Thinking Outside the Box

A bevy of new stuff has arrived at my door since the month started. In my excitement I didn't take much in the way of photos, but here's a quick recap. Mantic Games sent a combined package with the final pieces from the Dreadball Xtreme Kickstarter campaign. It included the season 5 and 6 books, loads of new teams, a campaign set, a lovely mouse-mat style Dreadball original board and all the stuff for building new teams and playing multiplayer in Dreadball Xtreme. The amount of stuff I have for these two games is embarrassing, and a little sad, since I've not played Xtreme yet despite having it in my possession since last December. That same package also included a few bits and bobs from the more recent Kings of War  second edition campaign. No army sets yet, but some tokens and templates, the KS-exclusive Blaine and Ronaldino the Bard all showed up. Additionally I received both the hardcover and the gamer's edition of the rule books. I have an older starter set ...

Yup more stuff from Mantic Games . I might as well be on their payroll for the amount that I talk about their stuff here on my blog. Heck I sorta wish I was. Maybe at least I'd get a discount or they could pay me instead of the other way around. Ah well, I digress. I'm not much of a fantasy gamer, but with all those Reaper Bones figures sitting around from their first campaign, I felt like I needed to do something with them. The only rules I have for fantasy gaming is  Song of Blades and Heroes , but I wanted something a little more structured, mainly because otherwise I'd take months just figuring out what figures to use in my war bands! With that in mind I was browsing over on Beasts of War  and I found a game play video of Dwarf King's Hold: Dead Rising . Sadly for me the game seemed to be out of print only year or so after it's release. The second core game,  Dwarf King's Hold:  Green Menace , is still available from Mantic but I wanted to start at the ...

For some strange reason I got it into my head that I was going to build as many figures as I could from my awaiting lead and plastic pile in February. I still haven't had a chance to set them up for photos but it's finally on my to-do list tonight. Anyway here's a quick run down of what I was actually able to put together. I was pretty happy with the total! - Deadzone : Enforcer starter pack (12 figures) - Deadzone : Plague starter pack + bonus models (17 figures) - Project Pandora : Veer-myn squad (10 figures) - Project Pandora : Corporation squad (10 figures) - Dwarf King's Hold - Ancient Grudge : Ghouls x7, Dwarfs x2 and Elves x2 (11 figures) - Sedition Wars : Keegan, Dekker?, Jade Lily, Akosha, Vade and Dead Space dude (7 figures) So in total it looks like 67 models put together in February. I've also primed the Deadzone figures, so I'm actually doing pretty well with getting that game on the table to some 'figure out the rules' games. I...