stephengroy
Underboss
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Tempe AZ Beeyotch
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
12367 Posts
The G Spot
| | 09/11/2007 8:34 AM |
| | Buh? | |
WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10987 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 09/11/2007 10:39 AM |
| *Drool* Yeah, I've been waiting for this to release. I hope the figures are 28-30 mm. | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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wicked cool
Underboss
2123 Posts
| | 09/11/2007 12:06 PM |
| | ive heard they are bigger in scale. similiar in size to the descent board game pieces | |
The ROCK layeth the smacketh down. Long live Farscape
Vindicated-CHAMPION of the INTELLECT DEVOURER
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10987 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 09/11/2007 4:51 PM |
| Well the Player Characters for Descent are on par with DDM characters. I could see this game being closer to a Gi-Joe kind of scale. Posted By wicked cool on 09/11/2007 12:06 PM
ive heard they are bigger in scale. similiar in size to the descent board game pieces
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Dordledum
Commander
3394 Posts
Netherlands
| | 09/12/2007 12:46 AM |
| I like the opera, but I don't care bout the game. Art reminds me a bit of Hellboy.
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Member of the Bearded Devils
Champion of the Huge Spider (WotDQ 46/60), A New Umber Hulk (DoDe 57/60), and the Orog Fighter! | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 09/12/2007 7:18 AM |
| Looks pretty cool. Who has time for another game though.  | | | |
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lalato
Underboss
1546 Posts
Urbana, IL
| | 09/12/2007 11:11 AM |
| I've looked at it and almost got in a game at GenCon. The figs are comparable in size to DDM medium figs. They look fantastic too. The paint jobs looked great. As for the game itself... I have it on preorder with my FLGS. I can't wait to try it out.
--sam
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Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7617 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 09/12/2007 6:28 PM |
| | Let us know how it plays. | |
Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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stephengroy
Underboss
1409 Posts
Tempe AZ Beeyotch
| | 09/14/2007 11:01 AM |
| I lilke the non-random figs, LOL, and the ease of determining line of sight, etc.
Anyone actually PLAYED it yet? | |
Waiting for Chainmail Equivalencies since 2005
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10987 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 09/14/2007 5:52 PM |
| | I just picked it up today. The figures are sized more or less like the D&D and SWM figures. Mine were painted pretty well, with minimal touch-ups required. The plastic is a bit stiffer that DDM, more on par with the 'clix figures I'd say. | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7617 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 09/15/2007 7:34 AM |
| Posted By Cthulhufnord on 09/14/2007 5:52 PM
I just picked it up today. The figures are sized more or less like the D&D and SWM figures. Mine were painted pretty well, with minimal touch-ups required. The plastic is a bit stiffer that DDM, more on par with the 'clix figures I'd say.
Hmm, I may have to take a look for a few of these... | |
Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3964 Posts
Adelaide
| | 09/17/2007 8:28 PM |
| | Kewl, will have to check it out. | |
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
Semi-Secret sig business: "In the age of the internet attaching a famous name to your personal opinion to give more weight to it is a very valid strategy." - Benjamin Franklin
Champion of Epic Lolth, Orcus, & Demogorgon and bring us Asmodeus! | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10987 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 09/17/2007 8:51 PM |
| | I'll be digging out my pre-painted Hellboy clixs for a side by side comparison. | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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mitsouri
Skirmisher
1 Posts
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Duke of Spoils
greyhaze
Warlord
6755 Posts
| | 12/04/2007 9:55 AM |
| | Does the pathfinder system for LoS work well? It sounds cool, but could be tricky to pull off I'd imagine. | |
Greyhaze's DDM Spoilers
Champion of a Medium Dog & then a Darkenbeast , Raistlin Majere, Nightmare WDQ25/60, Warduke WD60/60,
Anti-Champion of Guns, "Knight of Bugbears", and Joke Champion of Venger.
Called Shots: Frost Giant in Dangerous Delves. | |
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Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7617 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 12/04/2007 12:22 PM |
| reviews? how are these?
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
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StormKnight
Sneak
85 Posts
| | 12/05/2007 12:01 PM |
| The figures look very nice; they are about the same scale as most other minis including DDM. However, the somewhat pricey box only includes 10 figures. The board and components are heavy duty though.
The game suffers from some bad component design. There are tons of tokens, many of them looking very similar, with no indication of what they do. For example, there are something like three variants of Luger with bonuses ranging from +0 to +2, and no easy way to tell them apart. Without a lot of memorizing, or upgrading the pieces (I printed out little tags to put on my counters), this can really drag a game down.
Its a skirmish action game, designed for the two teams of five characters each included in the box. Its designed as a 2 player game; while it says it can play up to 10 players, this would be done just by dividing up the characters.
The mechanics are a bit clunky, and the balance isn't too good - each character has three 'packs' of gear to pick from, but usually one is clearly better, and one is downright bad.
The pathfinding system works smoothly, except that some color choices are poor; in places you have greenish-blue circles next to bluish-green circles. Mostly its fine though. (The pathfinding is that instead of having Line of Sight rules, the board is marked in colored circles; a figure can see anyone on the same color path that they are on). Its kind of redundant; being an indoor skirmish game where other figures don't block LoS makes LoS pretty trivial anyway.
There are two big counterintutive parts; first, that weapons have a minimum rather than a maximum range. Second, some adjacent circles are not on the same path, so you can be next to someone but unable to attack them - this usually happens at doors.
Its a really cool concept, and I want to like it more than I do, but it just seems too buggy and clunky to be a great game. | |
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Duke of Spoils
greyhaze
Warlord
6755 Posts
| | 12/05/2007 12:11 PM |
| Posted By StormKnight on 12/05/2007 12:01 PM
Second, some adjacent circles are not on the same path, so you can be next to someone but unable to attack them - this usually happens at doors.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was wondering. | |
Greyhaze's DDM Spoilers
Champion of a Medium Dog & then a Darkenbeast , Raistlin Majere, Nightmare WDQ25/60, Warduke WD60/60,
Anti-Champion of Guns, "Knight of Bugbears", and Joke Champion of Venger.
Called Shots: Frost Giant in Dangerous Delves. | |
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stephengroy
Underboss
1409 Posts
Tempe AZ Beeyotch
| | 12/05/2007 2:40 PM |
| | Still haven't played! :( | |
Waiting for Chainmail Equivalencies since 2005
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StormKnight
Sneak
85 Posts
| | 12/06/2007 7:50 AM |
| Thanks, that's exactly what I was wondering.
Note that this isn't a 'bug' or anything; its an intended part of the system. Just a counter-intuitive one. Standing on a door circle can be a very important defensive position. Until someone logs a grenade on the other side of the door :) | |
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Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7617 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 12/12/2007 4:41 PM |
| cool, thanks for the info.
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
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stephengroy
Underboss
1409 Posts
Tempe AZ Beeyotch
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10987 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 05/21/2008 2:36 PM |
| Nice catch!
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10987 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 05/22/2008 4:21 PM |
| There's some fantastic minis in the new Starwars set that would be perfect Tannhauser minis. All they need is a quick repaint.
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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stephengroy
Underboss
1409 Posts
Tempe AZ Beeyotch
| | 07/03/2008 12:14 AM |
| So far, out of DDM/SWM he's used:
Human blaster-for-hire
some robot
Bonded fire sumoner
hyenas
War Apes
Gargoyle
Medusa Archer
Doomguard Factol Pentar chick
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Waiting for Chainmail Equivalencies since 2005
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