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Star Wars

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… Nothing but Star Wars, Give me those Star Wars, Dont let them end. Oh Star Wars, If they should bar wars, Please let these Star Wars Stay.

I gotta say, I am a sucker for most Star Wars tabletop games.

I got into X-Wing, Armada and Imperial Assault, al of which have been discontinued.

And now I hear that Star Wars Shatterpoint is the next in line to go that way.

To be fair, I did like the look of the Shatterpoint miniatures more than Star Wars Legion, and I believe I only bought a couple of expansions (Clone Wars Era) before shelving that game in storage.

For Legion, on the other hand, I bought more than a few extra squad boxes for both the Rebellion and the Empire.  And then the main game went into storage, while the miniatures found their way to my apartment.

I have a couple of miniature agnostic games that allow me to use them, A Fistful of Lead: Galactic Heroes Edition and Five Parsecs from Home.

It does make me wonder if I should get a new Starter Set for Legion, since it appears that they pivoted toward Shatterpoint for a while and left Legion to flounder and then shifting back to Legion, but looking at the contents of the Rebellion Starter Set, I have pretty much all the miniatures it includes except for the Wookiees.

Now if they came out with a Scum and Villainy Starter set…

To-Do List

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A bunch of games came in recently, and I really want to play all of them as soon as possible.

But that’s not happening.

Links for the current bunch of games that came in:

Right now I’m focusing my time and energy on Core Space, reading the rule book, priming and painting the miniatures, and watching YouTube tutorials on how to play.

We’ll see if I can get a scenario in this weekend.

Stand by!

Update: Games

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I’ve decided that I want to play skirmish-level tabletop miniatures games.

So that decision has me disposing of my Warhammer 40K armies.

As of this post I’m awaiting a quote from an online company that buys used/secondhand miniatures/models.  Depending on what they offer, they’ll be shipped off or possibly donated/trashed.

I’ll still have a few Kill Team squads, plus Necromunda gangs and Blood Bowl teams, until I decide whether or not I want to still play those games.

World War Tesla sparked (heh) an interest in not only alternate history wargaming, but historical wargaming as well.

I’ll cover that in another post.

Stand by!

World War Tesla

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Found an interesting game a couple of weeks back, an alternate history wargame with 3D printable playing pieces.

World War Tesla™ is an alternate-history wargame by James M. Ward (author of TSR’s Gamma World, Deities & Demigods, and Metamorphosis Alpha) and Thomas A. Tullis, where Nikola Tesla’s more radical ideas such as death rays and force fields have come to fruition, changing the face of a world at war. Giant walking tanks, soldiers with rocket-packs, and flying machines armed with death rays rule the battlefield!

I decided to print a couple of both army’s units:

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Star Wars Legion

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Yeah, didn’t think I’d ever jump into this one either.  But I like to paint miniatures, and these have some nice models in the core box.

I don’t intend to get a lot of expansions, the only ones so far are Boba Fett and Rebel Commandos, the former for obvious reasons, the latter because I like the idea of playing with a Rebel Commando strike team.

And apparently I already have a piece of terrain that was designed for this game, the Hunter’s Ship.

Along with .STL files for a landing bay, like on Tatooine.

Maybe I can have a sabotage mission to destroy a prototype TIE fighter…

But yeah, we’ll see if I get around to playing, like I haven’t yet with so many other games.

Stand by!

Catching Up

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Five Parsecs From Home: I really need to get back into this one, the crew has yet to make planetfall on a new world.  They had just escaped from a world that was undergoing a planetary invasion.

Stargrave: I’m probably not going to play this one anytime soon because it’s similarity to Five Parsecs From Home, and it’s more geared toward 2 players.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Haven’t finished going over the rules, but at least I stopped printing/buying terrain.

Fire Team: newly released baby brother to the newest Kill Team release (huh?).  It’s like how Blitz Bowl was for Blood Bowl, an ‘entry level’ self contained game.

Kill Team: the latest flavor of the month, rules have been read, miniatures painted, terrain prepped.  Just need to find time to set up and play, which is not going to be soon because…

Battletech: Clan Invasion Kickstarter pledge is waiting to be picked up.  That oughta keep me distracted for the next few days/weeks.

Black Ops: Need to do some painting: Russian soldiers, insurgents, and my own Black Ops team that I’m basing off The Unit TV show.  Which means I gotta come up with some cool call signs for my 5-man team.

Gaslands Refueled: I have lots of slightly modified matchbox cars, plus templates and tokens, waiting to be played with.

Necromunda: all the above games have been keeping me busy with no time to delve back into this one, as much as I would love to do so.

And this list doesn’t even include the tabletop sports games that I’ve been neglecting.