This month we have an update from Chris Pramas, world renowned lover of wargaming and infamous victim of an ancient Egyptian dice rolling curse. (We told him not to touch the canopic jars, but he kept mumbling something about a 2+ invuln save.) Also stick around after the update for a message about how you can help us out at Gen Con this year by volunteering to run games of The Expanse!
Take it away Chris!
Chris Pramas here with an update on the Expanse miniatures. Crowdfunders often have bumps in the road but I’m happy to report that both sets of minis are proceeding smoothly. Hudson and the Wargames Atlantic crew have been great to work with.
At this stage we are finalizing what each sprue (AKA frame) will look like. For the crew minis, more parts were sculpted than will fit on a sprue (this was intentional, so we’d have options). In the crowdfunder, we’d promise 6 bodies per sprue (18 minis/box) but Hudson was able to get another on there, so it’ll be 7 per sprue (21/box). Here’s the crew sprue as it stands.
The crew box will include 25mm round bases. And not just your standard flat black bases either. Wargames Atlantic has sculpted bases that look like the decking of ship or space station. Check ‘em out!
The ships were a little easier, because they are not mix and match pieces like the crew. Each mini is of a specific model of ship. Assembly for these will be dead easy, as they are only 1-3 pieces each, plus a flight stand. Here’s a shot of what assembled ships will look like.
Once the sprues design is finished, Wargames Atlantic will then send them off for tooling, the process which creates the molds for production. In the meantime, we will design the boxes. I’ll check in again when we are close to production.
Fun fact: Before coming onboard as our resident VTT virtuoso, Jonesy also used to be a member of the old Freebooter program running games for us at conventions like Gen Con!
