burning gaze wrote: Does anyone have a release date for the Goblin Mercenaries? They were on sale at the event, so wouldn't surprise me to see them up on the Forge World website at the end of this week.
Lothíriel wrote: @Voyager
Yeah I am disappointed on that front, been holding out on buying a rulebook as I thought we were going to get it about the same time as Battle Companies. I honestly think that the success of Blood Bowl / Necromunda and the bringing in of AT as a full plastic game has probably pushed back the releases for Middle Earth.
The new rulebook has been scheduled for release sometime this summer for a good while now. I don't think the other game systems have much to do with it: a major release in one range may be a reason to delay another, but BB and Necro at least have their usual gradual releases, nothing else. The Middle-earth team is almost entirely independent from the others (one of the sculptors has done the occasional bit for Necromunda and they help playtest each other's games at times I think), so I think the main issue is quite simply the small team working on this: a single ruleswriter, 2 sculptors (1 possibly part-time Middle-earth?). Although we aren't quite sure what the new book will contain, revisions of many older profiles are likely included, which takes a fair amount of time to envision and write, and many, many hours of playtesting. It's ready when it's ready, and I'm sure it'll be worth the wait. (Much better than the rushed Necromunda books, full of inconsistencies and mistakes.)
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