Gobbos don’t do chivalry.
At GenCon in Indianapolis this past week, Fantasy Flight revealed something exciting. No, it’s not the tablet version of Android Netrunner we dared to hope for, but you won’t be mad about this. Turn-based fantasy wargame BattleLore will be making its way to iOS, Android, and PC in the form of BattleLore Command. There’s no release date announced, but the game was playable at GenCon and reports by PT readers who wrote in to tell me about it were uniformly positive.
This is a wargame based on the Command & Colors system, but the setting is really neat. BattleLore takes place during a historically accurate Hundred Years’ War, but one where goblin and dwarf mercenary bands fought on both sides of the conflict. That’s quite a whimsical departure from history — goblins exclusively fought alongside Italian condottieri in this era, of course.
Fantasy Flight have been doing the hokey-pokey with mobile gaming for a few years now. The Minnesota-based company is a prolific publisher of tabletop board games that are renowned for high-quality components, and in 2011 they released a mobile game that upheld that reputation. Elder Sign: Omens was probably the most polished game on the App Store way back when (and it’s still an impressive product today) but Fantasy Flight didn’t make another peep about mobile games until earlier this year, when they announced a collaboration with CD Projekt to make an original digital game set in the Witcher universe.
There’s apparently no plans for online multiplayer for this one — just single-player campaigns and same-device multiplayer, though phones will be supported in addition to tablets. The BattleLore Command reveal trailer is after the jump.
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