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  As part of a team effort to collect all the stats for creatures in the Dungeons and Dragons Chainmail Miniatures game, I recently bought the Zombie Minotaur new off of ebay.  It was a little expensive with a group of other minotaur models but given that GW charges 43 dollars for a single blood bowl minotaur now and this lot was for 4 models not really that terrible.I am not sure if

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   Games Workshop has opened the newest edition of Blood Bowl which they are calling the Third Season Edition for preorders to be delivered on the 16th of November.  This new edition has the Khemri/Tomb Kings vs the Bretonnians as the starter teams.  The Bretonnians have never had official miniatures but did exists as an alternative team while the Tomb Kings did have official

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 Mantic has released the Beta versions of the Digital Adventure Books for Dungeon Saga Origins so I will use that to provide an overview of the Dungeon Saga Solo/Coop Mechanics.Dungeon Saga Origins Digital Overlord Mantic refers to this as a Digital Overlord but it is better to think of it as a digital adventure book as that makes it clearer that it is not there to manage everything for

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 With all the Legion Imperialis Hotness going around, I got inspired to look at my old Epic stuff.  This then inspired me to look around for a few items that I did not have for my various armies.  While I had some Squat Land Train cars in a sealed blister, I lacked the base train so I found one for the collection.

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   The Dungeon and Dragons Chainmail game was an underloved Miniatures skirmish game from Wizards of the Coast.  They expected it to be huge like Magic and when it did not perform it was slowly cut and cut with each Set getting less and less available.  First set was in every gaming store.  Second set some stores.  After that the final two sets seemed to be hard to

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This cover image really brings me back to my youth.  It was the cover of the first White Dwarf I ever had and was also used for the Rules Expansion for Epic Space Marine.With Legions Imperialis filling up the feeds, I got inspired to look at my old collection and one item I lacked was a Classic Plastic titan.  Now these are not cheap anymore with the boxes going for hundreds of dollars.

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So with the new release of Legions Imperialis, I was interested in looking at my old Epic stuff.  Lots of discussion about the value in the new range compared to the original so I decide to post pictures of the boxes I have to show the contents.This box was released very soon after the Space Marine First edition box appeared as it is shown off in the back of my rulebook and Eldar and Orks

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So the Deathwatch Killteam looks pretty solid in the new kill team.  Good customization options still and you can build them with a inexpensive box.  They are a little light on wounds with only 5 models but even their base guys hit pretty hard in both ranged and melee.   While the Grey Knights are probably better than the Deathwatch due to their storm bolters and powers, the

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 Now I am a dedicated First Born player, so I stay away from Primaris lines but the very first data card from the Compendium is the Space Marine Intercessor who has 3 options for a ranged weapon.  They all share the same Bolter Standard Stat line of 4 Attack Dice BS: 3+  and Damage: 3/4 so the only thing changing is the special rules.  So the test here is just the average

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 So back in the day, I wrote several series working on various parts of what is called Mathhammer where you look at the probabilities of events in table top games.  I had a series examining 3rd edition space hulk and then a series looking at vehicle damage for 5th edition 40K asking how many missiles to the center of a Razorback or what it takes to crack on Chimera.  Now this

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 So I have started creating a set of pdf's which do the map and rule reveals for the Dungeon Saga Core game like I did for the Star Saga core game.  It is pretty late but they do not take that long to do since DS mission structures are simpler than those found in Star Saga which has lots of text to match different events during the game.  I will take some time to get through them

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So Catalyst Games Battletech Clan Invasion Kickstarter finally shipped Wave 1 rewards.  I late backed this and went with just Wave 1 stuff as I am just dipping the toes in and not going all in so to speak.  The Kickstarter came with a exclusive box but I sort of like the other box better.  Personally I was never much of a Clanner in the past as we mainly did Inner Sphere Mercenary

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 I created a set of pdf's early in the year to improve solo play for Star Saga.  Essentially the pdfs use internal hyperlinks to keep as much secret from the players until they have to know.  So it only shows you the map one room at a time.  It shows you only the terminal options available when you select a terminal and it lets you know if an item needs a search roll or has

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Heroes of Dolgarth Quest So with the New version of Heroquest coming, I though I would give the game another look.  I did not play it as a kid since it came out well after we were played Advanced Dungeons and Dragons in the theater of the mind.  The price point for the crowd funding is quite high, the rules are to basic for my desires, and I already have quite a collection of Dungeon

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So GW came out with a new one box game called Crypt Hunters which bits the Fantasy Ultra Knight type guys against ghosts.  It uses the same hex style map structure as Lost Patrol and many other similarities.  It is not totally a reskin as they changed the Stats on the models and how they attacks are resolved but it is very similar.  It is not a bad value for the game as it has

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With the Clan Invansion Kickstarter shipping soon people grabbing that box at retail might need some Inner Sphere mechs to curb stomp.  Those can be found in this box along with everything you need to play some classic Battletech in 3025. All the contents spread out nicely.  You get 8 mechs, so each side and have a lance with 1 light, 1 medium, 1 heavy, and  1 assault mech.

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 Mantic has now released their Terrain Crate 2 kickstarter to retail.  Most of it is designed around a modern time period but some of it might be useful in other games.  Here I look at how the Abandoned Factory Set scales and looks with Star Saga models. It pairs pretty nicely with some of the tile sets from the expansions.  The Devil's Betrayal and Blackstar Station sets have

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So I picked up the Battletech Beginner box a few weeks ago.  I detailed the contents here.  My idea was to give it a go with the kids.  I am pretty sure I started playing it at about the age my youngest is now.  The first thing I noticed from the beginner box is that the game has changed very little in its 35 years in production.  The beginner box has simplified rules

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So I used to play Battletech a long time ago.  I was an annoying little brother who tagged along with his older brother and his friends to play it.  We pretty much had everything but that was over 30 years ago.  I saw this box set on the shelf at the local bookstore which reminded me I did enjoy the game so I picked it up recently to give it a try with the kids.  This is

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So my youngest is now getting to the age where he can be taught Blood Bowl.  I have tried to teach people the game in the past but it takes a long time to play a game with a new player so I normal get through less than a half when I am showing it.  Blood Bowl 7s to the rescue.  With only 7 players on the pitch for each side and 6 turns per half with very limited rerolls, the

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Mantic has a tendency to just throw a lot of parts in a box or bag in their stuff which some times makes it hard to tell if you got everything.  I have gone through the kickstarter posts and collected images of the various parts and collected them here.  No images of the hard plastics as it is pretty easy to know if they are there or not.   Plastic Giant (Note that You get 6

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Now for Part II of the size comparison between the models in Blood Bowl 2016 and previous releases. From left to right I have aligned the 2nd Edition Plastics, 2nd Edition Lead, 3rd Edition Plastic, 3rd Edition Petwer and Finally the 2016 Edition Plastics. Blizters Blockers Lineman Throwers As you can see the size varation is more pronounced that with the Humans but also all over

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So the new edition of Blood Bowl dropped last month and I got a copy for my collection for Christmas.  One of the first things people commented on during the rumor and reveal time was that GW was following the Age of Sigmar path and increasing the size of the models.  I am sure this is only to allow more detail and not to try to get people to rebuy stuff so that it is not funny looking

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So GW has dropped the newest version of Blood Bowl, but it does seem a little lacking in teams.  Starting a league with only miniatures for 3 types of teams is a bit of a waste.  The LRB 6 rulebook which is very very similar to the new release has rules for 24 teams.  You can ofcourse convert teams out of other GW plastics.  There was a great set of images up on the

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My rules for creating your own Undead Bosses have appeared in the November issue of IronWatch.

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