I was not sure if I was allowed to talk about this yet, but since the boss man mentioned it on Facebook, it seems I can :)

So Five Leagues Empires is the next stand alone 5X game, taking the scale bigger.

The theme is mercenaries: You play as the captain of a small but (hopefully!) growing mercenary band, recruiting new units and fighting for this or that employer. 

I will just give a feature list (in no particular order) so you can get excited:

* You can carry over characters from an existing adventure of course, or create new ones.

* Combat rules will be adapted (and streamlined a bit) for unit based combat. More emphasis on things like morale of course. 

* It will NOT be a rank n flank. You are fielding units of 4-10ish figures each and probably 2-5 such units depending on how the campaign goes. 

* New magic system for battlefield magic. Will there be a fireball spell? Only one way to find out.

* You will construct a keep that you use as your home base, as well as outposts when you are fighting in a particular operation.

* You will become at home in a region, with different factions struggling against each other. The campaign will consist of a number of smaller "operations" where you work for one employer for a while. The map may look different when you are done. Think of the operations as smaller sub campaigns. 

* You will also get to appoint comrades to roles like spymaster, quarter master and so on. Keeping a mercenary company running is a full time job!

More as things get closer to complete. This is just a quick tease.