![]() “You’ll be visiting and solving some problems," he says. Gusev gives the example of Janus, a lush, jungle-covered ‘Agri-World’ that was founded by one of your ancestors. The Koronus Expanse itself is just a small square of the overall galaxy, but since the galaxy itself is massive, great swathes of star systems and planets are still explorable. Rogue Trader, says Gusev, isn’t Rogue Trader without a star map. To this end, you’ll be exploring the part of the universe known as the Koronus Expanse on your own ship, navigating between planets. It allows us to show a more peaceful - well, I shouldn’t say peaceful, but the civilian life - it’s something truly unique.” What happened there before the state of only war, before the grimdark future? What civilisations inhabited this space and died there? And you can find their remnants. “It allows us to give a spotlight to a part of the 40k universe that isn’t covered as often as others. The team started on these tabletop campaigns during development on Kingmaker, says Gusev, and noticed a lot of similarities to Pathfinder’s ‘Stolen Lands’ setting. "It allows us to show a more peaceful - well, I shouldn’t say peaceful, but the civilian life - it’s something truly unique.” "By the time we pitched this idea to Games Workshop, we were already playing 3 campaigns, two of them in Rogue Trader, and one a Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader Hybrid.” “We’re huge fans of Rogue Trader in its Fantasy Flight variation," says Gusev. While Paizo’s Pathfinder tabletop roleplaying game served as the major inspiration for the studio’s previous games, this time around it’s Fantasy Flight’s tabletop adaption of the Rogue Trader setting providing the backbone. Where a figure appears in the 1988, 1989 or 1991 catalogues, the details are shown in the figure description.Rogue Trader is a “classic RPG” in the vein of Owlcat’s previous Pathfinder offerings, says Gusev, which means companions and character development - both in a literary sense, and through RPG systems. Within each group, the figures are listed in order of release. From the 1995/6 Catalogue onwards, the races were more closely linked together and the "odd" figures had largely disappeared.Ĭonsulting the Rogue Trader Adventurers, Mercenaries & Pirates - Collectors Guide and the Imperial Guard To 1994 - Collectors Guide may also be helpful.Īn attempt has been made to group the different types of figures together. This Collectors Guide is an attempt to cover all such figures from the first release of Rogue Trader in March 1987 up to the 1994 Catalogue. These included Adeptus Mechanicus, Psykers, Assassins and Inquisitors and were loosely grouped together as "Forces of the Imperium: in the 1991 Blue Catalogue.Īs was common in that period, figures were released as part of one range and then re-appeared shortly thereafter as part of another range. When Rogue Trader was first released the Imperial Guard and Space Marines were grouped together as Forces of the Imperium and through until around 1992, there were a number of figures released which were loosely grouped as being part of the Imperial Forces but which did not clearly fit into the Imperial Guard, Space Marines or any other of what became the 40K races. ![]()
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