Bandai Needs Gundam to Take Over Tabletop Wargaming

For years, the Gundam franchise has been persistently current in anime, video video games, and particularly gunpla kits. One other main show isn’t the one new factor coming to the favored mecha franchise—Bandai’s taking the enterprise to the world of tabletop video games.

Throughout this weekend’s Bandai Card Video games Fest, the corporate introduced Gundam Assemble, a tabletop recreation that sees gamers use 5cm figures to play totally different wargaming eventualities. Some are based mostly inside Assemble’s unique story, others “transcend” the franchise, however the general goal is for them to be acquainted but in addition distinct. The sport’s starter figures, which come out the field unpainted, every have their very own particular person talents, and span the sequence’ main beats, from the unique to regional favorites (Wing and Seed) and the final main sequence, Witch from Mercury. At launch, these figures are:

• RX-78-2 GUNDAM
• MS-06S ZAKU Ⅱ
• WING GUNDAM ZERO EW
• GUNDAM AERIAL
• KAPOOL
• ARCHANGEL

Tabletop gaming is a model new space for Gundam, which expanded final yr with a revived model of its collectible buying and selling card recreation. That is going to be a Gundam-heavy month, truly: together with that recreation’s North American beta hitting later within the month (forward of its full launch later in 2025), episodes from the upcoming Gundam: GQuuuuuuX anime are being recut right into a theatrical launch hitting Japanese theaters on January 17. The primary mannequin from that sequence, based mostly on its cool-looking cellular swimsuit, is additionally hitting someday this month.

As for Gundam Assemble? Bandai Namco hasn’t revealed a date for that but, but it surely mentioned to count on extra info—comparable to pricing, guidelines, and product specs—later within the yr.

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