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Jean Bey, president of Rackham, has stated that the dice tins that were previewed at GenCon2007 will finally be released "Yes, specific army dices in tin boxes....In a few weeks!"
(These were originally scheduled to be released in November)



But thats not all. Actually the tins and dice are the most minor news (thankfully).

Jean Bey also stated that there will be a new campaign late second quarter of this year.

Source
"This Campaign will be a product boxed set, including scenery, few special miniatures, new gaming tiles, additional rulesbook which cover new tactics options, rules for playing these new miniatures in AT-43, rules for scenery, an optimization for using the existing attachment boxes in the game, rules campaign system, huge set of scenarios and lots more."

As well, plans that were stated before AT-43 was even released as far as army boxes are concerned will finally come to fruition as well.

"...we plan to produce all the missing models for the existing armies before (we produce the army boxes)."

Judging by how all armies except the Karmans have close to 80-90% of their models released (and according to the Karman release schedule, they are being fast tracked so that a sizable playable army can be fielded before doomsday) we may very well see army boxes in the not so distant future.

I see this as a very good sign for Rackham, as there hasn't been much official confirmation about the good health of their company after the whole near bankruptcy debacle.

Filling in holes for the existing armies, new stuff to play the game in easily accessible campaign sets (as opposed to the nearly mythical Cry Havoc mags), new licensing deals with secondary market companies such as GF9, possible new armies on the horizon...they may pull out of this yet.

So for Rackham the word campaign is the equivalent of
calling something an expansion set?

There is also the Type 3 'Steel Giant' concept.

http://www.rackham.fr/newsletter/cry_online/img73/THC3_Concept.jpg

Also see

http://viewfromtheturret.com/2008/01/25/at-43-news/

Wow, Rackham does a nice knock-off of the GW Tau Ion Cannon!

Kinda neat how it works out. Someone knocks off GW, who
knocks off Japanese mecha, who knock off someone's
imagination post-nuclear bomb...

Anyone know what the dice themselves look like? Not that I'm not going to buy the Karman dice, but would still like to see them ahead of time.

Wake me when the cogs show up.

The Cogs are rumored to be next. I also have high hopes for them.

Platuan4th wrote:Anyone know what the dice themselves look like? Not that I'm not going to buy the Karman dice, but would still like to see them ahead of time.

Rumor has it they will be six-sided with some sort of indication of one thru six on each side.

What these cogs you speak of? I ALMOST like AT-43, but I just can't quite get into any of the factions. But a group called Cogs sounds awesome. Any ideas what they are about?

JohnHwangDD wrote:Wow, Rackham does a nice knock-off of the GW Tau Ion Cannon!

Yeah, because GW is soooo original.

As for the dice, there has been people ordering custom dice from Chessex that have the faction symbol on the "6" side.

I think they did that for the warmachine dice, if I am not mistaken. I would bet the same thing would be done for AT-43 dice.

Any news on Rackham's financial status? I recall they went into something legal involving protection from creditors a while ago, and that it had something like a 6-month window on it.

Man, I hope they make it. Such cool ideas- and I think they make the best prepaints out there. If they can dod ecent prepaint vehicles (more than walkers), I'll drop GW and buy in in an instant.

Cogs, about halfway down: http://en-forum.at-43.fr/viewtopic.php?t=3432

Wow... um, even the feet look Tau (well, Vespid) on that Cog. It's like a Vespid got it on with a stealth suit and this is the result.

Sweet, thanks. I really need to find a good forum on what you'd need to start AT-43. I hardly know anythign about it, which is odd, because I was a junkie for Rackham's metal figures for Confrontation.

malfred wrote:Kinda neat how it works out. Someone knocks off GW, who
knocks off Japanese mecha, who knock off someone's
imagination post-nuclear bomb...

The design looks to me like a knock off of this guy's spider tank project

http://www.damnedhumanrace.com/tutorials/tutorial012.php

Hellfury wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Wow, Rackham does a nice knock-off of the GW Tau Ion Cannon!

Yeah, because GW is soooo original.

As for the dice, there has been people ordering custom dice from Chessex that have the faction symbol on the "6" side.

...

Technically that would be a derivative work if they did not get a licence from Rackham.

That mouse conversion looked really good until he painted
over the black primer. /sigh

Kilkrazy wrote:

Hellfury wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Wow, Rackham does a nice knock-off of the GW Tau Ion Cannon!

Yeah, because GW is soooo original.

As for the dice, there has been people ordering custom dice from Chessex that have the faction symbol on the "6" side.

...

Technically that would be a derivative work if they did not get a licence from Rackham.

True, but the people who got them showed them off on the AT-43 site and even the people who work for rackham loved them.

Just goes to show you that not every game company has to viciously seek and destroy anything resembling a threat to their IP when a fan gets creative.

For the Baal golgoth concepts, I thought it resembled this more...

Yes... yes it does... I'm eagerly awaiting my starter box.

These dice look nifty, as does the spider walker CAD... but the Schick Spyder didn't inspire me so much, esp with the paint job.

Cheers

Scottywan82 wrote:Sweet, thanks. I really need to find a good forum on what you'd need to start AT-43. I hardly know anythign about it, which is odd, because I was a junkie for Rackham's metal figures for Confrontation.

The Rackham forum has some good threads on starting forces for AT-43.

Wow, Rackham even makes a pretty decent miniature Brass Scorpion!

Sweet.

Cogs are, at the moment, scheduled to arrive somewhere arround the end of Q2.

Thanks Duncan. I figured they would be out shortly after the Campaign/Expansion.

It looks like TGN got the scoop about the new summer campaign before we got our Cry Havoc Online #74

AT-43

Unit Box: MedTec
This unit contains 2 nurses, 1 doctor, 1 shelter, and 3 great walls. All miniatures come pre-painted and pre-assembled. Also contains 1 reference card. $29.99

Unit Box: K-Shooter
This unit contains a complete K-Shooter unit for the Karman Army. It contains 2 miniatures equipped with ZZ-Gun and Super Power Grip. All miniatures come pre-painted and pre-assembled. Also contains 2 reference cards. $29.99

Hero Box: Guru Lucius
This Hero box contains 1 hero from the Karman Army, along with a Thunder Buggy. All miniatures come pre-painted and pre-assembled. Also contains 2 reference cards. $44.99

Unit Box: Dragonov Kolossus
This unit contains a complete Dragonov Kolossus unit for the Red Blok Army. It contains 3 Kolossus miniatures. All miniatures come pre-painted and pre-assembled. Also contains 2 reference cards. $29.99

Hero Box: Lieutenant G Epstone
This Hero box contains 1 hero in open TacArm armor from the UNA Army. All miniatures come pre-painted and pre-assembled. Also contains 1 reference card. $14.99

Pics here:
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/02/13/12564#comments

And the Cover for the Summer campaign book, Operation Frostbite:
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/02/13/12574#comment-17509

Pretty cool stuff there.

What are great walls?

They give you Lestaulant flanchise. You like! You buy now! You sign waiver!

5 dollah!

Great walls, are the same as the walls that came with the bunker.

Ah ok. I thought they were bigger than those.