Any News??

[phil]

Is there any news as to when the rest of the Factions listed will be released?

Is this going to be a PDF project instead?

[guildofblades]

Hi Phil,

The Button Wars line has been temporarily placed on hold. We have plans to relaunch it in a more cost affordable manner for players.

We are looking to buy a new die cutting machine that will allow us to print game pieces onto a chipboard stock and then die cut a variety of different sizes. This will let us provide as many as 25-30 game pieces mixed between fighters, mecha, frigates, destroyers, capital ships, fleet command ships, space stations, etc, in a game pack for $4.95. Additionally we'll be able to establish 5 or more piece sizes. Smalles will be fighters and mecha, followed by mid sized ships like frigates, destroyers, blockade runners, etc, and then the standard size you are used to for capital ships. Things like the Quo-Ti Hives, the Thrash Imperial Command Ships and other similarly large vessales would then be a size larger. Star Crushers, Earth's orbital battle stations and other extremely large vessels would be even larger than that.

The difference will be the new game pieces will be printed onto shipboard and no longer be metallic "buttons".

As for content, we have fleet packs already designed for the Space Knight Empire, Duarian Confederacy, Teslam Empire, Adarkan Empire, the Ucharians and a few others. We also have the campaig board game map designed and fairly well play tested. So when we do the relaunch we'll have lots of new products to release.

The reformat of the game pieces is a move needed to make it more affordable for players to collect a diverse selection of ships from the different factions. Ultimately the universe, as it has been designed for so far, has upwards of 20 factions, so we felt under the existing price structures it would have simply been too expensive for the average player to collect them all, or even a substantial number. Under the new format, one, two or three fleet packs will give a player plenty of game pieces so as to play even a large fleet for a particular faction.

The one thing we are considering is a name change. Obviously the game was originally named Button Wars because of the uniqueness of its game pieces. With the game system moving away from the buttons we are contemplating a name change for the whole game. A change to "Empires & Overlords", which is the name for the space opera setting from which Button Wars is based.

Drop in on our forum from time to time. We will be posting news here as we solidify information for the game relaunch.

Any buttons you currently own that represent capital ships will be fully compatible with the new game.
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