Relics: The Return!

 Hi!

A quick interlude from my Leviathan stuff as today saw the announcement of the return of Relics the wargame!

As per usual my obsession with out of production games that virtually nobody plays has struck. Back in 2010, a small miniatures company called Tor Gaming released some super quirky figures that they classed as Stitchpunk and over the next few years the range expanded into a unique setting that featured voodoo doll soldiers, creepy fae and some really gnarly looking Dwarves.

At this point, I was pootling around with miniatures and was pretty much entirely focused on Leviathan so the game passed me by and by 2017 Tor announced it was closing up shop and the game and miniatures were sold on to TTCombat, who at the time were pretty much an online seller if memory serves right with no real gaming experience.

Since then the game has sat fallow as TTCombat focused on other games, namely Dropzone, Dropfleet and Carnivale and the Relics community on Facebook began to dry up and it appeared that the game was well and truly dead as while the 2nd edition of the rules were available as a pdf, the miniatures themselves, so unique a selling point of the game were unavailable.

Now we find ourselves in 2024 and TTCombat has announced that they are re-releasing the game with newly mastered models and the original range will be available once again.

Now I'm not sure if I'm going to be tempted to pick up the actual rules to try out but I do think I'm going to get some of the miniatures as they're really characterful and its not often that dead games make a comeback so I for one would love to see it reappear and continue to get support.

The first two factions to be re-released will be Orcnar and Britanan which should be happening in February with the rest following not long after.

If you're interested, its worth nipping over the TTCOMBAT page to see whats available and the 2nd edition rules can be found for free download HERE.

We shall see how things go but its well worth a peek for folks looking for a really quirky and characterful range of miniatures, and hopefully an expanding one to boot!

In the meantime, All the best!