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Mongoose has published their annual State of the Mongoose report and amongst a host of tidbits (which are really quite good if you like Traveller and Judge Dredd) was the announcement that Mongoose will not be renewing their license to the Babylon 5 property due to lackluster sales, effectively ending the Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (ACtA) and Babylon 5 RPG games. Instead, they will be re-releasing the A Call to Arms system using a different property (presumably developed in-house). This is a really interesting decision that will play out over the next few years – the ACtA system is generally considered to be an outstanding sci-fi miniatures system, but I have a feeling that the majority of people jumped on board because of the beloved Babylon 5 setting.
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The rules were ok, they seemed to capture the spirit of the series. Mongoose can’t seem to decide what they are doing.
As an aside, it seems like they just royally screwed over Iron Wind Metals.
Agreed – which is a shame, because I generally think of IWM as one of the good guys in the industry (what other company would have kept churning out Battletech for so long!).