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Nice find DaveC - I've updated the OP with this announcement

Interesting move for Warlords considering they also have the Beyond the Gates of Antares in development as well.

So Warlord are distributing...

But who is making the minis? Do we know yet?

I'm a little more intrigued now...

From Alessio Cavatore's Facebook page:

Question: What scale?
Alessio Cavatore: they are going to be 'heroic' 28mmm... so more like a bit over 30 really!

Q: i had heard Mantic games were looking at an other IP a while back after Mars attacks. Is this it or purely River Horse?
AC: Purely River Horse production. Distribution by...

Q: What scale is it going to be? Skirmish I assume?
AC: Skirmish indeed. Single models moving individually, not in units.
At least in Year 1... there are three films planned...

Alessio Cavatore: And if the film/game go well... we'll probably go mass battle in Year 2!
No crowdfunding = baby steps!

Q: Alessio Cavatore, you are well known for your rules mechanics and clean writing style however are River Horse going to publish only the game or are you also the models manufacturer. Or is it more of a partnership much like Osprey & Northstar?
AC: River Horse will take care of the production. Another company (still to be announced...) will take care of sales/distribution.

Q: With there be a Big Starter box set???
AC: Yes, there's gonna ba a starter set!

Q: Alessio - do you know (rough month) when the starter set will be on sale in the UK?
AC: we're aiming for July (film release...).

Q: 28 mm standard? this would be something i'd be interested in if so
AC: yes, heroic 28mm, so a little taller (Arnie is a tall guy after all!)

 Ruglud wrote:
From Alessio Cavatore's Facebook page:

Alessio Cavatore: And if the film/game go well... we'll probably go mass battle in Year 2!
No crowdfunding = baby steps!

Thank you Warlord!

 judgedoug wrote:
Might it be Warlord?

 DaveC wrote:
Now confirmed as Warlord games.

Nice guess judgedoug!

 Manchu wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
Might it be Warlord?

 DaveC wrote:
Now confirmed as Warlord games.

Nice guess judgedoug!

I'M PSYCHIC Y'ALL


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SO. Let's consider the quality of the last plastic kit Warlord has released (NOT in conjunction with Renedra or Italeri):

Panzer IV F/G/H - I had the pleasure of assembling three of these in the last week. Probably one of my favorite plastic kits I have ever assembled.

a review (not my own) - http://volleyfirepainting.blogspot.com/2014/12/warlord-games-panzer-iv-review-pt-1.html

I also have four of the Sd.Kfz 251/1's and those were nice and easy to assemble with crisp details.
I have also assembled a British Universal Carrier and that was very easy as well, my only complaint was soft detail on the crew models.

How has everyone's experience been with Warlord's in-house plastics?
Soviet T-34/85
Sd.Kfz 251/1
Universal Carrier
Panzer IV F/G/H
US Marines infantry
Japanese infantry
Caesarian Romans

..any more? I'd have to check - are the Blitzkrieg Germans pressed by Renedra?
The new plastic upcoming Panzergrenadiers will most likely be their in-house plastics as well.

Is Warlord actually making the minis though?

All I've seen is that they are distributing.

For something that's supposed to be coming out in July, I'm surprised they don't have any renders or anything to show us to drum up interest

This could be very cool

 Alex C wrote:
Is Warlord actually making the minis though?

All I've seen is that they are distributing.

To be fair we know very little. It would not make much sense to ignore Warlord's early-2000-GW-era level of metal and plastics manufacturing.


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Doug Craig - I'm so excited Alessio! Question, will Warlord be doing the models too? Their recent in-house plastics (Panzer IV, Universal Carrier, Japanese, USMC infantry) have been excellent!

Alessio Cavatore - Can't quite answer that one yet... More detail later...

Extremely excited about this!

Great rules-writer on board, now a great distributor. That's two down, next up miniature sculptors and materials..

If this is coming out alongside the film (which is scheduled for July release) perhaps the miniature design and whatnot are relatively far along the development line, and we probably just haven't seen them because they would give away what is in the film?

Yeah, I'm thinking spoilers are keeping miniature previews at bay.

Still, I don't see the harm in showing off T-800's and the Connors. We're all familiar with those and it's likely what most of us are chiefly interested in.

I'm excited about the movie, and the minaitures game will be icing on the cake.

Lets just hope they don't make the miniatures game some random scale.

It just got announced. Not being a Kickstarter I would suspect we'll get little teasers every week or two for a few months until a few months before launch in July-ish.


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 adamsouza wrote:
I'm excited about the movie, and the minaitures game will be icing on the cake.

Lets just hope they don't make the miniatures game some random scale.

Confirmed as 28mm, confirmed as a skirmish game to go with the first movie, confirmed that if the film does well it will move to mass battles for follow up films. (new Terminator films planned as new trilogy)

 adamsouza wrote:
I'm excited about the movie, and the minaitures game will be icing on the cake.

Lets just hope they don't make the miniatures game some random scale.

28mm Heroic was confirmed.

They should be able to show us anything that's already made an appearance in the trailer, right?

 Alpharius wrote:
They should be able to show us anything that's already made an appearance in the trailer, right?

I don't know. What does their license say?

Yes you would have thought at the very least a skeletal T-800, Korean actor guy that is playing 'bad terminator', and old Arnie!

MEGA excited about this, have changed my avatar as a celebration of all things terminator! Wheeeeee!

All I care about ia plastic Hunter Killers and possible new robots.

28mm Heroic is full of win.

I sitll have the 25mm metal ones from Leading Edge, released back after Terminator 2. They are sculpted well, but I can't get myself to do anything with them, because of the scale.

I just want scads and scads of resistance Tac-Com infantry:




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Though to be honest recreating this on the tabletop would rustle my jimmies in the grandest of ways:

Those pics are full of 80's sci-fi win

With pics like the above, would this not be better at 15mm?

Daston wrote:
With pics like the above, would this not be better at 15mm?

No.

No it would not.

Nah, the Future War sequences in Terminator 2 proved that sci fi battles of the future are fought on a 6x4 tabletop!

... I'd like to show proof in the form of the future war sequence from T2 but I cannot find a youtube video that is just that (without being edited with crap music or bits of T3 edited in for some reason)

Daston wrote:
With pics like the above, would this not be better at 15mm?

No tabletop game is better at 15mm.

 adamsouza wrote:

Daston wrote:
With pics like the above, would this not be better at 15mm?

No tabletop game is better at 15mm.

Not even close to true. 15mm can allow you to field a lot more vehicles with more realistic distance scaling on a normal sized table.

Plenty of good 15mm games, but I think a licensed product with iconic characters deserves a larger model scale.

 Alex C wrote:
Plenty of good 15mm games, but I think a licensed product with iconic characters deserves a larger model scale.

Especially if it is a skirmish level game. But to state 'no tabletop game is better at 15mm' is silly.

 CptJake wrote:

 Alex C wrote:
Plenty of good 15mm games, but I think a licensed product with iconic characters deserves a larger model scale.

Especially if it is a skirmish level game. But to state 'no tabletop game is better at 15mm' is silly.

Indeed. Flames of War stands out as a massively successful 15mm game and is an excellent scale for tank warfare.