VBAM Development Update - May 30, 2025

Work is continuing on future expansions for VICTORY BY ANY MEANS! Here's a brief update of the status of those projects that are in active development.

UNCHARTED TERRITORIES (UT): This expansion covers advanced optional rules, including rules for creating your own alien empires. It is currently in development, and is about 70% complete. The new campaign and optional rules are complete and in playtesting, and I'm currently working on finishing up the force list for the last alien empire and then then will need to finish the historical scenarios. At that point the book will be ready for a final round of playtesting and review. 3d ship models have been completed for two of the seven alien empires in the book, after which point I will be able to move on to finishing the interior art. It's looking like this should be released by August 2025.

ALONE IN THE STARS (AITS): The solo campaign expansion for VBAM, this book includes rules for Non-Player Empires (NPE), Minor Powers, and exploration campaigns. The draft for this book is mostly complete but work has not begun on layout, although that is going to start before too long. Playtesters are already working on testing the rules, so this book should be able to release not long after UT, which would put it releasing around September or October 2025.

CARRIER WARS (CW): This mini-supplement focuses on carrier warfare and fighter operations in your VBAM campaigns. It will introduce a number of new fighter special abilities, one new fighter type (ultralight fighters), and include other rules that expand your available fighter combat options. This book is currently in layout and awaiting final art for the three alien empires that will be included in the supplement. This book is getting close to release, and is waiting for campaign scenarios and maps along with ship art to finish it off. Estimated release date for this is in August or September 2025.

We have a number of other books that are in various stages of development, so our development queue is full of new content to keep VBAM players excited through the next year.