WizKids has announced that it will be launching a new iteration of its Approved Play program in July 2002.  A Mage Knight league system, Mage Knight Campaign, is being launched in the new program in addition to tournament events, which will continue.  According to WizKids Promotions and Community Development Director Lucas McWilliams, the league program that was announced in November for launch in January (see 'WizKids creates New Organized Play System') has evolved into the Campaign program, now set for a July launch. 

 

Mage Knight Campaigns will run in monthly units, each featuring four weekly battle scenarios.  The new format will align each player with one of two sides for each campaign, and will allow league results to drive the story of The Land, Mage Knight's fictional setting.  

 

Retailers hosting Campaigns will receive a monthly Campaign Kit, which will include the following league support items:

• Flyers
• Prizes, which will include exclusive Limited Edition (LE) Figures and enamel pins for weekly champions and fellowship winners.
• Scenarios
• Redemption coupons for all participants for exclusive LE figures and enamel campaign pins representing the Warlord they fought for during the campaign.

 

Beginning in July, the monthly Campaign Kit will also become the way that materials for the regular WizKids tournaments are supplied.  Each month, retailers will be able to go online and select the events (league or tournament) they plan to run that month.  WizKids will then send them a Campaign Kit with the appropriate materials, including p.o.p. items. 

 

WizKids also promised a similar Mechwarriors league program to begin in September.  Asked whether Marvel HeroClix would receive the same treatment, McWilliams replied, 'At this time we have no plans for a HeroClix campaign.  Campaigns are designed to help promote and drive the fiction behind the Mage Knight and MechWarrior worlds.  We would have no way to affect the fiction or world of comic book superheroes used in the HeroClix system.'