Confrontation is back. For a certain kind of gamer, that sentence alone is enough. Rackham's gothic fantasy world of Aarklash, home to the much-loved Confrontation miniatures game before the French studio collapsed in 2010, is being revived by Monolith, and the first wave of new games has just been teased.
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Find events near youMonolith is the team behind big, component-heavy hits like Conan, Mythic Battles: Pantheon and Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, so it knows its way around a box full of minis. It picked up the rights to Aarklash and the sci-fi line AT-43 back in 2024, teaming with former Rackham lead designer Didier Poli and his Weirdloop studio to do the world justice.
The reveal, made on 1 June, lays out an ambitious slate. Incarnation is a two-player competitive skirmish game where heroes and elite warriors clash for the fate of the reborn world. Depths of Cadwallon is a dungeon crawler that sends misfits and treasure hunters into the ruins beneath the Free City. Both already have Gamefound pages up, so crowdfunding isn't far off. There's also a Cadwallon roleplaying game in the works with Modiphius, a lorebook called The Book of Aarklash, and a comics line, Stories of Aarklash.
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Set up your group for freeConfrontation has spent more than a decade as the game lapsed fans talk about wistfully, its metal miniatures hunted down on the second-hand market. A proper return, handled by a publisher with Monolith's production muscle and a designer who was there the first time round, is the kind of revival that doesn't come along often. If you want company for the campaign when it lands, find your people.
Sources: Tabletop Sentinel | Monolith | ICv2
