Author: Chris S.

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Review: Power Rangers

I was never a Power Rangers fan.

I did have a crush on the Pink Ranger, Amy Jo Johnson, who later appeared on Felicity.

That said, I liked the new movie a lot.  Each of the Rangers had enough backstory to make you actually care about them. There was enough backstory in general that allowed you to jump into this movie with little or no knowledge of the Power Rangers.

Fans probably geeked out over things more than I did.

My favorite character was the Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston.  When we first meet him, you can tell right away that there’s something different about him, and he explains that he’s on the autism spectrum.  His performance in the movie was fantastic, pretty much stealing every scene that he was in.

The rest of the cast were great as well, the entire movie was carried by all of them, as a team, as it were.  It felt a bit like The Breakfast Club with the detention angle and how they all came together to work toward their common goal.

I actually grinned like an idiot when the original theme was played.  Like the whole movie was building up to that, and the scene it was played in.

And I happened to have my Icee cup in my hand when they showed a pair of cameos in the film, so I raised my cup in salute to them.

I was also surprised by the mid-credits scene, which I should have seen coming.

I may not be a fan, but I know some of the lore.

After the movie I saw the Blue Ranger Pop! Vinyl figure, but decided not to get it, because I would then have to get the other 4 Ranger figures.

Recommended by me.  It’s a lot of fun.

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Out of My System

Okay, I think I’m done picking up everything that I was interested in for the Batman Miniature Game.

After the announcement of Joss Whedon directing the Batgirl film, I decided to finally pick a Batgirl figure for the game.

There are two of them.

The Animated Series version
Not the Animated Series version

Both have their strengths and weaknesses in game terms, the Animated version is a bit weaker in terms of skills.

I couldn’t decide, so I picked up both.  I have 3 Batmen, after all.

And then I picked up this one to create a Birds of Prey team, with Black Canary:

And then late last night I picked up the Watchmen figures on eBay.

Basically, I’ve spent that small fortune that I was hoping to avoid spending by not getting this game in the first place.  Good thing I already got my tax return…

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Warfighter Update

Still have not played a game, busy as I’ve been with other stuff. *cough*Batman Miniatures Game*cough*

I did, however, purchase Tabletop Simulator and the downloadable content for Warfighter, which gives you the entire game PLUS all the expansions.  All for much lower than the physical expansions would cost.

But that didn’t stop me from getting a couple more physical expansions for my original game, namely the Support  and Eastern European Adversaries sets, and the Foot Locker.

UAVs and stuff
Gotta have my SAS boys stay close to home, ya?
Should be more than enough storage space, seeing that I’m not picking up all of the expansions, which this is designed for.

It was this video that sold me on the Foot Locker:

Well, this video and me discovering how shallow the current Warfighter box is.  As it stands now, the box will not close all the way.

Plans for my first game are still to take a squad into the South American jungles to find a drug cartel leader.

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Star Trek 50th

There were 29 episodes of the Original Series that premiered in the year I was born, 1967.  These were the voyages from the back half of Season 1 and the front of Season 2.

I haven’t written about all of them, just favorites of mine.  Perhaps I should have been doing them all along. Ah well.  I’ll continue blogging about my favorite episodes.

For the record, “The Alternative Factor” premiered 50 years ago today.

It was never one of my favorite episodes, truth be told, but it may have been the first time I ever heard of the idea of parallel universes.

And this was the first episode where one of my favorite ‘minor’ Enterprise crewmen got his first screen credit.

Eddie Paskey as Mr. Leslie
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Alternative Crew

Subbing in this guy for Adam West and Tim Drake Robin brings the total down to 334.

Which then leaves some points and monies for some gear.  The other list used up all available funding/money

I’m a little disappointed that there’s no Michael Keaton Batman figure.  But I’m more than happy with the Adam West and Ben Affleck figures, along with the ‘classic’ comic Batman.

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First Crew?

Playing around with Hero-Builder, I came up with what may be my first 350-point team for the Batman Miniature Game.  It actually comes up to 352 points.

Na na na na na na na na Batman!
With Robin, the Boy Wonder!
Gordon and his SWAT team
Redshirts, er, additional cops…
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Annoyed

Except for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, which wraps up season 2 next Tuesday, the rest of the CW DCTV shows are off until the week of April 24th.

*grumble*

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That’s Interesting, and It Figures…

Cracking open the Suicide Squad Box and it’s scaled down rule book, the ‘normal’ crew reputation/point total is 350 instead of 300.

Which makes perfect sense, since the two crews that come with the game are 348 (Joker’s Crew) and 350 (the Squad) points each.

It’s also interesting because of the funding rule, which grants a crew $500 per part of 150 reputation points.  At 300 points a crew would get $1000 total.  That additional 50 points grants $500 toward funding.

Funding is used to pay for additional equipment (extra weapon magazines, special gear) and for certain characters who have a cost to add them (hire them) to your crew.

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Duh

After reading all the rules (finally) from the Batman Miniatures Game, I began to sort out what additional markers and tokens I’d need in order to play.  It looked like I’d still need objectives and possibly more sewer counters and lampposts.

I checked online for these items, which appear sold out at the usual online spots, so I found a place in the UK that made custom counters specifically for the game.

As I was adding items to my shopping cart, I remembered that the Suicide Squad Box Set was coming in today, and in addition to the 2 crews (miniatures), the box includes:

– 2 full-color die-cut card buildings.
– 4 die-cut Lamppost markers.
– 4 die-cut Sewer markers.
– 8 Take the Lead counters.
– 7 Objective markers.
– 4 six-sided dice.

So that takes care of all the extra stuff that I need.  I had ordered the ‘Take the Lead’ counters before I ordered this box, so I’ll have more of those.  And more dice is always good to have.

One day I may actually watch the movie.