Scibor Monstrous Set to Make Their Own Sci-Fi Wargame!
January 9, 2014 by dracs
Scibor, the makers of a great range of alternative sci-fi and fantasy miniatures, have announced that this year they will be working on their own set of wargaming rules!
The guys at Scibor are currently in the process of working out the mechanics, getting the artwork sorted and creating a narrative background and world to give your games some life.
Since Scibor already have a very extensive range of sci-fi models it will be cool to see a rule set finally available for some of them. My only fear would be that, since a lot of those models are power armoured sci-fi knights, it could end up being heavily associated with Warhammer 40k in people's minds.
What sort of mechanics do you hope Scibor will use in this game?
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Sci-fi knitting wars…. in space, no-one can hear you drop a stitch.
Anything but a WH40K clone, please.
Hmmmm….they can call them “knights” all they want, but Scibor makes Space Marines.
Unless they start making a whole new, original line of minis there is going to be lots of comparisons to 40k, and justified ones at that. Same thing with Hi-Tech’s proposed sci-fi game.
They will need to come up with some interesting rules to set it a part because, in terms of image, it is “Not 40k-but-kind-of-is”.
Coming up with rules more interesting than 40k:s will be a no-brainer 😛 almost every company out there, including indy players, have already done it and then some 🙂
Agreed. I really dig Scibor and Hi-Tech and try to sneak them into my RPGs whenever possible. But as far as their sci-fi stuff goes it exists for almost no other reason than to stand in on your 40K games.
I’m a little tired of sci fi armor and robots with decorations hanging from their junk.
You know if I was a cynical person, I might think they’ve done this just so if anyone tries to accuse them of simply ripping off GW SM they can be all “No way we have our own game and they’re totally knights and not space marines”
Like @bruunwald said Scibor stuff up until now has existed solely as an alternative to GW stuff, much like Mantic back in the beginning
The best reason to do it, and the reason I’m assuming is behind this, is it’ll shift more minis. As long as they’re producing 40K alts with no rules, then their market will largely consist only of people willing to use them in 40K. Once a game is provided specifically for the minis, then that opens up the market to non-40K players who would otherwise be interested in the minis.