Announcing Rackham Legends
Rackham have announced their long awaited Rackham Legends line of miniatures.
From their announcement:
With the success of the game AT-43, Rackham was able to impose new quality standards to the miniatures market. With ready assembled and painted miniatures that offer immediate gaming pleasure, new players have been able to discover miniatures strategy games thus helping the sector find a second wind.
In line with the expectation of new gamers, AT-43 was voted best game of the year 2007 by the reference website Tabletop Gaming news for to its innovative game system and the quality of its miniatures. Confrontation: The Age of the Rag’Narok is following the same path and its mission will be to stimulate the miniatures market by offering a complementary range to AT-43.
However, Rackham hasn’t forgotten the historical heart of its trade: the manufacturing of original and finely detailed miniatures made out of metal, the favorite material of painters and hobby enthusiasts. Rackham has to offer a range of products intended for this specific clientele alongside its two ready assembled and painted miniatures ranges, which are designed to open miniatures strategy gaming to the wider public. This is why a new range of products will be launched soon: Rackham Legends
This new range, destined to the most demanding customers, will be constituted of metal or resin miniatures that will require assembling and painting. As a true laboratory for artistic research, Rackham Legends products are dedicated to the universes of Confrontation and AT-43, but could also be opened to new universes or draw its inspiration from share imaginary culture.
Miniatures from the Rackham Legends range will only be cast in limited numbers and will be exclusively available from Rackham and Fantasy Flight Games online stores. Considering the low number of copies that will be cast, such products cannot be offered to stores. However, some Rackham Legends miniatures could be massed produced in ready assembled and painted plastic. These miniatures would then be sold in stores, in order to make them accessible to all.
The miniatures from the Rackham Legends range will be released with game characteristics available from the www.rackham.fr web site. Finally, the whole of metal Confrontation miniatures will be integrated to Rackham Legends in order to constitute a coherent range of products.
While remaining faithful to its reputation of artistic excellence, Rackham wishes to offer all its players miniatures that meet the standards they expect, no matter if they are made of plastic, metal or resin.
Rackham Legends answers these expectations: with this new range, you will always be able to find the product that suits you, no matter if you are a painter or a collector, an experienced player or a newcomer to miniatures games.