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When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« on: April 02, 2014, 01:46:09 PM »

...I've decided that the release of Catalyst's IlClan sourcebook (print edition) will be the final addition to my collection.  Does anyody have any idea when the release date is?  I'm sure it was in one of Herb's battlechats, but don't have time to sift through the transcripts, let alone find them.

I just can't find an opponent locally, and pixels don't do it for me on megamek, although I'd love to try MWO (but I'd need a new computer, for about $1200).  And what the heck, I just realized today looking at Ben Rome's IlClan blog that I'd qualify for a pension.  Surely that's long enough to play any game.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2014, 02:00:58 PM »

You know that the Blogpost is an April Fool from Ben?
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2014, 04:42:09 PM »

Yup.  April 0 was the giveaway.  I didn't see it on my calender.

It just struck me that its been over 20 years playing.  So I think I'll close out my collection with the IlClan book.  No idea when it comes out?
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2014, 04:46:43 PM »

IlClan book?
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2014, 04:58:31 PM »

I think as of right now IlClan is not even projected for 2014, though it is on the "would be nice if we could clinch it for this year."
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2014, 07:45:22 PM »

Yup.  April 0 was the giveaway.  I didn't see it on my calender.


April 0?
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2014, 08:02:03 PM »

I'm guessing that was because of the 00 at the front of the link for the PDF. Beyond that, no idea. The date at the top of the blogpost says 04/01.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2014, 08:37:14 PM »

Whenever it's done.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2014, 09:12:46 PM »

It'd be nice to see it by GenCon.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2014, 09:16:13 PM »

Silly Americans, to my eyes that is the 4th of January.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2014, 09:18:35 PM »

Yeah, the sooner, the better but we can only wait util Ray gets all the parts and puts them together.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2014, 09:21:34 PM »

I expect the howling for certain quarters of the fan base will be epic.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2014, 09:33:19 PM »

I expect the howling for certain quarters of the fan base will be epic.

I wonder if that will be drowned out by the cheering of my bank account.
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2014, 10:04:21 PM »

I thought Lyran bank accounts were always noisy?
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Re: When is the "IlClan" sourcebook release date?
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2014, 02:08:14 AM »

Like I said, I know it was in a Battlechat transcript, but I'm not going to search for it.  But since I can't find an opponent and shoting pixels doesn't satisfy my craving for moving miniatures across a board I've decided to get into Dystopian Wars.  So IlClan will be it.

IlClan book?

According to the known plotline, one of the Clans conquers Terra.  (Ben Rome's blog had an April Fools day outline of such a book, seemingly plausable but suspect given the timing.)  Along with TRO: 3145, FM: 3145, Era Report: 3145 (and maybe another one, I forget), the IlClan sourcebook is supposed to lay the Dark Ages to rest before a time jump (hence the discussion of a 3250 setting; Herb said he liked the idea since it used the same numbers as 3025, sort of a nod to the early days of the game) with all-new material.

Since I can't play, the IlClan book ties up all sorts of loose ends from just after I started buying and playing the game.  I'll still keep up, but don't think I'll buy anything unless something changes.
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