Brigade Games: Celtos becomes mass battle game.

Brigade Models has announced a makeover in progress for their Celtos fantasy rules and product line.

"It's moving to a unit-based game," says Tony Francis, "since we felt that the game engine as it stood couldn't handle very large games." The new ruleset is expected in late spring or early summer of 2013, and progress reports can be seen on their blog.

We like big games. A big table, lots of nice scenery, loads of figures. And the Celtos figures are so nice it’s a shame not to have lots of them on table. The old Celtos rules work well, but for larger games (100+ figures per side) they do get a bit cumbersome. The tipping point came a while back when we played a big Fomorians vs Gaels game (you can see some photos on Germy’s own website – it’s the second of the Celtos battle reports). Even with a full 7-hour club meeting (allowing for setting-up/clearing up time) we were unable to completely finish the battle, so we decided it was time to look at speeding things up a bit.

"We also have new models being sculpted," says Tony, "although we're keeping those under wraps for now." So stay tuned for more mass batttle mayhem!