Palladium Books Update –By Kevin Siembieda UPDATE: Robotech® The Macross® Saga Sourcebook – 8½ x 11 size We’ll soon be re-releasing the Robotech® The Macross® Saga Sourcebook as an 8½ x 11 sourcebook. 128 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 551. Available by August. UPDATE: Robotech® UEEF Marines™ Sourcebook One Coming this Fall. More about it in future Updates. Just didn’t want y’all to think it was forgotten. UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™ – Kickstarter Survey has been sent The Kickstarter Surveys were sent out on Wednesday. If you are a Kickstarter Backer and have not received your email Survey, contact Palladium Books immediately at kickstarter@palladiumbooks or call Jeff at 734-721-2903. UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™ – Pledge Manager As SOON as we get the majority of the Survey responses back, Palladium will send you an invitation to the Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Pledge Manager. In the Pledge Manager you will be able to select all the Add-Ons you wanted and even be able to purchase additional Add-Ons! That’s right, you can purchase as many additional Add-Ons as your heart desires in any quantity. For your information: When we ship to our Kickstarter supporters – ALL Kickstarter items and Add-Ons will be shipped at the same time. Kickstarter Backerss will get these items BEFORE they are sold retail. Only the initial releases (see below) will arrive in the retail packaging. MANY of the items made available to Kickstarter Backers – like the Monster, Ghost and others – will not be made available on the retail market for months down the road. Expansion Packs will be released in waves over time. Our Kickstarter supporters, however, get them right away! That means many of these “advance” Kickstarter items will not come in the retail packaging, but simple bags. Robotech RPG Tactics UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™ – Tactical Battle Game – Coming Fall 2013 This product is in final development. Most of the sculpts are finished and approved by the I.P. holder Harmony Gold. The rules and rule book have been written, edited, approved and are going into layout next week. Product packaging designs are next. Advertising and promotion has already begun. The Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Box Set has everything you need to get started, with the many expansion packs containing 4-6 game pieces allowing you to build and improve your armies. Highlights Include: 1/285th scale, high quality, multi-pose plastic game pieces (40mm to 70mm tall). World-class sculpts from sculptors around the world. Game rules use D6. Turn-based system of play. Scalable from small squad skirmishes to mass battles. Can accommodate two to several players. Combat is fast and designed to emulate the anime action. Measuring tape required to determine targets and distance. Release Date: Barring any unexpected delays, the Robotech® RPG Tactics™ box game and initial expansion sets ship Autumn 2013 (November?). $90 retail price (tentative). The price of the final box set is not yet determined, but we want to hold it around $90. Cat. No. 55100 (Main Boxed Game). UPDATE: The First Six Robotech® Expansion Packs The initial expansion packs will also ship in the Fall. All prices listed are likely, but still tentative. We want most packs to fall in the $25-$35 price range. UEDF Valkyrie Wing (2x each, Fighter, Guardian, Battloid) – Cat. No. 55201 – $30.00 retail (tentative). UEDF Destroid Pack (2x Tomahawks, 2x Defenders) – Cat. No. 55202 – $30.00 (tentative). UEDF Spartan Pack (2x Spartans, 2x Phalanxes), Cat. No. 55203 – $30.00 (tentative). Zentraedi Regult Battlepod Squadron (6x Regults) – Cat. No. 55401 – $30.00 (tentative). Zentraedi Support Battlepods (4x Artillery Battlepods) – Cat. No. 55402 – $30.00 (tentative). Zentraedi Command Pack (1x Glaug, 1x Quel-Regult, 1x Quel-Gulnau) – Cat. No. 55403 – $35.00 (tentative). Additional expansion packs at intervals throughout 2014. More will follow. Exactly how many, and how fast, will depend on manufacturing considerations, sales and customer demand. Palladium plans to release the mecha and settings for ALL eras of Robotech®. Many other details are still in development. Tournament play support is planned. Ninja Division will help Palladium to develop and launch the program sometime in 2014. UPDATE: UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™ – Limited Gen Con Exclusives at Booth #1025 – Palladium Books. There will be two Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Gen Con Indy Convention Exclusives – Max Sterling’s Valkyrie in Battloid Mode and Myria’s Power Armor – available for purchase. We had hoped to offer more, but it looks like we will only be able to offer 125 of both, each morning, on a first-come, first-served basis. Because of the limited number, customers will be limited to ONE (OF EACH), per person, EVERY MORNING. These are different poses than what was available in the Kickstarter and are resin castings. We “may” try to make these figures available later on in the Palladium online store, but no promises. The Gen Con exclusives are a way to give gamers who may have missed the Kickstarter an opportunity to get something special too. We sure hope the Kickstarter Backers know we value and appreciate your support. That’s why you have a multitude of add-ons and Purchase Add-Ons available via the Kickstarter. Many of which will not be made available for retail for quite some time. You special guys and gals in the forefront of this new product line will be the very first to get a ton of the Robotech® game pieces we have planned. And you will love the many advance and special items you’ll be getting. Game on! UPDATE: Palladium’s Marketing Push has begun Our ads for Robotech® and Robotech® RPG Tactics™ are starting to appear everywhere. In the month of July we have ads appearing in and the San Diego Comic Con and Gen Con issues of Internal Correspondence 2 (a trade magazine), Greater Gaming Industry Catalog (another trade publication), Game Trade Monthly (a trade magazine for retailers), the back cover of Bleeding Cool Magazine (a fun comic book publication), and elsewhere. That’s in addition to demos and displays at Gen Con Indy and Detroit Fanfare to promote Robotech® RPG Tactics™, Heroes Unlimited™ and all of Palladium’s role-playing games.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:49:59 +0000
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