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Humorously, Heroscape got remade into that Magic the Gathering minis game that kind of went nowhere a while back.

Ancient Otter wrote:

 ced1106 wrote:

I guess, as a footnote, it's unfortunate that Armada is unlikely to be picked up by another company: AEG's Doomtown, Wizard of the Coast's Netrunner, and Hasbro's HeroScape, as examples.

For the record, Doomtown Reloaded was picked up by Pine Box Entertainment after AEG ended it. They kept it going and are currently running a successful KS for a new starter set.

WOTC recently made trademark applications for Netrunner, possibly for digital versions.

Kind of a different situation, these are all tabletop IPs owned by other tabletop companies.

Star Wars Armada is a non-tabletop IP owned by a non-tabletop company. Unless Asmodee has the ability to sub-license the IP on behalf of Lucasfilm and allow a non-Asmodee publisher to produce the game for them under license, etc. - something which I very much doubt they can do - it will not and cannot happen. The fact that the license is itself coming up for expiry within the next couple years makes this a non-starter as well, no publisher is going to cut a deal to do this when the expiration window is this close and they have no control over whether or not Asmodee will have an extension/renewal of the license. Theres essentially no opportunity to see a return on investment here as they are racing the clock to develop, manufacture, and release product before its too late. Any sub-lease like this (assuming its possible under the terms of Asmodees license) will not happen until Asmodee's license is first extended/renewed - something that might still well be a couple years away from happening.

And that assumes that the extension/renewal is something Asmodee intends to pursue. The revelation that theres some licensing SNAFU involving Hasbro (iirc Hasbro has exclusive Star Wars board game distribution rights in North America, which means that Asmodee can design Star Wars board games but can't sell them in the US/Canada unless it goes through Hasbro) leads me to believe that Asmodee might not want to renew the license as the ROI without the board game piece of it might not be there. In other words they are going to continue to push out the Legion and X-Wing content that they have ready to go until the license expires and then they pack it in.