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1. Still waiting for it to happen. I could bore you to tears with “bad beats” playing Texas Hold’em Poker but I’m sure that’s not the kind of game you were asking about 😉
2. Battle Systems. Looks great, simple, lightweight. Love it!
What more to say – just stunning.
3. After learning about my plastic-soldiers hobby, the guy at my local coffee shop told me he felt emboldened to buy some Pokemon cards and join a game at Dice Saloon in Brighton – a game he hadn’t played since the 90s. I’ve never played, but understand that it involves characters that can change, and gain different skills; playing combinations of cards to turn one character into another is part of the strategy of the game, apparently. A Transformers tabletop game with some kind of reason for transforming (that adds to the gameplay rather than just as a gimmick) would be pretty sweet. Two models per character isn’t a problem for me – it’s an abstract tabletop game, they don’t need to actually transform!
I’d LOVE some kind of He-Man tabletop game; the scratch-build community could really get behind that one – just imagine how cool a tabletop Castle Greyskull could be! Someone on Etsy is selling 32mm minis (https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/567355200/he-man-32mm-pewter-miniature) I think they’re by a company called Quest Miniatures? Man-at-Arms looks great. Some of the others, not so much… I’ve seen some nice conversions online recently, but my Google-fu is letting me down this afternoon.
I’d love the full set of those minis, but they’re far too spendy for me to get past the wife (these examples look amazing, with their garish 80s-style colour schemes: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?272517-WK-s-30mm-scale-MOTU-collection and show someone with a real passion for the minis).
Heresy also have some minis which look like they’d convert relatively easily – and a few that are absolutely not MOTU rip-offs at all (http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=14)
As for rules…? Who needs rules when you’ve such cool looking miniatures?!
[EDIT: looking through the BoW website, these very miniatures featured about 18 months ago! https://www.beastsofwar.com/news/power-heman-miniature-collection/)
