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COLLECTING ANOTHER VICTORY
Innovative Mass Action Miniatures Game to Revolutionize Tabletop Gaming
May 15, 2009 (SEATTLE) — Wells Expeditions™, a new company started by the founding members of WizKids Inc., announces the upcoming release of the Arcane Legions™ collectable mass action miniatures game.
A tableful of miniature soldiers involved in epic combat that can take two to six players through a full military engagement in less than two hours was once unthinkable. The team of veteran game-makers at Wells Expeditions, who created classic games like HeroClix®, MechWarrior® and Pirates of the Spanish Main™, are thrilled to turn that pipe dream into yet another brilliant idea: Arcane Legions.
With experience and a close relationship with retailers and consumers in the marketplace, Wells Expeditions has carefully designed an affordable game that removes all of the entry-obstacles of traditional miniatures games. Arcane Legions features straightforward rules, quick setup and an affordable collectable model. The game is set in a mysterious alternative history where the Roman Empire, Egyptian Imperium and Han Dynasty are all drawing upon mythical creatures and powerful armies to dominate a world in chaos.
The engaging Arcane Legions platform uses an intuitive and flexible formation-base system to command hordes of troops. Arrange and rearrange figures within a unit to change the unit's capabilities. Movement and combat is fast and deadly, using an abstracted movement system and a simple dice-off combat mechanic. With three distinct factions that can be purchased separately, players can collect exactly the figures they want. Arcane Legions eliminates the need for cumbersome tape measurements and record-keeping.
In this economy, it's difficult to entice new customers into stores — never mind into a new collectable game. Arcane Legions was designed to keep the number of products that need to be stocked and purchased to a minimum by making figures available by faction and offering a two-player Starter Game with more than 110 figures, plus rules, dice, bases and unit cards. Common figures have been removed from randomized Booster Packs and placed into fixed Cavalry and Infantry Army Packs, and sets have been made intentionally small to make collecting even easier. In fact, a player can buy a "Legion Bundle," eight faction-specific Boosters, and get every collectable figure in that faction — guaranteed! Keeping a player's investment low and their enjoyment level high makes Arcane Legions the ideal miniatures game.
Wells Expeditions knows that a community of players is key to growing a game, and so is supporting Arcane Legions with an extensive in-store play program and a website that not only connects players but also allows players to do the unthinkable: design their own tournament-legal game elements — a first in the collectable game genre.
Arcane Legions releases in September, but you can get an earlier look by visiting ArcaneLegions.com . Wells Expeditions will be demonstrating the game at Origins Game Fair June 24 – 28, and prerelease product will be on hand at Gen Con Indy August 13 – 16.
