TriKing Games has announced a quarterly schedule for the release of 100-card expansions for its Anachronism trading card game.  Anachronism, which enables players to pit warriors from different cultures and time periods against each other (see 'Battling Across the Ages'), was launched earlier this year in conjunction with a battery of commercials on the History Channel. A second commercial is in production and it will support the quarterly release of 100-card expansions for the game, which continue with Set #3 in September.  Like all the Anachronism expansions, Set #3 includes warriors from four different cultures -- in Set #3 the civilizations represented include the French (Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, etc.), the Germans (Theodoric, Siegfried, etc.), the Scots (Rob Roy, Robert Bruce, William Wallace, etc.) and Native Americans (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Tecumseh, etc.).

Unlike most trading card combat games, the cards in Anachronism are not blind-packed -- customers can choose exactly which warriors to buy.  Each 5-card Warrior Pack (MSRP $6.99) includes a warrior card and four support cards.  There are no 'rare' or 'ultra rare' cards and every card is a foil card.  TriKing has also used historical experts with intimate knowledge of each culture and civilization to insure the accuracy of the information provided on each foil warrior and support card.

Set #4, which is due out in November, includes warriors from the Maori, Persian, Russian, and Irish civilizations.  Decisions about which cultures to include are based on fan requests to the Anachronism Website. 

The Anachronism cards are now available in seven languages and 31 countries.  TriKing has set up some 200 organized play programs in the U.S., and 100 in foreign countries.  So far the game is only available in the U.S. in specialty stores, although TriKing is doing some testing in the mass-market.