Modiphius Entertainment opened pre-orders for XCOM: The Miniatures game:
Modiphius Entertainment has today announced pre-orders for XCOM: The Miniatures Game, the highly anticipated solo and co-op adventure wargame based on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the legendary turn-based strategy video game from Firaxis Games.
The 280 page Core Rulebook, based on the rules of the best selling Five Parsecs from Home adventure wargame, allows players to lead an elite team of XCOM operatives as they fight across different missions to build XCOM and defeat an alien threat.
The hardback, full-colour standalone core rulebook features tech, research and base-building options, campaign and single-player modes, and 33 mission types, including Terror Site, Combat Patrol and UFO Crash.
Rules also include the ability to play PVP matches with opposing alien or operative squads, or let one player take control of the aliens in the campaign with Alien Commander mode.
The game is supported by high-quality, multi-part resin collectors’ miniatures. And due to popular demand, High Impact Polystyrene (HIPs) plastic miniature versions will also be available to preorder, for delivery at a later date.
Chris Birch, Co-founder of Modiphius Entertainment, said of the decision:
“XCOM The Miniatures Game has been a passion project for many of our team, and we planned a big rollout using resin production from our own factory, as we did with Fallout miniatures when first launched. The community attention for XCOM: The Miniatures Game has been so huge, and there have been a lot of requests for hard plastic miniatures, so we decided to offer the sets in both resin and HIPS. We’re working with the plastics engineering team at Archon (StarCraft, Dungeons and Lasers) to get the models into tooling and production as quickly as possible.”
Players will be able to pre-order:
- 280-page full-colour XCOM: The Miniatures Game Rulebook
- XCOM: The Miniatures Game - Operatives, which includes: 2 Assault operatives, 2 Support operatives, 1 Heavy and 1 Sniper operative, plus six 30mm bases
- XCOM: The Miniatures Game - Aliens Set 1, which includes: 3 Sectoids, a Sectoid Commander, 3 Thin Men and an Outsider, plus eight 30mm bases
- XCOM: The Miniatures Game - Aliens Set 2, which includes: 2 Seekers, 2 Floaters, 2 Chryssalids, four 30mm plastic bases, two 40mm and four resin flying stands
Plus optional additional accessories:
- XCOM: The Miniatures Game Dice Set, which includes: eight blue ten-sided dice, one red ten-sided ammo die and two six-sided dice
- XCOM: The Miniatures Game Reference Card Pack, which includes: 60 US poker-size cards featuring quick reference information on each of the aliens, weapons and essential gear.
- XCOM: The Miniatures Game Acrylic Token Pack, which includes: 132 acrylic laser-cut (119) tokens and (13) standees to enhance play.
Also available are a Getting Started Bundle in resin and in hard plastic (£110 & £95 respectively), and an All In Bundle in resin and in hard plastic (£210 and £185 respectively). These include a promotional miniature in clear resin: the Ghost Sniper Veteran Operative.
Bundles are also available for retailers. This promo will also be available on select products to retailers that pre-order directly from Modiphius.
As part of Modiphius Entertainment’s August free shipping offer, UK, US and EU orders over £150 / $200 will qualify for free shipping, up to a value of $50.
The game will also be supported with later releases, including S.H.I.V.’s (and their variants), XCOM Veteran Operatives in popular armours, Mutons (including Berserkers and Elites), Cyberdiscs, Drones, Mechtoids, MEC Troopers, Heavy Floaters, Ethereals, Sectopods, and the EXALT, along with terrain pieces such as Infection Pods and crashed UFO equipment.
