in the game, able to activate Lucifer outside of his normal game turn. 

The Centauri are few but very dangerous, inflicting widespread damage on all models in the room where they attack. 

Farfarello is able to destabilise rooms for his Lord, and each time he attacks a mage, he places a black cube in whichever room he finds himself. 

The Arpie on the other hand draw their strength from each other. They are characterised by excellent mobility, inflicting an extra wound on their target for every other harpy in the room. 

What’s more, Lucifer can control two of your old acquaintances, Malacoda and Cerbero, who will have 2 new profiles for the occasion:
Malacoda inflicts 5 wounds for each attack he makes, and if he defeats the target mage, only Lucifer earns Power Points, Cerbero heals one wound each time he inflicts them.
 

Each of Lucifer’s evocations are counted and although Lucifer can be left without any evocations during the game, this will only infuriate him more. 

By playing Inferno, players will earn Power Points from the evocations in two distinct ways: by killing an evocation (all players receive points) and through the secret quests drawn at the start of each game (13 in total). 

Moreover, all the evocations can be summoned through the new rooms, or, in the case of Malacoda, Lucifer and Barbariccia, through spells.
However, Lucifer and Barbariccia can be summoned by a forgotten spell only in the standard games.

In the next updates, we’ll continue to explore each component of this expansion. 

Stay tuned. 

Shipment and Pledge Manager update!
about 5 years ago – Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:38:27 AM

Hi Magisters!

 Welcome to a quick update to let you know how the 1st wave shipments are going! 

We’re tracking the progress of the ships, just like you, and apart from the ship headed for Europe, which is running a little late (it’s currently in Malaysia), the other have arrived or are about to arrive, and we have an ETA for all the missing ships set for the 25/26th February.

HOWEVER we must inform you of an important change: we need to move the closure of the PM forward to 1st March. 

Shipnaked has in fact informed us that until the PM is closed and all addresses have been confirmed, it cannot proceed with the fulfilment and therefore consignment of the 1st wave boxes from the ports to your homes. 

So as not to make you wait any longer, we have therefore decided to move the closure of the PM forward by one week. We apologise for any inconvenience, but we are sure you’ll find a way to make the most out of these last few days to complete your purchases. 

So, remember: the PM will close at midnight (EST), 1st March 2019! 

Once the PM has closed, within 2 or 3 days you’ll receive an email to confirm or change your address. 

For subsequent changes, you can contact our support center as usual. 

We also remind you that it will not be possible to ship to PO Boxes, so be sure to make any necessary changes. 

If your PM hasn’t been reopened yet, we remind you that the opening procedure will allow you to make last-minute purchases!

Remember that you need to:

1 - Click on “Edit Your Address”.

2 - From there you will see the confirmation page. 

3 - When on the confirmation page, you need to scroll down and click “Edit Add-ons”. 

For any problem, please contact us by submitting a support ticket to the following link: 

LMS Support Center

 Thanks again for your collaboration and don't worry, the Rose is on its way, it’s just around the corner!!! 

As usual, we leave you with a few juicy images from Inferno :).

Stay tuned!

The Rose is coming!
about 5 years ago – Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 01:04:36 AM

 Dear Magisters, 

good news from our beloved Lodge! Crono decided to support us, allowing all the ships containing the first wave of the pledge to raise their anchors. Thus, we managed to avoid the Chinese New Year, and the boxes were loaded into the 4 ships. Here are the names of the ships, so that you can track their movements:   

• CSCL Autumn, heading to Toronto  
• ITAL Lirica, heading to Sydney 
• CMACGM Vasco de Gama, heading to Southampton  
• Coscoshipping Denali, heading to a Hamburg  

The Autumn is taking its second trip to Canada, 2 weeks ago has already delivered the first load of boxes destined for America continent. 

 The work for the second wave’s materials (all SGs, Pets and the Expansion “Inferno”) is almost completed, we are very satisfied for the results of design and sculpture, and we are confident that you will agree with us. Soon we will publish all the Magic cards, so that you can help us with the review, hoping that you will repeat the brilliant work you did for the first wave. 

Pledge Manager 

The reopening of the Pledge Manager was asked and urged by many of you: we were impressed by the great support you continue to show us, and we want to thank you very much and give you credit for this. The Pledge Manager will stay open until March 7th, you will have time until this date to stock up on reagents and ingredients for future battles! 

Remember that you need to:

1 - Click on “Edit Your Address”.

2 - From there you will see the confirmation page. 

3 - When on the confirmation page, you need to scroll down and click “Edit Add-ons”. 

For any problem, please contact us by submitting a support ticket to the following this link: 

LMS Support Center

The new Ash 

March also brings big news about Ashes, our online fanzine. In fact, as in the best RPG games, it has gained enough PX to improve and “materialize” in paper! The backers who came to visit us in Essen appreciated so much the paper version of the magazine they found at the fair, that finally we decided to please them. In addition to the free online download, starting with the release of Ashes n° 7 you can pre-order  a paper version of the fanzine on our online shop, receiving special attachments which will vary from number to number. 

A Witch among us

Our cultist Howard is attracted to forbidden rituals that would nullify anyone’ sanity, going beyond the limits of any average human being. Because of these unhealthy interests, obscure whispers led him to make alliances with evil hordes. In company of the faithful Dagon, he travels in disguise under the name of Horvath and goes deeper and deeper into the world of Dark Ritual! 

The last project by Dark Gate Games, friends with whom we have already collaborated in the past creating a crossover between Vampire Hunter and our Sine Tempore, is a “One vs Many” asymmetric game, 2 to 5 players, which supports a system of solo gameplay, in which a player controls a legion of creatures of darkness. The other players will be the defenders who will stand between the demonic legions and the terrorized villagers. 

The campaign is going very well, having already unlocked 35 SG goals, to be added to the high quality material and the beautiful miniatures of the basic game. The game can be already played in several languages, but they are planning to add more, including Italian. We hope this crossover will please many of you who have already pledged the game, or at least let you know a valuable project that maybe had not appeared in your radar yet. 

   For those interested, we add a direct link to their Kickstarter campaign page:   

Dark Rituals KS Page

Let’s conclude such a dense update with juicy Inferno spoilers, a gallery with some Inferno inhabitants, enjoy. 

See you in the next update! 

Pledge Manager Open! (and other juicy stuff)
over 5 years ago – Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:51:42 AM

Hi, Magician!

Here we are at a quick update to inform you of a couple of really important things!

First, as scheduled, on January 7th we reopened the Pledge Manager to allow you to make additions and adjustments to your order!

The PM will remain open until March 7th, 2019, after that date, it will no longer be possible to make changes to your orders! 

Do not worry we will remind you of this date several times so that none of you can miss this chance!

Second, shipment start! As you can see from the photos below the boxes, have finally left the factory and the shipments are about to begin. 

Unfortunately, there was a slight delay in the finalization and storage of the box, and in fact, the shipments will suffer a slight shift in respect to the delivery date that we had estimated.

However, we are confident that by the middle of February the boxes have already begun to arrive at their destination.

We look forward to receiving your BRW boxes and keeping you up to date on the latest developments, giving you the names of the ships as soon as we receive them!

For this update it's all, as usual, we leave you with some juicy preview!

Stay tuned, next time... Tora and his demons!!!

Christmas in hell!
over 5 years ago – Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:16:54 AM

Hello everyone,  

a brief but filled update.  

First of all we want to tell you that the first wave production was finished as per schedule, and soon we will announce the names of the ships that will bring the game to the fulfillment centers. We hope it will be before the beginning of the new year, we're in the capable hands of Ship Naked.  

Wave 2 

While we're waiting for news about the first shipping, we continue to work on the second. 

At the moment all the Schools of Magic are completed, only a couple need to properly finish the playtest phase. Here you can find 5 Schools to download, comment on, and correct if the need arises (commenting on this update):

A kind of magic

Solo Mode was also completed, we think it will truly put to the test your skills with a new interesting game mechanic pertaining the AI-managed evocations. 

Inferno, we are playtesting this expansion throughly and it will practically be another base game altogether, with game mechanics that will blend Solo Mode and those already tested with Crono and the Core Game. 

Pets have also been completed and are in the final phase of playtesting. 

Approximately 75% of the material is ready, but we will share it slowly and steadily during the next months, we don't want to leave you with too much time left unused before new updates ;) 

The deadline to the delivery of the material to the factory is the beginning of March, at this moment the second wave is also moving according to the schedule.

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and from all the LMS staff...

We'll be back the 2nd January, stay tuned...