I just have one questions.

Will the 2nd edition have the same items(Miniatures,Maps,Tokens,Rules,etc.) as the first edition or completely new ones?

I don't have the game yet,so I want to know if I should buy the game now,wait for the 2nd edition,or buy both.

Will FFG be releasing the Tannhauser: Field Ops cardgame as well?

Honestly, a more intuitive & streamlined rulebook and use of character-pack cards like those produced by Universal Head at www.headlesshollow.com instead of the wacky, fiddly token system go a long way to overcoming some of the clunkiness of out-of-the-box Tannhauser.

Additionally, I'm intrigued by adding more factions as well as scenarios pitting three or more factions. While this game scales in so-so fashion to more than two players, it is not substantially conducive to that experience.

And, in the "while we're dreaming" department, I too would be interested in an RPG in this setting, as well as a larger-scale miniature battle game and some novels or graphic novels exploring the atmospheric setting. Heck, I'd settle for permission to write them ;-)

Be looking forward to the new stuff,Tannhauser got a lot of interest with my group which died off due to lack of support.

I hope that the acquisition of rights will speed up the production time on character expansions.  I don't mind waiting a year between "big box" setting expansions to a game, but I'd like a character pack a quarter just to increase the variety of choices my friends have as to who they can be as characters.  Additionally, the minis work great in "weird wars" style rpg games and the more the merrier.

Good news. Tannhauser does look like a very good game.

Roleplaying Game of this please!!

I am happy that FFG have taken over the IP and hope expansions will come sooner rather than later. I also think there are some fundamental issues with the game and it would be great if whoever is taking the lead on these at FFG could maybe interact or at least read the comments on the two forums below. I think there is a real opportunity here to freshen up Tannhauser & I always believe it is better to have the pain of change up front than a U turn later on.

new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp

www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/434053

This news makes me smile. I've played this over at a friends how and thought . . . awesome game . . . just needs a little work. Now I see that will happen . . . and I also see myself buying this soon after.

 I love the game, love the system, and would gladly pay many times its cost for additional maps, figures and mission packs.

Great Move FFG, lets make the most out of this very interesting IP

GS

Thank you FFG.  Thank you.

This is fanatastic news!  This is a great game, and having more timely expansions will help keep it fresh and help it live up to it's potential.

Thanks FFG!  Excellent work!

Figure packs are what I want to get details on ASAP. And I wouldn't mind seeing FFG doing away with the Pathfinder System, to allow players to more easily come up with their own maps and scenarios using tiles from other games such as Doom.

I wonder how innovative FFG finds the Pathfinder LOS rules to be. When I first read of them, I figured it would work fine, but then getting the oh-so-dark gameboard and having difficulty distinguishing the various colors unless under optimal lighting soured me on it. That and the fact that so many of the paths were so obvious being single-wide corridors . But I digress from the news.

Would be nice to see the Daedalus board offered at a nicely low price as a way to say thank you to patient fans and welcome new players in.

This was awsome news! Im a new tannhäuser owner, and i think it rocks (if you get through the painfully bad manual).

 Sorry for the double post (and grammar error)...just that excited I suppose  ^_^