you should be seeing Starmada and Iron Stars show up at e23 any day now.

KDLadage wrote:

What is the status here, Dan? I am really curious -- especially after the explosion that recently took place between me and Andrew Hackard (the former head editor of Steve Jackson Games)

Er... did you ever explain what you meant by "explosion"?

Anyway, you should be seeing Starmada and Iron Stars show up at e23 any day now.

e23.sjgames.com

That'll be delayed a bit - my computer died last week! I am hoping to have a newer one by the weekend.  :cry:

Glad to see a new and excellent selling outlet materializing for mj12, though!!!

Majestic Twelve Games was founded in 1788 by a Viennese shopkeeper who little suspected the juggernaut into which his wenig Liebhaberei would develop. Initial forays into the infant Kriegspiel market were disappointing, such as the violently negative response to MJ12's first product, Wars of the Swedish Impressionists, which resulted in the company's warehouse being put to the torch.

While this was regarded as a minor inconvenience by the excessively-optimistic MJ12, it unfortunately resulted in a 200-year hiatus before the company's next release. In 1994, Starmada was unveiled to the general public as a "freeware" game via the rec.games.design Usenet board. As this event did not trigger widespread rioting and/or arson, MJ12 considered it a resounding success.

Since then, MJ12 has become a leader in the small-press wargaming community. Starmada is regularly cited as a favorite among starship combat gamers, and games such as ARES: Minatures Wargaming System, For The Masses, and Iron Stars have carved out sizeable niches among discriminating leadheads. The release of Defiance: Vital Ground has brought the MJ12 brand of easily-understood, statistically-balanced, universally-adaptable rule systems to the sci-fi skirmish genre.

It looks like we only need to sell 8-10 copies of something to crack the e23 top ten list...

June 23, 2005: Miniatures From Beyond Space And Time!
No matter the where, no matter the when, Majestic Twelve Games has the miniatures game for it. Three new products just posted here on e23 proves it.

Space combat miniatures just got wilder with Victory by Any Means™: The Starmada™ Edition, a rules book that lets you convert a campaign from one game to the other . . . or even mix them!

If you like your dreadnaughts a little more low-tech, Grand Fleets is the game for you, a complete naval miniatures game covering the era 1894-1939, including zeppelins, airplanes, civilian vessels (Titanic, anyone?), and, of course, warships of every type and description.

And if good old-fashioned orc-mashing is more your style, then For The Masses: Fantasy Mass Combat System should be right up your alley, a complete fantasy miniatures wargame flexible enough to handle anything you can throw at it.