Category: Miniatures Games

If you haven’t seen this yet, and you’re a collectible minis game player, you should have a look. If you’re not a CMG player, you should still have a look. essay bank Damn funny.

You’ve only got one day left to wait for Indy HeroClix. Well, one day left if you’re going to DragonCon in Atlanta, that is. A limited stash of the new CMG addiction will be available from WizKids at the con, so if you plan to be there, get your starter

Want more Shadowrun figures and want ’em now? Nyaah nyaah. Now they aren’t coming until December. All the schedule changes can’t be endearing WizKids to their fans, but at least the company is starting to show signs of knowing its limits.

Firefly Games, the fine company that brought us Monster Island, is expanding a bit to prepare for greater things to come. To that end, the company announced its new Marketing Director, Christina Stiles. Yes, you’ve probably heard her name around before. Click the link below for more details.

Longtime CBT novelist Loren Coleman is apparently now officially in talks with WizKids to write BattleTech/MechWarrior fiction to be delivered to subscribers at his BattleCorps website. Online delivery makes perfect sense for fans of this kind of material, who know exactly what they want and who they want it from.

I am dimly suspicious that we already knew about this in some way, shape, or form, and I didn’t report on it because I didn’t think it was all that big. But, still. Mage Knight 2.0 features an overhauled combat dial format, as well as new collectible pieces for terrain,

If you lust for the Warmachine, stay up late on Thursday night and get your order in for the new, not-in-stores-for-a-while box, chock full of “Magnus the Traitor and his personal battlegroup”. They’ll also be selling the box at Gen Con, natch. On a side note (literally), the Iron Kingdoms

A friend ordered me to find out about something called Solaris VII at the WizKids tournament space at Origins. Turns out that it’s a set of unofficial alternate rules to make MechWarrior a fast, brutal game for mechs only. It’s named after the BattleTech universe’s “arena planet,” written into the

No joke. Read the press release. “The acquisition of WizKids represents an important step in our strategy for growing the Entertainment segment of the business as it provides efficient entry to the growing collectible games market.” Anyone else got a feeling we’ll see two or three new licensed games from

The spittle is already flying over WizKids’ just-announced changes to its organized play program. The “storyline” marquee tournaments will be less frequent, and the LE figures will generally be a little more L, if you know what I mean. Predictably, nobody on the Internet appears to be happy with this.

With Shadowrun: Duels releasing in just five days, WizKids is continuing to preview figures from the action figure combat game. The latest fig being shown off is Liada, an elf with major magic potential. That would’ve been nice as backup in the tournament at GTS, but Kyushi did just fine