Alongside the Civil War Campaign is our first large Narrative expansion. You’ll be able to take your Hero from a lonely wanderer to the champion of their own hold as they fight to protect their village from enemies, gain favour with the Jarl and stake their claim upon Skyrim. This expansion sees a focus on solo or co-operative play and introduces new story and game play elements such as campaign actions, resource management, troop recruitment and training, settlement building and defence, hero and unit development. See your small band grow and develop from mission to mission and follow your Champion’s own persistent personal quest. Chris has been working hard on this as a personal project, and it brings his vision of narrative play right to the forefront. We expect this to be arriving in the summer.



With all those new forces and great scenarios and narrative systems to play, we need something to fight over. So, our digital Dwemer have been hard at work sculpting some amazing Skyrim themed terrain. To start off with we will have resin upgrade packs for the markers and tokens in the Core Box. These include things like chests, puzzle pillars, levers and standing stones to replace the treasure and objective markers, as well as some other goodies such as the spiked pit trap, a magical glyph and trapdoor markers for all those Secret Paths. Alongside this we have our Bleak Falls Barrow Arches set which provides the iconic Nordic Arches that feature outside so many of the ancient Nord Barrows. Along with some scatter terrain these modular arches can be used together for a magnificent and spectacular complete arch or broken down into component pieces to provide some scatter terrain. The Double-Sided Gaming Mat features a Draugr tomb floor on one side, and a bleak Skyrim wilderness on the other. Later in the Chapter we also have our dungeon scenic sets that will include a Puzzle Door, Nord Tomb walls (with sleeping Draugr), ancient sarcophagi (with more sleepy Draugr), braziers and funerary urns.

To back of all of this up we will also be releasing community support and organised play packs, much as we do already for Fallout. These will be available for stores to run themed events with special, exclusive versions of cards and other goodies available. We’ll have one available at launch and our first themed pack available mid chapter.



So, that’s the plan for our first chapter, Civil War. It’s not the last chapter we are looking at. Our very tentative plan for the Skyrim Age (as this series of chapters is called) continues with Steam and Shadow launching around September and then at least three further chapters following through 2021. We’ll be introducing more factions as we move into each successive chapter, but also providing support for the existing factions as well.

Next time we’ll take a closer look at our first two expansion sets, The Adventurer Allies and Adventurer Followers.

By Gavin Dady