Hello everyone. We are Faceless Publishing, a small Canadian tabletop game and fiction publisher. Today is a very exciting day for us, as we announce the first project under our Wargames Resurrectionist label. The goal of Wargames Resurrectionist is to preserve out-of-print tabletop wargames and miniature lines, and make them available once again. After purchasing or licensing the rights to a game, 3d and conventional scanning are used to create a digital archive from the existing material. The digital copies of these games and miniatures will then be made available for purchase through online distribution. Rules and supporting materials will be sold as PDF documents, and miniatures will be available as STLs. 3d printed miniatures will also be available, for those without access to a 3d printer. In addition to game components, we also aim to speak with the sculptors, writers, and creators involved with each game wherever possible, in order to preserve as much of the background behind them as we can.



We are very excited to announce we have signed a license with Onyx Path Publishing to resurrect Trinity: Battleground!



For those unfamiliar with it, Trinity: Battleground was released in 1998 by White Wolf Publishing. It was the only wargame ever based on the Storytelling RPG rules system. The game is set in the Trinity universe (created by White Wolf and now owned by Onyx Path Publishing), and features psionically empowered heroes known as Psions battling twisted, superhuman mutants called Aberrants.



A skirmish level game, Trinity: Battleground contained rules for players to create their own customized Psions and Aberrants, choosing from a variety of psionic powers, mutations, and equipment. Players of the Trinity RPG would even be able to convert their characters into the game, allowing them to participate in larger-scale battles.



Sadly, even with such interesting and flexible rules, and miniatures sculpted by the legendary Bob Naismith, the game was not the success its creators hoped. It only lasted a year, and plans for future releases never materialized.



As a kind gesture, White Wolf released a free PDF containing the material that was currently being worked on for the game, which is still freely available from Onyx Path. Since then, Trinity: Battleground has stayed relatively unknown except to dedicated fans for nearly 25 years.



This will not be a Kickstarter. We are currently in the process of scanning the miniatures and creating print-ready .STL files. The game will be released once those are ready. We are excited to make this lost game available again after so long, and we are very thankful to Onyx Path for the opportunity. Keep an eye on this space and our website for more news as we get closer to bringing this game back to life!

Interesting concept. I hope you pick up Warmachine someday.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Interesting concept. I hope you pick up Warmachine someday.

Glad to hear you think our project is interesting. I doubt that Warmachine will go completely out of production anytime soon, but in the future? Who knows?

This is a really interesting project! Really hope it does well for you!

 Overread wrote:
This is a really interesting project! Really hope it does well for you!

Thank you! We are very excited to be working with Onyx Path on this project, and have plans to expand the range with more out-of-print lines as our business grows.

Awesome idea. Wish you the best.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Awesome idea. Wish you the best.

Thank you very much!

What a cool idea! Will you announce here as you make progress through things? I'd like to keep up with what's going on.

Asmoridin wrote:
What a cool idea! Will you announce here as you make progress through things? I'd like to keep up with what's going on.

Thank you! There are so many interesting miniature lines and out-of-print games, and we decided something should be done about it! We will be posting updates here, on our website, and on social media as the project progresses.

Deleted, didn't read OP fully.

I got a message from these guys a couple of months ago asking me to send them a few Trinity:Battleground miniatures I had (which were either never released or released in very limited quantities depending on who you ask). I thought it was suss and ignored it at the time.....

Ancient Otter wrote:
I got a message from these guys a couple of months ago asking me to send them a few Trinity:Battleground miniatures I had (which were either never released or released in very limited quantities depending on who you ask). I thought it was suss and ignored it at the time.....

I'm very sorry if something about our message struck you as suspicious, but I'm happy to find out you're a fellow Dakkanaut.

 Faceless_Publishing wrote:

Ancient Otter wrote:
I got a message from these guys a couple of months ago asking me to send them a few Trinity:Battleground miniatures I had (which were either never released or released in very limited quantities depending on who you ask). I thought it was suss and ignored it at the time.....

I'm very sorry if something about our message struck you as suspicious, but I'm happy to find out you're a fellow Dakkanaut.

I tried contacting Onyx Path following your message and they never replied to me.

Don't forget to mention it on sites like rpg.net, the new edition of the Trinity RPG got a good few roleplayers nostalgic for Trinity: Battleground again.

Ancient Otter wrote:

 Faceless_Publishing wrote:

Ancient Otter wrote:
I got a message from these guys a couple of months ago asking me to send them a few Trinity:Battleground miniatures I had (which were either never released or released in very limited quantities depending on who you ask). I thought it was suss and ignored it at the time.....

I'm very sorry if something about our message struck you as suspicious, but I'm happy to find out you're a fellow Dakkanaut.

I tried contacting Onyx Path following your message and they never replied to me.

Don't forget to mention it on sites like rpg.net, the new edition of the Trinity RPG got a good few roleplayers nostalgic for Trinity: Battleground again.

That's surprising, I figured they would have responded. Thank you for the advice, we will certainly reach out to the rpg.net crowd.

Great to hear that the game will be coming back.
I have two starter sets and a few of the blister packs that were released.
Will you be selling the miniatures for those who dont have 3D printers?

 manic _miner wrote:
Great to hear that the game will be coming back.
I have two starter sets and a few of the blister packs that were released.
Will you be selling the miniatures for those who dont have 3D printers?

We're happy to see so many people excited for the game's resurrection! The plan is to sell 3d printed miniatures so that people without printers of their own can still complete their collections. However, as a small company with limited space, it will take some time to set that up.

It has been a year since we announced our acquisition of the license to resurrect Trinity: Battleground from Onyx Path Publishing, and an update has been long overdue.

Unfortunately, we have encountered some problems with getting the miniatures for the project scanned, which is the first step in bringing the line back to life. There were issues with the service we were working with to perform the scanning, and we made the decision to move the process in-house. We are currently finalizing the acquisition of the hardware and software, and developing the expertise, to perform this task independently. This capability will not only allow us to complete the resurrection of Trinity: Battleground, but will streamline future projects as well. Stay tuned for more regular updates moving forward, as we start sharing work-in-progress shots and other news.

We appreciate the patience of the Trinity: Battlegrounds fans, and wholeheartedly apologize for these delays. We are determined to take the lessons we've learned from this, and apply them to our future projects as we move forward.

Great to hear that the project is still moving forward.

Hello everyone,

We apologize for the long wait, but we are happy to announce that we have completed moving our scanning process in-house and are getting good results. We have shared a preview of our first scanned figure on our website as part of our new Miniature Monday blog series. Please stop by and learn more about the spine-covered monstrosity known as Caul Fein!

Should have picked up Warmachine.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Should have picked up Warmachine.

Believe me, I would have loved nothing more, but we have nowhere near the funds needed for that kind of project. Maybe in the future Steamforged will be amenable to some kind of agreement to resurrect the legacy models, but only time will tell. For now, we are focusing on one project at a time.

Neat stuff! Are you going to put out that lovely cardstock terrain too? I love the old school paper - the current paper terrain tends to have too much extraneous detail.

Congratz on bringing this lost gem back into action...

I got into this game like a week after it fell off, and ended up selling it back for something else. I really dig the aliens and the concept of building up your army and they all being individuals with their own stories was a great idea. The game was on par with Infinity before Infinity was a baby idea. As a game, it's like using a superhero vs aliens. BUT the superhero can develop and gain more powers as they continue the campaign. It was a great deal at the time. The "Big Monsters" were really cool, as well.


I'm definatly interested.

kestral wrote:Neat stuff! Are you going to put out that lovely cardstock terrain too? I love the old school paper - the current paper terrain tends to have too much extraneous detail.

You bet! All the cardstock and paper material for the game has been scanned and will be provided as PDFs for players to print out. Because they're digital, you'll be able to cover any size table with terrain if you want to!

Grot 6 wrote:Congratz on bringing this lost gem back into action...

I got into this game like a week after it fell off, and ended up selling it back for something else. I really dig the aliens and the concept of building up your army and they all being individuals with their own stories was a great idea. The game was on par with Infinity before Infinity was a baby idea. As a game, it's like using a superhero vs aliens. BUT the superhero can develop and gain more powers as they continue the campaign. It was a great deal at the time. The "Big Monsters" were really cool, as well.


I'm definatly interested.

Thank you! We are very excited to see this project come to fruition, and are grateful for the enthusiastic response we've received so far. Once we have the game "out in the wild" again, we hope to see players share details about how their own campaigns have progressed.

A fascinating sounding project and I wish you the best of luck.

 bbb wrote:
A fascinating sounding project and I wish you the best of luck.

Thank you! The plan is that it will be the first of many.

Great project idea, best of luck!

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Should have picked up Warmachine.

Dude we get it, you can relax now.

First time I've seen this game, and I love that you're going to archive it for the future. Seems like a great box of toys for other gaming tho, and cheap, so I think I'm gonna need an original box now.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Great project idea, best of luck!

Thank you!

Prometheum5 wrote:First time I've seen this game, and I love that you're going to archive it for the future. Seems like a great box of toys for other gaming tho, and cheap, so I think I'm gonna need an original box now.

Trinity: Battleground had a set of unique and very cool miniatures, but the game sadly never drew the attention it deserved. Besides making these games available to people again, a big part of our goal is preserving these games as part of wargaming history, since otherwise they risk being completely forgotten.

It's Miniature Monday once again, and this week we're revealing the first scanned Psion miniature, Hewish, as well as talking about how we'll be making the game available once it releases.

Truly we live in an age of wonders!

Looking forward to side-by-side pictures of prints of the scanned mini and original mini. It'll be nice to see how they compare.

 bbb wrote:
Looking forward to side-by-side pictures of prints of the scanned mini and original mini. It'll be nice to see how they compare.

We'll get some of those up in a little while.

Miniature Monday has rolled around again, and this time we're taking a look at Fhata Khan, another Aberrant from the Trinity: Battleground core set. We also talk a little bit about the challenges we've faced in the course of bringing this game back to life.



Next week is very exciting, as we will be showing some comparisons between scanned miniatures and the original metal ones.

Another week, another Miniature Monday! This week, we talk a bit about the Support Troops who accompany Aberrant and Psion characters into battle, like the mutant, spine-covered Krikquills and the brave soldiers of Support Squad Avenger. In addition, we share comparison photos of the original models and our first batch of test prints!

Looks good!

Nice idea! Hope you do Chronopia, Warzone and AT-43 at some point!

bbb wrote:Looks good!

Glad you think so!

Sasorijap wrote:Nice idea! Hope you do Chronopia, Warzone and AT-43 at some point!

We would love to, but it all comes down to the IP owners and the availability of source material. We will see what the future holds once we have finished this project.

It's Miniature Monday once again! Today we reveal Haruhiko, a Psion packing heavy firepower, and talk about the process we use to convert a pewter miniature into a print-ready .STL file.

Unfortunately, this week's Miniature Monday needs to be delayed until next week. Tune in then for more news about Trinity: Battleground!

After a short delay, we are back with another Miniature Monday! This week, we reveal the Sentry Gun for Trinity: Battleground, and give an overview of how players can create their own custom characters to battle it out on the tabletop!

In today's Miniature Monday, we reveal the Psion sharpshooter Nappochelli, as well as sharing the basics of Trinity: Battlegrounds' sample scenarios and giving a little insight into campaign play.

In this week's Miniature Monday, we show a work in progress of the mighty Gomorrah, and talk about our plans to include Trinity: Battleground's original terrain in our digital re-release.

Looks like you're getting some excellent results.

That is pretty cool. I still have a set of the original terrain!

 bbb wrote:
Looks like you're getting some excellent results.

Thank you! We are very excited about this project, and the results we are getting.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
That is pretty cool. I still have a set of the original terrain!

It's always nice to hear from people who were fans of the original game. If you were ever looking to add more of the terrain to your table, soon you will be able to.

It's a new week, and time for a new Miniature Monday article. This week, we reveal the fearsome Psion Williams, and discuss a few details about Trinity: Battleground's rules that help make it such a unique game.

Another week, another Miniature Monday! Join us as we reveal another miniature from the Trinity: Battleground box set, the arachnoid McGowen!

It's Miniature Monday once again, and today we are talking about the pistol-packing Psion, Jameson!

We're back with another Miniature Monday! This week, we're taking a look at the leader of Trinity: Battleground's box set Psions. Officially known as Strike Team Anvil, these defenders of humanity are led by the cunning and powerful pyrokinetic, Cameron.

Another week, another Miniature Monday. This week, we take a break from the Psions to reveal the imposing and deadly Aberrant, Naushka!

Hello everyone! We apologize for our absence over the last few weeks. We're back to our regular schedule now, and this Miniature Monday we reveal Sage, a Psion with unusual Psi Powers and a unique weapon.

For this week's Miniature Monday, we reveal Dr. Sager, another Psion with unique powers and a shocking piece of equipment.

In this week's instalment of Miniature Monday, we take a look at the bizarre and terrifying Aberrant, Lucifer!

This week on Miniature Monday, we reveal Juanos Palmero, a Psion who can convert her own body into a deadly weapon.

Another week, another Miniature Monday. This week, we reveal the leader of The Unforgiven Aberrant cadre included in the Trinity: Battleground box set, the massive and imposing Nazul.

It's time again for Miniature Monday! Today we reveal the heavy weapon toting Somers, and share a general update about the Trinity: Battleground project. In short, the date of the re-release of Trinity: Battleground has been pushed back to early next year, due to compounding delays across the project.

Today is the final Miniature Monday of the year, as the Faceless Publishing team is taking the Christmas season off to rest and see family. Fitting for the end of the year and the frosty weather here in Canada, we are revealing Batya, a cryokinetic and the final miniature included in the Trinity: Battleground core box.

We here at Faceless Publishing wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you in 2025!

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a great Christmas season, and that the new year is treating you well so far. We are ringing in the year's first Miniature Monday by showing off the rare and impressive Aberrant, Luka! He's one of our personal favourites from the line.

For this week's Miniature Monday we take a look at Lu Chen, a telepathic Psion with abilities that let him manipulate the rules of the game to his advantage. In case that doesn't win the battle, he also carries a nasty sword.

Good Stuff. Looking forward to scans of the paper terrain!

 kestral wrote:
Good Stuff. Looking forward to scans of the paper terrain!

Thank you. It's always nice to see other people who are excited about the project. We have already revealed the plan for the next Miniature Monday, but we should be able to show scans of the terrain in the one after that.

This week's Miniature Monday article is a little different than usual. Today, we take a look at the history of Trinity: Battleground and the plans White Wolf had for the game. Oh, what could have been...

 kestral wrote:
Good Stuff. Looking forward to scans of the paper terrain!

And here's a sample to whet your appetite.

This week on Miniature Monday, we are taking a look at the terrain that was included in the Trinity: Battleground core box, and how we are planning to include cardboard buildings and styrofoam hills in our all-digital re-release.

We're back to miniature reveals with an all new Miniature Monday. This week, we are looking at the serpentine Aberrant, Drummach.

I really need to get some of these Aberrants once the models become available.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I really need to get some of these Aberrants once the models become available.

We will be happy to oblige. It's nice to see people enjoying the models so much. Related to that, here's another reveal. It's less formal, but we're so excited we couldn't wait! We've completed our first test print of a Trinity: Battleground miniature using a filament printer. There are some support issues and some loss of detail, but overall a very impressive first attempt! We had plans to print our miniatures in resin, but were pleasantly surprised by the detail modern FDM printers are capable of. This miniature was printed on a Bambu A1 with a 0.2mm nozzle.

Looks fantastic!

 bbb wrote:
Looks fantastic!

Thank you! We are very impressed with the result from an easily available filament printer, and have gone into a little more detail about this successful test in this week's Miniature Monday.

We were hoping to share more test prints this week, but our printer has been suffering some technical issues. Instead, this week we're revealing Slint, another serpentine Aberrant.

We're back with another Miniature Monday and another batch of test prints. These lower-detailed prints are a part of our testing regimen, and show the fairly impressive results a filament printer can achieve without tweaking its settings.

In this week's Miniature Monday, we show some very disappointing test prints, and talk about learning from our setbacks.

This week's Miniature Monday brings exciting news, with much more successful test prints and news about an upcoming local gaming convention.

I think that's brilliant. Cool project in many ways.

 kestral wrote:
I think that's brilliant. Cool project in many ways.

Thank you very much! We plan for it to be the first of many similar resurrections.


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In this week's Miniature Monday, we share more test prints, showing off the results of a new support structure and finer nozzle, as we get closer to finalizing our printing files. Next week, we'll be going back to regular previews and sharing more details of other work on the project.

In this week's Miniature Monday, we're back to revealing new miniatures. This week, we talk about Montrose, a Psion who forces his enemies to make difficult decisions in how to react to his powers.

The time has rolled around for another Miniature Monday. This week, we reveal the crustacean-looking Aberrant, Denshea, who serves as a living artillery piece in the war against humanity.

Happy Easter, everyone! We've jumped right back to work with another Miniature Monday, this time previewing the Psion healer, Jon Holt. Additionally, we're happy to announce a new and improved logo, and a change to the covers of our award-winning novels.

After last week's announcements, we're back to our standard Miniature Monday previews for our resurrection of Trinity: Battleground. This week, we take a look at the enigmatic and deadly Keeper of the Eye.

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! This week, we take a step back from super-powered mutants to explore the fighting men and women of the Trinity: Battleground universe with a look at Support Squad Dragon.

In this week's Miniature Monday (admittedly, a little late), we reveal the Trog Support unit. These small mutants are engineered to serve their Aberrant masters on the battlefield.

In this week's Miniature Monday, we report on our experience running demo games of Trinity: Battleground at Cangames, a small Ottawa-based gaming convention, and how players responded to the game.

In this week's Miniature Monday, we are back to miniature reveals for our resurrection of the Trinity: Battlegrounds miniature wargame. This week, we take a look at Sanguine, an Aberrant who takes the trend of Tactical Rocks a little too far.

In this week's Miniature Monday, we take a look at the process of preparing the tokens and terrain sheets that accompany the miniatures in the Trinity: Battleground boxed set.

It's Miniature Monday again! This week, we're talking about the poster that is included in the Trinity: Battleground core box, including the quick-start rules and new characters included on it.

Happy belated Father's Day to all the dads out there! In this week's Miniature Monday, we show off the painted miniatures we used in our Trinity: Battleground demos at the Cangames convention.

In this week's Miniature Monday, we delve into the history of the Trinity: Battleground setting, and the conflict between the Aberrants and humanity. At the same time, we share samples of scanned pages from the rulebook.

I missed this for many years. I have a copy in my closet that never seems to have made its way to eBay.

While I'm impressed with the scanning of the original miniatures--they weren't that great even when they were released. If someone did updated models, I'd probably break out the rules...or download them.

Anyways, thanks for doing this and good luck.

 Chairman Aeon wrote:
I missed this for many years. I have a copy in my closet that never seems to have made its way to eBay.

While I'm impressed with the scanning of the original miniatures--they weren't that great even when they were released. If someone did updated models, I'd probably break out the rules...or download them.

Anyways, thanks for doing this and good luck.

Thank you for the best wishes. Our license only covers the original sculpts, so updating the models is outside our purview. Any new miniatures would have to come from Onyx Path directly, but we are excited to allow older collectors to complete their Trinity collections, and for people to discover the game for the first time.

We had some issues posting on DakkaDakka last week, so this week's Miniature Monday announcement is a two-for-one! Last week, we took a look at Trinity: Battleground's character creation rules by creating a custom Aberrant character. This week, we decided that turnabout is fair play and created a custom Psion to help stop the Aberrant threat.

It's that time again! In this week's Miniature Monday we have another miniature reveal from Trinity: Battleground. This time, it's the towering Psion Gresko!

This week's Miniature Monday is a little different. This time, we're sharing a few teasers of the next miniature line we will be resurrecting, once Trinity: Battleground is re-released. Got any ideas about what it could be?

After last week's teaser, we're back to talking about Trinity: Battleground. This week, we're taking a look at some of the artwork included in the rulebook, a crucial part of capturing the unique feeling of the Trinity setting.