Battlefront & DUST Studio Join Forces
May 3, 2013 by brennon
It looks like DUST will be leaving the hands of Fantasy Flight Games and joining forces with Battlefront, the folks behind Flames of War. Check out the press release below...
"Dust Studio today announced that Battlefront Miniatures will become its publishing and distribution partner for the Dust Tactics and Dust Warfare miniatures game lines. Fantasy Flight Games, Dust Studio’s current publishing partner for those games, will transition sales and marketing activity to Battlefront Miniatures on June 1st, 2013.
“Dust has had a wonderful few years, during which we have seen the game’s community grow exponentially,” said Dust creator Paolo Parente. “Both Dust Studio and Fantasy Flight Games have evolved
significantly during our relationship, and we now mutually feel that we are both better served by moving in new directions. Christian (CEO of Fantasy Flight Games) and I have known each other for many years, and I can say that this decision is a truly amicable one.”
Added John-Paul Brisigotti, CEO of Battlefront Group, “we are very excited by the Dust universe, and although it is a first for us to be distributing a product other than our own, the fit with our business model made this partnership something we could not resist. During the last few years, we have been moving into new avenues to expand the breadth of products the group offers, and we see DUST as another one of these ranges.”
“We’ve been fortunate to distribute Dust Tactics since its debut at GEN CON 2010, and we’re very proud of our development work on Dust Warfare,” said Christian T. Petersen, CEO of Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). “The last year, however, as FFG experienced phenomenal growth across many of our publishing categories, it became clear that Paolo and the Dust games would be better served by a partner who specializes in the unique business of miniature games. We’re confident that Paolo’s partner choice in Battlefront Miniatures is a
strong one, and we wish nothing but the best to them, to Paolo, and to the fantastic Dust fan community.”
Starting June 1st, Battlefront Miniatures will begin soliciting and distributing all new products for Dust Tactics and Dust Warfare. FFG will ship all of its previously solicited new products prior to that date, and FFG will continue to exclusively sell all current Dust Tactics and Dust Warfare items while its inventories last. While FFG will support the Dust Tactics and Dust Warfare regional events in May and June 2013, all future marketing and organized play for the games will be handled by Battlefront Miniatures, including the scheduled GEN CON 2013 tournaments."
This is certainly an interesting turn of events and with Battlefronts depth of knowledge when it comes to the early to mid-1900's could we be seeing something more than just a collaboration of minds for distribution?
15mm DUST anyone?
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Interesting news. FFG is also moving Tide of Iron to a different publisher. I wonder what the deal is, and if they need to dump Dust to make room for another game line, I wonder what that will be.
This is kind of FFG’s thing. They rely mostly on the high sales figures of newly introduced and hyped games. Every once in a while they find a series that can support numerous new releases for a long period of time (their living card games mostly, but also a few RPG products), and they milk it for all it’s worth before letting it fade out. But most of the time, they build up games until the flow of new players starts to plateau, and then they either hand it off to somebody else or just kill it. I think Wings… Read more »
I hope this means new rules for warfare, i really do
Good news, this might get the game and models the exposure it deserves. And you never know, us in the UK might be able to buy them when released and not months after.
long shot, if battlefronts main line is a 15mm ww2 game, and dust is a 28mm weird ww2 game, would we see a crossover of 15mm weird ww2 models?
I’d hope so, they could easily do a couple units in 15mm for each faction and give it away with Wargames Illustrated, that’s how the Vietnam range started.
If you’re looking for 15mm weird war now I really like the look of clockwork goblins stuff
http://www.clockworkgoblinminis.co.uk/ourshop/
Got some mechs and nice armoured suit infantry.
I don’t see a crossover so much as just two separate lines. Think about it. Would the Germans even develop the Panzer II if they had super-intelligent apes and walking robots of doom? No, they’d develop some kind of extra-powerful super tank that fires necrotic mold spores or something. Once you get into the weird territory, the vanilla WWII stuff just gets eaten up (sometimes literally).
Income from these extra sales would help fuel more plastic kits in the future like the MII3 box! But I do see Dust being more like GaleForce9’s battlefield in a box, linked, but still a seperate line removed from the Flames of War game unless it directly links in. Which given the different scales…may not happen at all. Personally I’d like to see BF move into other historical periods like ancients which could really do with a Flames of War style treatment.