Vuelve Celtos.

Desde que el juego Celtos fue vendido nada sabíamos de él. Ahora los chicos de Brigade Models nos cuentan sus intenciones para este juego, atención que esta en ingles.

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I thought it about time I updated you all on what we are doing with Celtos, and how we plan to develop it over the next 12 months.

As you may know, we acquired Celtos from Urban Mammoth in June 2005. At that stage it was suffering from being a bit unloved, and certainly had not had any investment for some time.

It also happened that we acquired Celtos just as I started my own business, so it has had to take a back seat for a year or so while that took priority.

Anyway, that’s not to say we haven’t been doing anything in the meantime. We have formed a small team to go over the rules, and also to expand the background fluff of the races. This work has been going on for a while now, and is nearly complete.

In developing the new backgrounds and troops for each race we have tried to give each one some unique characteristics in they way they do battle. This is ongoing, and therefore subject to change, but the current ¡¥traits’ applied to each race are:

Gaels
Troops fight in same-type units with a free mix of troop types in each army.

Vanir
Army uses has a strong bias to skirmish troops with an iron core of infantry.

Sidhe
Army is based upon elemental castes with a core of generic troops. Unit structure and formation is very prescribed and regimented.

Fomorian
The main offensive unit is the orc horde. This is large unit that sweeps the table looking to pile into any enemy unit.

Fir Bolg
This army uses zombies and other undead to terrorise the enemy. They can summon up all sorts of new troops during a battle. Generally weaker, but loads of them¡K

We do not see a tremendous amount of change to the rules, just some tweaking here and there. One of the objectives of the revamp is to make sure the game remains Fast, Fun & Bloody.

It is anticipated that the final published rulebook will contain all the background fluff etc. for all 5 races. This will be a printed document, although we may have a ¡¥pdf’ as well.

As a result of the work done, new figures and troop types have been developed, and we are busy commissioning new artwork and sculpts right now. We anticipate that we will need some 30+ new figures, from grunts to dragons. The Vanir and Sidhe are the main recipients, but all races will have something new

We anticipate launching the new rules towards the end of this year, as well as many of the new models as we can. Over the next few months we will start to issue some brief, tasteful glimpses of the work that has been completed. If you would like to keep up to date with what’s going on then joining our forum or yahoo group via the website is the best way.

What attracted us to the range was the great range of fantastic figures it has. We are determined to make sure that the new models keep up this standard, and Celtos returns as a great game with great models.