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Hall or Nothing – Historic Epic Battle System Games

Created by Tristan Hall

Deploy armies and overcome historical events to smash your foe into the mud at the legendary Battle of Waterloo! 1815, Scum of the Earth is the third title in the award-winning Historic Epic Battle System series of games from Hall or Nothing Productions.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

1815, Scum of the Earth, December 2022 - Final Update!
over 1 year ago – Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 07:20:15 PM

Hello there,

Fulfilment Complete!

We made it! The journey is complete, and 1815, Scum of the Earth has landed worldwide. If you haven't received your game – or at least notification of delivery – yet, please raise a ticket with Gamesquest here:

https://gamesquest.freshdesk.com/support/tickets/new

If you have the opportunity, please take a moment to rate the game on BGG and share your thoughts when you get to play the game. As an indie publisher, we live and die by your tweets, likes, shares, and reviews, and the more you talk about our games, the more traction we earn in being able to deliver new titles.

Another Amazing Entry

The reviews are starting to come in and people have lots of lovely things to say – 'Every card is gorgeous and makes the theme really come out in all its Napoleonic Glory. But other than the fantastic art, the gameplay is well-structured and enjoyable' – C A SEGRETO

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2967121/another-amazing-entry

Videos

A huge thank you to everyone who puts out content for our games such as these videos. As a tiny 2-person publisher we appreciate every signal boost we receive to try to spread the word about our games. :)

Unboxing 1565 Saint Elmo's Pay: The Great Siege of Malta with Bored Online? Board Offline!

Unboxing 1815 Scum of the Earth: The Battle of Waterloo Card Game

1815 Scum of the Earth Card Game Historical Background

The Shogunstein has put together his thoughts on the historical setting of 1815: 

1066, Tears to Many Mothers

Monkeys With Fire recreate the infamous Battle of Hastings in 1066, Tears to Many Mothers...

2022 People's Choice Top 200 Solo Games

I'm absolutely delighted to announce that Gloom of Kilforth placed in the Top 100 again - right above flippin' Star Wars! Thanks so much to everyone who voted:

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/306154/2022-peoples-choice-top-200-solo-games-1-200?itemid=9339319#9339319

 Final Thoughts

I want to thank every single one of you once again for supporting us in the delivery of 1815, Scum of the Earth. I cannot stress enough how grateful I am that you continue to show faith in the games that we are delivering. I was utterly captivated and swept up in the world of Napoleon but the years spent researching it seem to have just flown by, and now we have this totally gorgeous game as a result. I hope and believe that it honours and elevates our Historic Epic Battle System beautifully, and it might even be my favourite so far. I'd love to take a deep dive into history with you all again, and I hope you'll join me once more in the next iteration of our history games, however that manifests itself.

Between designing games and fulfilling Kickstarters, we've been busier than we've ever been. We've undergone the same insane shipping nightmares as every other games company in the world right now, but we still managed to successfully deliver 1815, Scum of the Earth and we even delivered Veilwraith during the pandemic itself. We're desperate to launch Kreel Manor next, we just need to line up a few more ducks first. And that launch will also pave the way for a certain horror game that we do not talk about, so make sure you're subscribed to our website as unusual things will be happening with that game.

And now, Call of Kilforth is off to print – I'm unbelievably excited about the new art and game elements, and to see what backers all think when it lands next year. I cannot believe it's already been 7 years since we launched Gloom of Kilforth and now we have 9 successful Kickstarters under our belt - it's been absolutely amazing, and it still is amazing. As a game designer as well as publisher, it's a daunting challenge every day, as well as a terrific privilege. I hope you all have an amazing Christmas, and as I said, keep your eyes peeled for our next Kickstarter launch. 

And that's all for now, have a bloomin' brilliant holiday, and let's catch up in the New Year.

Cheers!

Tristan xx

1815, Scum of the Earth, November 2022 - Penultimate Update!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 02:12:08 AM

Hello there,

I hope this missive finds you safe and well! We're getting there slowly but surely...

Fulfilment Update

  • Asia - COMPLETE! All parcels have been despatched, but it might take a while for them to arrive from the various hubs – here's a breakdown of the individual hubs: 
  • Brazil - sent out from main hub 12th Oct, arrived at local hub around 20th Oct, likely out for delivery or delivered
  • China/HK - Complete
  • Japan - sent out from main hub end of Oct, ETA to local hub 20th Nov
  • South Korea - sent out from main hub 12th Oct, delivered to local hub, likely out for delivery or delivered
  • Malaysia - sent out from main hub 25th Sep, delivered to local hub, likely out for delivery or delivered
  • Singapore - sent out from main hub on 14th Oct, ETA to local hub 5th Nov
  • Thailand - Shipment arrived in local area, waiting for local hub to receive before being able to send out
  • Taiwan - sent out from main hub on 10th Oct, ETA was 25th Oct, likely out for delivery or delivered
  • Australia - COMPLETE!
  • EU - Games have finally cleared customs and are at the Germany hub now – unfortunately they had a major outbreak of COVID throughout their office last week, but fulfilment is now scheduled to commence mid-November (week commencing 14th November), so your games should hopefully be in your hands by the end of the month.
  • UK - COMPLETE!
  • US - Games have landed and been checked at QML, address verification emails are going out soon (some have gone out already), I have approved the US test packaging parcels, and there's no other action required on our side, so it is just a case of QML telling us their schedule slot now – they have provided me with a tentative schedule of fulfilment to commence by the end of next week (11th Nov). TLDR: we're just waiting to hear from QML when the parcels will start going out. :)
  • Rest of World - COMPLETE! All parcels have been despatched, but it might take a while for them to arrive.

1815 Scum of the Earth - Solo Playthrough

TableTop Wolf gives an overview play-through of the Solo mode for 1815, Scum of the Earth in this short but sweet video:

1066, TEARS TO MANY MOTHERS LIVE PLAY

A promise has been made and broken, an evil omen is in the sky, a crown is at stake, and history is about to be made, as Monkeys With Fire recreate the infamous Battle of Hastings in 1066, Tears to Many Mothers:

Solo Foe Dial Typo

There's a misprint on the Solo Foe dial – Round 15 should read "3" for Easy, not "-13" - thanks to Andy Stanford for spotting this – the responsible party has been duly court-martialled!

Veilwraith Playthrough

Veilwraith has just opened the 2022 People's Choice Top 200 Solo Games – see what all the fuss is about and watch Go Wild Board Games play through the Veilwraith base game's 5 Vignettes:

Hall or Nothing Restock!

And if you are missing any of our line of gorgeously award-winning games you can order most of them now, here:

https://hallornothingproductions.co.uk/shop

Cheers!

Tristan xx

1815, Scum of the Earth, October 2022 – Fulfilment Underway!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 01:42:23 PM

Hello there,

Fulfilment Begins!

Back in August, workers at the Port of Felixstowe (UK) went on strike following a pay dispute, with an additional strike that finished on the 5th October. Felixstowe is the UK's biggest container port. Gamesquest are expecting delays that will have an ongoing impact on their fulfilment schedule over the coming months. This impact is not limited to the UK, with previous strike action resulting in major vessel diversions that caused additional congestion across European ports. All that said, we are in fairly good shape to get things moving with fulfilment as most of our shipments have already landed in their various hubs...

  • UK: the shipment has arrived at Gamesquest, and we're hoping that fulfilment will commence some time next week, though this is not 100% confirmed yet.
  • US/CANADA: the shipment has arrived at QML, the shipping data is already with them, the delivery is already booked in, and we're tentatively hoping for fulfilment mid-October currently, but will know more soon.
  • EU: Our EU shipment of games has been pulled for a random customs inspection, but we've provided all of the requested documentation so we're hoping it clears through customs smoothly and we can still ship orders out in October.
  • AUSTRALIA: has completed fulfilment, which is great news - finally you guys get first dibs! If you're in Australia/New Zealand and for some reason haven't received your game yet, please email us and we'll look into it for you asap: [email protected]
  • CHINA/ASIA: the China hub has begun shipping the consolidated shipments to all the smaller hubs for them to fulfil (Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, etc). Basically, they pick the orders in the China warehouse and then put them on consolidated shipments to these smaller hubs for them to be quickly put into the courier circulation of that country and sent to backers. Technically we consider this fulfilment started, but it does take a little while for these consolidated shipments to reach their smaller hubs and then ship out to individual backers. 

TLDR: It's finally happening, with fulfilment occurring mostly throughout October, but please be patient!

Look at that beauty - possibly our most beautiful HEBS game yet?!
This one could be yours!


Tabletop Gaming Live!

Thanks so much to everyone who came to support us at our booth at Tabletop Gaming Live in Manchester – Francesca and I had a brilliant time meeting you. We got these photos whilst setting up but were kicking ourselves afterwards when it got too busy to take any photos with actual people at the stand! Nevertheless, we managed to sell out our stock (Veilwraith was crazy popular!), which was great, but I'll never get tired of meeting fans in person, signing copies of games (that still feels weird, but great!), and also meeting new people who've never heard of us and blethering about my games to them until their eyes water. :D

People Choice Top Solo Games 2022- Starting Now!

If you haven't already, be sure to mosey on over to the 1 Player Guild on BGG and have your say by submitting your top 20 favourite solo games of the year:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2937260/people-choice-top-solo-games-2022-starting-now

And that's all for now, I hope everyone has a fantastic and safe weekend – we're not doing Essen this year, but if you're going, have a brilliant time and post tonnes of pics on social so that we can all live vicariously through you and ogle the new games (and feel well jelly!)...

Ciao for now!

Tristan xx

1815, Scum of the Earth - September 2022, Fulfilment + Gen Con + Plays + Video + Tabletop Gaming Live!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 04:02:36 AM

Hello there,

Games are landing at hubs – fulfilment ETA October

Let's get straight to the hub updates: since we're all waiting impatiently already, at this point I've instructed all individual hubs to proceed with fulfilment asap, rather than waiting for all worldwide hubs to ship out all at once. At least this way if you don't get the games first, you'll get to see lots of cool unboxing photos and videos from other backers whilst you wait! :) 

  •  Australia hub: the games have been delivered to the hub! I've told them to get started asap to try and let you guys have the games first for once, but it all depends on their backlog of their other projects. We've been in this situation before and still had the Australia games go out last, but fingers crossed you'll get the jump this time. :) 
  •  UK hub: 10th September ETA into Port. From Gamesquest: "Port Felixstowe was shut down due to worker strikes, which has had a knock-on effect on the EU hubs too. This has caused delays of imminent shipments and will no doubt cause delays for incoming shipments both in the UK and over in the EU (as ships either try to find alternative ports to drop the shipments off in, or cut-and-run to another port based on other shipments they have to deliver, eventually coming back to finish delivery at Felixstowe if still required). Realistically there could be further delays as the ports across UK and EU try to catch up." 
  •  EU hub: Due into Hamburg port on 22nd September. Ports are unfortunately experiencing delays at the moment, as above. From Gamesquest: "I would hope that the EU shipment is not affected and by the time the 22nd comes around there would no longer be delays, however I cannot guarantee this and the further headache is that the strike action has led to no agreement, meaning there could be further strikes in the future." 
  •  US/Canada hubs: ETA into port on 3rd of September. From Gamesquest: "We would expect the checks to take 1-2 weeks before reaching the hub at QML. In rare cases these timings have been longer due to additional customs checks (X-rays, etc.) but those circumstances are fairly exceptional. To caveat this, with port congestion appearing to be a regular thing across the world currently (certainly in the UK and EU), there is chance of longer delays as shipments become backlogged in ports." 

All this is to say thatwhilst the games are landing at the hubs imminently once they're handled through the ports we can now reasonably expect the games to start landing in your hands throughout October, wherever you are in the world (unless you're lucky enough to have yours delivered early).

Gen Con 2022

What a lovely convention! I had such a brilliant time at Gen Con. The business meetings were fun, but it was so cool getting to meet wonderful people and actually sit and play games too. Thanks so much to everyone who spent time with me - I've never been bought so many drinks and meals! Made me feel very special, and I hope to be back again next year. Here's a quick photo dump (there's about a hundred more on Facebook!):

I read a bunch of his stuff growing up, and R A Salvatore is now my son's favourite author - he even recorded a lovely personalised video for my boy
Caleb Grace, Corey Konieczka, Brady Sadler, and some lucky schmuck
I got to play Lord of the Rings with Caleb Grace (Lord of the Rings LCG designer)!
Jeff Irving, and Jamie Jolly (of Oathsworn fame) lent me their wit and wisdom
With the man with the hat
"Broadswoarrd!!"

Tabletop Gaming Live!

If you're in the UK and you haven't already, make sure you've got your tickets booked for Tabletop Gaming Live. We will be there to support and exhibit at Tabletop Gaming Live at Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 17th - 18th September 2022:

https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/information/tabletop-gaming-live

Can you beat 150 HEBS game sessions??

Do you record your plays? This is something that came up in discussion a lot at Gen Con, as people reached for their phones after each game to record their plays on various apps and websites. Personally, I use a google sheet to track which games out of our family collection are getting the most and least love. 1066 veteran Gregory Fuchs over on BGG has already racked up an impressive 150+ plays of 1066, Tears to Many Mothers alone, which hopefully gives some indication of the robustness of the system! Can you beat that number??

Video!

Finally, be sure to check out this neat Unboxing and Setup of #1066TearsToManyMothers from North of 60 Gaming:

And that's all for now – have an awe-inspiring rest of the week!

Cheers,

Tristan xx

1815, Scum of the Earth - August 2022, On The Boats!
over 1 year ago – Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 12:18:14 PM

Hello there,

Just a quick update to say that the games are finally on the boats! :D

On The Boats!

The games are all due to arrive in their respective ports at the end of August except for the US ship which will dock in early September. The next step is to get them from the ports to our hubs, and book them all into each hub's schedule. This process can take another few weeks, but at the time of writing still leaves us on track to get the majority of the games into your hands in September. So, hang tight in the meantime!

Tabletop Gaming Live

If you're in the UK and you haven't already, make sure you've got your tickets booked for Tabletop Gaming Live. We will be there to support and exhibit at Tabletop Gaming Live at Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 17th - 18th September 2022:

https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/information/tabletop-gaming-live

Though we won't have a booth at GenCon 2022 I will be there in attendance as a punter and would love to meet friendly gamers for a fist bump and a chat about games so let me know if you're going.

That's all for now as I'm packing for Gen Con – I hope to see you there if you're going, and have a fantastic week ahead either way.

Cheers!

Tristan xx