Beyond the Sun Leaders of the New Dawn Release

[turtler7]

The expansion is coming to physical form soon!
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpa ... s-new-dawn
Word from the publisher is expecting the shipment to hit the US warehouse in March 2023 and then immediately be sent out.

The rulebook for the expansion is now available publically on the Rio Grande Games website.
https://www.riograndegames.com/games/be ... -new-dawn/
A few preorders have started showing up such as the one below being shared around the internet.
https://www.gamenerdz.com/beyond-the-su ... n-preorder

Thanks for the feedback and testing from the community on the rebalanced base game technologies as well as those that helped with the expansion prototype testing!

turtler7
a.k.a. Joseph Summa
Co-Designer of Leaders of the New Dawn

[BenInJapan]

Will it also be available on BGA?

[Phoxtrot]

As I understood back then (I may be wrong), we don't have the advanced faction sets because we didn't get the licence for that.
So I doubt that we will get licence for the expansion.
But maybe...
Or maybe they'll now be willing to give licence for the advanced faction sets given that the expansion can now act as incentive to buy the physical game.

Would also require some willing dev(s) of course...

[Mogri]

As I understood back then (I may be wrong), we don't have the advanced faction sets because we didn't get the licence for that.
So I doubt that we will get licence for the expansion.
But maybe...
Or maybe they'll now be willing to give licence for the advanced faction sets given that the expansion can now act as incentive to buy the physical game.

Would also require some willing dev(s) of course...

The situation was that the Rio Grande point of contact wanted to withhold some content to make a physical purchase more enticing. That individual has since left RGG, which is somewhat good news for the advanced faction boards except that it's bad news for the BTS adaptation more generally. In other words, if RGG were to bankroll more BTS development, it's entirely possible they'd sign off on the advanced boards, but it's less likely that anything at all will happen without him.

turtler7 is still RGG-affiliated and may have more insight, but he didn't reply in February, either.

[Phoxtrot]

The situation was that the Rio Grande point of contact wanted to withhold some content to make a physical purchase more enticing. That individual has since left RGG, which is somewhat good news for the advanced faction boards except that it's bad news for the BTS adaptation more generally. In other words, if RGG were to bankroll more BTS development, it's entirely possible they'd sign off on the advanced boards, but it's less likely that anything at all will happen without him.

turtler7 is still RGG-affiliated and may have more insight, but he didn't reply in February, either.

Thanks for the info.
So we will probably need to hope for a benevolent dev.

[Mogri]

Even with a benevolent dev, you'd still need publisher buy-in. They have to give permission for anything to make it onto BGA.