Reply To: Changes coming to Warlord's support for exisiting games

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I think I saw some new plastics for Antares, but I’m not overly familiar with it to say what they were. Its one of those games I’ve always wanted to pick up, I think the bolt action mechanics are good (though they have there flaws as all systems) and the idea of that in sci-fi implementation as an alternative to that which must not be named appeals to me, just never got round to it.

But yeah the cheap repurposing of minis they own for other spin-offs i think has been problematic, SPQR is the prime example, the game system isn’t great, and I think warlord bought it after it was passed around a few places and turned down, very much a reaction to the market and a way to flog their hail Ceasar sprues. Erewhon seemed like a similar reaction to the market.

In slight fairness to the Warlord, Victory at sea was an existing game system that they have the license for now and the rule system is pretty solid it seems as it’s reasonably popular, so there mainly just producing minis for it. They have covered quite a lot already and I think by the sounds of it have quite a few designs ready to go or in the pipeline to round out most of the nations in the game, after that it doesn’t really need much “support”.

Konflict 47 is similar, I cant remember of the developer but they effectively license the IP for it to warlord, who use BA v1 rules and produce the minis, I think that started more as a fan project that had enough support to become a standalone game.