Undaunted abandons WWII, heads in a ‘different direction’ with spacefaring sequel

It was retail magnate Marshall Field who reportedly said we should “give the lady what she wants.” What she wants in 2023 is, it seems, more and more often, to punch a big company in the mouth. The Osprey Games team is happy to oblige like-minded protest types with Intrepid 2200: Callistowhich will hit the market sometime in 2024. Gone are the heavy daddy vibes of an octogenarian’s World War II fantasy, replaced instead by a near-future conflict pitting vile corporations against their poorly treated workers.

Intrepid is a card-based wargame, which mixes classic area control mechanics (think Risk) with deck building (think Kill the arrow And Gloomhaven). So far it’s just stories set in the 1940s, with a string of hit games including Intrepid: Normandy, Intrepid: North Africa, Fearless: StalingradAnd Intrepid: Battle of Britain. That will change next year, according to an announcement shared Monday, which Osprey says officially takes the franchise in a “new direction.”

“Tensions have arisen between the conglomerate of major land-based companies that financed the base and the mining collective charged with operating it,” reads the product description. “Protests broke out, strikes were called and contracts were broken. Private security forces were hired, industrial mining vehicles repurposed for combat, and long-decommissioned military vehicles were reawakened. The battle for Callisto is about to begin: it’s time to choose your side.

Original designers David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin, along with (human) artist Roland MacDonald, have only shared a single image of the game’s art. It looks like a mix between BattleTech And TitanFall 2 with just a little The extent sprinkled for good measure. Importantly, it’s also a “big box” game, which could mean it incorporates some of the campaign mechanics found in Stalingrad. It is also said to include two-player, four-player, and single-player game modes.

As the hot summer turns into a pleasant autumn, Osprey has announced the change of its flagship board game franchise ahead of Essen Spiel, Germany’s largest board game convention. Expect to hear more as hands-on demos roll out this week.