Category: Miniatures Games

Net retailer The War Store has the scoop on impending price increases from GW. A box of ten plastic marines will now run you three dollars a model. The quality’s high and everything, but really. GW fans always complain, but when will the rising price of core GW games affect

First, I’m told that the kids like the Mad Cat. Second, rumor has it that WizKids will be announcing two major new combat-dial-based games at GAMA, not counting Crimson Skies. Speculation has ranged from the obvious (Shadowrun, maybe) through the sensible (something with spaceships, a Star Trek license?) to the

Privateer Press has announced the product line details for its greatly anticipated Warmachine miniatures combat game. This March, a year after our first glipse of the game at GTS ’02, the first in “an ongoing series of monthly product releases” will hit stores with all the brute force it can

OgreCave has received some email from a MechWarrior Battlemaster, telling us that store owners and managers who run MW events got a letter from WizKids recently, telling them they’ll have a chance to get a free Dropship if they attend a Q&A at GAMA. So presumably, the rest of us

GamingReport has a few probable details about the upcoming “big figure” for MechWarrior, a dropship that’ll hold four full-size Mechs inside and have five combat dials of its own. MWRealms hasn’t picked up the story yet – maybe they don’t do rumors? – but they do have a story about

In other Games Workshop news, we’ve been given a first look at some of the miniatures from the first Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game supplement Shadow & Flame, due in stores June 2003. The picture shows Balin and his dwarf guard, painted in the always-excellent GW style.

The MW Fire For Effect expansion is getting ready to hit you where it hurts (yes, I mean your wallet. What did you think I meant?) in February. The boosters-only expansion introduces new rules and figures for Artillery, Mercenaries, and Transport Vehicles. All I want to know is, does anyone

Didn’t expect this to happen so fast, but I got to play my first game down at Endgame today. (Actually, I’m still there, posting from the back room. Matt asked me to say “These postings brought to you by Endgame,” but I said no. Then he slipped me a twenty.)

If you care about collectible miniatures, you were all over this a couple days ago, but if not, hey, we’re here for ya! WizKids has posted a lengthy, chatty article about the new collectible BattleTech, now actually titled MechWarrior: Dark Age, which contains more than a few things I didn’t