Runewars Rules Available Now
Runewars.
It’s the latest big box game from Fantasy Flight, and now you can download the rules for free and get yourself all prepped for playing it. It’s a great thing, getting the rules in advance, particularly when the rulebook is 394 PAGES LONG! (It isn’t).
Go straight to THE SITE for the download link, and get ready to .pdf the night away in a world of fantasy, all you .pdfiles out there.
ZOZ!
Cosmic Incursion Announced!
Taking a break from filming the Halloween Special to let you all know that Fantasy Flight has just unveiled Cosmic Incursion, the first expansion for their shiny edition of Cosmic Encounter.
BOOM! Here it is!
20 new aliens, some new mechanics, and the ability to add a SIXTH PLAYER to the game. Brilliant.
Read all about it RIGHT HERE
ZOZ!
FF’s First Mystery Game Announced: Runewars!
For the past little while, Fantasy Flight has been teasing the world with three mystery board games. Speculation has been rife, with people suggesting a re-themed Dune might be on the way, or an adventure game set in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe.
Well, the first game has just been revealed, and it’s none of the above. It’s Runewars.
Size of this! FUCK!
Set in Terrinoth, the world where FF’s Runebound and Descent take place, it’s a game of conquest, adventure and fantasy empires for 2-4 players. And it features, get this – 3D MOUNTAIN TERRAIN!
Go and look at Fantasy Flight’s minisite for the game to find out more. GO!
Arkham Horror Miniatures – Ai!
Arkham Horror is a game we haven’t yet covered on DowntimeTown (we’ll get to it soon), but it’s essentially a big Lovecraftian epic co-operative dicefest of horror and death and chocolate.
Fantasy Flight has just announced the upcoming release of Arkham Horror Investigator Packs, each containing two miniatures. Which means there must be many, many packs on the way if all the investigators from the game are to be covered.
You can read about the new minis here, and you can gaze at the photo below and try to look up her skirt or down her dress, or whatever it is you do with miniatures in your own home.
UPDATE: These are now cancelled because people didn’t want them. BYE!
Time To Go Rogue
And our review copy of Rogue Trader, Fantasy Flight’s new Warhammer 40K RPG, arrived this very morning. I’m already 40 pages in, and when you get excited reading a section on character creation, you know that you’re in for something very special.
The cover - Delicious.
Colour illustrations on the inside. A beautiful book.
You have your own starship. What more do you need to know?
Starship combat. Battles in space. Boarding parties. Yum.
A big thick book. A big beeyooty.
I’ll be reading the book this week and updating you fine people with more thoughts via my Twitter feed.
And then, after I get it on the table, I’ll review it for your pleasure.
Zaa Ooo Zaa!
Rogue Trader Opens Trading
Those Fantasy Flight scamps are hollering and hooting about the impending arrival of the Warhammer 40K pen and paper RPG Rogue Trader – according to this story the core rulebook will be shipping out to distributors NEXT WEEK.
The game allows players to explore the 40K universe as a team of rakish rogues who are out to financially benefit from a future of ONLY WAR. And they have a big spaceship. And you can tool it up and go to war in it. Space battles. Yes.
Want more? You’ll get more very soon. DowntimeTown will be receiving a review copy, will be running a campaign, and will be filling you in on all the details.
Keep you posted!
ZOZ
Small World Gets Bigger!
Days of Wonder has announced that Small World, the charming landgrabbing boardgame, is to be enhanced by some mini-expansions in the months ahead.
New races will be introduced to the game, along with new powers, and many of these additions have been designed and suggested by players of the game.
We’ll be talking about the base game soon enough on this site, but you can read more about the expansions at the Days of Wonder website.
Descent: Sea of Blood Info
Descent: Sea of Blood is the name of the brand new Descent campaign setting, and Fantasy Flight is stepping up their efforts in letting us know all about it.
The new campaign lets adventurers set sail on a ship, travel to islands and new dungeons, and deal with all-new Overlords and aquatic encounters.
Descent is a big favourite of the DowntimeTown players, so we’ll be checking out the new FAQ on the Fantasy Flight site – you can check it out with us right HERE.
Faidutti + Cards = EXCITE!
If Bruno Faidutti (of Citadels fame) decides he’s giving us a new card game, we better all sit up and pay attention.
Fantasy Flight have announced a game called Letter of Marque, which sees you playing the part of bold corsairs carrying valuable wares across the high seas. In card form.
It’s something else to get excited about in this amazing year for tabletop gaming. Read about it on the Fantasy Flight site and gaze at the delicious box art RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW:
Fantasy Flight Take Tannhauser
After days of rumours, Fantasy Flight have announced that they have acquired the rights to the Tannhauser IP.
Fantasy Flight were previously only the publishers of the game, but now they have the whole shebang within their grasp. What does this mean for us?
Hopefully, it’ll mean a faster turnaround in expansions for the game. Certainly Fantasy Flight have promised a new second edition of the game and more releases to bolster the squads of the Union and the Reich. And the next release is a map supplement called Daedalus.
You can read their official announcement at the Fantasy Flight website. And you can check out my review HERE.