Monolith Announce Gaining Rackham Company’s IP!
April 16, 2024 by brennon
Monolith announced last week that the Paris Commercial Court has assigned all of the property rights of Rackham to themselves, allowing them to start exploring bringing those old games and miniature ranges back to life.
Rackham Announcement // Monolith
The Rackham games have had a rocky time of it over the last couple of decades and despite reemerging as Rackham Entertainment in 2008, they were dissolved and liquidated in 2010. There have been many attempts to bring back the likes of Confrontation over the years but it now seems like this game and more have found a home with Monolith.
This means that hopefully, we'll see Confrontation come back although I sense that it might end up getting turned into a miniatures board game to match what Monolith do best. There is already a board game in Rackham's library called Hybrid and their Sci-Fi game, AT-43 that I know a lot of folks would love to see returning to the tabletop. Maybe we'll even see Cadwallon come back to the tabletop too on the roleplaying game side of things.
What do you make of the news from Monolith regarding Rackham?
"What do you make of the news from Monolith regarding Rackham?"
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IPs getting clear ruling on who owns what is always good.
I always remember how badly translated the original Hybrid rulebook was. They spent a column and a half explaining how a square base had four sides, the front side, the two flanks, and the back side. This hilarity ended with “a model can attack to it’s front side. A model can defend to it’s front side, it’s left side and it’s back side. It is therefore important not to expose your backside to an enemy or you will become vulnerable.”
The translations were pretty awful.
That said, the models and painting elevated miniatures and the hobby far beyond anything at its time.
I’m interested in seeing what comes of this.
AT-43 was my go to game back in the day. Such a great game.
If it comes back, that would be pure awesome.
I never played the game, but the minis were/are AWESOME. I’d love to get my hands on some more, but the price on those things has skyrocketed.
Maybe they can re-released them unpainted to keep some of their own costs down…🤞🤞
Monolith has an excellent track record. The IP definitely needed a new owner with such a good reputation.
I sincerely hope they will be able to put an end to this IP’s curse.
Only drawback : they tend to produce all their games almost as Kickstarter exclusives and you have to wait for a new campaign when stocks are sold out. There’s a huge FOMO effect.
Potentially very exciting news.
I would love another go at playing Hybrid. It was my introduction to Rackham back in the day. I picked the game up at a wargames show and I think we only played it twice. I seem to recall it was quite difficult to learn. Maybe it was the translation or maybe it was the younger me and my first wanderings from GW.
They may have the IP sorted but what I’m really after are the beautiful minis – back again and in a live game please.
Cadwallon have many of the miniatures here, in resin. I’ve ordered a few minis from them and gave found them to be reliable and good quality. https://cadwallon.com/rackham-confrontation
It’ll be interesting to know if this agreement has any impact on what they can keep producing.
This is by far the best news of the year till now and imho the best news for the rest of the year. This was the game I played most and I have nearly a full range of three factions – the Lions of Alahan, the Sessairs and the Alchemists of Dirz. Besides miniatures from other factions that I liked and bought.
Wasn’t there another company in America working on rules for a new edition? I remember something on a backstage episode.
Temple of the West. Only thing I could find is that Temple and Monolith are in contact with each other, and something something together. Good news? : https://www.facebook.com/templewest.co
@ced1106 Thanks for the info.