.99 Cent Spring Sale! (This Weekend Only)

The Imperium Chronicles is running its Spring .99 Cent Sale! All wargame supplements and expansions are only 0.99 cents for this weekend only! If you’ve purchased any of the following core games, you can get their expansions for only 0.99 cents:

For Fleets at War!
Click		Claws of Chaos is an expansion for the Fleets at War! tactical starship combat game.  It is played on the floor or a large table with cardboard counters representing capital ships, fighters, and other space craft.  Simplified game mechanics let players engage in small skirmishes all the way up to large-scale battles involving dozens of ships. Features New Factions: the K'thonians and the Talions New ships: battlecruisers, drone carriers (and drones), torpedo boats and torpedo bombers New weapons: particle guns, plasma bolt cannons, mines, torpedoes and anti-matter missiles. Full-color ship counters + additional counters for fighters and missiles Stat Cards (one for each ship class) Seven new scenarios
For Fighter Wing
Click		Planetary Defense expands the Fleets at War: Fighter Wing tactical fighter combat game. Fighter Wing (and this expansion) focuses on fighters and other small craft as they engage in dogfights among the stars. Features New Factions: Celadon Pirates and Warlock Industries New ships: Attack craft, corvettes, patrol frigates, police interceptors, and sentry platforms New weapons: Anti-sensor missiles (ASM), aphid missiles, phalanx (anti-missile gun), and rapid pulse plasma cannons (RPP) Full-color ship counters + additional counters for fighters and missiles Stat Cards (one for each ship class) Eight new scenarios
For Theater of Operations
Click		Theater of Operations: The Talion Front (ToO:TF)  includes a completely new strategic map that can be used along with the original ToO map or alone. The expansion also includes a new faction allied with the Magna called the Talion Republic, and a set of enemies called Marauders that attack the other main factions. Each faction has new ships including space installations (space stations and star bases). Features New, large full-color strategic map (19"x18" divided into 6 sections) New Faction: The Talion Republic New Enemies ("Marauders"): the Pirate Clans (vs. the Imperium) and the K'thonian Void (vs. the Magna/Talions) New Gameplay including the Grand Campaign (combining the original game with the expansion) and the Talion Rebellion (vs. the Magna) 490 new counters (full-strength & damaged sides) 15 new units including battle carriers, patrol boats (gun, missile, and torpedo), and torpedo bombers, among others
For In Harm’s Way Tactics
Click		March of the Metal Horde expands the original game with additional character classes, abilities, weapons, and enemies to fight. Features Three new character classes (Brawler, Elementalist, & Gunslinger) Over 30 character abilities Thirty new enemies including two new factions Three new skirmishes with three full-sized skirmish maps New rules for expanded game play
click		Streets of Regalis is a campaign setting for In Harm's Way Tactics, the turn-based tactical combat game. In a massive expansion of the original game, Streets of Regalis introduces players to the capital city of the Imperium, including three separate districts with distinct missions and factions. With this new campaign, characters can enjoy hours of gameplay in the Imperium Chronicles universe. Features 13 New factions including 48 enemy minions & 4 bosses 33 New weapons 19 Locations with associated scenarios. Counters and stat cards Over 100 pages of content!

Note: You will need the core rulebooks to play all of the expansions listed above.

Easter Wargame Sale

It's the Imperium Chronicles Easter Wargame Sale! All wargames (and wargame expansions) are 30% off, including:

Fleets at War! $7.69

Theater of Operations $5.94

In Harm's Way Tactics $6.99

Catch these low prices while they last!

http://drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2480/Imperium-Group-LLC/subcategory/4607_8765/Wargames

Fleets at War: Theater of Operations now available!

Fleets at War: Theater of Operations is now available! As an added bonus, you can buy the game at 15% due to the DriveThruRPG sci-fi month promotion!

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149755/Imperium-Chronicles--Fleets-at-War-Theater-of-Operations

Fleets at War: Theater of Operations (F@W:ToO) is a strategic wargame set in the Imperium Chronicles universe. The game represents the large scale organization and resource management of the Imperium and the Magna Supremacy during armed conflict, most recently the Third Imperium-Magna War.

Theater of Operations is designed with ease of play in mind, including rules that are simple to learn and execute.

One player takes the role of the Imperium while the other player controls the Magna Supremacy. Each side starts the game with a fleet of ships that can be placed anywhere on their side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ). As the game progresses, each side gets points based on the number of zones on the map they possess. These points are then used to build new ships. The winner is the side that defeats the other player, usually by destroying all of his ships and/or capturing his zones.

When playing Theater of Operations, players can choose to use Fleets at War! rules during tactical combat. In fact, they can also use Fighter Wing rules when carrying out fighter combat. However, neither is necessary to play Theater of Operations.

Features

• Large full-color strategic map (19"x18" divided into 6 sections)
• 800+ ship counters (full-strength & damaged sides)
• Straight-forward rules for fast gameplay

In Harm's Way Tactics: Three Ways to Play

In Harm's Way Tactics can be played in at least three ways: skirmish, missions, and campaigns. The first two are available (with examples) "out of the box", while campaigns will be sold separately.

Skirmishes are stand-alone battles similar to the scenarios from my Fleets at War! and Fighter Wing games. Missions are more like mini-adventures with greater detail and which may take longer than a single session to play. Campaigns, on the other hand, will involve linked missions and/or story arcs. They will also include character advancement by increasing attributes and the number of abilities that can be used as they complete missions.

Fighter Wing Bundle (26% Off)

For anyone who'd like to try Fighter Wing and the new expansion, I'm offering a bundle of those two titles at 26% off. The bundle is available on my site and the DriveThruRPG sites.

Fighter Wing: Planetary Defense Is Now Available!

Planetary Defense, the first expansion for the Fighter Wing tactical combat game, is now available for purchase at my website (as well as DriveThruRPG & Wargame Vault!

Description:

Planetary Defense is the first expansion for the Fleets at War: Fighter Wing tactical fighter combat game.  Fighter Wing (and this expansion) focuses on fighters and other small craft as they engage in dogfights among the stars.

Features

• New Factions: Celadon Pirates and Warlock Industries
• New ships: Attack craft, corvettes, patrol frigates, police interceptors, and sentry platforms
• New weapons: Anti-sensor missiles (ASM), aphid missiles, phalanx (anti-missile gun), and rapid pulse plasma cannons (RPP)
• Full-color ship counters + additional counters for fighters & missiles
• Stat Cards (one for each ship class)
• Eight new scenarios

Note: You will need to have the Fighter Wing rulebook to use this expansion.

The Pirate's Prey

Here is the art du jour for Planetary Defense. It shows a Pirate Clan snub fighter (from the original Fighter Wing game) trying to outrun three Talion Zakon police interceptors. In the background was the pirate's prey, a Lembu Heavy Barge.

Sample Counter Sheets for Planetary Defense

I'm pretty much done doing the counter sheets for Fighter Wing: Planetary Defense. There's going to be 7 sheets total including ships and missiles. Here's 3 sample sheets including the Talions (orange), Celadon Pirates (green), and Warlock Industries (blue).

Planetary Defense: Sample Stat Cards

For Fighter Wing: Planetary Defense, I've been working on the stat cards. Here's four examples, including the Imperial Hellion fighter and Paladin patrol frigate, and the Talion Zakon police interceptor and Vartovyk corvette.

Promotion: 40% off Fleets at War! & Expansions

Hi, my name is William, creator of the Imperium Chronicles line of games. From now until the end of next week, I'm offering 40% off my wargame Fleets at War! and its expansions and spin-offs. By going to my online store and using the code 40%F@W! during checkout, you'll  get 40% off any of the following:

Fleets at War!
Fleets at War: Claws of Chaos
Fleets at War: Fighter Wing
The Complete Fleets at War [Bundle]

The promotion lasts to the end of July 19th.

Information about my game:

Fleets at War! is a tactical starship combat game played on the floor or a large table with cardboard counters representing capital ships, fighters, and other space craft. Simplified game mechanics let players engage in small skirmishes all the way up to large-scale battles involving dozens of ships.

Features

• Three factions: the Imperium, the Magna Supremacy, and the Pirate Clans
• 235 full-color ship counters + additional counters for fighters & missiles
• 27 Stat Cards (one for each ship class)
• 10 Scenarios introducing players to the game

Planetary Defense Cover (WIP)

Here is the current WIP of the Planetary Defense cover. What do you think of it?

Planetary Defense: Ship Renders

I haven't forgotten about Fighter Wing: Planetary Defense. As part of working on the cover, I made several renders. Here are a few: a Warlock Batwing Fighter, Warlock Harbinger Corvette, and a Celadon Kafak Hvy Fighter.

Announcing: Fleets at War: Theater of Operations

There's another project I'm working on that I'm calling Fleets at War: Theater of Operations. It basically adds a strategic element to the Fleets at War line of games, allowing players to move fleets (or at least task forces) around a map of the Imperium-Magna border. Then, when the two sides meet on the strategic map, they can either play out the battle on a tactical map using the counters provided, or use the counters from the original Fleets at War! game.

I'm also including a mechanism for calculating the amount of resources available to each side, based on how many planets they control, which they can then use to purchase additional ships. This will allow players to decide which types of ships they want and organize them as they see fit.

Essentially, Theater of Operations will create a strategic tier, with Fleets at War! in the middle and Fighter Wing in the lowest (most detailed) tier.  If players are especially ambitious, they could play a campaign game with all three levels.

Totals for the New Expansion

I think I've pretty much finalized how many ships Planetary Defense will feature. Just like in Fighter Wing, I'll be using variants for some of the combat ships. Including those, there's going to be 22 new ships including fighters, heavy fighters, attack craft, corvettes, and patrol frigates. There's also two weapon platforms/turrets and two new merchant vessels. I'm also introducing three new weapons: the aphid light missile, anti-sensor missile (ASM), and the Rapid Pulse Plasma (RPP) cannon. Hopefully that'll be enough content... :-)

Planetary Defense: Two Factions; Six Ships

Here are six ships from the Fighter Wing expansion, Planetary Defense. The Warlock Industry faction is at the top and the Celadon Pirates are on the bottom. They include fighters, heavy fighters, and attack craft. Note, some of this might change of course, but I wanted to show what I've been working on...

Celadon Pirates

I was working on the stats for the ships featured in the Fighter Wing expansion. One of the new factions is called the Celadon Pirates. These "goblins" are associated with the Ougluks, green-skinned slavers I included in my Heroes of the Imperium game. Anyway, I worked on a faction emblem for the Celadons and came up with  this. It's not actually celadon-colored because I decided I hate that color. However, I did include the Ougluk logo in the skull to show their association.

Fighter Wing expansion in the works

Sales for Fighter Wing have been doing pretty well so I've been increasing my work on its first expansion, Planetary Defense. At the  moment I have 12 brand new ships planned and might include more. The expansion will include ships for the Imperium and Talion planetary defense forces, plus vessels for two new factions: the Celadon Pirates and the Warlock Industries Megacorporation.

The Complete Fleets at War! Bundle

I'm now offering the Complete Fleets at War! Bundle, which includes not only the original Fleets at War!, but also its expansion (Claws of Chaos) and spin-off (Fighter Wing). All of this for over 25% off the regular price, just $21.00!

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/109398/The-Complete-Fleets-at-War-BUNDLE

Fleets at War: Fighter Wing released

The Imperium Chronicles is happy to announce the release of our newest game, Fleets at War: Fighter Wing.

A spin-off of the Fleets of War! wargame, Fighter Wing focuses on the smaller ships of the fleet as they engage in dogfights and acrobatic maneuvers.

Features
•Five factions: the Imperium, Magna Supremacy, Pirate Clans, Talion Republic, and the K'thonian Void
•Multiple variations of craft previously featured in Fleets at War!
•Dozens of full-color ship counters + additional counters for missiles & asteroids
•35 Stat Cards (one for each ship class/model)
•10 Scenarios introducing players to the game

On sale now at WarGameVault and DriveThruRPG.

Fighter Wing PDF Nearly Ready

The PDF for Fighter Wing is pretty much done and ready to go. However, I'm going to wait until next weekend (the beginning of May) to publish the game on DriveThruRPG. Also, I'd like to offer the components (counters, etc.) in a printed format and right now I'm waiting for the proof copy to arrive.

In other news, I've been thinking a lot about my board game Heroes of the Imperium. Sales have been severely disappointing except for the free preview (largely because it's free). After Fighter Wing is published, I'll likely discontinue Heroes of the Imperium and try selling some of the components (like the tiles) as stand-alone products. At least that way I might see some return on the work I put into it.