Heroclix is pretty cool, but the gameplay is still limited by its simplicity (the thing that makes it good by the way).

To maintain that Imperial Assault feel, I think, now that Knight Miniatures are no longer doing a Marvel miniature game, it opens up for FFG (who already play nicely with Disney), to pick it up. Roll out 3'x 3'maps of city streets and the like, a few tokens to represent moveable/breakable terrain like cars and such. I could see this type game of game take off.

Harry Potter universe would be awesome. It's not like you couldn't set it at Hogwarts, either - if you reinterpret the combat mechanic to something more generalized, like spellcasting, there are all sorts of situations that would make for a great mission! And the "leveling up" mechanic makes a lot of sense in a school environment too. But if you wanted to keep the life-and-death stakes, you could definitely just be fighting deatheaters, monsters, or some other evil wizard group that the designers make up.

LOTR would be a lot like Descent... but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be amazing

There's a similar game, with the 1 v Many and campaign style, set in the TMNT universe: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/180771/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shadows-past . So it seems like a superhero-themed version could work well too.

A Western one would be pretty great too, but I wonder if the characters would be diverse enough to work. Maybe you'd have to add some twist, like some sort of alternate-history western, or magic-infused western.

Anyone here read the Redwall series? I'd totally play a Redwall version of Imperial Assault (and yes I know Mice and Mystics is a thing. It's not the same )

On a similar note to @Stompburger 's post above, I think it'd be awesome to have a new Western Universe or Knight's Universe game where the figures/deployments had the ability to level up 1 or 2 times over the course of the game. Some kind of game where melee was easily 80 to 90 percent of the figures and ranged/magic was powerful but not overwhelming - would be a lot of fun. But they're running runewars already (I haven't even begun to keep up with how it actually works). I'd be interested more in something like Braveheart.

Speaking of which - a WWII themed squad based mini's game would be interesting too. Not tanks though since there's already that out there. But honestly, I can only stick with one competitive game and I'm glad it's Imperial Assault.

Starcraft (or Warcraft) universe would be fun. I mean, there are already plenty of heroes and regular troops from lore and previous games.
It even has a lot of large base/small base model differences available (Starcraft: Siege tank, Goliath, Reaver, Ultralisk etc)
Banelings would explode like the probe droids (but when they move into an enemy space), zerglings would be speed 6 but 1 die attack or something. Zealots would have pierce automatic due to warp blades. Dragoons can blink... Battefield wise, you could fight on Char, Aiur etc.

I think you could make it would work. It might be close to IA, but different enough.
I know there is already a starcraft board game, but I never played it, so unsure if this is similar or not.

not sure if they have licence for LOTR, lately i've seen only card games from FFG and Ares is publihing board games....But would love to see LOTR game with similar mechanics. And it would be different enough from Descent. This actually may be an option since they already have a lot of artwork done with LOTR LCG

What i would love to see

1) LOTR or

2) Diablo (from blizzard, that would be a must buy for me, instantly. And it would be way better that DOOM. It would be different enough from Descent as well)

3) Warcraft (similar to number 2, but with way more variety. Maybe too similar to Descent thou)

4) Startrek (would have so much possibilites with different races, planets, etc)

14 hours ago, DeepOneRisen said:

Team Covenant asked what intellectual property people would like to see brought to the table top, and my response was The Legend of Zelda in the same vein as Imperial Assault. It's naturally a campaign style game. Plus a lot of iconic main characters and great secondary characters for ally and villain packs, and great monsters, big and small, and races for the more trooper type packs and expansions that would provide variety for skirmishes.

That would be pretty neat. Each campaign story mission could be a temple, with side missions taking place outside, or something. I can dig it.

I wouldn't even mind a Smash Bros version, with just a team of iconic Nintendo characters facing Goombas, Deku scrubs, Team Rocket, and more. Though, knowing Nintendo, this thing would get a ton of hype and then they'd print like 20 copies.

13 hours ago, ThatJakeGuy said:

I was insanely sad when I saw that the XCOM game was not an IA style tactical game but a strategic sim. I really want to get my Assaults and Snipers leveled to the nines and wreck xeno faces.

THAT would be insane. I'd love for an XCOM IA-style game, but missions can be chosen on a world board, where larger battles can play out, too. That way, it would really feel like your missions were part of some bigger effort.

HALO.

...drops mic

Still fantasy, like Descent or LOTR, but Discworld could be cool! Not many distinct factions to base it around, but if you started in Ankh Morpork you could have various members of the Guard as player characters trying to keep the peace and uncover nefarious plots! Keeping the light hearted comedy tone would be the really tricky bit, though...

4 hours ago, Soulflame said:

Starcraft (or Warcraft) universe would be fun. I mean, there are already plenty of heroes and regular troops from lore and previous games.
It even has a lot of large base/small base model differences available (Starcraft: Siege tank, Goliath, Reaver, Ultralisk etc)
Banelings would explode like the probe droids (but when they move into an enemy space), zerglings would be speed 6 but 1 die attack or something. Zealots would have pierce automatic due to warp blades. Dragoons can blink... Battefield wise, you could fight on Char, Aiur etc.

I think you could make it would work. It might be close to IA, but different enough.
I know there is already a starcraft board game, but I never played it, so unsure if this is similar or not.

The Starcraft board game is really great, but it's an area control/resource management game and nothing close to Imperial Assault. Of all the properties listed in this thread for an IA-like game, though, this is the one that appeals to me the most by far. There are already so many cool units to choose from and the setting would lend itself really well to either campaign (lots of missions infiltrating bases or whatever) or skirmish (big battles between two or more sides).

Mass Effect would be my second choice, although I don't think that universe would lend itself to this kind of game quite as well as Starcraft would.

What about westerns? Firefly would be freaking awesome in this format. Other popular sci-fi westerns?

Ooooo! Men in Black!!

7 minutes ago, macmastermind said:

What about westerns? Firefly would be freaking awesome in this format. Other popular sci-fi westerns?

Ooooo! Men in Black!!

As I caught up on this this thread I was thinking how happy I was to see that no one mentioned Firefly, but then I get to the last post. Understand that I love Firefly, and I absolutely agree that it would work (be awesome) in this format, but I have an issue with how hard people are trying to make Firefly stuff out of everything, Firefly the boardgame, Firefly loot crates, Firefly the card game, Firefly the flamethrower... The show came and went 15 years ago; I just wish people would let it go.

I would play the hell out of a Firefly themed dungeon crawler though. Shamelessly.

Perfect cast/premises don't come along that often. People miss it. It's probably way more popular now because it was cancelled...

12 hours ago, Stompburger said:

Harry Potter universe would be awesome. It's not like you couldn't set it at Hogwarts, either - if you reinterpret the combat mechanic to something more generalized, like spellcasting, there are all sorts of situations that would make for a great mission! And the "leveling up" mechanic makes a lot of sense in a school environment too. But if you wanted to keep the life-and-death stakes, you could definitely just be fighting deatheaters, monsters, or some other evil wizard group that the designers make up.

LOTR would be a lot like Descent... but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be amazing

There's a similar game, with the 1 v Many and campaign style, set in the TMNT universe: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/180771/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shadows-past . So it seems like a superhero-themed version could work well too.

A Western one would be pretty great too, but I wonder if the characters would be diverse enough to work. Maybe you'd have to add some twist, like some sort of alternate-history western, or magic-infused western.

Anyone here read the Redwall series? I'd totally play a Redwall version of Imperial Assault (and yes I know Mice and Mystics is a thing. It's not the same )

Redwall rules, but I don't know if that's the right fit.

Am I allowed to be grumpy and say I don't think many of these are even remotely possible? And personally I also think FFG are over stretched as is, with a fairly slow release schedule. I really just want them to create more content and faster for the current ranges!

LOTR is the obvious choice but there's too much overlap with Descent, as others have mentioned, and There would be a real risk everyone just used the GW models which can be picked up pretty cheap...

The superheroes theme is the one that could work - fantastic scope for character development, and for different types of villains. Actually, the more I think about it the more I like that idea ?

4 minutes ago, ellhaynes said:

Am I allowed to be grumpy and say I don't think many of these are even remotely possible? And personally I also think FFG are over stretched as is, with a fairly slow release schedule. I really just want them to create more content and faster for the current ranges!

LOTR is the obvious choice but there's too much overlap with Descent, as others have mentioned, and There would be a real risk everyone just used the GW models which can be picked up pretty cheap...

The superheroes theme is the one that could work - fantastic scope for character development, and for different types of villains. Actually, the more I think about it the more I like that idea ?

Absolutely, I think that any single idea pitched here is unlikely- but it's possible (if not even probable) that FFG will experiment with the formula a bit in the future. After all, I never would have assumed we'd get a Doom clone of descent until it was announced.

Totally agree about super heroes. I'm probably not the biggest superhero fan, but I think it's a dead on fit.

Disney own Star Wars. FFG makes many very successful Star Wars minis games.

Disney own Marvel. Knight Models conspicuously had their licence removed... hmmm....

28 minutes ago, jonboyjon1990 said:

Knight Models conspicuously had their licence removed... hmmm....

Did they? I hadn't known that. That's very interesting.

If there is a Marvel IA-style game, I hope the main box doesn't give all the movie Avengers away at once in the core box. First six heroes could potentially be: Iron Man, Spiderman, Hulk, Scarlet Witch, Wolverine, and Black Widow.

That way, you have a good variety of bruisers (Hulk/Wolverine), tech (Iron Man), speed and acrobatics (Spiderman/Black Widow), and magic (Scarlet).

Could be some really cool expansions, too- Cosmic themed, SHIELD themed, Asgardian, etc. Dang, now I do kind of want this.

8 hours ago, subtrendy said:

Did they? I hadn't known that. That's very interesting.

If there is a Marvel IA-style game, I hope the main box doesn't give all the movie Avengers away at once in the core box. First six heroes could potentially be: Iron Man, Spiderman, Hulk, Scarlet Witch, Wolverine, and Black Widow.

That way, you have a good variety of bruisers (Hulk/Wolverine), tech (Iron Man), speed and acrobatics (Spiderman/Black Widow), and magic (Scarlet).

Could be some really cool expansions, too- Cosmic themed, SHIELD themed, Asgardian, etc. Dang, now I do kind of want this.

Yeah I think it all stopped a few months ago:

http://www.beastsofwar.com/knight-models/knight-models-longer-creating-marvel-miniatures/

I think that we have teritory of fantasy covered by Descent, and space-based s-f by Imperial Assault. It would be good, if new game was in another genre.

It could be superheroes maybe, but I will not buy it. Better proposal - something Western style. It could also be game in the near future, with cyber-implants and so on.

But for me personally, the best thing would be Cthulu Mythos or World of Darkness setting, or something similar. I mean, people from XX, or XIX, or XXI century fighting against monsters and their supporters. In case of Cthulu-like game, fight could be taken against cultists, zombies, Deep-ones and migos, and Ancient Ones could replace Imperial Classes. In case of World of Darkness, fight would be, for example, against vampires and their servants.

7 hours ago, Jarema said:

I think that we have teritory of fantasy covered by Descent, and space-based s-f by Imperial Assault. It would be good, if new game was in another genre.

It could be superheroes maybe, but I will not buy it. Better proposal - something Western style. It could also be game in the near future, with cyber-implants and so on.

But for me personally, the best thing would be Cthulu Mythos or World of Darkness setting, or something similar. I mean, people from XX, or XIX, or XXI century fighting against monsters and their supporters. In case of Cthulu-like game, fight could be taken against cultists, zombies, Deep-ones and migos, and Ancient Ones could replace Imperial Classes. In case of World of Darkness, fight would be, for example, against vampires and their servants.

It sounds like you might be interested in the game Shadows of Brimstone, at least based on the theme. I've never played it (so I can't speak to how good/bad it is) but from what I understand it's a dungeon crawler set in an old west world where things are being corrupted buy tentacle-y eldritch creatures.

Game of Thrones

Spongebob

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In all seriousness though, someone mentioned Discworld.

I'll add Masters of the Universe, Red Dead Redemption and Shadowrun.

Edit: and L5R

Just realized what they are going to do... Legends of the 5 rings. They just started with that franchise with LCG, next one should be something like this, with so much more potential to do whatever they want...

I'm sorry @AleksDj

I just editted L5R in, literally 15 seconds before your post. Or after. It just showed your post later.

Just now, Nurgle23 said:

I'm sorry @AleksDj

I just editted L5R in, literally 15 seconds before your post.

lol, great minds think alike