Aldarra is a fast-paced 4x combat focused strategy game with 152 huge minis, buckets of dice, and an expansive world.
The game plays 2 - 4 people (5-6 with the expansion) and plays between 90-180 minutes.
The base game comes with 152 finely detailed miniatures (28 unique sculpts). The Savage Skies expansion comes with 72 finely detailed miniatures (14 sculpts).
**Shipping will be charged at a later time (prior to physical shipping)**
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Quick Manufacturing Update! Samples in 2 weeks, manufacturing 2 weeks after that!
3 months ago
– Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 10:08:32 AM
Hey everyone! Happy New Year!
Very very quick update today. We are working on final things to get the Pre Production Copy done with the manufacturer. They currently have all of the files and are working through producing the samples.
Working around Chinese New Year for the factory has been a little problematic with scheduling and different departments in the factory have taken time off early (unbenownst to other departments!). Originally they gave us a sample prep time of 2 months later than we originally negotiated (March) so the fact they are getting them done now at the end of Jan has been a huge push for them and we are all grateful here at Arcane Minis!
We are looking at about a week of having the sample delayed which means we are going to see progress in about 2 weeks (sample finished in a week and a week to ship it to us)! They are currently manufacturing the colored miniature samples with the finished tooling molds and we are waiting for the printed samples (boxes, punchboard, cards, etc) to be finished! All of the files are with the factory with the exception of a few we are still fine tuning!
Sorry for the slightly longer delay, the factory has been immensely helpful and been trying very hard to perfect everything. A game with over 200 miniatures (expansion included!) and a mountain of cardboard is definitely not a quick process!!
That's all for today!
I will be putting out likely 2 - 3 updates next month as we get the PPC, film more games with the finished copies, send out shipping updates and more!
Side note: The metal coins came out originally too small and we have taken the cost on ourselves to increase their size to be much more fun to handle! It just made sense =). Hoping you all love them!
Last Manufacturing Update of 2024!
4 months ago
– Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 03:55:07 AM
Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!
Hey everyone! Benny here. Hope you had a fantastic holiday season and you all have some great plans for New Year's Eve! Here at Arcane Minis we will be working through the holiday to make sure we are always up to speeeeed!
We have some pretty fun updates for you on the Aldarra front today. Nothing major, but some progress and some final samples to show you for the premium metal coins addon that many of you got for free with your pledges!
Metal Coins
First off, and most impressively for this update, we have samples of the premium metal coins! These came out super awesome and we are very happy with them. Really excited for all of you who are getting them to also get them in your hands!
White Samples
First up, we have the white samples! These are basically blank items that are cut and sized like the items in the box. You can see in the pic just how massive the core box is in the back. This is a BIG game. Only about a month left before all of these samples have printed graphics on them! We are super excited to show you all when the time comes!
GameTrayz Inserts
This is something I have been wanting to updated everyone on for a long time! The process of getting the game inserts for the box absolutely PERFECT has taken us quite a long time. There was nothing really update worth in the meantime, but we are basically nearly ready for these to be finalized as well, and I wanted to share with you all the progress pics of them in their prep phase
Pre-Production Copy / Samples
We are still on track to have the PPC/PPS done by the end of January. This will be a manufacturing level version of the game. Complete with aaaall the bells and whistles! We will be doing a lot more gameplay videos once we get the core game and Savage Skies Expansion box in hand as well. You will be able to see 5 and 6 player games much easier =)
Shipping Charges
Once we have our final order number submitted to the factory at the beginning of February, we will then start to arrange shipping fees and charges. More information on this later. As we mentioned at the start of the project, we are going to try to have as many shipping hubs across the world as possible so that the shipping costs are reasonable for everyone! Now, it's a big game (the box is 2 feet wide) so it'll definitely be more to ship than a box, but rest assured, we want the shipping prices to be as low as you do as well. No one likes high shipping costs! Will have more information on this as we get closer to the day.
Thank you all so much for your patience, support, love, and interest in not only this project, but all of the other ventures we have taken on as a company. It means a lot to us to have such a dedicated fanbase (I know a very large number of you have backed all 3 of our Kickstarters AND support us every month on Patreon / Tribes for our 5e content).
You all make it worth while!
Have a happy and fun new year, everyone! We will see you in 2024!!
Aldarra Manufacturing Update! PPC By January!
5 months ago
– Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 09:35:00 AM
Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay in getting this update out. We've been absolutely slammed with our two monthly releases for Sordane Stories and Big Bad Evil Guy! Our two monthly 5e content subscriptions! Back with another tiny update for Aldarra as we move forward and progress on final manufacturing with the game. I tell ya, what a large project! Thank you everyone so much for your faith and patience as we near the finish line!
We are still in manufacturing process. Last month, we had about 70% of the miniatures finalized from the manufacturer ready for tooling and now as of a few days ago, all 100% of the miniatures have been finalized and now have their tooling started! We had to send back a few of the samples they sent us because they ended up modifying the miniatures too much for the tooling process for our liking. We tried our best to keep the miniatures as exact as we could make them!
Tentative PPC Arrival Date
Originally the manufacturer had planned to send us the PPC (Pre-Production Copy) in March, but we asked them to give it their all and they have now told us that they are pushing to have the PPC arrive for January 31st. This is VERY exciting news as, once we receive the PPC, if everything looks good, we can hit the manufacturing button and we will only be a short while away from the games being finished (Hell - YEAH).
We will also be able to show you what the final version will look like in better detail, play some 6 player games with more gameplay videos, etc. Going to be exciting times!
Shipping Charges
Wondering about shipping? Worry not! We will be charging for shipping *after* we get the PPC. So expect shipping payment links and such to go out around early February. We will need to speak with Backerkit again to find out exactly the best method for collecting shipping costs. We may go through another avenue other than using Backerkit, but whatever we do, it will be explained here in an update in detail!
More Goodies from the Factory
Making some new sample molds based on the feedback we got from a handful of reviewed files!
You can get a good sense of how they cut out the shapes of the ships in order to fit the molds and will be assembled when finished. Very exciting!
Bits from the upgrade kits! These are gonna make your games look even better. Can't wait!
That's all for this update everyone! Sorry it's not more meaty, but we are just in the current phase where we are prepping final files, text, and working with the manufacturer to make sure everything is on schedule!
October Manufacturing Update. Images & Video from the manufacturer!
6 months ago
– Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 10:46:35 AM
Happy Halloween! Here's your October Update!
Hope you have all had a great October and that you all have some fun plans for Halloween tomorrow!
Update on Manufacturing, PPCs, and Mass Production next year
The update was a little late this month as we have been immensely busy at Arcane Minis with some new projects we have coming up and we were more importantly waiting on getting back some sample images from the factory for the miniatures (SEE BELOW) arguably the most time intensive part of the manufacturing process. We finally have approved and worked out all of the slight modifications the manufacturer needed to do to the miniatures to make them "tooling ready".
Admittedly they did not do this as quick as I hoped they were going to we are still about 2 months away from having the tooling for the miniatures finished. This came as a very big disappointment to us when we were told by the factory, but it is what it is.
So that means we will likely have the full Pre Production Copy (PPC) in our hands by January and, if there is nothing to correct at that point, it means we can go into mass production late Janaury/early February. We donot have an estimate on how long the mass production process will take at this time (and neither does the factory). As soon as I can get a number on this, I will let you all know.
This is putting us about 3 months behind the current plan we had. I do apologize for the delay again, everyone. This game is really quite massive and when you all see it in your hands, I think you'll appreciate why it's taken so long to get right. There's a lot of things to consider and we only have one chance to get it right! The box itself is going to be in the realm of 2ft long, 1ft wide and 7 inches deep. We are working on making sure that no matter where you live in the world, shipping will NOT be a huge huge cost.
Manufacturer Pictures & Video
Now some pics from the manufacturer! Some shots of the silicone molds for the samples.
NOTE: These are just SAMPLES. The final game will have metal tooling molds with colored PVC for the miniatures!
Enjoy and if you have any questions, please just ask as usual!
Roshan Cruiser from the Cin'darian Empire faction! The bases will be clear and the miniatures will all be colored!
Sample masters being printed by the manufacturer!
NOTE: These are just SAMPLES. The final game will have metal tooling molds with colored PVC for the miniatures!
NOTE: These are just SAMPLES. The final game will have metal tooling molds with colored PVC for the miniatures!
NOTE: These are just SAMPLES. The final game will have metal tooling molds with colored PVC for the miniatures!
NOTE: These are just SAMPLES. The final game will have metal tooling molds with colored PVC for the miniatures!
Will keep you all updated as we go!! Once again, I'm sorry for the delay. We are gonna keep you all updated all the way through this process and the final results will be WELL worth the wait. We are so excited to finally be getting there =)
Have a happy and safe Halloween, everyone!
Best
Benny and the AM team
2nd Manufacturing Update for Aldarra
7 months ago
– Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:24:29 AM
Hello backers!
Sorry we are a little late with this month's update. We wanted to put it out on Friday last week, but we were waiting on some final assets to hopefully have good new to progress, but we are still waiting. We decided to go through editing the text and game terminology one last time before publishing and that has held us up a little. Good news is, we caught extra stuff and streamlined, bad news is it's a slight delay. We are only doing this once, so we want to make sure we get it right and your games are as top notch as we can make them.
In some other good news, we have the mini files done and ready for preproduction. The manufacturer has not yet come back to us with any errors in the miniature files so they should be good to go and the GameTrayz is looking complete now as well. We have yet to finalize the GameTrayz design, but we should be getting back the latest draft at any time. I'm sure you guys are going to love having GameTrayz as part of your boxes and it's a decision I'm glad we made early on. Maximum organization!
Sorry for the lack luster update, everyone. Just wanted to keep you all in the loop. We are quite close, but these final little steps take more time than expected sadly.
Have a great rest of September and October everyone. We will have another update for you at the end of October with hopefully a lot more progress!
