Fantasy Flight Update: Tribune, MotoGrandPrix, Talisman, More…

Last week, I ran a news item covering upcoming releases from Fantasy Flight Games. Jeremy Stomberg at FFG has added a bit more information about games coming from Minnesota via numerous other countries:

• Due to the printing time needed in Germany, Karl-Heinz Schmiel’s Tribune is now expected to be released in June 2008.

• FFG will distribute (but not publish its own version) of two upcoming titles from Italian publisher Nexus Editrice: MotoGrandPrix and Battles of Napoleon: The Eagle and the Lion. Stomberg credits Nexus CEO Roberto Di Meglio with a description of MotoGrandPrix as a speedy version of Formula Dé, one in which you can complete four or five laps in an hour instead of just one. As in that classic race game, you can push your vehicle to the limit of its capability and risk damaging it and you.

  As for Battles of Napoleon: The Eagle and the Lion, the box will actually be larger than FFG’s “epic” box used for games like StarCraft and Tide of Iron as it contains four giant double-sided map boards in addition to numerous, highly-detailed figures. I saw models of the miniatures at Spiel ‘07, and the level of detail was amazing. The Eagle and the Lion is the first in a series of three games, and you can read details about the game and series from Nexus PR rep Andrea Fanhoni on BGG.

• The Fantasy Flight edition of Kingsburg will be the same as the one that ElfinWerks released in English earlier in 2008 and Italian publisher Stratelibri released at Spiel ‘07. This game will not contain the expansion that the designers have been working on, and it’s not known when or if the expansion will be released.

  

• FFG picked up a number of titles from Games Workshop recently, including Talisman, the 4th edition of which was released in Fall 2007 by GW subsidiary Black Industries. “I was surprised after the 3rd edition that they went back to cardboard,” says Stomberg. Hundreds of other Talisman fans were equally surprised, and not in a good way.

  Designer and developer John Goodenough is now working on a revised 4th edition of Talisman that will include improved cards and point counters along with miniature playing figures. This revised edition is expected to be released in October 2008, and a upgrade pack of the new bits will be sold separately for those who have already purchased the 4th edition.

  What’s more, Goodenough is simultaneously working on the first expansion for the new edition of Talisman. Death and Glory is expected to be released by Christmas 2008.

These games have been added to Gone Cardboard.

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I’m glad to see there will be an upgrade option for Talisman.  It was really unexpected. Posted by Rob Cannon on May 2, 2008 at 07:55 AM | #

Gone Cardboard has Kingsburg down for Q4 of this year.  And that makes me a SAD panda. I’m REALLY happy about the Talisman upgrade.  Way to go FFG! Posted by Kevin Wood on May 2, 2008 at 08:21 AM | #

Kevin, copies of Kingsburg from ElfinWerks are likely still floating around if you’re looking for a copy now. Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on May 2, 2008 at 08:25 AM | #

Most definitely.  Considering the reprint will be the same, it’s seems the way to go at this point. Posted by Kevin Wood on May 2, 2008 at 08:27 AM | #

Hmm, I play weekly with students at school, biweekly with what I think of as my “local group”.  Then I attend gaming about quarterly or so both with a cross-town group (for a gaming evening) and with a group about an hour away that takes up most of a Saturday. My local group and cross-town group have about a 40% mixture rate, while the student and game-day groups overlap very little with any of the other groups. Surprisingly, about all four groups have about 20 active members or so… which means we tend to have numbers in the low teens whenever we get together. Posted by Matt J. Carlson on May 2, 2008 at 09:25 AM | #

Bah, ignore that post, it somehow got on the wrong column… Posted by Matt J. Carlson on May 2, 2008 at 09:30 AM | #

I thought that Talisman was already up to it’s 4th edition. The first two editions were cardboard. The third edition had the miniatures, and the recent return to cardboard was the fourth edition. Am I mis-remembering something? Posted by Mark Geary on May 2, 2008 at 09:48 AM | #

Mark, Stomberg said that FFG didn’t want to jump to 5th edition as that would be a stick in the eye of everyone who just bought the new edition, but it did want to differentiate this version from the Black Industries one since the bits will be different. Thus, the current terminology of “revised 4th edition.” Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on May 2, 2008 at 09:58 AM | #

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