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REDLINE: Battle of Neom

Created by Cameron Dueker

A new expansion to REDLINE: Tactical Card Combat, with a focus on urban warfare in the mega-city of Neom.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

REDLINE: Payday Launches April 2nd on Kickstarter!
17 days ago – Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 08:01:02 AM

REDLINE: Payday Launching April 2nd!  

At the height of the Battle of Neom, the unscrupulous Drihl Co Mining Company begins a devastating excavation for valuable rare earth ores in the ungoverned areas of Brazil using their powerful mining efreets to plow the rainforests and villages into the ground. The only force able to stop them are the efreets of the plucky Shamrock Mercenary Company, hired to put their operations to a halt using and and all forces necessary! 

Learn more about the backstory to our new expansion by reading the short story, Authority of the Market here! 

Introducing TWO new factions to the game, REDLINE: Payday is the upcoming 3rd expansion to REDLINE: Tactical Card Combat!  

Adding powerful new mechanics such as PHYSICAL COMBAT and BOUNTIES in addition to a ton of new efreets, mission cards, and Generals to build around, REDLINE: Payday is our biggest and best expansion yet! 

Best yet, REDLINE: Payday is launching on Kickstarter soon! 

Click here to follow our upcoming campaign and see all the surprises we have in store for our launch! New cards! New REDLINE minis! New swag! 

Speaking of swag.... We are currently offering Kickstarter exclusive alternate art full frame cards of new Generals, Dublin and Rebecca Smart for our early supporters! 

To claim your early copies of these beautifully illustrated cards, simply sign up to our REDLINE: Payday VIP email here! Once our Kickstarter launches, they will only be made available as add ons. so don't miss out on your chance to save $$$! 

For more updates on REDLINE: Payday, be sure to follow our Facebook or Twitter accounts for upcoming card spoilers and articles as we get closer to launch! 

See you April, 2nd, when REDLINE: Payday gets ready to launch! We can't wait to see you then! 

REDLINE October Update
6 months ago – Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 10:59:25 AM

Happy October, REDLINE Army!

A few months back we had posted an update stating that we were going to postpone our planned Kickstarter for REDLINE: Payday until the fall to give the new expansion a better chance of meeting our high goals for it. To meet those goals we were looking at ways to invest in and improve our marketing and our campaign.

To do so, we shared that we have partnered with Kagan Productions for a top quality trailer and were in the process of partnering with an established marketing company for assistance in making our next campaign our biggest and best one yet.

After some discussions and continued consultations Saving Throw Studios is teaming up with LaunchBoom to assist with our marketing for REDLINE: Payday. LaunchBoom has helped numerous campaigns exceed their funding goals and specializes in the gaming space. We are very excited to collaborate with them and with their help make the launch of REDLINE: Payday our best campaign ever!

However….

These partnerships and the forthcoming marketing that comes with them represents a significant investment into REDLINE: Payday, far beyond what we have contributed to any of our previous Kickstarters. As such, it is vital we do everything in our power to stack the crowdfunding deck in our favor. Unfortunately, this process up until now has taken more time than we anticipated and we now find ourselves coming up against the holiday season, the dead time for crowdfunding.

As we are not hard pressed for time and want to make sure we give Payday the time and room it needs to succeed we will be pushing back the launch of our campaign until the beginning of the next year. Popular train of thought for marketing is it requires a solid two months of advertisement before launching so to avoid the holidays we will likely be postponing ours until the end of the holiday season at the earliest.

We know this may be a slight disappointment for some and we do apologize for seemingly kicking the Kickstarter can for REDLINE: Payday down the road again and again it seems. Do know these delays have not been for any other reason than for caution and care, but are easy decisions to make when you only have one shot to launch a successful campaign.

That said, here is what we have already completed for REDLINE:Payday.

  • Payday expansion fully designed and playtested.
  • All card art fully completed.
  • Kickstarter full art backer promos completed.
  • Payday minis 100% done.
  • REDLINE: Payday Digital Readout 100% done.
  • REDLINE: Payday introductory story 100% done.
New Hauler and Grunt minis for REDLINE: Payday

As you can see, we have been holding back and sitting on a lot of content relating to the new set itself as we want to wait until our marketing is in full swing to share more with you all as the hype cycle builds.

And in the coming months we will be working on the following.

  • Rework of our landing page and ads with LaunchBoom.
  • Completion of the Kagan Production trailer.
  • Design of our Kickstarter page and backer tiers.
  • Creation of social media content (card spoilers, etc) and promotional graphics for Payday.
  • Calculation of shipping costs.

Because of this, we will likely stay in radio silent mode until we get closer to the end of the holiday season as we’ll be using these last months of 2023 to work on the marketing items listed above to be locked and loaded for our Payday campaign.

The changes we have made to how we approach our marketing with REDLINE: Payday has created obvious delays. However we believe that after the learning curve and new partnerships from this year, future REDLINE sets will have a much smoother roadmap for advertising which will lead to faster turnaround times for them going forward.

Thank you for your continued support as always. We apologize for the recent delays but wanted to be transparent as to the reasons why and the potential benefits of being patient.

Cameron

REDLINE August Update
8 months ago – Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 05:58:43 PM

REDLINE August Update

Happy August, REDLINE Army!

We have a shorter update this month than what you might be expecting as we wanted to share an update on our upcoming crowdfunding campaign for REDLINE: Payday.

That update being that we are pushing back our launch for the short term, but for all the best reasons as we’ll explain briefly below.

REDLINE: Payday Delayed

Up until a few weeks ago we were gearing up for a late Aug launch of our Kickstarter for REDLINE: Payday. The set is already complete and we had begin early marketing to raise awareness for the game as we geared up for a hype cycle in August with new card spoilers, design articles and teases of what to expect with our campaign.

All things we had done before for the successful launches of our Kickstarters for the REDLINE Core Set, and our REDLINE SIege and Battle of Neom expansions.

But that was the problem.

This was the exact same set of motions we had done previously and while our campaigns all funded, and we are grateful for that, they didn’t over achieve. And we wanted so badly to make REDLINE: Payday our biggest success yet

After all, Payday adds two brand new factions to the game, something we have been secretly wanting to introduce for a long time and each with their own unique playstyles. We have sat on a lot of design space these last few years waiting to introduce these new abilities for our new Merc and Industrial factions that come with Payday and as such, in many ways the set represents our biggest REDLINE release since the original Core Set.

This meant to get the results we feel Payday can achieve, we also needed to make our marketing campaign the biggest we’ve attempted so far. One of the biggest mistakes a Kickstarter campaign can make is launching before it’s ready. And though REDLINE: Payday is ready to go, after some internal debates we realized our marketing campaign honestly was not.

So we are pushing back our attempted August launch to invest more time and a lot more resources into making our Payday launch the best we’ve ever done.

To do so we have commissioned a top of line trailer from Kagan Productions. You may have seen some of their work from the recent Firefly 10th Anniversary crowdfunding campaign as well as Kickstarter versions of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Dungeon & Dragons Onslaught, Star Realms Rise of Empire, and many others.

We’ve also brought on a graphic designer with much experience working on very successful Kickstarter gaming campaigns. With his help we look to punch up the look of our landing page to match our lofty expectations.

And we are bringing on a marketing company to help manage our ad campaign and set us up for success.

Before, all of these responsibilities were done in-house so believe me, we are quite excited to see the results of the new approach and the time it will save us to work on other things for the launch.

At the moment we have no set date for when you can expect REDLINE: Payday to launch but I would circle your calendars for late Sept and early Oct if you wanted to look ahead. This is subject to change of course. ;)

Thank you for your support and interest in REDLINE and our Payday expansion as we work to bring out the best in it.

Cameron - Saving Throw Studios

REDLINE July Update
9 months ago – Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 01:21:15 PM

Happy July to all of you!

Hoping the summer months have been good to you and you have been enjoying REDLINE: Battle of Neom! We are back with a large July update full of lots of exciting news regarding our newest upcoming expansion for REDLINE: Tactical Card Combat. REDLINE Payday launching on Kickstarter Aug 2023!

REDLINE: Payday

The REDLINE universe is set to grow even bigger thanks to our newest set! REDLINE: Payday will be adding TWO NEW FACTIONS to the game each with a host of new mechanics and faction specific strategies to really open up the game and give players a ton of new choices on how to play.

Enlist with the mercenary forces of Shamrock as you battle to gain control of the redline for yourself and to get paid! The elite forces of the Shamrock mercenary group will go to any length to track down the bounties assigned to them thanks to a combination of their ruthlessness and resourcefulness battlefield tactics.

Or clock in for your shift and get ready to work for Drihl Co as you mine the battlefield for valuable resources. Unafraid to fight for massive profits, Drihl Co efreets are armed with powerful new melee weapons that allow them to get up close and personal with any opposition that gets in their way!

We’re so excited for what the new industrial and mercenary factions will be adding to REDLINE. Since day one, we’ve designed the game to allow for their seamless addition to play alongside the established Crimson Pact of Mars and United Nations of Earth factions. What this means is that a lot of design space for cards and mechanics that we have set aside will now be introduced into the gameplay of REDLINE to make playing a much more rich and fulfilling experience.

We will be sharing a lot more about REDLINE: Payday now that we are getting closer to it’s expected launch next month. Be sure to check out our website and Facebook fan page for upcoming articles on the design of the new set and for new card spoilers in the weeks ahead! You won’t want to miss out!

New Instruction Manual 

We’re always working on something behind the scenes when it comes to REDLINE to make the game better as it grows.

We’ve heard a lot of feedback from players and reviewers that the REDLINE Core Set instruction manual left a lot to be desired and so when we announced our REDLINE Relaunch earlier this year that made a number of small tweaks to clean up gameplay we also began working on an updated rule book to coincide with it.

We are happy to share the end result of that process with you here today. Please download, print and share our pdf of our new instruction manual!

The new manual includes the changes made to the game with our REDLINE Relaunch along with clearer rules explanations and a much improved layout that makes it easier to read. We will be including the new manual in the upcoming reprint of the Core Set, but as that is still some time away, we wanted to share this with our players now as many have asked for it in the past.

We put a lot of work into it and are happy with the results. We hope you will be too!

Payday is Coming! 

We hope you will join us when we launch REDLINE: Payday on Kickstarter in August! As before, expect a lot of great backer rewards, new efreet miniatures and some surprises as we work to make Payday our biggest and best Kickstarter yet!

See you soon!

REDLINE April Update
12 months ago – Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 11:30:00 AM

Happy April!

Lots of good things to share with our players in this month’s REDLINE update. A recap of our recent Battle of Neom shipping and an update to our store website along with the announcement of our new REDLINE expansion!

Shipping Update

It’s been nearly a month since we’ve shipped REDLINE: Battle of Neom to all our Kickstarter backers.

By this time all US backers should have their orders by now and most international orders should be arriving soon or have already arrived.

If your US order hasn’t arrived yet, do let us know so we can address it. If your order is international and hasn’t arrived by mid April, please message us as some orders can take a long time to ship and we want to make sure everything goes where it belongs.

Again, all of us at Saving Throw Studios are extremely grateful to the amazing support of the REDLINE player base for the opportunity to make something awesome.

And as you’ll see, more awesome is just around the corner.

New REDLINE Expansion

Get ready! Our 3rd REDLINE expansion is deep in development and gearing up for a summer campaign.

REDLINE: Tactical Card Combat is getting ready to grow again with REDLINE: Payday!

Payday introduces 2 brand new factions to the game for our players to lead into battle! For the first time, players can take command of daring mercenaries as they battle for glory and profit! Or, cut throat industrial corporations as they fight to gain control of valuable resources. And even more profit!

With REDLINE: Payday, our players can look forward to more of everything you’ve come to expect from our recent REDLINE expansions. Each faction will introduce new distinct playstyles to the game along with an arsenal of new efreets, mechanics, and upgrades to play with and build around alongside them.

We’ve long wanted to introduce these two factions into the game and their unique abilities to round out player options alongside the UNE and CPM. Having four factions is crucial to creating proper game balance and a healthy meta for REDLINE’s future. And now finally, with your support, we are working hard to do just that!

Expect more details on REDLINE: Payday in the coming months as we get closer to our biggest player campaign yet.

Store Update

Finally, we want to wrap up this month’s newsletter with an update on our online store.

Now that Battle of Neom has shipped to all our backers, REDLINEgame.com is now stocked with both Battle of Neom expansion decks and the Battle of Neom minis. So, if you happened to miss out on our crowdfunding campaign or pre-orders, you can now order Neom product directly.

Battle of Neom is a great set, especially with the addition of the new scorched earth mission cards that take damage during the fighting. If you aren’t careful with your shots, it's easy to destroy the city and turn it all into useless rubble.

Aim carefully.