Sam’s Christmas Time Wish List
December 24, 2018 by dracs
This year has seen me getting back into miniatures gaming in a big way. Of course, it hasn't just been limited to Hobbits. Plenty of awesome games have crossed my path, from board games to card games and beyond.
There are so many great ones out there it's impossible to choose! But, I shall force myself. Here are a couple of things I'm hoping Santa brings this year.
Scouring Of The Shire Box Set
You knew there'd be Hobbits in here somewhere. The Scouring of the Shire may be my favourite chapter of The Lord of the Rings. I first discovered it with the release of this set by Games Workshop. I had seen the films, but here were those hobbits leading their fellows in a struggle against a brutal oppressor! While the latest edition of the rules means I can't really use these characters in my current army build, I still love them enough to want them just for my collection.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
I have collected old Games Workshop army books for years now. There's just something really nostalgic for me about the classic art and stories you would find in those pages. For me, the original Rogue Trader book has become something of a Moby Dick. I catch sight of it, rush over wallet in hand, only for it to be snatched away before I can nab it.
Comanauts
One of my favourite games that I played this year was Plaid Hat Games' Stuffed Fables. It was definitely not aimed at my age group, but there is just something I find so cool about playing through a storybook in this way. Comanauts takes that concept and gives it the teeth needed to make a satisfying experience for adult gamers. Add to that an interesting story about delving into a person's psyche and I am sold!
Come to think of it, what with this, Holding On, and The Awakening, there have been a lot of games this year about coma patients. Games industry, do we need to have a talk?
There you have it, my own Christmas time wish list. I'll let you all know what turned up when we return in the new year!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all.
"You knew there'd be Hobbits in here somewhere."
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nothing beats the cover of the original warhammer 40k rogue trader rulebook…..although second is freebootetz.
Back when the Crimson Fists were the poster boy chapter.
Didn’t GW do a reprint of Rogue Trader you can get from Warhammer World? Either way I totally agree it’s a book that still has value to the modern gamer….
Yeah, available as a WHW exclusive
I think I need to lock my copy in a vault … and then bury that vault somewhere.
’cause we all know hobbits are thieves 😉
Of all the things that were dropped from the movie I miss the scouring of the Shire the most.
It would have shown that the war had an effect on their own families as well as allow them to be heroes to their own people.
For me it’s what the whole story was building up to. Everything they do on the journey to mordor is to help the forces of good prevent the evil forces breaking through and reaching the shire. They spend their journey in the shadows of great heroes, always feeling like they’re just tagging along or getting in the way. So when they return and find the shire occupied, all that they’ve learned helping others makes them the great heroes the shire now needs. It makes me emotional!
Luckily I have all the Rogue Trader era books sat on a shelf… can’t beat the nostalgia and art work.
@dracs you could have got the reprint rouge trader off the forge World stand at games expo…
Luckily I get copies of the original fairly often for ebaying through the model shop I do the site for, will give you first refusal next time I get one through…
Thank you!
And every time I’m at an event, soon as I get a chance I run over to the forge world stand to try and pick one up and every time I get there after they’ve sold out.
Have you thought about preordering before a show
While Scouring of Shire would had been nice to see in movies I do understand why it wasn’t because I remember how long that ending already went even without it. Original Rogue Trader book is something that most of us won’t be able to get but luckily there is WHW exclusive re-print as alternative.
I think PJ made the right decision. The climax of the story is Frodo lobbing the Ring into Mount Doom. The scouring is a decent tale, but just a weird little postscript to the main sweep of the story. I think the deviations and omissions from the book made the three films a lot stronger.
I imagine I’d feel differently about PJ’s changes to the the Hobbit story had I seen the films 🙂
I still think that the scouring of the shire would beat the 40 minutes of Hobbits hugging in slow motion that we actually got at the end of RotK 😉
Ha! It’s a good point.
it most definitely would beat the endless celebration and ‘happily ever after’ nonsense.
In fact it would have been a better ending as it shows how much they’ve grown (quite literally ).
IMHO the entire LoTR thing should have been a tv-series instead of a movie trilogy.
That would have allowed for more time to be spent on the journey to Rivendell which would have given a better rational for the hobbits learning to use weapons (never mind where those weapons came from)
Possibly, though the realms of what’s considered possible for television production now are light years away from the turn of the century when the film was in production.
Please turn this into a top five or ten list! Three is such a tease
The rogue trader book is very tempting for sure.
Picked up the Rogue Trader book a couple of years back from WHW. Still waiting for GW to reprint the second Realm of Chaos book.
I never realised they’d reprinted the first RoC book.
More importantly did they re release Realm of Chaos by Bolt Thrower?
nope, someone did a few years ago, but the band have no connection with it and don’t get any money from it.
Like Rogue Trader, you can only buy it at WHW.
thankfully I have all the old hardbacks, but I didn’t even realise they had done it. Everyone should be picking up the Slaves to Darkness and Lost and the Damned, fantastic books.
So glad I never get rid of any rulebooks. I still have my copy of ‘Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader rulebook’. I’d post a picture here but suddenly realize that I don’t know how!
*hums “In the Hall of the Mountain King” to himself*
Got the Rogue Trader reprint at GENCON last year. Just stumbled upon it