[Books] Skull Island eXpeditions - initial offerings
Earlier this year the company behind my current favourite wargame made a rather interesting announcement. Privateer Press were going to start their own publishing imprint to release fiction set in their Iron Kingdoms universe, the setting for Warmachine, Hordes, and the IKRPG. Under the name Skull Island eXpeditions (SIX) , their plan was to offer both novels and novellas based on all three of those games, exclusively in e-book format (distinct to their deal with Pyre to publish IKRPG novels in paper form), at a release rate of roughly one per month. I was very excited by this announcement. The 'fluff' in the Warmachine and Hordes books, whilst not the greatest example of creative writing in the world, is very enjoyable. The setting has so much potential for a wide variety of stories that's just waiting to be tapped, and people have been clamouring for fiction in the setting for years. Games Workshop have had an analogous publishing arm, the Black Library, f...