Ares Games’ Sails of Glory Hits First Kickstarter Stretch Goal in Twenty-Four Hours

Mar 6, 2013

Taking their latest design to Kickstarter for crowd funding, Ares Games found Sails of Glory achieving it’s initial stretch goal within the first day. The project reached 100% funding in nine hours and currently sits at over 200% of funding with forty days to go. Sails of Glory is a miniatures game of naval combat set in the Age of Sail.

From Ares:

Ares Games is the publisher of the “WW1 Wings of Glory” and “WW2 Wings of Glory” aerial combat games, created by Andrea Angiolino and Pier Giorgio Paglia.

After successfully publishing these two games in 2012, we’re now ready to launch our next game and miniature line, Sails of Glory, and we’ve decided to fund this new project using Kickstarter.

The mechanics of Sails of Glory are inspired by the excellent “maneuver deck” system used in Wings of Glory. For a long time, we’ve been discussing with the authors about the possibilities of the system, and how to develop it beyond its use in Wings. Then, we realized how well it could be adapted to naval wargaming, and the idea of Sails of Glory was born. We also realized that assembled and painted ship models to use in a miniature game do not exist on the market – and we wondered how much more accessible naval gaming would become if we were able to create beautiful small ships, ready to play out of the box.

That was our starting point, back in 2011. Since then, the game system of Sails of Glory has been carefully designed to accurately represent battles at sea between the large sailing ships of the past centuries. And just like we did for Wings of Glory, we engineered the production of fully assembled and painted ship figures, highly detailed, to use as “playing pieces” for the game.

The first series of Sails of Glory, which we are funding with this project, will be set in the Napoleonic Age, an iconic period for naval wargaming. Who has not heard of Nelson, Trafalgar, Abukir, and HMS Victory?

If the game is successful, in the future we plan to extend Sails of Glory to cover other historical periods and conflicts, such as the Age of Discovery, the Middle Ages and ancient times.

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