Reading the Pendraken forum on the Blitzkrieg Commander III topic, Pendraken have made a final decision on what will happen with BKC III. The poll run in in the Pendraken forum was clearly in favour a full reprint of BKC III. As I have had a chance to look through the rules, finally, more closely, I can see why this is necessary.
This is commercially a difficult decision for Pendraken as they have decided:
- to pull PKB III from sale
- to provide a copy of BKC III.1 when it is produced
- to attempt to do it all over a three month period
It will of course cost Pendraken moneywise but I can only applaud Pendraken for their commitment to quality. Pendraken notes with regards to their next steps:
The immediate job is to get to work on revising BKC-III into the rulebook we were all hoping for. The army lists will be our starting point, reverting those back to BKC-II and then tweaking and editing them where necessary based on previous BKC feedback. Second will be the scenarios which will also largely revert to BKC-II, unless anything comes up from our new team that requires a change/tweak. And then from there we’ll go through the actual rules of the book, page by page, doing one of three things:
- Leaving as is
- Clarifying/amending to make it work better/properly
- Reverting back to BKC-II.s:
Pendraken have build a core of people, experienced playtesters and members of the original feedback team for earlier versions of BKC. Pendraken are also accepting comments from BKC users on the forum on:
- What is the issue?
- What would be the fix?
- What other areas of the rules would this fix impact on?
- What questions does this issue/fix raise?
Lastly, Pendraken noted on the time they expect to take on this,”We want to get this done as quickly as possible, so we’re setting ourselves a timescale of 2-3 months to fix everything”.
Personally I think that is a very aggressive target. I hope they can meet it but I expect it will drift as they get into trying to fix some of the rules that appear to be broken.
have they said what would happen to those who have bought a PDF version from wargames vault?
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It will be replaced by the new edition through the Wargame Vault update prices at no charge.
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Have to applaud them for the action, it is a pity they didn’t check before printing….
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I think there was a disconnect between the guy doing the rules update and Pendraken and Pendraken had just trusted and left him to it.
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