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Privateer Press Announces New WARMACHINE FACTION

Bellevue WA. May 4, 2009—Privateer Press, Inc. is pleased to announce details on the first new faction to be introduced in its award-winning WARMACHINE tabletop miniatures game: The Retribution of Scyrah.

Releasing in September, Forces of WARMACHINE: Retribution of Scyrah will provide everything players will need to field the new faction, including model statistics, background material, and a modeling and painting guide. The book will be written for use with the upcoming new edition of game rules, WARMACHINE Mk II, which releases early 2010. Privateer Press’ bimonthly No Quarter Magazine will feature articles in issues #25 and #26 that will allow players to use their Retribution of Scyrah models with the current WARMACHINE rules.

When asked about the new faction Privateer Press Chief Creative Officer Matt Wilson said, “Retribution of Scyrah will be the first real look at the long-secluded and mysterious elven kingdom of Ios. The very first thing people should note is that these aren’t your standard tree-hugging elves.” In fact, Wilson went on to explain, the faction will include highly disciplined troops outfitted with some of the most advanced technology in the Iron Kingdoms, backed up by the never-before-seen sleek and powerful myrmidon warjacks. “The Retribution of Scyrah will bring amazing new depth and feeling to the WARMACHINE game in terms of play style and abilities,” Wilson concluded.

For more information on Retribution of Scyrah, including special previews of upcoming releases, visit www.privateerpress.com.

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and as an aside.. Zoe Keating's stuff makes for great gaming music...

The Retribution of Scryah

Privateer Press just put this up on their website.. the announcement for the 5th Warmachine faction!  The Retribution of Scryah.  There are no pictures of the models yet, but that should be coming soon.  The best part is that the models release in September.. which means that the models will be available at GenCon in August!  Woohoo!  I was wondering what I was going to be spending my money on this year...  :)  For those not "in the know" the Retribution is an organization from the country of Ios in the Iron Kingdoms, and they are Elves.  These are not fruit fairy wood elves... these are zealot-ical, determined, angry elves with guns and warjacks (though elven warjacks are called Myrmidons), think of them as the "Germans" of Warmachine (sort of).  

The Iosan elves have probably the coolest back story and history of just about any race... their story is one of my favorite parts of the Iron Kingdoms.  They had a pantheon of Gods that, due to a great cataclysm (of their own making), vanished... leaving the elves stranded and lost.. some of their children are being born without souls.. and things are looking grim.  One of their gods mysteriously returned to them, a Goddess called Scryah, but she is dying and wasting away.  The elves believe humans, and others who use arcane magic, whether it be spell casting or mechanika (warjacks, etc) are sapping her life-force.. so now they are finally breaking their isolationist policies to venture out... and kill.

So this will be my 4th Warmachine/Hordes faction.... Khador, Circle Orboros, Mercenaries (Pirates, more of a sub-faction), and the Retribution of Scryah!

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I love that I live in an age where people can take a medium I really enjoy and do amazing things with it.  This game is created from scratch by one person.  He built everything in it, even the 3D modeling program the game engine uses... simply amazing.

Really great video of the game demo recently shown at GDC can beseen at the games website (where you can also learn more about it)

http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/gameplay_video.html

  

You can also watch a great segment about the game on last week's episode of CO-OP.

If you are not watching CO-OP... you really should.

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