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Hell Dorado skirmish war-game acquired by Cipher Studios, LLC


Longview, WA USA September 1st, 2009 – Cipher Studios, LLC., a miniature manufacturing company and producer of the highly successful Anima Tactics skirmish game, announced today that it has licensed the right to develop and produce the Hell Dorado miniature war-game from Asmodée Editions in France.

“We are very excited to license this amazing property from Asmodée Editions,” said Kai Nesbit, Owner and President of Cipher Studios. “We have followed this property since the launch and have been discussing the possibility with Asmodée of bringing the game to the English market well before the full license was available. The opportunity to develop and produce this game in French, English, and possibly other language markets opens the doors to continue the growth and expansion of this exciting universe. ”

“Cipher Studios will continue to collaborate with the original development team, including the writers, sculptors, and other creative talent. Consistency of the universe is very important to the growth of the game. We will take all other aspects of the development, such as game mechanics and manufacture of the figures in house,” says Kai Nesbit. “Hell Dorado is a perfect sister product to Anima Tactics as they are both small scale skirmish games and have similar product development and release styles while catering to different players. Our goal is to release the first wave of non-French product, including the rulebook, as quickly as possible while continuing to release new figures and content, on a limited basis, until the English release schedule is caught up with the French products.”

Cipher Studios has not announced a release schedule but expects to release the English rulebook and first wave of products by early next year.

About Hell Dorado

Hell Dorado is a skirmish war-game in which small war bands of around ten members clash in epic and bloody battle to conquer the most hostile territory imaginable, Hell itself.

About Cipher Studios, LLC.

Cipher Studios was formed in 2006 and launched their first product line, Anima Tactics, around Christmas of 2006. The highly anticipated 200-page full color rulebook for Anima Tactics will be available before Christmas this year. Cipher Studios also offers development and manufacturing solutions for several other miniature game companies including Hazgáard Editions metal miniatures, Darkson Designs miniatures, and the Fantasy Flight Games Descent metal figures.

To check out the French Hell Dorado web site go to http://www.helldorado.fr

Good. Helldorado has miniatures of too high a quality to have been going under so quickly.

Is there an english version of the site?

Wayfarer wrote:Good. Helldorado has miniatures of too high a quality to have been going under so quickly.

I second that.

Good news. They have a lot of great looking demon models I'd love to use in my chaos army. Hope they start selling it here in the US real soon

Necros wrote:Good news. They have a lot of great looking demon models I'd love to use in my chaos army. Hope they start selling it here in the US real soon

I hope that they also sell models from the box sets individually too, as I'd love to get some of those war/hunting panthers for use in an Inquisitorial Retinue...

Either way, I'm glad to see the game will live on!

And this time, with proper English support!