When I first heard that Bethesda was releasing Fallout 3 and it would be first person I could not wait to play that game. The game sucked you in so hard with various environments to explore and people interact with, not to mention monsters to kill. But what if you could take the Fallout experience beyond your console or computer and play it with friends? The folks over at Modiphius are hard at work at the first ever licensed Fallout miniatures game. I had a chance to catch up with Chris Birch and he had this to say about his upcoming project.
TR: Please introduce yourself.
CB: Hi, I’m Chris Birch, founder and publisher of Modiphius Entertainment
TR: Tell us a bit about Modiphius Entertainment.
CB: We launched 5 years ago with Rita (my wife) and I working out of a basement flat in London. We had a string of successful Kickstarter for Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, Thunderbirds the co-op board game, Infinity and Conan RPG’s that helped grow the family business to the point we now employ around 15 full time staff as well as about 100 freelance writers, artists, designers, proofreaders, editors and so on across the world. We’ve worked hard to have a great track record of awesome customer service and a great connection with our community, without whom I’d still be making T-shirts 🙂
TR: Tell us more about the recently announced Fallout miniatures game.
CB: It’s a miniatures wargame consisting of highly detailed resin multi-part 32mm scale miniatures and terrain. Designed for groups of 3 up to 30 figures we’ll be releasing it in retail friendly packs – starter sets for factions, expansion boxes and a big 2 player starter set in plastic. Players will be able to play each other, play solo against the game or co-op vs the game (or use the game as a third player in a vs game).
TR: How is this game going to be sold (i.e. core sets, factions?).
CB: Single player Faction Starter boxes, 2 player starter box and then a gradual roll out of expansion boxes for each faction. The factions won’t all release at once, we’re starting with 3 then the 2 player starter box, then the rest of the faction.
TR: What would be the price range of these miniatures?
CB: Right now I can’t give a price but they will be comparable to other major high quality miniatures games.
TR: Are we just getting minis based on Fallout characters and monsters or are we getting scenery as well?
CB: Oh yes scenery! We’re producing the Red Rocket, and other familiar buildings from Sanctuary Hills, plus familiar things like rusted old cars, Nuka Cola machines, work benches, turrets etc.
TR: Is this the first miniatures game that your company has put out?
CB: Nope, we had the Achtung! Cthulhu Skirmish miniatures game launch this spring, and we have the Star Trek Adventures miniatures line coming out in September and previewing at GenCon, then John Carter of Mars this summer too.
TR: Seeing as this is a license held through Bethesda is there a chance we might see more games based on other titles?
CB: We’re just working on Fallout for now. Who knows. 🙂
TR: What would be one of the dream projects you would love to work on going forward?
CB: Well Star Trek and Fallout were dreams I had to work on – both we spent a long time putting the deals together. I’m not sure how much bigger you can get that’s not been done yet!
And there you have it folks! If you want to check out some of the images and announcements as they are released you can point your browser over to http://www.modiphius.com/fallout.html. So get ready folks because there is about to be a war and war…war never changes.
