Steamforged Games Share Their Vision For Warmachine’s Future
June 7, 2024 by brennon
Steamforged Games, following up on their announcement at the start of the week, have been setting out their vision for the future of Warmachine and the Iron Kingdoms. At the core of it is a message about the love of the game and making sure that Warmachine reaches its full potential within the wargaming space.
New Cygnar Miniatures // Warmachine
At the core of this is their vision for Warmachine itself. Steamforged is happy with the rules for the new edition so that won't seemingly be changing too much. Both the Privateer and Steamforged Games design teams are working together going forward which is good to hear.
In addition to that, Steamforged Games is planning to ensure that miniatures are available without interruption. That includes working on production and making sure that Warmachine finds a place in local gaming stores. They also want to expand the reach of Warmachine and make sure that wargamers know about the Iron Kingdoms and feel like they can make a home within the game as part of the wider hobby.
A New Warmachine Starter Set
One of the ways that will be making a splash is with brand new miniatures and a new two-player Command Starter Set which is planned for release later in the year. The new Command Starter Set will be manufactured in hard plastic and will come with two Warcasters, two Character Warjacks, two Character Solos and two Character Units. You will also get terrain in the box making it a superb entry point to the world of Warmachine.
I think a good starter set is absolutely key to a game being approachable and whilst Privateer Press produce a fine selection of new miniatures for the latest edition, it was quite hard (and expensive) to get started. This should, hopefully, provide folks with a good way to dive into Warmachine.
Khador Vs Cygnar // Warmachine
The rest of the announcement from Steamforged Games lays the groundwork for a very in-depth transition. There is a little bit of information on what they want to do with some of their other acquisitions from the Iron Kingdoms and whilst a few games are sitting on the shelf, there is plenty of opportunity to make it a world worth diving back into.
I played a lot of Warmachine back in the day and it was the game that I played more than Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battles for a good portion of time. If Steamforged Games can help recapture the essence of the game and reignite passions for it, I can see it being a challenger once again.
Will you be following the development of Warmachine under Steamforged's stewardship?
"Will you be following the development of Warmachine under Steamforged's stewardship?"
Looking forwards to seeing what steamforged do with Warmachine and Hordes as I played a lot of 2nd and 3rd edition in the the pre-covid era.
The new 3D prints didn’t really appeal and some of older metal were a bind to assemble without pinning, so plastics appeal to me.
I read the announcement, and I am quite happy ‘Warcaster Neo Mechanika’ is not completely dead, but still on life support in a coma somewhere in a Steamforged dungeon deep underground. Hope it will be resurrected in a few years time. it is a genuinely good game. As for Warmachine, I am happy for anyone still playing the game. In my club, nobody cared about Mark 4 or this Mark 4.1. Everyone I know who plays the game felt burnt by Mk 3 and betrayed by Mk 4. I hope this plastic set turns the tide and that Steamforged revise… Read more »
Hard plastic warjacks? *SCHWING!* The new “look” of Warmachine hasn’t really thrilled me, yet (the new Cryx stuff looks pretty solid, though), but that Alistair Caine mini is dynamite! I got into Warmachine back in Prime, 1) because it looked cool, and 2) smaller “skirmish”-sized battles. Once the army sizes started getting out of hand (for me), I had to drop it; I couldn’t keep up, and battles felt more ridiculous with players focused more on the meta and bending rules definitions to the breaking-point to get the win, rather than just playing to have a good time. Are the… Read more »
Does anyone remember the whole “play like ya gotta pair?” Marketing from Privateer Press? I do. That was the year I gave up trying to make my club inclusive and fun, and the meatheads took over.
They did really well – taking top spots at the opens in the NW – congrats, l guess!
Imagine if this game was fun, again…
Count me in. I’m struggling increasingly with time and dexterity and working with superglue is just hard work, so hard plastic warjacks would be wonderful.
I appreciate the work that went into the 3d printing idea, but hard plastic is so much easier to work with.