Today marks the release of the latest D&D Miniatures expansion, Deathknell. Chock full of unholy walking dead (as seen in the numerous preview articles on the WotC site), the boosters for this set changed the rarity distribution of the figures. Now in each new salvo of minis gamers buy, there’s
Category: Miniatures Games
WARMACHINE builds in new outlet for emissions
When a miniatures game company has no regular release schedule of “codexes” or other such expensive modular books, the resulting buildup of fiction and photographs (what minis fans call “fluff”) can toxify and explode, resulting in a dangerous calamity of molten lead and resin. To avoid such an outcome, Privateer
Between the headgear and the rotting tongue, “arrr!” just comes out sounding like a broken telephone
Privateer has figured out how to improve on the now-hackneyed idea of the undead pirate crew: put a diving bell on one of their heads. AWESOME Seriously, these are great sculpts. I was a little let down not to see the actual ship, but I guess Privateer is still run
U.S.A.! U.S.A! Arrr! Arrr!
So Pirates of the Revolution will be standalone, which takes care of the slight no-core-set-in-print problem that Pirates of the Spanish Main is about to have. “New Events and Fire effects add depth to the game.” Setting ships on fire is awesome. There was this old PlayStation game called Shipwreckers
The grotesquely enormous hand of Chewbacca presents: ATTACKTIX!!
Hasbro is probably the only company that still has any chance at all of bringing off an action-figure combat game. Which is what they’ve just announced, even if they’re only half size. “Launching with Star Wars: Episode III toys, ATTACKTIX is a battle figure game that combines great action figures
CyborGladiators built for speed
The folks at Firefly Games want to bring more warriors into the fold, so they’ve made FastPlay rules for CyborGladiators freely available for download. The “futuristic arena mayhem” game’s FastPlay version comes with four pre-made cyborg warriors and an arena to slaughter them in. Naturally, the full version of CyborGladiators
Mike’s self-important year-end editorial: Do Market Research Or Die
Okay. We all know about the highest-profile product-launch disaster of the year. Let’s talk briefly about another launch, that of the Call of Cthulhu CCG. It went well, right? Sure it did. Well, except for that month or so when it wasn’t so easy for retailers to get starter decks.
Deathknell getting louder
The latest D&D Miniatures preview has a look at two figures from the upcoming Deathknell set. Displayed in the preview are the Couatl, a Lawful Good winged snake with powerful spells (one of which “can strip all creatures in a chosen warband of their Flight ability”); and the Griffon, the
Multi-eyed orb lurks at Gen Con SoCal
Apparently, one of the trophies at Gen Con SoCal’s Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures tournament had a sneak preview figure from March’s Deathknell set built right into it. Which one? Why, the Beholder, of course. The winner of the tournament has already posted the stats over at the WotC boards, and
WizKids announces how they will make cons suck in 2005
Specifically, with their newest round of convention-exclusive figures. The good news is that the largest one is for Mage Knight, which is unlikely to draw the greasy retailers out of the woodwork at this point. Or it will draw fewer of them, but they will be the very greasiest. Among
Amazon.com: your source for WotC product info
As EN World reported, several WotC products were added to Amazon’s catalog. Among the items listed was the July ’05 release of an Angelfire Booster Pack for D&D Miniatures, confirming our earlier suspicions, as well as the Legends Huge Pack, which has already been denied by WotC staff as incorrect
Next MLB SportsClix set bred for speed
The next set for MLB SportsClix has been announced, and Wiz Kids appears to be retooling the game a bit (see the press release below). Maybe if it weren’t as slow as real baseball games, and a single package contained enough pieces to actually play, gamers would play it more.
HeroClix: Still licensable
NCsoft is using the power of HeroClix to make its City of Heroes Collectors DVD Edition even more attractive to gamers. An exclusive Statesman HeroClix figure is part of the package, which also includes a fold-out Paragon City map, a novel excerpt, a unique in-game item, and trailers of the
A distant deathknell heard
A news update on the WotC website reveals that production samples of the next D&D Miniatures expansion, Deathknell, have reached the WotC offices. According to the story, “ettins, gold dragons, and a host of undead” are heaped on someone’s desk, as well as a mention of juggling big beholders (I’d
Warrior bugs ready to scuttle. Pixar not involved
Mongoose Publishing has pictures of the Arachnid Warrior Bug for the upcoming Starship Troopers miniatures game and RPG. Coming in a number of poses and pieces, minis enthusiasts can be sure their 30mm scale bugs won’t all be identical. The game is still on course for an early 2005 release.