 Hey folks, we're here to date with Ronnie to answer some burning questions that you may have about the board games division So I guess first of all, what is the board games division if people have missed the announcement? Yeah, so I think a brief recap and obviously you can go and watch the longer video with Andy Burgess for the detail, but we have a wonderful team of people at Skull for us write rules for us and Unlicenses that give us great fantastic licenses and we realize that by only doing miniature games walking dead Hellboy, you know huge miniature intensive games We were missing opportunities to do fun things that you can play in between games and you can play You know in the evenings of tournaments and so on and so forth and And do some things that we want to do with our own IPs as well and and dig in we just had this wonderful pool of talent on every day and You know passionate customers are like what we do. We thought, you know what guys? Let you know, let's go and have a look at this and dig into a little deeper and And introduce people to mantik that have never met us through the Hellboy dice game or or some of those things So I think it's an opportunity to have some fun Make sure that we don't do it at the expense of the core Kings of War Firefight hobby make sure that stays strong that gets releases every single month Armada, etc. But we can go off and do some side projects Where resources allow of course me call to say Excellent, I guess Sort of sums up with the first question which was well existing games like Hellboy be folded into the new division Yeah, I mean, I think Hellboy The license is certainly I see it more of a part of a board game division product than a core mantik Wargame products. I know and it is a board game. I think it's a dungeon crawler That's really the gray area, you know where you've got lots of minis, but you're playing them on a board But I think going forward we've got a Hellboy dice game that's coming out in September that we're very excited about because it's not a beer drinking game Where you push your luck you test it. It's just brilliant. You can pick it up. It's my Go-to game, you know home and not just because it's you know our own game It's just I enjoy that kind of push your luck roll the dice very easy to explain easy to travel with and so those kind of Opportunity will will be the things that I'll come out of there. So I think yeah, Hellboy retrospectively would have been and is part of our board game division a similar question, but the other way around is Will we see games like card games for example for things like the Warpath universe and fight that for universe Yeah, I mean card games haven't got as far as that yet And I think sometimes at the moment those coming out with a license stuck on the front, you know, could we get walking dead? Can we get the Hellboy? Can we get maybe something that appeals to new people and our existing gamers can play them because they know the IPs But the ends but I've got some really bonkers ideas and everyone does have in the What's the kind of games that we could make with just a few minis, but a really cool fun board game? that's very thematic and And so things that are something price-wise in all a different way We've got a kind of Christmas idea for a game that you know, how much fun would it be to open an actual Game on Christmas Day that you can play on Boxing Day. That's fun. Let's pop out collectible All right giggle and and so we're working on things like that. So in time card games. Yes Before time or the first place we'll go to will be come taking a few minutes taking some more sculls and making something very easy to play Very immersive a little bit of comedy Somebody asked will we see a lot of these board games go straight to retail or will it still be an emphasis on things like Kickstarter and Game Found? Bit from column a bit from column B I think the Christmas game we're talking about we will probably you know have a special Limited buying period, which will be sometime August. Let's say and Where we say look if you want it under a Christmas tree here. It is you've got to order it now Then we'll print that many will make that many will send to them. So that's not like the kind of one-year Kickstarter Loop, you know, and it's we've done on our own website and it's just gonna be good fun We'll have Kickstarter's umbrella academies coming this week umbrella Academy Of course is absolutely central this and this was the first one where I thought This is not even a dungeon crawler. It's a board game. It's written by board game specialists We took it to those guys took it to games expo loved it family game competitive game great fun cooperative game, sorry and So there so that one will be Kickstarter is a big license You know, we're doing the collectible the deluxe edition on Kickstarter You'll get your retail edition from retailer year later and then others. We're just gonna pull straight out We're just gonna say, you know, here's a great fun game. Here's a Which is gonna go straight to retail. Here you go, you know order off the website. We've got it printed. Let's go So I think a little bit of all three some unique fun ways where we're gonna take pre-orders Simply so we can make sure everyone gets a copy that wants one. We can print the right number But maybe with it up a limit. So we go, okay, we're not going past that if you want one grab it Some Kickstarter's and some direct to retail. It's a bit of everything Excellent and I think we've sort of touched on this briefly But someone asked is there a plan to be just board games or we see things like card games dice games, etc I think dice games card games. It's all opportunity. We call it board games Well, I couldn't think about it games division. Then that would be more than vision. So it's the non-war games stuff I think is the better way of saying it if we're doing a skirmish Upwards even a dungeon crawler Woods but really if there's no board if you put in a gaming mat out and you're putting terrain on it it's in our core division and You know, one of the things That drove this decision was that nothing must come in the way of supporting that and in the past when we were going back Three or four years. We were either doing hellboy Or leaving for me or we were doing Kings of War And actually we're getting to stage where now we have Armada Set in the world of Panathor with Kings of War. We've got vanguard that I mean, it's like You know midlife lull at the moment But all of those need support the other side firefight going phenomenally well on the back of dead zone Which is by far and away the best side-fire skirmish game in the world and I'll fight you about it and They need releases they need plastics They need care they need attention in Q&A that he bought for the campaigns which just finishing our dead zone campaign off now And on the same time we're running a league of infamy Kickstarter because you know, we've got this the bigger team We've got more resources. We've got wonderful, you know Contracts and freelancer that work with us so we can do more things But sometimes we need to be able to say, you know, what's the shorthand? Is it a war game or is it a board game? and Someone's asked will we continue to see more support and content for existing games like Hellboy? So for example more expansions and that sort of thing or will it be Each game be its own Yeah Some will be very much. This is this game. It's here. Have a fun grab it Particularly when we're doing something like the limited edition one So if we do this Christmas limited edition, it'll be a game that we intend to do in the future But it'll be Christmas themed the main game won't be but this Christmas what so be totally limited if you don't get it Then you won't get it. It's gonna be a funds You know we're gonna put resins in it and have a lot of fun with it and that will be very much. That's it It's not a range. It's not a thing actually it does with what by doing it in this way and Separating it off and looking at Hellboy as its own part of this board game division and it does allow us to actually keep supporting games and Revisiting them and I think one of the things we first did hellboy. Here's the board game. That's it. We've done it Wait a second. Hellboy is a phenomenal license people love Hellboy Let's do a Dice card game, which was just great fun is 20 25 quid. It really isn't a pocket money Take it out your bag and play it So then we've got the RPG the whole the King the Hellboy RPG there that came out and And Because we can look at that and we can have it on drive through RPG We can keep adding some new content and actually quite often when we do a Kickstarter on that one You know, we overshot with the content. We've got more to release and by having a nice own thing and looking at it We can actually support those games and keep going I think you know dungeon saga was one that for usually successful just been running for years But never bubble to the top of why aren't we doing something for it? And every year we talk about it. So let's do more scenarios and every year something comes and bulldozers it through Great and the last question maybe was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but someone asked would we look at bringing back old games such as Mars attacks? Yeah, I mean why not once you've told what you've done. Why not? I think it would lead a little bit of a facelift I thought it was great fun. I think it wasn't as much fun as it ought to have been It wasn't quite a hardcore war game. It wasn't a board game and it wasn't Quite as a reference. It could have been Adam You know, we should have made it even crazier and wackier, but that said the minis were beautiful You know the whole scenario is just is sexy and then never say never I still know the guy's over the top really well and then and and everything becomes possible when you've got a great range of plastic tools There you go. You heard it here first guys or maybe you didn't yeah Reset the clock Excellent Ronnie. Thank you very much and I'm sure we look forward to seeing some more videos about the division coming up shortly Yeah, well, I'm gonna tell them make sure you get over to umbrella Academy have a look go Have a look at the pilots collectors box is beautiful. It's gonna. It's gonna be a one print So if you like umbrella Academy and you like playing co-op games It's awesome