What's going down?

[occa]

+1 on the proper cards for models already purchased. If I have a gripe it is that the french speakers got beautifully printed cards and we English speakers had to make do with crappy downloaded ones.  . Dave I hope you can set this right.

Cheers,

Occa.

[Cipher Dave]

We do plan to offer cards as a product so that people who already have miniatures can get them. Again I unfortunately can't quote concrete dates on when, but we agree that it will be necessary in some form.

[Phalanx]

Dave, do you have any news about a possible italian release?
a simplified version of The old manual (no background, no terraforming rules an other chapter) was dowloadable for free; will CS do the same with the new rules?

[Cipher Dave]

We are planning to work with our current international partners to localize the game into every language that we can. We work with Raven in Italy, just this morning we where talking about getting the files over to them so they can start translation. Again I can't quote any kind of firm date for them, but they have expressed interest so we will be working with them to get it out. At least this is my understanding of the situation at this point.

[Phalanx]

Thank you very much
I know that is too early for the next question but:
do you have plan about tournaments ? I believe that having an international reference (or guideline) could be helpful, I and my italian friends woul like to use the tournaments like a way to recreate the local communities and expand the game
in my opinion the old system was almost perfect, but for some point (I.e.full painted army).
Ty

[Valander]

Really hope you guys make it out to PAX after GenCon. I'm hoping to play an Anima game, and would also love to have a demo of Hell Dorado. (Because that's what I need, more miniature games... )

[BasicBob]

Cipher Dave would now be a good time to sign up to demo this game in my local area ? I am so pleased with the good news that I want to get my local gamers interested. Should I wait until Gen-con to sign up ? I know I will have to wait to demo the game until then because I don't have anything at the moment to show. Just wondering if you are recruiting now.

This is really great news. After getting the Anima Tactics book back during the Xmas holidays I know the Hell Dorado book will be something special.

[Legion]

Whoo Hoo good to hear something about what's going on in the HD development phase.  Thanks CD and CJ!

[Breten]

I have the rulebook in French, and would just like to state, that I, for one, would like to see the English book as a hardcover.

[Aethariel]

One question : will there be one french version of the new rulebook at the same time than the english version?

[Cipher Dave]

Since all of the material so far has been released in French we don't currently have plans to reprint the basic book in French. If Millennium feels it is a good idea then it could be done. We are looking to collect everything up that has been released so far, update it with the most current errata and then release it in English, German, and Spanish. Then everyone will be caught up. As we release new things we plan to do them in all of those languages at once.

@BasicBob if you do not currently have models to show then now may be a little premature. I think we should probably wait on the volunteer stuff till after Gen Con so we can release any rules updates necessary and so that as you are demoing the game it will be something that the shops you demo at can get in to capitalize on your efforts. Thank you for your excitement and interest we really appreciate it.

[mzi]

I cannot find the appropriate words to tell you how much I a disappointed.

[mathieut]

Since all of the material so far has been released in French we don't currently have plans to reprint the basic book in French.

If you consider that a pdf file available online constitutes a "release" then all the game material so far (except for errata #10, which is still a wip anyway) has been released in English as well. This is akin to saying that you won't release version 2.0 of the rules in French because version 1.0 already exists in French...
Very similar to Asmodée's silly original decision to not translate the book in English.

[Aethariel]

I cannot find the appropriate words to tell you how much I a disappointed.

same reaction 

[Phalanx]

I guess, that the english manual has the highest priority, everyone (more or less) can understand an english manual, translate them in french (or in italian) require a great effort, and our two countries already have the handbook in their respective languages, spain and german, needs new manual, I agree with CS decision.
probably italy and france will wait a little bit more than the other countries, but I'm sure that sooner we have localized version (but this is a decision of the national distributor)