Mongoose Project Status

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Wondering where a particular book, game or project is on our production schedule? This is a brief summary, which we will come back to update periodically, giving the latest updates on future releases.

Victory at Sea
Full development continues on Victory at Sea 2.0, which will come with a dedicated miniatures range at 1/1800 scale. Release date is currently projected as 'when it is ready' though we are trickling out new models on an irregular basis.

Project Vietnam
Slow-burner, collating background and army list data at the moment. No set release date. Will use a variant of the Battlefield Evolution/Starship Troopers system.

Project Stalingrad
Another slow-burner with no release date, though the rules are complete and now under playtest, and we have begun experimenting with formats and layout. No miniatures support is planned for this one (we recommend Warlord Games!), so just a book. Likely to appear before anything Vietnam, fingers crossed for late 2014, though Victory at Sea is likely to take priority.

Reality Tech Storm (working title)
Our 6mm sci-fi game. Currently on hold due to some physical production issues (would be best in plastic but a massive investment as we will need a lot). This rules set may well pop up in another game system before Reality Tech Storm appears. That other game system beginning to look more and more likely...

Mercenary - Second Edition
Starting to look seriously at revising/re-writing Book 1 in the Traveller line. There is a great deal we want to see in this book, bringing back the Mercenary stype of play to Traveller. Fuzzy release date of late 2014.
 
Project R** ???

What kind of miniature game would start with R? Assuming of course it does...

I wonder if...!!!

Naw... couldn't be.
 
Matt,

When is Project R** scheduled to be revealed? I'm curious what manor of 6mm game you have cooked up in your evil laboratories.
 
Humm... being American I have never heard of this but the question is, its been said that Project R** is being done in 6mm. Now to me that says massive troop scale, is Rogue Trooper do'able in that scale?
 
godsgopher said:
Humm... being American I have never heard of this but the question is, its been said that Project R** is being done in 6mm. Now to me that says massive troop scale, is Rogue Trooper do'able in that scale?
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Just as a side note, if we were to do Rogue Trooper, it would likely be in 15mm...
 
From the very few pictures I was able to find of Rogue Trouper that seems a decent scale in 15mm. It seems like a small tactical scale at the platoon level.

Alright guys were going to figure Matt out before the big unveil :) Now here is what we know. Its a 6mm miniature game that starts with R. Not much to go on, or is it? First off Project R narrows things a bit, the number of games and RPG setting that start with R over the past twenty years is quite small. Also there is the 6mm scale. As I said before this would seem to indicate a massive scale. Troops would be about half the size of Flames of War, so were talking pretty small. It would be easy to represent entire companies of Infantry, Brigades of Armor etc.. The next clue is the name Project R**, take note of the R** why didn't Matt just call it Project R? Obviously he could just be messing with us, but more likely that represents something. The Last clue is Matt said this was something they had been working on for a long time and were finally going ahead with. I take this to mean this setting is probably a little obscure and has required a bit of negotiation to track down all the parties involved in its licensing. You will note that I am assuming Mongoose is producing someone Else's license rather than creating an entirely new setting. Lastly its just a gut feeling, but I don't think this will be a fantasy setting for no other reason than there are SO many of those on the market in every scale imaginable.

Alright guessing time...

My top two picks based on all the clues I have mentioned above are.

Robotech: this was a major hit anime from the early 80's which has a major cult following. No miniature games has ever been done for it, despite a solid number of mecha that could be modeled. However I don't think 6mm is the proper scale for it, perhaps 15 or 20mm.

Renegade Legion: This is another 80's item, it was produced by FASA and did include a space and ground combat game as well as an interesting RPG. 6mm would work very well for the ground combat component as the military campaign in the setting were quite extensive. Still its an old and almost unknown license to be resurrected so many years later...
 
Robotech also occurred to me - Palladium used to have the RPG license, don't know if they still do or not (could be a good Traveller license if not) but would certainly be a good wargame and 6mm would be needed to fit that many enemies on the table... those Valkerie can kick out some missiles... and R*** could be Robo...

Not to mention the recent (in terms of years) return of the franchise with the film and more on the horizon...

I was trying to think of a license that tied in with Noble Armada though - it would make sense to tie the two together and bring out some troop carriers or transports or similar for NA...

I just know that Matt's sitting there giggling at us... I just know it...

Partly because that's what I'd be doing in his place... :lol:

Edit: Renegade Legion could be a possible - after all, Mongoose does seem to be moving towards relatively obscure titles...

Another possible that could be out there, but not unheard of as a collaboration - Rifts? Palladium don't do wargames, just their RPG lines...?
 
15mm is a popular scale, and more and more SF minis are becoming available.

Rogue trooper in 15mm would be very very nice.
 
Rifts had crossed my mind as well. However that is a distinct Palladium property, which isn't to say Mongoose couldn't get permission to do a miniature line for them. Its a deep setting, actually a bit silly seeing as things from all over time and space end up on a devastated earth. But from a miniature game standpoint it would offer almost endless army possibilities, from massive robots, to hoards of genetically engineered Dog-Boys, to alternate dimension aliens.

Frankly it really could be any of the three, and all would make good miniature games. Lots of sides, diversity of units, epic scale, and not one of them has been done as a good miniature game before. The question is... did mongoose acquire the license for it?

On a side note Matt, if it turns out to be Robotech, I'm flying to England to punch you... releasing Star Fleet and that within six months of each other would bankrupt me. Then I'd have to shake your hand on releasing two such amazing products.

...talk about conflicting emotions.
 
I'm afraid that knowing it was Robotech would put me into misery, I watched the original airings of Robotech when I was six years old, rediscovered it in my mid teens, and own quite a few of the RPG books, and all the DvD's at this point. It was one of those shows that captured my young imagination and launched a love of military Sci-Fi that has endured to now. Knowing that I had to wait a year for its release would be rather painful :)

Which of course isn't to say that I don't want to know of course. However it could still be something else entirely. Rifts and Renegade Legion are still possibilities, not to mention it could be something else entirely, even some setting Matt has been dreaming up sense he was a boy for all we know. No I think Matt's going to wait until around December or January and ACTA's Star Fleet is ether released or heading to release and then drop the bomb on us for a mid years sales spike.

And as much as I want to know now, that would probably be the best marketing strategy, I always figured six months was about the limit people could wait to get excited over something. I know with "Old Republic" my interested has grown and waned several times now as the release has dragged on, it was the same for the Warhammer MMO. Too much lead time just leads to excitement burn out.
 
Both Robotech and Rifts could use a lifeline and both RPGs are done by Palladium (which certainly could use the lifesupport). Siembieda has had some problems over the years and it's still a active thread over on their forums

I could see RT; as the americanized version battletech was/is very popular for many years. Though, I don't see it as the Project R...not since Cataylst Game Lab has been doing Battletech for awhile and still is. Palladium did come out with the Shadow Chronicles book based off the movie back in 07. And I thought their was a new RT movie in development as well...following the SC in the storyline. And Palladium is releasing a new RT sourcebook this year for the RPG. Who knows.....except for MS.

Rifts would be awesome. Played the heck out of that game back in the day. Would love to see an army of dogboys going up against Tolkien forces.

But Project R could be something altogether different.....maybe even Recon from Palladium. 6mm vietnam era battling. That would tie in with the request for a vietnam era military knowledge specialist.

Lots of troops could be fielded for something like that....and dozens of gunships and transports. Nice.

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=46212&highlight=vietnam

http://rpggeek.com/rpg/1386/the-revised-recon


Just a thought
 
But could a Robotech agreement be extended to cover the later Japanese Macross series (such as Macross Frontier) or would that require a whole new license entirely?

 
Armydillo978 said:
Both Robotech and Rifts could use a lifeline and both RPGs are done by Palladium (which certainly could use the lifesupport). Siembieda has had some problems over the years and it's still a active thread over on their forums

I could see RT; as the americanized version battletech was/is very popular for many years. Though, I don't see it as the Project R...not since Cataylst Game Lab has been doing Battletech for awhile and still is. Palladium did come out with the Shadow Chronicles book based off the movie back in 07. And I thought their was a new RT movie in development as well...following the SC in the storyline. And Palladium is releasing a new RT sourcebook this year for the RPG. Who knows.....except for MS.

Rifts would be awesome. Played the heck out of that game back in the day. Would love to see an army of dogboys going up against Tolkien forces.

But Project R could be something altogether different.....maybe even Recon from Palladium. 6mm vietnam era battling. That would tie in with the request for a vietnam era military knowledge specialist.

Lots of troops could be fielded for something like that....and dozens of gunships and transports. Nice.

Just a thought
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Just an quick FYI - Battletech is nothing to do with Robotech - FASA, who made up the Battletech game, used the Macross/Robotech mechs without permission and were sued, leading to them removing the copied mechs from their lineup (since referred to in BT circles as "The Unseen").

So a Robotech license wouldn't need any kind of permission from Catalyst Games and there's nothing they could do about any deal between the Robotech license holders and any other company.
 
True on the battletech/robotech differences. Harmony Gold is the keeper of the RT liscene. I meant to imply that why make a RT game when a version of it is already out there. Not the same world and background, but still with giant stompy mechs. Of course, Robotech does have cyclones.......but in 6mm they'd be awful tiny.

If the Warner Bro's actually got the live-action movie going, I might think it was this. If there was a buzz over at Robotech.com in the Gaming Hall forums, I might think it...

Anyways....I'm still hoping for the vietnam war idea. That might lead to adaptations for a modern era expansion.
 
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