Soda Pop Announce Void Break Expansion for Relic Knights
May 8, 2015 by dracs
Ninja Division have made the rather exciting announcement that an expansion for Relic Knights will soon be forthcoming. The story will continue in Relic Knights: Void Break.
Set two years after Darkspace Calamity, Ninja Division have promised that Void Break will be carrying on the story of Relic Knights, as well as enhancing the game with the inclusion of all new miniatures, sculpted in both resin and plastic.
Here's the official press announcement from Ninja Division:
Soda Pop Miniatures announces the new expansion for the Relic Knights® miniature skirmish game: Void Break. Void Break provides a new entry point to join the Relic Knights® game, with a complete ruleset that incorporates errata and updates from over a year of player feedback and every unit entry, both old and new.
Taking place two years after the events of Darkspace Calamity, Void Break continues the Relic Knights® story with new fiction, backgrounds, and history. Void Break introduces over 40 new units across the existing six factions, greatly expanding players’ options when building their cadres. Among the new units, each faction gains access to a new Questing Knight and Relic Knight to lead their forces and unlock new gameplay combinations.
The final models from Darkspace Calamity will begin monthly release in July of this year, with the first Void Break units beginning in September and continuing through the launch of the Void Break book in early 2016. To better capture their stunning detail and overthetop anime aesthetic, each new and dynamic model will be featured in resin, with large, centerpiece models in plastic.
All in all, this seems like a pretty exciting development for Relic Knights. I love it when games have a progressive narrative and the fact that this new expansion will incorporate what has gone before should make it a good piece for both new and established players. The anime style miniatures of Relic Knights are already pretty awesome in style, so we will look forward to more coming out of this.
What direction do you think the story of Relic Knights will take in this expansion? What new minis are you hoping for?
"I love it when games have a progressive narrative and the fact that this new expansion will incorporate what has gone before should make it a good piece for both new and established players."
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So happy for the switch to resin! It will make these a joy to paint!
The minis start to be released in September you say? Sounds like a good excuse for a Relic Knights boot camp…
… now that would be a fun idea 😉
Great news if it’s proper resin and not restic!
Restic is plastic so it definitely won’t be that. My guess is it’ll be along the same lines as the material used for Warzone minis.
That reminds me- I still have some factions to paint.
I pulled out of the initial Relic Knights KS due to financial reasons and now give a big sigh every time I see their minis. Oh well…
But this looks awesome! Glad to see they are expanding on the range and it is still on my list of games to play one day.
I stayed in the Kickstarter and Am having the same issues, every time I look at my models I siagh, I even gave some factions to friends, but still can’t find anybody that will play the game.
Hopefully the Expansion will draw in new players.
I do have a friend who started to get really into the game, but our local store is pretty bad, and he got caught up in store polotics and drama.
But I will be buying this.
I feel the same. I love the game but it is hard to get other people to give it a fair shake since it is so different from other games. It can take more than a quick demo to wrap your head around the gameplay.
I don’t expect a drastic rules change since they are so solid already. Maybe a 1.1 rather than the 1.5 many are expecting.
I think it is more of a kickstater problem, in that just because so many people back a game, doesn’t mean they will translate into the actual player base. Relic Knights Is a great game, it will just take time to build the player base, similer to the growing pains other miniatures games that were not Kickstarter have had. The expiriences I have had over the last few years with games founded through Kickstarter have changed my expectations of succesful campaigns. I no longer asume I’ll have other people to play with. If I back a miniatures game again it… Read more »
For the UK based among you that are struggling to get games, there’s a tournament in York on July 11th. Also, the Knighthood campaign is designed to introduce players to the game. I can get my hands on some of the prize support patches for the campaign so if you want to run it and want some patches to entice people to try then PM me.
I feel your struggle mate, it can be hard to get new players on board and even people that have it as well.
Well, the original Kickstarter was a good deal, but they’ve made the buy in for the game really low (the $50 box set gives you a complete set of the rules and a deck of cards as well as a small- but playable sized force).
You don’t have to miss out on the game all together just because you missed the kickstarter.
PS- Sodapop made almost all of the Kickstarter exclusives available from their online shop (the only exception is the Penny Arcade characters- they have a contract about those being exclusive to KS and conventions).
So it isn’t like one of those games CMON put out on KS and is only half available for retail.
Indeed, I bought one of everything from the kickstarter on the strength of the look of the models but, despite having all the stuff, my gamer friends and I have struggled getting into it because we’re institutionalised ex40K and WMH players or something and we’ve never played card games. I’m the only one who has invested too. Does anybody know of any groups of players anywhere near me in the east midlands?
If you’re on Facebook in might be worth asking on the UK Relic Knights group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/relicknightsuk/
Thanks, have joined. See what happens.
I’ve joined it to but the nearest person i could find war 50 miles away 🙁 I will just have to make my friends play it with me.
Trouble is especially here in the UK it doesn’t seem to get much press or representation.
Whereabouts are you?
Any of you guys interested in seeing a proper Relic Knights boot camp here on Beasts? As we get warmed up for the next big releases and Voidbreak on the horizon, it’s time to push Relic Knights as the awesome competitive product it was meant to be. With the new focus on resin miniatures to ensure quality, and expanding rules and ranges for all factions.. Voidbreak is going to be amazing. It’s time to get ready.
That would be a “hell yeah!”.
Make it so @warzan and @fleshtuxido!
*@fleshtuxedo