A First Look At Mars Attacks The Miniatures Game!
July 18, 2014 by brennon
Mantic Games have taken a look at the first copy of Mars Attacks: The Miniatures Game coming off the supply line. It's quite the bumper pack and comes with a whole host of heroes, troopers, martians and of course terrain! It wouldn't be Mantic without terrain...
That is a very cool boxed set and as a lover of board games I think that box control is perfect. Some nice inserts for all the different sets of miniatures and a place to put the counters and tokens once they've been popped out as well it seems. Rather good.
Of course what you care about really is the miniatures and above are the Martians themselves with their very neat clear plastic helmets and of course a whole bunch of US Troopers and the plucky citizens ready to defend their small backwater town!
Talking of their nice backwater town we have the terrain that will make up your tabletop. As well a blasted wall sections they have some props for the tabletop that give you different kinds of cover and of course add a lived in feel to the game. As well as using this for Mars Attacks you could easily re-purpose the terrain for a lot of historical and modern combat games too I reckon. It is 28mm scale after all.
How is Mars Attacks shaping up to you?
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Mar Attack-ack-ack-acks surely? 🙂
The terrain interests me more than the game (Deadzone and Dreadball are my Mantic muses) as some of it could be adapted for Bolt Action – a brick wall is after all, a brick wall.
That’s what you get for being clever…. I meant to say:
Mars Attack-ack-ack-acks
You had to be there….
Like the brunette from the ‘Blurred Lines’ video, this looks really well put together and a lot of fun to play with.
This brunette?
http://www.looporbit.com/images/pics/robin-thicke.jpg
No, not the one you fancy. The other one. 🙂
Zing! lol
Didn’t expect that pic 😛
Looks good….Mantic do seem to have a great ‘gamers’ approach to products. Mars Attacks has never floated my boat so to speak……but I would be interested in seeing some of that terrain at retail.
This looks like a lot of fun. I didn’t see a price on the site. Anyone know what it’s going to retail for?
Well, I tried some research but all of a sudden my computer froze and all I got was “Ack-ak . . . ack-akak-akakak-ACK!” Oh s***! They’re in my computer, man!
Seriously, though, I found it here for $55.00
http://www.faultyferret.com/products/mars-attacks-the-miniatures-game?utm_source=googlepla&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=COanmO-Fz78CFSYV7AodjlcANg
Ack… I mean thanks. By my count there’s 40 or so figures there, and all that terrain, and then there’s the game itself. That’s a pretty good buy. Maybe next time I order a few Kings of War figures I’ll tick that box too.
Much to me shame I missed the kickstarter but will definitely be buying retail.
My shame even. For a brief second there I were from up north.
It’s not something I’d personally buy but I think they have done a fantastic job with it – The miniatures all look good and I like that it’s all in coloured plastic too. The transparent helmets are a nice touch. The terrain looks really good also. Ah hell.. I might get a copy afterall…. >.>
Got to get my hands on the terrain! Don’t tell my wife…