What an incredible little model of an AT-AT in today's Lego masterpiece.
Oh for the record saw Star Wars The Force Awakens last night. Amazing movie, doesn't disappoint, and not riddled with the typical J J Abrams trade mark lens flare effect.
Knew we were due a minifig. And now we have one, a rebel trooper from Hoth. Which is for those that can't remember the ice planet at the start of The Empire Strikes Back that the rebels are hiding on.
No wait this is super cool, as the next big expansion for Imperial Assault is Return to Hoth ( due to hit stores any day now). Which has nothing to do with Lego, but that's the way my mind works!
If we include app versions of the game my most played game of the year is clearly by a long shot Star Realms.
There are some great app versions of boardgames out there. Sometimes I'll get the app version before getting the physical version to see if I like the game. Then other times I will get the app version so I can learn the basics of the game before actually getting to play the game in real life. Plus the app allows me to game when I wouldn't be able to, whether it's against an opponent online or the built in AI.
Regular readers know that recently I got Neuroshima Hex and four of the army expansions for it, with a fifth promo army in the post somewhere. But I haven't got the game to the table yet (Gav we need to arrange a time and place). So in the meantime I got the app and have been playing that.
The app is pretty awesome. I've been playing the quick game option against the easy AI. This gives me a random army each time I play a game against a random army on the opponents side. I like this because it means I get experience playing all the armies, against all the armies. Although the Vegas army is one I'm not having much success with.
I have to admit the easy AI is giving me a pretty good challenge. But I can't wait to get the game to the table also. But in the meantime this is scratching the itch to play.
Tomorrow sees the release of the new Star Wars movie, and yes I'm going to see it.
We in the “hobby” gaming world are a bit luckier than those that get their games from mainstream outlets. How? Well we have been over the last three or more years been lucky enough to have some really great Star Wars games to play.
Fantasy Flight Games have done a really great job of releasing great games, that look amazing, and give a really enjoyable experience.
Capture the feel of dogfights between squadrons of rebel and imperial ships from the Star Wars universe. The base set gives you the two fan favourites of an X-Wing and two Tie Fighters to battle it out. The base set gives you everything for two players to fight it out. Currently there are two versions of the base set. The newest version gives you versions of the X-Wing and Tie Fighter based on the new movie.
There are a lot of expansions for this game, that give you more ships from the Star Wars universe like Tie Bombers, Y-Wings, A-Wings, the Millenium Falcon, Slave 1 to name a few.
I will warn you this game is like crack, once you play you get hooked and start buying more and more ships.
The models look stunning in this game, and when played on a playmat (usually of some awesome star field/space image on) this game takes your breathe away.
Based on the Descent system, Imperial Assault moves its mechanics to the Star Wars universe.
The amazing thing about this game is that you get two games in one! You have the campaign mode, where one player plays as the Empire while the other players play as the rebels. Plus you also get a two player skirmish mode, where two players go head to head with their teams fighting it out.
The miniatures are super amazing in this game. But then so do all the components for the game.
There are expansions for this game, introducing fan favourite characters like Han and Chewy.
So they are the two I have played. I still have the Carcassonne Star Wars edition to get to the table. But I'm a fan of Carcassonne so I'm hoping this is a match up that works.
Also from FFG you can get the following Star Wars games, which I don't own and haven't played. So I'll apologise now for the rubbish coverage of them. However these have had some good reviews. And if I had the budget I'd definitely be buying Armada.
From the mainstream market there is the new Star Wars Risk, which apparently not being as good as the fabled expensive out of print Queens Gambit, is still from reviews I've seen a decent game, that is similar to Queens Gambit and not actually Risk.
So I hope that's given you some ideas for games to play with the Star Wars fan in your life. Or even buy (although some of these are not cheap) for that special Star Wars fan.
Today's piece of Lego representing something from the Star Wars movies, a gun turret. We must be getting close to another minifig again (unless the IG-88 is being counted as one).
Setting a new intergalactic record of twelve parsecs for the Kessel Run, it's the Millennium Falcon! Isn't that an amazing little piece of Lego?
Today once more Lego steps into the world of droids. I think this one is meant to be IG-88?
Decided that I would let him know I'd ordered him a Dominos pizza for him and his girlfriend by sending him the image below. Pizza Delivery Boy on the toilet!
So after the Amazon fiasco of losing my order in transit, I ordered another that made it through to me (was sent via a different courier), so I'm the proud owner of Neuroshima Hex. Also the game Room 25 came.
Finally through the international postal system the two playmats ordered a couple months back have arrived.
The rather nice and large playmat for Tiny Epic Galaxies. Which looks lovely. Then a nice little action mat to replace the cardboard one in Tiny Epic Kingdoms.
Sadly no sign of the card sleeves to sleeve the cards in Tiny Epic Galaxies.
Every Stormtrooper needs his weapons, and today's little Lego delight gives our Stormtrooper a nice selection to choose from with his own weapons rack. Those ewoks can't have all the cool toys.
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