There will be a Master of Orion board game this year. Do I mean Eclipse? No, it’s an actual MOO licensed game.
This along with the remake of the PC version should be a … year for MOO.
Steve’s collection
Steve has been exposing people to his fantasy film collection during the ski trip, and so far here are the titles:
The New Barbarians
“It’s neither smart, nor original.”
Starcrash
With hottie.
Time Barbarians
holy shit.
Ator the Fighting Eagle
“Why can’t we marry?”
“Because we are brother and sister”
“I’ll talk with our father”
Massive armour and weapons visuals
If you are looking for examples of weapons and armor from across the globe in pictures, look no further than this Pinterest user. He has everything well categorized.
https://www.pinterest.com/magnusbarbadus/
This will answers stuff like:
What does a Gambeson look like?
What types of Morions were used in the English Civil War?
What did Landsknechts actually wear?
What’s the difference between a Dane Axe and a Lochaber Axe?
Moon Curse
From Milwaukee.
Visual Encumbrance useful for Lamentations
Click the image to go to the post for more info. Blu-tack, paper (maybe heavier paper) and a nice drawing pen and boom.
IDW lands Micronauts and ROM
Two big comics from my errant youth may be back in action– both TOY BASED and should have been total shit, but both the early Micronauts and the middle run of ROM were excellent. Yes yes, the endings of both series were quite bad, but at that point both had been handed off to various other teams and artists and it just naturally turned to shit. I’m very interested in what IDW does with these two. The plot of ROM was fantastic for one, and Micronauts wasn’t too shabby either.
The only worry for me is that Micronauts has had at least one reboot (not including Micronauts Voyages which killed off all the characters in the end) and it was awful, so we’ll see… Go Baron Karza Go!
Lamentations Exhibiting at Gencon 2017
Email this morning that is big news for fans of Lamentations of the Flame Princess here in the States– LotFP will be at Gencon 2016.
So the key thing here with a small publisher is to help fund this (James Raggi IV lives in Finland) by buying a bunch of stuff that you need to have. Buy it for yourself, buy it for people that are for some inexplicable reason do not yet play LotFP. There’s lots of small stuff, like shirts, and I love the bookmarks during play, so I buy a set with nearly every order, and you should too.
Buy Stuff here (real stuff)
Buy Stuff here (pdfs)
Necromunda – Cawdor vs Eschers
Got in a good shooting yesterday with the Scavengers scenario. Matt had a brand new Eschers gang vs my dead-hard Cawdor (with 4 games under their belt) and it was a bit of a slaughter, though in the end, both gangs had to start taking bottle tests which was surprising. The core issue was that the Eschers were full on close combat, and they had to move across some areas where they got shot up bad. Also, I had some crazy lucky rolling throughout the whole game.
Matt had the idea to use the Talisman cones (which are USELESS in Talisman) for the status of Overwatch, Running, etc. in Necromunda. I’m going to pull those things out and throw them in next game.
The new weapon from the community rules I hadn’t experienced before was the heavy flamer. That thing is super beast.
Shotguns can work well on overwatch.
This looks pretty good actually
Fantasy Flight is going to town with the Star Wars license and most of the stuff has been great if you like Star Wars a lot, which I don’t, at least in it’s licensed form. Everything outside of the (good) films seems to get super cheesy and overused. The fact is, compared to 40K or even something as generic as Forgotten Realms, there’s not a lot going on in Star Wars, so any user of the license has to stretch out everything– to the point where most of the LCG cards are just artified frames from some of the films. For example, a stub fighter to stub fighter battle game makes sense but the rebel capital ship fleet vs the imperials? It’s no contest at all and just seems ridiculous. It doesn’t help that every goddamn thing from the prequels sucks horribly as well because there at least are different factions instead of just two.
And of course, licensed games nearly always suck (there are notable exceptions!) so FF has an uphill battle with everything they make for Star Wars anyway and has done a great job so far. That said, Star Wars Rebellion looks like it could be good, with an interesting design that reminds me a bit of the old LoTR board game (very old) and Dune (with the Duels expansion). It may be one of those rare games like Star Wars Epic Battles, that both captures the feel of the films and is a good game to boot.
Pinterest’s new zoom search feature
It’s terrifying and awesome. Basically you see a picture you like and you can click on it, then you can search for more images LIKE that one by zooming in on a part of the image. While this could be very useful for just about everything, the obvious use is obvious.
of course I’m just searching for a camel-toe style bathing suit for Spring…
Seriously though, it’s pretty great for other stuff as well– really it is.