[egarvue]

Dunno, haven't played Dungeons. But from what I've seen, the Dungeons game looks to be a lot like that old game "Heroquest", remember that? To me, Dungeons seems like an excuse to sell accessories, like the treasures and what not. I might buy into it a bit to see what its like.

One of the big announcements at GenCon this year was Mage Knight 2.0. They're going to be revising the rules to fix some spots where they say they've found errors or game flaws. They stressed that they will make MK 2.0 backwards compatable, so that all of your existing MK figs will work with the new rules, i.e. they're not "forcing you to upgrade" in order to sell you more minis.

As a side note, the other huge announcement at the con was that White Wolf is planning on ending, that's right, ending the whole goth-y "World of Darkness" setting for their Vampire, et al, series of games.

[yhwhsman]

Rats, you mean we won't be seeing the goth girls in little skimpy black dresses at the cons anymore???

I've got one of the Battletech figures, it's not too bad. Larger than the pewter mini, and a little different as far as weapons are concerned. But it's a nice looking mini. It's painted, and although I haven't actually played the Wizkid version of Battletech, the fact you don't have to buy a lot of books and keep track of all the stats is appealing.

I'll have to look for the Crimson Skies minis, thought it was a cool idea when the original game came out.



Yhwhsman

[Jalapeno]

Just bumping up this thread and saying I've been playing the MK Dungeons quite a bit. The figures are relatively cheap to get used and the necessity to get one of the blessed "unique limited edition" figures is not very high because of the way the game is played. (I can tell they "adjusted" this for hero clix to make the 'rares' more important.)

It seems to be a good social game as well. Not a good tournanment game though. The rules are a little 'loose' and ambiguous in places, but everyone seems to be able to quickly agree on a resolution. You were iright about the speed of the game, it goes quite fast.

Hero Clix doesn't seem to do it for me. If you look beyond the most expensive figures, many figures are fairly worthless and similar to each other.

The MK Rebellion stuff is intriguing from a grand-scale battle sense, but I am sure that gets expensive real quick....I saw there was a LOTR minitures set out, are you familiar with those? They are much cheaper.