We think we can all agree, 2020 can’t leave soon enough. It’s been a challenging year, offices and factories have been closed for long periods of time, the freight infrastructure you usually take for granted disrupted beyond recognition leading to long delays. We haven’t been able to attend conventions to meet you face to face. It’s been a year of great uncertainty. We’d like to say a massive thank you, to all of our community who have been so patient with us throughout this time, and for your incredible, continued support to help us through. Despite these challenges, we have still had an exciting, if somewhat strange year here at Gale Force Nine, with everything pushed into the last half of the year… Two new factions to mix up the conquest, diplomacy & betrayal on Arrakis, Ixians and Tleilaxu were added to Dune: The Boardgame. We brought your desktop to your tabletop with World of Tanks: Miniatures Game launching to critical acclaim, with much much more to be announced in 2021.

Dune: The Boardgame, & World of Tanks: Miniatures Game were released in 5 additional international languages, bringing these games to a global audience! Finally, just in time for Christmas, the long awaited, Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps hit stores, AND the top of BGG hotness list, alongside expansions, Ultimate Badasses, and Get Away From Her You B***h.

I think we’ve all had enough of 2020, so let’s look forward to 2021... Right out of the gate, and into the Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms. Our Icewind Dale Miniatures will hit stores, and online January, followed closely by the remainder of the Curse of Strahd figures mid-February. March sees the first of our board game releases, a re-release of Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery, take the role of a Roman Dominus, leading your house, whilst you vie for victory in the gladiatorial arena, curry favour to increase your influence with your opponents, whilst plotting and scheming to undermine them… Spartacus will be released in English, Spanish, German, French AND Polish simultaneously.

As announced at SHUX 2020 Following Spartacus will be the second expansion to the multi award winning Dune: The Boardgame, a game that has topped Christmas wish lists for 2 years running. CHOAM & Ricese, additional factions you can swap out for the existing houses within Arrakis.
The world of World of Tanks: Miniatures Game will expand, with more tanks, from all 4 nations to add to your platoon, and change up your game play!

We have SO MUCH MORE TO TELL YOU! But hopefully, we will be able to do so, in person, over a convention table. More Star Trek… More Dune… More Firefly? Shiny. In the mean-time, from all of us to all of you, we’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas, have fun, stay safe, take care, and we’ll see you on the other side in 2021! The Gale Force Nine team.
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