Trench Crusade Kickstarter release date & campaign details

Trench Crusade is a skirmish-scale tabletop game with miniatures, similar to Warhammer 40K, that pulls you into an alternate timeline in which the forces of hell are ravaging the Earth. The game is coming to Kickstarter and already has a pretty large following, so any miniatures fans won’t want to miss it.

In Trench Crusade, you pick up, assemble, and paint the forces fighting with the armies of hell in an alternate version of 1914, 800 years after a group of heretical templar knights opened the gates and let the forces of evil swarm out. There are six factions to choose from, a set of skirmishes and bloody campaigns to play through, and over 60 miniatures to paint with gloriously unique designs so you can both impress and terrify your opponents.

When is the start date for the Trench Crusade Kickstarter?

The Trench Crusade Kickstarter campaign goes live on October 29, 2024. It’s worth heading to the website and signing up to be notified when it launches because there could be limited early bird pledges. These ones always offer good rewards at a lower price, but once they’re gone, they’re gone.

At the time of writing, I don’t know when the campaign will end. Most last for 30 days, but some can go on for more or less time, depending on the creator’s goal or project. You tend to see the most attention right at the beginning and then right at the end, with a bit of a pause in the middle. That’s what I’d expect to see from Trench Crusade.

As a miniature tabletop game, I think it will have a 30-day campaign. It has a fairly decent Twitter following, from which content creators have been slowly releasing new details of characters for a while. There are a few other groups, such as Discord, you can join through the game’s website, where you’ll also be able to keep up to date with any new details about the lore as they drop.

What rewards can you get from the Trench Crusade Kickstarter?

The rewards you can get from the Trench Crusade Kickstarter campaign aren’t live at the time of writing. However, they will almost certainly include any or all of the 60+ miniatures featured from across all six of the main factions.

The Kickstarter page also mentions a hardback book that’s part artbook and part rulebook to help you get an idea of what your units could look like once painted, but also how to play with them. I’m sure there will be some unique rulesets in there we’ve never seen before, and I’m excited to see how they impact a skirmish. There will be terrain tokens and more on offer, which I believe will likely include environmental elements to the game you can use as optional extras.

It’s important to note that all of these rewards are available physically and digitally. I believe this will mean you can get the files to print your own units or pick units as a reward from a pledge if that’s what you want. I don’t own a 3D printer, so I’d like to pick up a set of units for one or two factions because everything I’ve seen so far looks fantastic.