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PROJECT UPDATE
Leyline Press
CREATOR
2 months ago
Project Update: BackerKit Pledge Manager + Pre-Orders live
Hello Salvagers!
We're happy to announce that the BackerKit Pledge Manager as well as Pre-Orders for the Salvage Union Starter Set are now live.
You should have received an e-mail which will allow you to fill in your address details, update your pledge, and add any additional items you want.
If you've been following the project you can pre-order it here now to secure your copy.
If you have any questions please get in touch.
Thanks and happy salvaging!
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
We're happy to announce that the BackerKit Pledge Manager as well as Pre-Orders for the Salvage Union Starter Set are now live.
You should have received an e-mail which will allow you to fill in your address details, update your pledge, and add any additional items you want.
If you've been following the project you can pre-order it here now to secure your copy.
If you have any questions please get in touch.
Thanks and happy salvaging!
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
Email: [email protected]
Salvage Union Discord - https://discord.gg/ppbS5xvCbQ
Salvage Union Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/salvageunion/
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PROJECT UPDATE
Leyline Press
CREATOR
3 months ago
Project Update: Backerkit Smoke Test Launched
Hello Salvagers,
We're happy to announce that we've just sent out the initial smoke test for BackerKit Pledge Manager. Around 5% of you will have received surveys at this stage to test that everything is working correctly. Once that's done and we've resolved any potential issues that may arise, we'll be sending out surveys to all backers. We'll also be launching pre-orders once surveys have been sent out.
You'll be able to update your address details, change your pledge, and add any additional items you want to your pledge.
We're at a stage on the project now where we feel confident to launch, with our goal to get finalised PDF's out by the end of this month or into January, and then everything then sent into production as soon as possible.
As we noted in our previous updates unfortunately shipping prices have increased beyond our initial estimates. This will primarily affect US backers due to the increased cost of US tariffs on goods from China, however freight and ground shipping have also increased due to global volatility, and various other factors, meaning shipping for the majority of backers has gone up.
We've done everything we can to keep these costs as low as possible and bare what cost we can ourselves, however there's only so much we could do before risking the entire project simply doesn't get fulfilled due to not being able to pay for additional tariff costs, and increased shipping costs, which weren't part of our initial estimates.
We also looked into production options beyond China, however not only were our partners at Panda Games the most cost effective option, but also the best in terms of both quality, and production, other companies for example weren't able to produce a box set, and place dice in them, meaning we'd have to order those elements separately, and assemble them ourselves, or find another company to assemble them.
Meaning if we'd chosen another option, costs would have increased regardless from increased production costs, quality would have been worse, and production would have been slower, with us potentially not being able to include things like the dice, or sticker sets, which we felt would be much worse than increasing shipping costs but delivering our original promised game to all backers.
Going forwards we will be avoiding box sets and primarily focus on creating books which are free from tariffs, until at least the tariff situation in the US is no longer an issue, it was unfortunate timing that we opted now to do our first ever boxed set game given the current political turmoil.
We hope you can understand in that respect, we appreciate your patience, and support, and can't wait to get the game into your hands. If you have any questions please get in touch.
Thanks and happy salvaging,
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
We're happy to announce that we've just sent out the initial smoke test for BackerKit Pledge Manager. Around 5% of you will have received surveys at this stage to test that everything is working correctly. Once that's done and we've resolved any potential issues that may arise, we'll be sending out surveys to all backers. We'll also be launching pre-orders once surveys have been sent out.
You'll be able to update your address details, change your pledge, and add any additional items you want to your pledge.
We're at a stage on the project now where we feel confident to launch, with our goal to get finalised PDF's out by the end of this month or into January, and then everything then sent into production as soon as possible.
As we noted in our previous updates unfortunately shipping prices have increased beyond our initial estimates. This will primarily affect US backers due to the increased cost of US tariffs on goods from China, however freight and ground shipping have also increased due to global volatility, and various other factors, meaning shipping for the majority of backers has gone up.
We've done everything we can to keep these costs as low as possible and bare what cost we can ourselves, however there's only so much we could do before risking the entire project simply doesn't get fulfilled due to not being able to pay for additional tariff costs, and increased shipping costs, which weren't part of our initial estimates.
We also looked into production options beyond China, however not only were our partners at Panda Games the most cost effective option, but also the best in terms of both quality, and production, other companies for example weren't able to produce a box set, and place dice in them, meaning we'd have to order those elements separately, and assemble them ourselves, or find another company to assemble them.
Meaning if we'd chosen another option, costs would have increased regardless from increased production costs, quality would have been worse, and production would have been slower, with us potentially not being able to include things like the dice, or sticker sets, which we felt would be much worse than increasing shipping costs but delivering our original promised game to all backers.
Going forwards we will be avoiding box sets and primarily focus on creating books which are free from tariffs, until at least the tariff situation in the US is no longer an issue, it was unfortunate timing that we opted now to do our first ever boxed set game given the current political turmoil.
We hope you can understand in that respect, we appreciate your patience, and support, and can't wait to get the game into your hands. If you have any questions please get in touch.
Thanks and happy salvaging,
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
Email: [email protected]
Salvage Union Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/salvageunion/
Sign up to the Leyline Press Newsletter here.
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PROJECT UPDATE
Leyline Press
CREATOR
3 months ago
Project Update: November Update
Hello Salvagers,
Thanks for your continued patience with us on this project. We are still hard at work getting everything we need to the finish line on the Starter Set. We can't promise anything at this stage, as we don't want to end up disappointing, but we are aiming to get PDF's out by the end December, as well as BackerKit Pledge manager, and pre-orders and then move to production.
If you have any questions please get in touch.
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
Thanks for your continued patience with us on this project. We are still hard at work getting everything we need to the finish line on the Starter Set. We can't promise anything at this stage, as we don't want to end up disappointing, but we are aiming to get PDF's out by the end December, as well as BackerKit Pledge manager, and pre-orders and then move to production.
If you have any questions please get in touch.
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
Email: [email protected]
Salvage Union Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/salvageunion/
Sign up to the Leyline Press Newsletter here.
Leyline Press Bluesky - @leylinepress https://bsky.app/profile/leylinepress.bsky.social
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PROJECT UPDATE
Leyline Press
CREATOR
4 months ago
Project Update: Salvage Union Starter Set October Update
Hello Salvagers,
A brief update.
As per our last update we're still working hard on the rewrites and re-layout of the Reclamation of the Wastes campaign. We're hoping to have preliminary PDF's, as well as the pledge manger, out as soon as possible, and will update when we have more information, if you do have any further questions please get in touch.
Thanks and happy salvaging.
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
A brief update.
As per our last update we're still working hard on the rewrites and re-layout of the Reclamation of the Wastes campaign. We're hoping to have preliminary PDF's, as well as the pledge manger, out as soon as possible, and will update when we have more information, if you do have any further questions please get in touch.
Thanks and happy salvaging.
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
Email: [email protected]
Salvage Union Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/salvageunion/
Sign up to the Leyline Press Newsletter here.
Leyline Press Bluesky - @leylinepress https://bsky.app/profile/leylinepress.bsky.social
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PROJECT UPDATE
Leyline Press
CREATOR
5 months ago
Project Update: September Update Starter Set
Hello Salvagers,
We'll get this upfront and out of the way, the project is unfortunately currently delayed. We've had various issues externally which we've noted in other updates, but we've also now had internal delays to the project which will push it over our planned fulfilment of November.
To go into detail our initial plan with the Reclamation of the Wastes campaign was to have a lot of different areas that you can see in the example map, with relatively terse detail on them. However when we started to write and detail out each area we ended up adding lots more detail and additional content than we initially planned as we were having a lot of fun creating the areas, and fleshing them out each with unique ideas.
When we put everything together into preliminary layout however we started to realise the scope we designed was far too big for a Starter Set adventure designed to take players from Tech 1 - 3.
So we've made the difficult decision to rework the Reclamation of the Wastes campaign so that it better fits the initial brief of a Starter Set, reducing the size of the overall map, but with a series of richly detailed and more tightly designed areas for players to explore and play through.
In context the Reclamation of the Wastes is still looking to be about the size of one of our existing Salvage Union adventure modules, so it's not going to be small by any means, but will be a lot more manageable especially for new GMs and players to the game which is what it's designed for as a Starter Set
We work in an iterative style where we bounce work back and forth between us alongside playtesting whilst developing a game and that can involve it changing during the process.
We understand a delay is frustrating and never ideal, however we do believe that whilst a delay is temporary, the games we make will last forever so want them to be as good as possible when they release, that's not to say we'd ever want to delay for years, but that we do when we need to take that extra time to make them just right.
Those of you who supported the original Salvage Union campaign may remember we were delayed on that as well, as we took extra time to add additional content and make it as good as possible, and we hope the final quality of the product made up for that delay, which certainly wouldn't have been the case if we'd rushed to the initial deadline.
We're working hard at getting everything to the finish line still, and we're still aiming to have PDF's out by the end of this year (2025), and then to send everything to production, but we're going to miss our initial of November for physical fulfilment.
In regards to BackerKit as well as pre-orders, that is also delayed as we need shipping quotes to be as accurate as possible before we release and need to have all of the box contents finalised including the final size of the campaign booklet.
We do apologise for this, we know a lot of you are excitedly awaiting the Starter Set and put your trust and hard earned money into us to deliver, and we can't wait to get it into your hands as well, and can only hope it will be worth the additional wait.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch, and we'll endeavour to keep you updated on the progress of the project.
Thanks and happy salvaging.
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
We'll get this upfront and out of the way, the project is unfortunately currently delayed. We've had various issues externally which we've noted in other updates, but we've also now had internal delays to the project which will push it over our planned fulfilment of November.
To go into detail our initial plan with the Reclamation of the Wastes campaign was to have a lot of different areas that you can see in the example map, with relatively terse detail on them. However when we started to write and detail out each area we ended up adding lots more detail and additional content than we initially planned as we were having a lot of fun creating the areas, and fleshing them out each with unique ideas.
When we put everything together into preliminary layout however we started to realise the scope we designed was far too big for a Starter Set adventure designed to take players from Tech 1 - 3.
So we've made the difficult decision to rework the Reclamation of the Wastes campaign so that it better fits the initial brief of a Starter Set, reducing the size of the overall map, but with a series of richly detailed and more tightly designed areas for players to explore and play through.
In context the Reclamation of the Wastes is still looking to be about the size of one of our existing Salvage Union adventure modules, so it's not going to be small by any means, but will be a lot more manageable especially for new GMs and players to the game which is what it's designed for as a Starter Set
We work in an iterative style where we bounce work back and forth between us alongside playtesting whilst developing a game and that can involve it changing during the process.
We understand a delay is frustrating and never ideal, however we do believe that whilst a delay is temporary, the games we make will last forever so want them to be as good as possible when they release, that's not to say we'd ever want to delay for years, but that we do when we need to take that extra time to make them just right.
Those of you who supported the original Salvage Union campaign may remember we were delayed on that as well, as we took extra time to add additional content and make it as good as possible, and we hope the final quality of the product made up for that delay, which certainly wouldn't have been the case if we'd rushed to the initial deadline.
We're working hard at getting everything to the finish line still, and we're still aiming to have PDF's out by the end of this year (2025), and then to send everything to production, but we're going to miss our initial of November for physical fulfilment.
In regards to BackerKit as well as pre-orders, that is also delayed as we need shipping quotes to be as accurate as possible before we release and need to have all of the box contents finalised including the final size of the campaign booklet.
We do apologise for this, we know a lot of you are excitedly awaiting the Starter Set and put your trust and hard earned money into us to deliver, and we can't wait to get it into your hands as well, and can only hope it will be worth the additional wait.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch, and we'll endeavour to keep you updated on the progress of the project.
Thanks and happy salvaging.
Panny & Aled
Leyline Press
Contact and Social Media
Email: [email protected]
Salvage Union Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/salvageunion/
Sign up to the Leyline Press Newsletter here.
Leyline Press Bluesky - @leylinepress https://bsky.app/profile/leylinepress.bsky.social
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