What next for Warlord Games Epic Battles Napoleonics

[steve501]

Hi All

I was wondering if anyone had heard any rumours of future releases for Epic scale Napoleonics especially Austrians and Russians.

Thanks
Steve

[Norm]

Considering that behind the scenes, Warlord Games must be doing year round prep for the next Epic release, involving quite a few  people, they do a remarkable job of keeping things under wraps. Sculpting must already be advanced or even done. In the world of social media and the tendency to want to capture viewer numbers and likes etc etc, then much kudos to their staff for that.

There must be a commercial point at which announcement becomes an acceptable trade-off against sales lost on the most recent release, so I suspect they will want another couple of months of sales from ECW in particular before they start diverting peoples wallets towards new product.

The Austrian question interests me very much, will the sprue go pre or post 1809 with us getting either Helmet or Shako. I would hope for the former, but perhaps the latter is easier to tool for non-multi part frames.

Last year, Warlord seemed happy for the rumour mill to speculate on either ECW or Rome / Carthage (or Gallic), we got ECW, so maybe an ancients set is next, especially as we have a new edition of Hail Caesar.

At what point another napoleonic module gets inserted into the line, who knows? Near future I would hope. I seem to recall that Napoleonic British Epic was WG’s biggest seller last year, so that might be a useful nudge for another napoleonic module.

If they are only going to release one module a year, then I imagine napoleonic might have to wait. AWI or Ancients would allow Epic to grow market share, while another napoleonic module would consolidate.

There are voices who want a second wave of ECW / Thirty Years War releases too.

[vodkafan]

Reasoned and logical speculation there Norm. I can just imagine the boss of Warlord games chuckling to himself that folks think things are as organised as all that  .

[steve501]

I am hoping we may get some news on the WG open day on a couple of weeks and fingers crossed to coincide with the release of the new Napoleon film

[carlos marighela]

There's a rumour* going round that post the buy in from Hornby, who are keen to leverage their N Scale trains and scenery, the next Epic module will be 'Thomas and The Invasion of Sodor'. Warlord management are said to have raised no objection to tweaking the scale of the Epic range conceding that they did this on a regular basis with existing lines and the customers seemed to like it.





*Well there is now.

[Ray Rivers]

'Thomas and The Invasion of Sodor'

WAT?

[carlos marighela]

WAT?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine

[Norm]

At the Warlord Games open day, they revealed that next up are 2 plastic frames for Pike & Shotte, giving Covenanters and the next Epic period is a Hail Caesar project involving Roman forces …. Likely Rome / Celts.

[jon_1066]

There's a rumour* going round that post the buy in from Hornby, who are keen to leverage their N Scale trains and scenery, the next Epic module will be 'Thomas and The Invasion of Sodor'. Warlord management are said to have raised no objection to tweaking the scale of the Epic range conceding that they did this on a regular basis with existing lines and the customers seemed to like it.





*Well there is now.

So a despicable Nazi plot to use Sodor as a jump off point for an invasion of England?

Actually you can tell this rumour is false as Hornby don't do N Gauge.  What they are planning is dropping Bolt Action to 20 mm to fit with their OO Gauge trains.

[Ray Rivers]

I am really looking forward to seeing the sprues for the Hail Caesar miniatures. I am hoping they have more variety per sprue so you don't have to paint 2,000 miniatures per army just to start. 

Oh yea, it should be interesting in how they handle the shields.