Strato Minis Studio and Mech Wargame Hardwar Acquired by Modiphius Entertainment

Fantastic news coming from our good friends at Modiphius Entertainment.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
London, ENGLAND: 20th June 2024
UK-based tabletop games publisher Modiphius Entertainment has today announced that it has acquired Strato Minis Studio including the complete Hardwar, Retrobots and Stratoyager game and miniature lines from their international creators.
The acquisition includes Hardwar – a 6mm scale miniatures range and game set in the turn of the twenty-second century with fast-paced tactical rules and a hard sci-fi setting covering armour, mechs, air and seacraft in both 6mm and other scales, and Stratoyager – the game of space fighter combat.
Modiphius is well-known for its other popular games including Fallout: Wasteland WarfareStar Trek Adventures, The Elder Scrolls Call To ArmsFive Parsecs From Home and Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics.
Modiphius has exciting plans for the relaunch of the Hardwar line. The game will be released in waves, starting with a reprint of the core rulebook that will include the previous content from the Extended Hardware and No Heroes PDFs. This will be followed by a selection of Starter Sets, with the aim of getting new people playing in the universe and building anticipation for the future of Hardwar.
Modiphius co-founder Chris Birch has been a long-term fan of the 6mm sci-fi scale and sought out the Strato Minis Studio founders when he saw they were open to selling the game lines. He said: “Their team did an amazing job constructing a complex world of awesome looking mechs, tanks and fliers battling it out over a future earth. We’re going to build on that world and bring it to a bigger audience.”
Krzysztof Raczynski, co-founder of Strato Minis Studio said: “I was really excited when I found out that Modiphius was interested in taking over future Hardwar development – it was always our dream to make the game mainstream, and I could not imagine a better publisher than Modiphius to undertake this job. With their portfolio of excellent games games and IPs, Hardwar will be in great place.”
Hardwar is a hard sci-fi setting that uses an innovative system to recreate fast-paced tactical combat between mechs, armour and air forces. It features straightforward rules allowing a mix of classic armoured warfare, with mechs, spacecraft, exotic experimental weapons, cybernetics, sentient combat swarms and ECM.
In Hardwar, players can immerse themselves in a variety of roles, from starting a private security company or becoming a corporate commander delivering shareholders’ demands to leading a revolutionary force, being a small-time dictator or a noble wasteland marshal charged with protecting farmsteads.
Modiphius will produce a quickstart PDF, which will allow people to try Hardwar for free. The publisher will also be developing a solo/co-op game to let you play a procedurally generated campaign with a growing armoured force.
Sign up to discover more about the Hardwar universe and release plans at www.hardwarcommand.com.
– ENDS –

click the banner to learn more

Author: Marc Farrimond

I'm a 60 year guy from Wigan in Lancashire living in Edinburgh, Scotland with one of my four awesome kids and my long suffering wife Laura. I have worked freelance over the years for some of the biggest names in tabletop and roleplaying and I am a very keen cosplayer and photographer.

Leave a comment

Print 'n' Show

3D Printing for gaming, fun and much more

roguereviewer.

Sci-fi and Sociopolitical Essays by Andrew E.C. Gaska

GAMERS WEB

BY GAMERS FOR GAMERS!

Marc's Comicbook Page

For all things Superhero Miniature Gaming

BIG COMIC PAGE

BIG on Comics!

RossHepburnHSFK

This site contains Scary Stories. Enter if you dare!

Continuing Mission

A Fan Site for the Star Trek Adventures RPG by Modiphius

Let's Talk Tabletops.

Crawl out through the Fallout.

Sticky Willies

If you can think it, I can make it!

Discover WordPress

A daily selection of the best content published on WordPress, collected for you by humans who love to read.

The Daily Post

The Art and Craft of Blogging

WordPress.com News

The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.