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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.

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DCUMG

I noticed that Knight Models is using the stylized ‘JL’ logo from the Justice League movie in the iconography for the DC Universe Miniature Game.

I’m hoping that means that I’ll eventually be able to pickup a Jason Momoa Aquaman figure for this game.

I dig it.

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DC Universe Miniature Game

I finally took a look at the free rules download for the DC Universe Miniature Game.

It’s made by Knight Models, the same company who produced the Batman Miniature Game.

Batman Miniatures is based on a D6 system.

DCU Miniatures is based on a D8 system.

WTH?

So the two systems are incompatible with each other, which explains a lot, to be honest, like why they just didn’t simply release an expansion for the rest of the DCU, like they did with the DCTV shows, namely Arrow and The Flash.  The power levels necessary for the full DC Universe would probably break the Batman game, so a different system was created.

Super Speed/Speed Force was probably simple enough to incorporate into the current miniatures rule set.

They will sell ‘Multiverse’ figures which can be used in either game.  The Catwoman figure that I had pre-ordered is one of those new figures, with a stat card for each game included.  I hope they come out with Multiverse cards for existing models, so I can use my current Batman minis with the new game.