After all the hollering they put up about the cost of the base set, they will release it, per the news article (although they are really the French boxes and the English rules via PDF - sad way of doing it, in my opinion!!) :
www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=1690
And to think, 2 news items for Battlelore in one week - probably because of Essen!