Thinking Outside the Box

Continuing my journey into the Batman Miniatures Game , we played another game over the weekend. We elected to play a 250 rep game. My opponent stuck with the Arrow crew: Arrow, Huntress, adding Ron w/ ammo, a Policeman w/ whistle and a Policewoman w/ whistle. I played my Bane crew again: Origins Bane, Mohawk w/ grapple, Smash w/ Titan, Dallas and Copperhead. We rolled the "Plunder" scenario and set up. I ended up with two lamps and sewers to Brad's one of each. The small number of lamps for the scenario was of benefit to me, as I'd have more room to maneuver without getting shredded by ranged fire from Arrow and Huntress. Both crews took riddle, loot and Titan as their objectives. Here are some game highlights: - The riddle tokens were attempted early. The first for each side were failed, but we didn't have any VP to lose. The other two netted 1VP for my crew. - Extra ammo was picked up by Huntress and Dallas. It became a question for me as to whether I si...

Part of my very first order from Knight Models for the Batman Miniature Game  was a set of their objective markers. Along with those first figures I also ordered a pack of the lamps and sewers which included three of each. I knew I'd want to be able to run demoes and games with my friends, so in a future order from Endalyon, I added another set of objectives and two more sets of lamps and sewers (the two-packs this time). There are seven of these total The first thing I painted for the game awhile back was that original set of objectives. Next I started in on the lamps and sewer tokens. I'd planned on leaving the sewer tokens without bases but once the lamps were painted something just didn't seem right, so I ended up basing everything. It works fine and they look decent enough. It's tough doing something interesting with plain old manhole covers. They look alright on the table, but strike me as a touch boring really...although they did photograph rather nicely. ...

I've posted a few times about Incursion  by Grindhouse Games . The campaign offered up some excellent looking figures and an update to a game I quite like. They (as most campaigns do) got caught with shipping and production delays, but things are finally here. It was a bit of surprise as I hadn't received any shipping notification. That's certainly not worth complaining about. Good job on getting the game out to backers folks! The box for the core game is massive and has a ton of stuff inside. With all the stretch goal zombies we got there is something like five dozen  zombies to use in your games. The Snafu expansion box isn't quite as large as the core game, although it is still a rather hefty package. Both boxes contain a copy of the new submarine tile as well as the new 'Assets' book. It's nice to see that all the extra items come in a standard size box with a nice tray. I've put the extra dice into the other boxes, but otherwise haven'...

We played another 200 reputation game of Batman Miniature Game last week. Brad chose to run his TV Arrow and Huntress duo against my crew of Arkham Origins Bane, Ted Hunter, Dallas and Smash w/ a Titan dose. Sadly the photos I had taken for this game got deleted. My riveting text description will have to suffice. We rolled the Skirmish scenario and set up our sewers, lamps and objectives. I deployed first, putting Ted on the West, Dallas on the East and Bane & Smash together in the centre. The middle of the board was cluttered with lampposts, but there were only two sewer markers on the table. The low number of sewers would make them nearly useless so I was able to ignore them and make the heroes come to me. I drew initiative first and had Dallas move up the East side. He was able to solve his riddle for 2 victory points but was then promptly taken out by Arrow in second round of play. The early loss of my best gun was disheartening but I tried not to let it deter me. Smash...

Next up we have the modular Tablescapes terrain tiles from Secret Weapon Miniatures  which arrived early last week. It feels like it has been a very long time since I put my money in on this campaign. Secret Weapon had HUGE delays in shipping due to some cash flow problems and short-ordering the number of tiles they needed to fill backer pledges. I think the most frustrating part for me was seeing people who had pre-ordered the tiles commercially receiving them nearly a year ago. I understand that mistakes do happen but it was challenging to stay patient. One thing to note would be that Justin at Secret Weapon was very transparent about the challenges he was facing with the product fulfillment, and that transparency bought him a lot of goodwill with the backer community. It's something that other companies running, or thinking about running, campaigns should think about. Even when things are going sideways, it's always in your best interests to tell your backers the truth ...

With all the hobby and gaming stuff arriving lately I've been trying to find ways to keep myself motivated. The mountain of 'stuff to do' keeps growing at a rate faster than I can manage. Keeping that in mind I started keeping track of the stuff I am accomplishing each month. A lot like working out, writing down what you did can help one maintain focus as you move forward. May Progress Report - Painted Martian Dreadball team (this included building 2 custom players out of the Mars Attacks wounded markers) - Built two packs of gas lamp posts for Batman Miniature Game - Stripped and began repainting base game figures for Guardians Chronicles - Stripped and fully repainted Heroclix Vindicator (Heather Hudson) - Painted "strumpet" figure from Reaper Bones line - Built Commissioner Gordon GCPD starter (4 figures) - Built Corrupt Cops GCPD starter (4 figures) - Fixed massively busted UNA Fire Toad for AT-43 - Built second token pack for  Batman Miniature Ga...