Thursday 11 January 2018

Kickstarters Aplenty!

Happy New Year Folks!

The latter part of 2017 seemed to have had a flurry of Kickstarters arrive. First there was Battle of Britain...




...along with a few bouncy planes...




... that will apparently be replaced by PSC later this year. We've had a couple of games and found it to be enjoyable, although it will take a few more games before I develop a good strategy for playing the Luftwaffe. The skies of Britain are safe, at least for now it seems!

Then there was 878 Vikings.



Along with it's nice oversized play mat. The game plays a bit like supercharged Risk and is good fun. Not too demanding on the old brain cells.




There was some annoyance on the Kickstarter comments due to the late arrival of this Kickstarter. Apparently our North American friends received their game in August, but the Viking Invasion didn't hit our Saxon shores until November.

Kickstarters are one of those things that are best pledged for and forgotten about. Expecting them to arrive on time is an exercise in frustration.

Having said that...




A large box arrived at Brady HQ at the end of September and turned out to be the much anticipated Mythic Battles Pantheon.




Now unfortunately, these boxes were just the expansions and the actual base game arrived in a different shipment. In early January. But still, the expected delivery was December and given the volume of material included, that's a pretty good fulfilment.




It's taken a while to sort through the boxes. Everything appears to be present and correct and the quality of components appears very good indeed. I suspect many of the figures may well find their way into other games...

One issue with huge games like this is how to store it all. Fortunately I have manage to 'locate' some extra space for storing games. Quick trip to Ikea whilst visiting inlaws and...




I've even managed to get Conan properly stored. Many of the small box expansions in these games include excessive packaging. I've already ditched the smaller boxes for MB and stored figures in Really Useful Boxes (just like my wargaming figures). Once I get a few more boxes I'll do the same with Conan.

Speaking of Conan. We've been playing through the Campaign book and having a real blast with it. Mighty Kyle has taken on the role of Overlord and the heroes haven't had an easy time of it. I've not posted any photos since none of the figures are painted. I wasn't going to paint them, but you never know. The MB figures certainly deserve a bit of paint.

Most of my figure painting has been targeted at Congo recently. Good progress has been made, but more on that another time. I have also been working on a 'secret' terrain project for an upcoming show...