Escape From Arkham Asylum adds characters from James Gunn’s Suicide Squad

Knight Games adds characters from The suicide squad to his next Batman tabletop game. Earlier this week, Knight Games announced that Peacemaker and King Shark from The suicide squad would come to Batman: Escape from Arkham Asylum. The characters would not be playable characters, but will be part of the forces trying to keep characters like Joker, Harley Quinn, and Two-Face at bay. You can take a look at the Peacemaker and the King Shark below:

Batman: Escape from Arkham Asylum is an upcoming tabletop board game produced by Knight Games, the maker of the Batman miniatures set. Players will control one of Batman’s iconic seven villains as they attempt to escape Arkham Asylum. Each villain has their own unique abilities to help them bypass security and escape Batman, but players won’t be able to escape on their own. Instead, they will need to form temporary alliances to successfully exit Arkham. Characters confirmed for the game include Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane, Scarecrow, the Penguin, and Two-Face. Knight Games noted that they want Batman: Escape from Arkham Asylum be the “biggest Batman project ever on Kickstarter” and that the game would include several expansions. Character skins from other DC properties and games will also be used, such as character designs from the Arkham Asylum Batman video game series released by Rocksteady.

As the models are the same size as the models in the Batman miniatures set, it is possible that there is some kind of crossover between the two games. Knight Games has yet to say whether the games will have conversion rules for using miniatures from one game to another. A different Suicide Squad roster was previously featured in Knight Games’ DC Multiverse Miniatures Game starring Deadshot, Killer Kroc, Killer Frost and Deathstroke.

Batman: Escape from Arkham Asylum will launch this fall on Kickstarter.