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, Day 25 – Double-Sided Playmats + Review + Interview + Video!
almost 5 years ago
– Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 03:43:34 AM
Well hello there,
£75,548 pledged 1,262 backers 3 days to go!
You did it guys, this is now our most successful HEBS Kickstarter to date already! The playmat stretch goal is officially smashed, and now all of the 1815, Scum of the Earth playmats are officially going to be double-sided with a big, beautiful art print on either side. Thank you again everyone for joining and supporting us. I had quite a bit to say about this, the game, the campaign, and some other bits and pieces, and it all spilled over into a video update, which you can watch here:
HEBS Review!
The previous HEBS games are still getting great reviews - this one just went live today and is well worth a watch, whether you're a fan of the series or new to HEBS: "Very thematic, the artwork is absolutely incredible... Nice immersion in history, a very enjoyable game" – 1565, St. Elmo's Pay set-up, play and review from Amass Games...
A Conversation With: Tristan Hall
As if you needed to hear more from me, Quackalope interviewed me about 1815 and Hall things Hall or Nothing at the link below:
And that's all for now, let's gallop towards a fantastic finish people – send out the war cries, tell your friends, and let us march now together to victory!
Tristan xx
1815, Scum of the Earth - Day 23, From Prussia With Love: Announcing the '1815, Give Me Night' Prussia expansion pack
almost 5 years ago
– Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 01:06:26 AM
Hello there,
There's some really cool stuff in today's update, so please sit tight and pay attention, soldier... First of all, the campaign is going brilliantly – we're really threatening that 70,000 milestone – thank you so much for your support in making this happen.
'1815, Give Me Night' the 57-card Prussia Expansion Pack
Between trying to fit in a million different characters, units, events, etc. into the base game, the Prussians – who do feature in the core game – are necessarily not as numerous as I would have liked in the British/Allied deck. Those of you who would like to play as Blücher can still do that with an allied deck as the game stands. But if you'd like to mix things up and experience a fully Prussian-themed deck then this is what you've been waiting for.
As the Battle of Waterloo ramped up in intensity the Duke of Wellington said, 'Give me Blücher or give me night', and in the end he got both – so without further ado, here is the small box 1815 Prussia expansion 1815, Give Me Night:
1815, Give Me Night willcontain thefollowing 57Prussia-themed cards:
10 characters
21 units
10 events
7 objectives
6 attachments
3 tactics
Simply replace your British army deck with this Prussian army deck, or even campaign as the Prussians and British against one or two French players with the multiplayer 2 core-set rules. To add a copy of the 1815, Give Me Night expansion to your pre-order simply increase your pledge by £16 and you will be able to add it to your order in the pledge manager.
Look Sharpe-ish!
As many of you have asked about it, I regret to inform you that Sean Bean was unfortunately unavailable to star as Richard Sharpe in the game, but that doesn't stop us from having our own blond hero from the 95th Rifles show up instead, as beautifully illustrated right here by the incomparably talented Arkadiusz Banaś:
The Player's Aid Interview
I was interviewed by the lovely Grant from @playersaidblog about #1815ScumOfTheEarth, Kilforth, and Hall or Nothing, and the review has been published here:
And here's the link to Quackalope's latest brilliant podcast where they discuss 1815, Scum of the Earth at length – you should listen to the whole thing, but you can skip to 1:00:58 to hear their great conversation about 1815: https://quackalope.com/podcast/twq/hippocratic-scum
Finally, since we're in the final days of the campaign please help to spread the word by tweeting, facebooking, sharing and instagramming and good old fashioned shouting from the rooftops! You can start by clicking and sharing the heck out of this link to help to drive us up the hotness...
We still have at least one more surprise for you before the campaign ends..
Cheerio!
Tristan xx
1815, Scum of the Earth Day 16 - Review, Interview, Videoo + A Stretch Goal??
almost 5 years ago
– Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 12:50:14 PM
Howdy all,
Let's see how we're faring so far...
£63,050 pledged 394% funded 1,111 backers 13 days to go!
"Forwards!"
£75,366 Stretch Goal!
Okay, here's my proposal: I said we wouldn't offer stretch goals but there's an opportunity here to do something really cool. We did a similar thing for our latest game Veilwraith and it worked out beautifully...
If we beat £75,366 - which is the total funding of the original HEBS Kickstarter campaign for 1066, Tears to Many Mothers - we'll make all of the sumptuous1815, Scum of the Earth playmats double-sided. So the beautiful 1815 art on one side will still have the logo and outlined placeholders for all of the cards, but the reverse side will be an extra full art landscape print with no card placeholders. This way you'll be able to use it in any of your favourite card games, HEBS or otherwise. Maybe something like this gorgeous piece from the original 1066:
What do you say, people - can we beat that lofty goal together??
Interview!
This week I was interviewed by the delightful Fredrik Schulz from Table For One about all things gaming and Hall or Nothing:
"Feels really nervy and engaging as players push back and forth in the wedge fighting with big blows raining down" 1066, Tears to Many Mothers – Check out these First Impressions from Quackalope:
Here's a Spanish play-through of 1565, St. Elmo's Pay from Otro canal de Juegos de Mesa: 1565 El asedio de Malta - Como se juega y partida con Sergi...
And below is another Remini animation of one of our brilliant art pieces - these things are so cool. Have any of you used this app on old photos of your family members? It's fascinating stuff...
And that's all for today, I hope you get plenty of quality family and/or gaming time in over the next few days - ciao for now,
Tristan xx
1815, Scum of the Earth Day 11 - Art + Vids + Reviews
about 5 years ago
– Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:09:42 AM
Well met, friends,
1,000 backers and counting!
That is incredible - what an epic milestone. Thank you all again for your support - it means so much for us to be able to create these beautiful games, and we cannot do it without you. :)
Moar Art!
I just wanted to share a couple more jaw-dropping pieces of art with you today (just look at the movement in these images). Receiving these commissions from our artists makes me very happy so why not share some of that happiness with you guys, right?
Moar HEBS Reviews!
To whet your appetite for the game, here are a couple more brilliantly penned reviews of the previous game in the HEBS system 1565, St. Elmo's Pay:
"The way designer Tristan Hall has managed to capture the essence of complex war games and condense it into a highly tactical, asymmetric card game is an impressive feat - highly recommended" - Fredrik Schulz
"1565, St. Elmo's Pay provides a fresh experience as a wargame-inspired game that feels different from most wargames" - dtwiley
Reaction Guys!
Remember Reaction Guy from The Simpsons where he watches stuff and then reacts to it? Well below are some people reacting to the Kickstarter campaign for 1815, Scum of the Earth! :D
Seriously though, content like this is brilliant for us. Like any other social media posts, tweets, and shares it gets the message out there for us about the game. So if you have anything similar to share with us just let us know in the comments and we'll load your content into our social media cannons and cannonade the interwebs with it...
This first video is a detailed breakdown of the #1815ScumOfTheEarth campaign from @MDofGames:
And here's Bower's Game Corner doing a similar thing:
We obviously can't make every change that every person asks for but we have already implemented a couple of changes based on these videos so thanks for sharing guys!
This next video is cool, Seek Out and Play uses the first HEBS game 1066, Tears to Many Mothers to tell a brief history of the Battle of Hastings:
And that's all for now - if you have any HEBS videos, session reports or reviews you'd like to share, hit us up in the comments or by PM and we'll spread the word too.
Okay, let's march on through the rain and mud and continue to smash the roof off this campaign - and if you do nothing else today, please just click this link before you go to help boost us up the hotness:
1815, Scum of the Earth Day 7 - The Past, Kicktraq, podcast, remina!
about 5 years ago
– Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 01:31:15 AM
Hello one and all - I hope this missive finds you safe and well!
Putting the FUN in Funding
You guys have done so well - we have already surpassed a milestone of £47,049, which was the total funding for the 1565, St. Elmo's Pay Kickstarter! So here's a Remina animation of Blücher as a reward and special thank you to you all:
Thanks to James Clarke who shared this excellent post on BGG - here is a photo of the last British survivors from the Battle of Waterloo:
The photograph was taken in 1880, at the Chelsea Hospital, London. The eldest (at 95) is Private John McKay, who was aged 30 at the time of the battle.
The oldest known surviving combatant from Waterloo, was Frenchman Louis-Victor Baillot, (1793-1898)....
Let's get it back up there! Click on "visit project" from the link below. Also comments in the 1815 forums here help loads too! We are actually getting significant interest and action directly from Kicktraq so this is seriously helping if you can find it in your hearts to set this is your bookmark for the campaign and click it each time:
