[slagthedrek]

On the Shadowrun.com site i saw mention of a miniature-based form of Shadowrun based off go-gangers in the works. Are we talking more old-school pewter minis or molded plastic? Fragging irritating and time consuming to find miniatures from the old days. Will there be a future run of minis just for the pen & paper? Some new "battle maps" maybe?

[Crimsondude]

It's called Sprawl Gangers.

It's a skirmish-level minis game.

It will include unpained plastic minis created by CoolMiniOrNot.

Here's the relevant section from the original announcement of The Year of Shadowrun:

Sprawl Gangers is a competitive, skirmish-level miniatures game for 2 players, with everything needed to game right in the box. Players will take on the task of building gangs (Ancients, Halloweeners, First Nation, and so on) following specific point values of a scenario, and modifying the various miniatures based upon what new resources (weapons/gear/magic/tech) a player gained through previous games. Gangs won’t simply fight for the sake of fighting, but will actively building their turfs and resources. Among other things, this will allow for the hiring of the exact right shadowrunner when they need that ace in the hole. All this adds up to the experience of watching your gang grow and expand through exciting play across a swath of games.

Sprawl Gangers will be sculpted and manufactured in conjunction with CoolMiniOrNot, who have run three of the most successful miniatures game Kickstarter projects to date: Zombicide, Relic Knights, and Sedition Wars.

“We could not be more excited to be a part of this new facet of Shadowrun. When we initially started talking about the possibility of doing a Shadowrun miniatures game with Catalyst, I personally jumped for joy. We have some big fans of Shadowrun in the Cool Mini family; so you know Sprawl Gangers will be receiving some major blood, sweat and tears from our staff. Old and new Shadowrun fans alike would do well to expect great things from Sprawl Gangers,” said Kevin Clark, Director of Research and Development at Cool Mini Or Not.

Here's the collection of subsequent announcements and updates about Sprawl Gangers that I've posted to the official Shadowrun tumblr.

[slagthedrek]

Hopefully they post some prototype pics or something, i'd like to see a higher level of modeling skill over the older generation of minis. Maybe something along the quality lines of Games Workshop would be fraggin' sweet!

[Crimsondude]

Well, look at what else CoolMiniOrNot makes.

[Black]

Its pretty good quality.  Its a good partner choice.  I suspect the shadowrun minis may be more like the zombicide minis than the Relic Knight minis... but mayne not.  Maybe somewhere in the middle (though th zombicide minis do look good.)  The ability to choose weapons etc makes be think that they have to allow customisation and assembling, like a games workshop mini.  But at this point in time, its all speculation and very much a wait and see.