Four more Federated Security Troopers are coming in February including a groovy new Heavy trooper. Sculpted and painted by Martin Buck with original heads and carbines by Ian Mountain.
That heavy laser cannon thingy's all well and good, but where's my Bazookoid?
* Mods, following discussion in the previous thread BrookM has agreed to passing custodianship of this topic over to me. As a result this new thread's been created, so if you would could you close the other one please?
They're way behind on their workload at the moment (or they're not, they just keeping adding more crap to it). With the 7ZombieTv expansion, licenced Sword and Sorcery 7Tv expandalone, and attempting to sculpt and release boxsets for each of the main casts, I feel like they're a bit swamped, considering its only two guys working part time.
Looking on their forums here's some titbits, ooh, and a sale I missed!
Ahoy Minions! Bag a shiny bargain!
From now until the end of January get 25% all our miniatures (excluding New Releases) using the code JAN25OFF when you checkout.
2014 is here! Hopefully you all have your jetpacks by now. Mine is tremendous. I fried our neighbours dog with the hot exhaust. Brilliant.
Anyway. Karl and I have just been Skype'ing and have discussed various things. Some of which I can reveal. Some I can't. Mostly because we don't know ourselves.
JAN: 5x ARC Moonbase Crew (these will most likely go up for sale Friday 3rd Jan, posting out from Monday 6th). The first of our new Starter Sets (might be February…)
FEB: 3x FedSec Troopers + 1x FedSec Heavy Weapon. Maybe more Starter Sets…
MAR: 4x Beat Models. Starter Sets…
APR: 3x Time Lost II + we hopefully launch our new licensed product, with maybe 8 miniatures to start with. I have the contract right here as I type.
Also planned (these are not necessarily in the right order)/subject to change/cancellation/leaves on the line/landslip:
• Vlad's Army: PDF (and maybe print) Vampire and Home Guard supplement for 7ombieTV
• Tales of the Unexplained: Long talked about magical supplement for 7TV.
• At least one resin vehicle and maybe a big resin monster
• The cast of SHIVA finished off in metal and some Department X started
• 7TV supplement based on the aforementioned licensed product (* Wyrmy edit. Yup, that's one magical expansion and this separate D&D inspired one)
We haven't really planned out our miniatures beyond April yet, apart from one resin vehicle and getting some Department X done. It'll likely be a mix of pure 7TV and stuff inspired by televisual viewing. So apart from anything about our Monster Munch license plans, you know everything we do. Which is frighteningly not a lot.
Hey kids.Photo of the day from Crooked Dice: ARC Astronauts and Moon Buggy.
*I'd meant to stick these into the other thread, but... well I'm far too lazy to look at Crooked Dice's webpage everyday for nice photos.
@BrookM
Hmn, I may have to look that one out. There's two stalls at my local flea market that sell die cast cars almost exclusively. With the few thousand miniatures there I'm sure I could turn one of those up (and offer a silly low price for it to the seller's chagrin).
Miniatures ARC Moonbase Crew The Albion Rocket Consortium (ARC) rely on adventurous and daring men and women to staff their moonbase. Now you can add to the ranks of your own ARC forces with these five models, equipped with communicator/scanners, pistols and rifles. Available singly (£3.25) or as a Deal (£15). Sculpted by Ian Mountain. We've also got a free PDF that adds revised stats for ARC Astronauts, a Sonic Cannon and the ARC Buggy.
Mid January Sale! From now until the end of January get 25% all our miniatures (excluding New Releases). Just use the code JAN25OFF when you checkout.
Deal of the Month Carrying on the ARC theme the January 2014 Deal of the Month comprises 6x previous ARC Astronaut models (for £10) when purchased with the Moonbase Crew Deal.
Price changes We have had to adjust prices for a few packs this month. We giveth and we taketh away, so not all bad!
* FedSec Robot to £5, deal to £14 (each down £1)
* Failed Experiment deal is reduced deal to £7.50 (down £1)
* Talos is now £10 (up £2), Talos + Argo to £12
* Argonauts are now £6.50 (up 50p), deal to £12 (up £2)
Coming Soon Here’s a quick round up of what the first part of 2014 has to offer:
Season Five In February, Martin Buck has added four more gas-masked goons to bolster your FedSec forces. We have three FedSec Troopers and one Heavy Weapon trooper.
March sees a police recruitment drive as The Beat adds Drew Falstaff, a rookie detective and informant ‘King Tut' Tuttle to their ranks as they attempt to foil underworld boss ‘The Duchess’. Ernst Veingart is pushing the putty of these. S.H.I.V.A. Co-Stars Dr Mao and the Mannequin will also be available thanks to the talented Andrew May.
And April sees three vortex adventurers; Ian Mountain is sculpting the war torn Professor Kane (Doctor Who you ninnies) - who claims to have been fighting an eternal war through the ages; Marwood – an Edwardian scientist
trapped forever in New Year’s Eve; and Ms Freeman – a liberated young medic from the near future. Beyond that we have at least one resin vehicle and maybe a big resin monster planned. And once the cast of S.H.I.V.A. finished off in metal we will turn our attention to Department X…
Boxed Sets The first of our new Starter Sets will be out in the next few weeks. We now have enough models to group some in handy to collect boxes.
First up are the reliable Minions, who have been sorted into a new collection. Then we have SHIVA starter set which gathers together a lot of the latest releases in a villainous collection. Expect more boxed sets to appear in the web store (and hopefully your local retailers) in some natty DVD packaging soon.
Rules Tales of the Unexplained As well as Vlad’s Army (see below), we are dusting off the arcane tome that is Tales of the Unexplained – the long talked about magical supplement for 7TV. You can expect some supernatural casts, rules for including magic in your 7TV games and all manner of dark and timorous beasties that haunt our sceptred isle.
7 Seas If you’ve been following the Crooked Dice forum, you might have already seen Paul’s Sullie's great submission for 7th Voyage covering pirates, musketeers and adventures on the high seas. We were so impressed we wanted to make it more widely available, so you can expect to see that in the web store in the coming months.
Vlad’s Army Layout has begun on our next 7ombieTV supplement that brings a new but ancient undead terror to your tabletops – the vampire. We have rules for these fanged fiends with details on how to build your own horrors as well as some classic guest stars that have stalked page and screen. And to fight this threat are new rules for military casts in 7ombieTV as well as a co-star archetype – the vampire hunter. Plus there are six new episodes including the three-part Vlad’s Army campaign. Coming soon.
Shows Tickets are already available for Salute 2014, and once again Team Crooked will mobilise to bring you new quick play games and lots of shiny toys. But before the big day you can see us at Cavalier (Tonbridge, 23 February) and Overlord (Abingdon, 2 March). We also hope to be at Triples in Sheffield in May which will start a trend of attendance at a few more of the Midlands shows.
I'm short of time at this second, so I haven't actually read what I've posted above yet. Those expansions look tasty though.
Wyrmalla wrote: ...... The striking issue of the missing apostrophe remains however!
It's a bat apostrophe or been drained by a vampire bat?
Whose going to be offended by Swastika vampires? Vampires that were tricked into joining the National Socialists and you know just sorta went with the flow....like all those group think vampires you hear about? Silly Germany.
Its illegal in Germany to serll any product including any Nazi symbols (not just the swastica) apart from in educational material, which may make Crooked Dice's products untenable there. I pointed it out to Crooked Dice and they said they'll change it.
There's no pending release date, but I suppose it'll be soon (ish). All products can be bought from Crooked Dice's site, or from their stand at any of the shows they attend.
Photo of the Day! A bit of 7th Voyage action. Fenris Cyclops, 4a Minitures Cyclops-kin and Reaper arabian adventurers - with Sinbad from Harwood and stocked by us!
You're looking at three different ranges of games here: 7TV for the spy-fi and sci-fi stuff, 7th Voyage for the fantasy stuff and 7ombieTV for the vampires and zombies.
All of which are fully compatible with one another, so yes, Cyclops fighting security guards with rayguns, as an oncoming zombie horde approaches is entirely feasible. The cheaper, camper and cheesier the better.
Photo of the Day! Getting modern terrain for your 7TV games can be tricky. But here's a set up using our Set Designer printable walls and floors designed by Kev Dallimore. It's a 170 page PDF complete with ideas and instructions from Mr D to help you build your secret bases and evil lairs.
Rules for Vampires mean they can appear in any era, but we have concentrated on 20th century conflicts - and the near (retro) future of whenever the 7ombieTV apocalypse happens.
The vampire rules included new archetypes for a Master Vampire Star, Vampire Co-Star and some new extras. There are a couple of new but familiar statuses and special effects covering vamp powers too.
We have a new Commanding Officer Star and a half dozen new Co-Stars for Military casts and this includes and expansion of weapons and attacks. Also included is a new Vampire Hunter Star archetype.
Guest Stars are expanded too, with three quite different examples of bloodsuckers and hunters.
We present six episodes. The first three concern standalone battles: one in Northern Africa during WW2, the second in communist China and finally one in a dead-infested New York skyscraper.
The remaining three form the Vlad's Army campaign. We follow Walsingham-on-Seas' Local Defence Volunteers as they uncover and attempt to repel a German vampire invasion from Blighty's shore during WW2. This campaign includes a whole new deck of scavenge cards including mechanics to combine certain cards to make special weapons for fighting these new undead.
We're trying for release before Salute, but we might have to see how we get on, so I will keep you posted!
Photo of the Day! Helena and I met last night and are starting to bash this into shape...
Photo of the Day! Getting modern terrain for your 7TV games can be tricky. But here's a set up using our Set Designer printable walls and floors designed by Kev Dallimore. It's a 170 page PDF complete with ideas and instructions from Mr D to help you build your secret bases and evil lairs.
I needs those tape machines. =(
And shows why the bad guys are always upset.......no bathrooms
We’ve been inundated with requests to show off the miniatures from the Dad’s Army boxed for which we’ve been granted the official licence. So, we ran a poll on the Warlord Games Facebook page which resulted in a clear winner – the model you most wanted to see was local butcher and veteran of the Sudanese Campaign, Lance-Corporal Jack Jones.
As with all the Local Defence Volunteers in our boxed set he is depicted in Home Guard uniform and in civilian attire. In hios butcher’s garb he is wielding his asagai spear – a trophy from fighting the ‘Fuzzie-Wuzzies’ in Sudan.
“THEY DON’T LIKE IT UP ‘EM!”
We’ll be showing off more characters every day from now until the pre-order launch, so make sure you check in to see them!
Photo of the Day! The Argonauts pile in. The figure about to get a pummelling is a wonderful conversion by Kev D. It's a Daredevil body (with a gs sash) and the Dolly Bird head sprue.
Nazi Vampires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_aefnKf-E Because ... its like.. Rob Zombie. ( yeah, they've been done to death, but I didn't think the baby eating would be good for family viewing. ( Hellsing, btw. )http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellsing
Will be interesting to see what kind of stats the energy cannon is getting, I think those were still missing from the United Radionics programme guide.
The first of the new starter sets are up on the Crooked Dice website along with the FedSec troopers.
S.H.I.V.A Starter Set - Front cover. Plan to dominate the world with a 7TV S.H.I.V.A. cast with this box set of 13 models. The forces of S.H.I.V.A. strike from the shadows and all are masters of death in its various guises.
Miniatures More FedSec Troopers Instantly recognisable, the Federated Security are feared as the faceless troops of a terror regime. Put down even greater rebellions with an additional 3 models, featuring carbines and helmet heads on the base tab (£9 for 3 or £3.25 each). These are supported by a new Heavy Trooper (£3.50). Facing large amounts of rebellious dissidents, and not wanting to waste cheap labour, the Federated Security employ Heavy Stun Beamers to bring down their opponents with minimal chance of harm. Sculpted by Martin Buck with original heads and carbines by Ian Mountain.
Starter Sets Start a new 7TV cast or expand an existing one with our new boxed sets box sets. This month we bring you the villainous S.H.I.V.A. (13 models) and Minions (14 models) which will work for both heroic and villainous casts and are cheap (and if you’re evil, expendable!). Expect more boxed sets to appear in the web store (and hopefully your local retailers) in some natty DVD packaging soon.
Coming Soon Next month we will add Drew Falstaff, a rookie Beat detective and informant ‘King Tut' Tuttle to their ranks as they attempt to foil underworld boss ‘The Duchess’. Above is a preview from of the superb greens from Ernst Veingart. S.H.I.V.A. Co-Stars Dr Mao and the Mannequin will also be available thanks to the talented Andrew May.
Rules Vlad's Army Some more details on Vlad's Army as we work away on the layout. The rules include new archetypes for a Master Vampire Star, Vampire Co-Star and some new extras. Military casts have a new Commanding Officer Star and a half dozen new Co-Stars plus an expansion of weapons and attacks. Also included is a new Vampire Hunter Star archetype and new Guest Stars, with three quite different examples of bloodsuckers and hunters.
There are six episodes. Three are standalone battles featuring conflicts in: Northern Africa during WW2;communist China; and finally a near future dead-infested New York skyscraper.
The remaining three form the Vlad's Army campaign. We follow Walsingham-on-Seas' Local Defence Volunteers' attempts to repel a German vampire invasion from Blighty's shore during WW2. Included is a whole new deck of scavenge cards with mechanics to combine certain cards to make special weapons for fighting these new undead. Hopefully out by Salute, but we will keep you posted!
Deal of the Month This month you can bag yourself a free PDF (worth up to £10) if you spend more than £40. Just state which PDF you'd like when you checkout.
Here's a little Valentine's gift for you all. Two more SHIVA personalities: Dr Mao and The Mannequin sculpted by Andrew May and painted by Simon Bradley.
Also there'll be some new Daughters of SHIVA models coming along at some point to finish off the SHIVA line. The old models have been out of stock for ages given that they were never intended to be released due to them being conversions.
Photo of the Day! A preview of the new Detectives and Lowlifes pack due out next month. Sculpted by Ernst Veingart and painted by Kev Dallimore. We have (L to R): Tony 'King Tut' Tuttle (car salesman and snout); the Duchess (underworld boss); A Beat Detective; and DC Drew Falstaff with shooter.
Points to anyone that can name the inspiration for each of those minis.
Ten to Griffindor methinks. ...I never invested much with that series (from the outset it seemed a poor and uncessary sequel to Life on Mars), but yes, the resemblance is there. I suppose Crooked Dice decided to plunk this lot in with their existing Life on Mars minis (and given that there's an expansion for The Beat, more models are always nice).
Wyrmalla wrote: Ten to Griffindor methinks. ...I never invested much with that series (from the outset it seemed a poor and uncessary sequel to Life on Mars), but yes, the resemblance is there. I suppose Crooked Dice decided to plunk this lot in with their existing Life on Mars minis (and given that there's an expansion for The Beat, more models are always nice).
Points in the bank!!
I liked it myself and whether or not you liked the ending, it did at least provide an end.
Nothing could ever beat the Camberwick Green Gene Hunt from Life on Mars 'filling in a nonce' though.
This a company that is producing miniatures with charm especially for a child of the 70s like me and is certainly attractive to some of my growing disposable income.
The Argonaut's are the smaller pair in this image, with Ulysses standing at about the height of an Imperial Guardsman. If you're attempting to make an Argonaut's cast I'd say just buy in some 1/35th scale Greeks as stand ins (as in their dedicated supliment there's about five different kinds of Argonauts).
6x Federated Security Guards with Carbines
1x Federated Security Guard Commander with balaclava and helmet heads
2x Federated Security Mutaints
1x Federated Security Heavy Weapon Trooper
1x Security Robot
This month's sale item is the On Location expansion for 7TV at £5 - down from £10.80. As of the moment they've not restocked the print copies of it, so its only available in .pdf right now.
Miniatures Detectives & Lowlifes March sees a police recruitment drive as The Beat adds Drew Falstaff, a Beat Detective and informant ‘King Tut Tuttle’ to their ranks as they attempt to foil underworld boss ‘The Duchess’. Ernst Veingart has breathed life into these characters who are available at £3.50 each or £12 for the four.
Starter Sets We add a further villainous collection this month with the Federated Security Starter Set. The box includes 11 models: a commander, six troopers, mutaints, heavy trooper and security robot – all for a bargain £25.
Expect more boxed sets to appear in the web store (and hopefully your local retailers) in these natty DVD packaging soon including Future Freedom Fighters, Argonauts and United Radionics.
Dr Mao & the Mannequin
Another two S.H.I.V.A. Co-Stars from Andrew May are now available. The diminutive demonic genius of Dr Mao and his sinister Plaston creation the Mannequin are £3.50 each or £6.50 for the pair.
Coming Soon April sees three vortex adventurers; Ian Mountain has sculpted the war torn Professor Kane and Marwood . We also have scientific advisor Tucker Newman – a natty dresser in Crombie jacket and Dr Marten boots.Plus we have Ms Freeman, a liberated young medic from the near future who will be available singly and combined in a new pack with two other temporal travellers – Ms Temple and Group Captain Jim. We've also got a new weapons sprue with a shotgun, kalashnikov, luger and a schmeisser.May will see us completing off the S.H.I.V.A. cast with Köhner and two Daughters of SHIVA and we're also working on a multi-purpose resin transit van useful for the Beat or criminal casts.
Rules Vlad's Army Our next 7ombieTV supplement is now at the printers and scheduled for release in April. The 54 page supplement is packed with new rules and sumptuous photos by Mr Kevin Dallimore. It’s supported with new accessories too: 39 cards including events, a new Scavenge deck and the Special Weapons cards and a set of 27 tokens.
Once & Future This new 7th Voyage supplement is planned for the summer. Helena Nash explores three new medieval cinematic settings for your mythic fantasy games. In this sword swinging tome, you’ll discover the legends of Beowulf, Robin Hood and the tales of King Arthur. Have at you sirrah!
Tales of the Unexplained Helena and Karl have also been working on a first draft of Tales of the Unexplained – the long talked about magical supplement for 7TV. You can expect some supernatural casts including Adam Kismet Associates, The Zodiac Children and the Cult of Malleus, plus a raft of guest stars and Extras from the Thriller Theatre anthology. More news on a release date as soon as we have it.
Shows Salute 2014 Over 5000 wargamers are expected to descend upon London ExCel centre on Saturday 12th April and Team Crooked will be there to try and sate them with our lovely toys and games. As well as our usual trading space (TB08) we will have four games on offer (GB07):
* 7TV: Cops & Robots: The Beat vs Argonauts in the East End! Shut it Sparky!
* 7TV: Seek, Locate, Destroy: Can the Future Freedom Fighters escape the clutches of the Federated Security?!
* 7ombieTV: School Trip: In the crumbling capital, the brave girls of St Searle’s need to reach the safety of Crooked Towers before the undead horde descend! Get to play our brilliant ruined London board.
* 7th Voyage: Sinbad and the Plaque of Destiny: Sinbad faces off against evil sorcerer Kouran and his animated statue on a brand new temple/jungle board from terrain maestro Andy Maclachlan.
See you there!
Doctor Who models and more info on the supplements. Woo. Nice to see the Daughters of SHIVA are getting their own sculpts now too (they've been out of stock since their original run).
Vlad's Army is now up for sale on Crooked Dice's site. The .pdf version is available now, whilst the hard copy version can be pre-ordered before its release in April at Salute. Also released are the related cards and tokens, along with a set of cardstock terrain .pdfs, presumably suitably cheesily themed.
I'll need to hold off buying a copy till May unfortunately. Rather I'd prefer to have a reason to go up to Crooked Dice's stall at Carronade and annoy them.
Post yer thoughts here or something. * Just leave off spoilers. I need something to read on the train back from the wargames show. ^^
Ooh, so not just "Rifles" or "SMGs" any more? ...Ooh.
Eugh, youknow I'm turning up to games of Fallout with a pile of books now because all the cutting and pasting I'm doing from Crooked Dice's books. The practical side of me's hoping this is a short expansion, though yeah, I'd hope there's lot's of fluff and pics in there to bulk it out too (the arm carrying the books doesn't though).
Oh look a much more professional post, courtesy of me ripping Crooked Dice's own post on the matter from another forum! ^^
7ombieTV supplement Vlad’s Army is now available in both PDF (download now) and to pre-order in book formats. The books are due to arrive early April, we’ll post, or you can collect at Salute.
Rulebook - £10 Print or £6 PDF
Vlad’s Army brings Vampire casts to your games of 7ombieTV! This 58 page PDF contains rules for Vampires and their various minions, Military casts and the doddering Home Guard volunteers left to defend war-ravaged Britain during the vampire invasion of Walsingham-on-Sea. Complete with more statuses, weapons, event, gadget and scavenge cards, episodes tokens and photography by Kev Dallimore – this is really a book to get your teeth into.
Card and Tokens - £10
You can also pre-order the Vlad’s Army Cards and Tokens that support the rules. There are 38 cards in the VA deck including new cast Events, Scavange Deck, Campaign events and Special Weapons to support the VA campaign. There is also a set of 27 double-sided tokens (Bitten, Scavenge, Civilian, Flyer, Dominated and Scared) to cover new mechanics and statuses when playing with or against vampires.
Vlad's Army Terrain - £4 PDF
Finally there’s an additional 49 page PDF of cut out and assemble buildings and scenic items by Carl Stoelzel that follow the six episodes in the rules - Afrika Korpse, Palace of Red Petals, The Count of New York and the Vlad's Army campaign episodes: Bloodbath at Charters' Cottage, The 08:15 to Eastbourne and the shocking conclusion - The Siege of St Anselm's. Download it now!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Personally I don't like using .pdfs unless I have to. I still haven't read any of the fluff from the expansions I have just because I hate having to read from monitor screens (I knuckle down for you Dakka). So I'll wait till May for this one so I have a lovely dead tree version instead (the fact that I like to eat my books has nothing to do with wanting physical copies of them. ...What? Hey consuming them is how one attains their knowledge!!!).
Seeing as the dead tree format is still some time out and my budget is rather limited, I'm putting my own purchase off until later this year.
Here's the semi-auto rule by the way:
Semi-Auto If you have not spent an action Aiming, you may roll 2 D6 when rolling to attack, counting all rolls which equal or exceed the required hit number as successes. Extra hits may either be allocated to the original model or models within 2”. Military casts only.
Here's the three Vortex Adventurers painted by Simon Bradley. Masters all approved and expecting delivery next week - so will be in the webstore from 01 April.
Hmn, I may pick up the two on the right. With a hand swap they'd make decent post-apocalyptic models (that or the guy in the middle would work as a decent Mal from Firefly).
A hovercraft made by Ainsty castings is also avaiable now for £12.
The model riding it is a 28mm ARC Astronaut, so in scale with most everything else that Crooked Dice has sold. By my judge its six 28mm round bases long by about four 28mm round bases wide or there abouts.
A WIP of the upcoming Transit Van for use with The Beat casts. Police light, siren and wing mirrors coming later. The wheels will be cast in metal too. Available mid May.
A pair of SHIVA models are in the works right now. Crooked Dice's release schedule's been pushed back a tad due to all the shows occurring at the moment (there's been one every two or so weeks here), so Kohner, two Daughters of Shiva, the Transit Van and a United Radionics Starter Set will hopefully be released around the mid of May (rather than the usual 1st).
A Daughter of SHIVA
And Kohner, a new Co-star (...I think, I should read the SHIVA expansion closer).
Out some time in June comes a set of Department X Commandos (2x MP5s, 2x SLRs) and the stars Hugo Solomon and Pandora King. The stars are a departure from their previous designs, but I suppose I put that down to the new sculptor. The quality on all of the models has definately increased (those are some nice commandos).
Kohner has been mentioned in the background a fair few times, as well as a reference in that novella, but he didn't get proper stats until the S.H.I.V.A. thing.
Bah! I dislike reading soft copies of rulebooks, so I've not taken in those .pdf copies I have access to as much as the books. =P
Oh, and for the Scottish gamers. Crooked Dice will have a stand at the Falkirk District Wargaming Club's annual event, Carronade. I'll be there to poke the guys with a stick and ask too many questions about when the D&D expansion's coming out.
Something which I forgot to mention last week. Graeme at Crooked Dice mentioned that they're looking to create print copies of their Doctor Who Miniatures Game stuff. Whether that includes the .pdfs, or just re-releasing the original rulebooks I don't know. I was able to pick up an out of print copy of the second edition rulebook if that's any indication.
Also in the case of the Vlad's Army event cards having the wrong backs, that should be fixed with the next batch. Though for the moment they still have stock to shift of the old ones.
Right, onto the news.
United Radionics have a new Starter set available on the Crooked Dice webstore. That's twelve models totally 255 ratings for £25.
There's also another new Daughter of SHIVA that's been shown. I see the sculptor's going for something similar to the Kali sculpt. They've gone off for casting, so should be out soon.
Wyrmalla wrote: Something which I forgot to mention last week. Graeme at Crooked Dice mentioned that they're looking to create print copies of their Doctor Who Miniatures Game stuff. Whether that includes the .pdfs, or just re-releasing the original rulebooks I don't know. I was able to pick up an out of print copy of the second edition rulebook if that's any indication.
Also in the case of the Vlad's Army event cards having the wrong backs, that should be fixed with the next batch. Though for the moment they still have stock to shift of the old ones.
Right, onto the news.
United Radionics have a new Starter set available on the Crooked Dice webstore. That's twelve models totally 255 ratings for £25.
There's also another new Daughter of SHIVA that's been shown. I see the sculptor's going for something similar to the Kali sculpt. They've gone off for casting, so should be out soon.
I think I just peed myself a little after seeing this stuff.
Here's some more progress on the transit van. Including the police accessory kit that is shown on the right, others are planned (I asked and a mesh cage used on armour police vehicles is on the horizon).
Ah and BrookM, Kohner's based on this gent from Doctor Who.
The Transit Van is now available in the Crooked Dice webstore for £15 and comes with optional light and siren. I painted version of the model's pending, so right now all there is there are the 3D renders.
I would love to start playing 7TV, but the killer there is needing all new terrain! I am building so much Wild West terrain that I have no room to start a new theme from scratch. Now, if there were a Wild West 7TV expansion...
HEY CROOKED DICE if you guys make a wild west version of 7TV I will run a Brisco Couty Jr. themed campaign. Cross my heart!
Well unfortunately Crooked Dice only work on expansions where people are willing to do the legwork for them most of the time. If someone's willing to write up the rules and fluff for a book then, if they like it, they'll shine it up and sell it. At the moment though they're working on something like four books (the fantasy one, the D&D one, a Pirate themed one, and an 80s core book that'll have its own expansions). Cowboy moves would fit in more with 60's Tv or the like, or at least not the 70's British Tv that the current core book's aiming at (the 80's book will probably focus more on American media though). So whilst a Wild West expansion would be cool, Crooked Dice actually having the time and inclination to make one could be a ways off (given that both guys work part time too) unfortunately. I would say that it wouldn't be difficult to play games in a western setting though. There's rules for revolvers and horses already, the problem is that if you want actual substance like specific western equipment and event cards, that's up to you. With my own Fallout setting luckily the 7ombieTv books have some post-apocalyptic rules in them, but yeah, I have to do a lot of work on my own part to tie in the existing rules with the setting. Buy hey, go onto a forum (like Lead Adventure, Graeme's username is Ulti Long Smile there, or sign up to their official forum) that one of the guys has an account on and post in their threads or make a topic about the subject, they might be interested, I would be (though I just eat up any rules Crooked Dice comes out with as Fallout fodder).
Huh, oh I didn't think one was necessary as there's a link to the company's site in pretty much every other post. I typically stick a link to a model's particular store page if there is one, but as that post only included previews there wasn't any. Meh, fair enough. =P
Oh I wasn't being snitty, I just thought I should clarify why I didn't stick in a link. I probably should stick one in with every post, but as I haven't created this thread in any official capacity, nor do I spend much effort actually formatting it in amazing ways, I don't really bother much with my posts half the time. ...Not to say I actually bother my arse with making threads about my own stuff too shiny either, but that sounds like a better excuse than "I'm a lazy git and this is free publicity for Crooked Dice, so its hardly like I have to keep this thing too tidy unless Ulti Long Smile turns up and calls me out on it (which given his habits I'd imagine is going to happen just after I post this). =)
Love the new stuff by Mr. Veingart. Heads might be a bit too exaggerated on some, but the detailing is great. The other stuff is soft, wooden, and amateur-ish in comparison.
My thoughts exactly with the Veingart stuff. They're only a small company, and sculptors are limited by how much they can work on at one time, but I'd love if they transitioned over to just using him (or said good bye to the other guy, no offence, its just that he's in an entirely different ballpark). Its that for the price I'd rather be buying those much higher quality sculpts instead. That and they have much more character. I've seen painted ones though and yeah, people don't really do them justice unfortunately. t'd raise the bar a whole lot of Crooked Dice were to start putting out all sculpts of this quality consistently, as with their other miniatures they an come across as just a bit amateurish or at least nuanced (...which didn't effect me sticking the Veingart sculpts first in my post, nope).
Wyrmalla wrote: Out some time in June comes a set of Department X Commandos (2x MP5s, 2x SLRs) and the stars Hugo Solomon and Pandora King. The stars are a departure from their previous designs, but I suppose I put that down to the new sculptor. The quality on all of the models has definately increased (those are some nice commandos).
Hmmm, U.N.I.T. commandos along with the 3rd Doctor, female seems like Emma Peel
I've been looking at the Veingart sculpts and thinking that I may not have a use for them, but they're so nice that I should just buy them anyway. Big Tam's been a favourite character about here (not least because he's a massive Scottish stereotype), and I may just pick him up to give to a mate for his birthday). That L1A1 needs it barrel replaced though as its too thick, plus the whole silencer is just wrong (oh god if that's a silencer. Either that or a horrible muzzle. ...Please tell me that's supposed to be just an inaccurate silencer), and it could do with a strap too.
Something that's been discussed around here has been Crooked Dice's apparent over reliance on the Doctor Who franchise. The whole 7Tv game's just an evolution of their Doctor Who one, so a lot of its themes are carried over. However its been questioned if Crooked Dice has the rights to make Doctor Who models, and well the iffy areas they could find themselves in if they don't. They don't of course, and that's a problem as another company which also makes Doctor Who models, who had the license at one point, but lost it, has been suffering legal issues over the matter (though they claim that they aren't making any new models, they just happen to keep finding old stock that was never released). That, and well youknow there was other Tv shows out during the 70's. I'd hate to see the main 7Tv game just become Doctor Who centric and have everything else relegated to expansions (which though would make that content more complete, would detract from the base game). With the development of 80s Tv (or whatever it'll be called) hopefully this won't follow through, and well it isn't a massive irk, but its certainly a grumble around these parts. Hopefully Crooked Dice will diversify, but I did complain a little to Graeme when I saw him about Hugo Solomon changing from being based off of one show (which I can't recall the name of. Oi screw you I wasn't born in the 50's!) to Doctor Who, though at least he now has an alternative head to bring him more in line with the original character (Pandora King hasn't however). Anyway, in short: for a game about 70's TV, with its recent releases it really aught to diversify itself more. That and yes, Doctor Who is more popular than other IPs from that period with modern gamers, but appealing to just that one fanbase is making the game come across as just a new iteration of the Doctor Who miniature's game rather than an in independent production (and well given that Crooked Dice is known by the people who own Doctor Who's IP, I doubt they should be drawing so much attention to themselves).
Spiel over with there. Now start ripping off creating homages to other series like Ghostbusters and Die Hard. What? The 80's were a miles better decade than the 70's. *Dodges Captain Scarlett toys.
Aside from Tweety (who sports a fez) and a few of the not-Who girls I'm giving their Doctor Who range a wide berth, I'm simply not a fan, besides, it's a bit too whimsical for me to plop on the table top.
Mind, they may be doing all these Who minis because of the new season coming sooner or later(?) and they've got a 7TV magic splatbook coming soon IIRC.
I will say that Graeme had a few new copies of the Doctor Who Miniatures game available at the Crooked Dice stall at the show I was at. He said if there was interest he'd make hard copies of the expansions too, but I'm not sure if any of that's related to all of the new minis. Yeah they may well be just riding the wave of the upcoming new season, but if that means every release up until then's going to have that theme then I'm not going to be too excited. Veingart hasn't done any sculpts for anything other than the Doctor Who stuff, so perhaps they brought him in so they'd have high quality minis for that, and will just as soon drop him once they don't need any more of those (or when there's no more interest in Capaldi's Doctor). That's a real pity though, as I'd like to see more from that sculptor in 28mm ( as far as I know 54mm's his forte), and his work's a vast improvement over Crooked Dice's other miniatures. However they could also be paying him a higher fee than their regular sculptor, which makes the notion that they've just brought him in to nail down a great like of Doctor Who minis for them so they can spend the cash they make off of Who fans on their other stuff.
Hasslefree didn't finish off its Borderlands minis, so that put me in a mood with them. They've slowed their releases lately, but I'm liking their latest previews. I'm just hoping they release more video game related models, though I'm hardly enthusiastic about their Stargate line (never watched anything bar the movie)
Well this came up on Crooked Dice's Facebook page.
By now we have probably signed another license agreement. One you have almost certainly never ever heard of though. On the plus side it's a Crooked Dice expenses meal out tonight with the sculptor and his ladyfriend! Massive ales all round!
Then these were posted... (due out in September)
Four Paranormal Exterminators, sculpted by Mark Evans.
Ectoplasm Entity
At the moment the upcoming supplements that I'm aware of are: a D&D one, a fantasy/magic one and an 80s one (ie the Ghostbusters above). So do we have another one along with those being put together? ...Damn, more books to buy in any case.
Hey I'm all for a bloody eighties expansion. For one I'll actually know what half the references are... (which is something commonly noted about the base game). Heh, I just hope that they change the rules somewhat to reflect the difference between 70s and 80s media though. More blood, swearing and silly action scenes are a must. ...That and plenty of references to Stallone and Swartzenager would be cool (oh and Weird Al too ). The Ghostbusters were the one thing I knew were planned for 80s Tv, so I have no idea where they're going from there (at least I know where to find a spare Ecto-1 though).
About a half dozen people play the game here. The uptakes probably more than elsewhere because the game's made in Scotland and its not too difficult to get a hold of its creators. The problem with it is that it involves a bit more roleplaying than your average game, so it can be a bit odd for those who usually play shootier games. Though there's only a handful of regular players here, with me using the rules for my Fallout games its fairly easy to pick up people who're not into the base game all that much. That and the rules are fairly simple to learn, so its not too difficult for new people. With the 80s and D&D supplements I'm thinking that the game will be more appealing than it is right now, as I do feel it takes too much from 70s Tv (...yes, that is its name) and Doctor Who. I don't really use the rules for anything bar zombie games and for Fallout though (at least in the games I arrange), so any new rules which come out are typically cannibalised for those. A D7D expansion could be interesting however ...if I really want to put together yet another mini and terrain collection. =P
It will be good for them to branch out into more familiar waters. I do notice that the Facebook page is full of nostalgic older guys who blab on about stuff I am honestly clueless about.
I still need to pick up a dead tree version of Vlad's Army, it will look nice on my shelf, plus I'll prolly need it for the upcoming Halloween thing now that the 40k Halloween scenario has officially been torpedoed.
Crap, and here's me forgetting about Halloween again. 7ombieTv's easy enough for people to take up, so I'll probably try a game of that again. Hmn, a game of that with a The Last of Us theme (it'll give me an excuse to finish my Infected and but Hasslefree's Joel and Ellie). Hell there's probably rules for that pair on Crooked Dice's forum already (though its not as if it takes much to create some myself either). Its that or just the usual "massive horde of zombies vs survivors". =P
...Uh, though I suppose first I have to finish some terrain other than shacks.
Heh, I still need to build that shack in the woods from 7ombieTV with plasticard and whatnot for the event. I'm going for a "you against the hordes" sort of thing where people can either build their own models or bring their own, so long as the models are not from 40k, Privateer and whatnot.
"Mission o'clock, boys and girls! We have photos of the first three of eight of the miniatures for our first license. We love them and you will too. Obviously we can't show them to you as they are classified top secret, but we can give you a clue."
Heh, yeah I feel the same way. The implication however is that the new license isn't anything to do with the other one they alluded to a while ago (which I assume is the D&D one, though they could just release that as in independent thing easily enough). There's probably information out there already on this subject, but ah, I'm not in the mood for trawling other forums or taking a ride over to Crooked Dice's offices to prod them about it (hmn, though then again my friend was looking to go on a trip up north this week...). So whatever it is it'll come out in due time. ...and well even when we do know all about it Crooked Dice'll still take a few months to polish up the book for release.
Oi and who's this updating my news threads with information? I thought that was my job to do that to you aye?
The first license isn't the fantasy system. That is something they are writing for Otherworld miniatures. From all the hints they are dropping about the first, as yet unannounced, license it is looking like it's Danger 5 (http://www.sbs.com.au/danger5/videos.html).
They have also mentioned recently that they are finishing the layout for their Robin Hood/celtic legends expansion for 7th Voyage too
I thought there was both a D&D style expansion as well as an independent fantasy one? The 7th Voyage one was unknown to me (though come to mind don't they have a pirate one in the works too?). Damn, how many supplements are they working on right now? Hmn, I should run them off...
Otherworld
Fantasy supplement for 7Tv
Pirates for 7th Voyage
Celts/Robin Hood for 7th Voyage
8Tv
Licensed products
(hmn, I feel as though there should be a 7ombieTv one in here somewhere too, but maybe that's just me misremembering).
So I'm making that six or seven. Wowzers.
Danger 5 looks like it'll be fun. If it can be camp and self mocking enough it aught to be a good show. Easy enough to make minis for as well (cut the head off a SS trooper and glue on a dinosaur's, Job's a good un).
The Pirates one (7 Seas) is a fan written one that they like so much they did mention neatening up the document and selling downloads of it. Not sure it is planned for print though.
I've not heard of a 7TV fantasy book, but they have been talking about a book that covers Magic and the supernatural in general called Tales of the Unexplained
endtransmission wrote: The Pirates one (7 Seas) is a fan written one that they like so much they did mention neatening up the document and selling downloads of it. Not sure it is planned for print though.
I've not heard of a 7TV fantasy book, but they have been talking about a book that covers Magic and the supernatural in general called Tales of the Unexplained
Ah yes Tales of the Unexplained is the one I'm referring too. My information tends to come from friends who persue details more than myself, so ah, I can miss out and mix things up at times.
Also, what book would best serve as inspiration for the creation of generic space station monsters?
7th Voyage has its beasties, though the Summer Special also has the Envoys if you're looking for something beefier. There's always the star monster from the 7th Voyage expansion which has a generic profile, but can be upgraded to be a decent final boss monster (I used it to make a Deathclaw). I'd just take a profile that looks all right, strip out the traits that don't work for you (ie "Animal" might be a bit of a nuisance, so swap it out for something which impairs vision or the like) and leave it at that. Ah, and mind that the Menagerie has humanoid creatures too come to think of it. I suppose what you'd be using in games is entirely dependant on what you can pick up cheap at the shops, or stick together out of spare parts and greenstuff? =P
Ah, and there's always 7ombieTv (if you remove the random zombie movement rules, again replacing those with a defect)... Hmn, come to think of it didn't I post some of my own rules for zombie games here? I think that included some Resident Evil/Silent Hill creatures (plants of various types which could infect people. Giant Leeches which came in swarms and could swarm over people to control them), but I can't remember whether I posted the complete version of those rules or just a stripped down version. Bleh, I aught to compile all my 7Tv rules into something useful instead of chucking them away at the end of a game.
Eugh, I'll stick that in the list of other planned projects that I'll definitely do. ...Along with painting up my Enclave faction and ever finishing any of my terrain (did I hear the words Radio Tower?).
Tsk a shack in the woods how dour. Next week I'm playing a zombie scenario in a mall. Hmn, I need to write up some mechanics for scavenging materials to barricade with (no clothes racks don't block things very well...). ^^
The Paranormal Investigators are now available in Crooked Dice's webstore. £15.50 for the lot or £3.25 each. K, thread obligations over, back to talking about ukulele on Facebook (because where else do I find this information than between posts on my Facebook wall?).
Hmn, is it just me or does the sculptor they had for these sculpt legs the same way with all his mins? They're the same set of trousers on the super villain henchmen and Apes. Uh, just an observation.
The Paranormal Investigators are now available in Crooked Dice's webstore. £15.50 for the lot or £3.25 each. K, thread obligations over, back to talking about ukulele on Facebook (because where else do I find this information than between posts on my Facebook wall?).
Hmn, is it just me or does the sculptor they had for these sculpt legs the same way with all his mins? They're the same set of trousers on the super villain henchmen and Apes. Uh, just an observation.
Sculptors, like any type of artist working on commission, can get into a grind. In many ways the artwork is a process, and when something is working well, there can be little incentive to change it overly much. Plus, in areas like uniform shoes and trousers, consistency is important. Another important factor is that miniatures need to be manufacturable, and making something that can't be molded, doesn't cast properly, or fails under light use can lead to having to re-do a piece at one's own expense.
If you follow a lot of a sculptor's work, you will sometimes notice that poses can start to get a little samey-samey, especially if the artist is working on a large batch of miniatures quickly. There's less time for creative problem-solving in those types of commissions. The fees being charged could also be a factor. If the sculptor is working within a fee arrangement that is on the lower end of his/her commission rates (for whatever reason), you might see more process-oriented work and less creativity.
These ghost hunter pieces though are perfectly fine sculpts. They're a little 90s, but that's consistent with the style of the Crooked Dice miniatures range. These pieces don't jump out at you as the best miniatures you've seen this year, but they well represent what they are supposed to represent and overall the quality looks to be very nice. They also look to be very easy to paint, which is always a plus. It is always hard to tell from photos, but there looks to be a few fiddley spots here and there, like collar around Rae Stanzowitz's uniform, though as a whole these miniatures should paint up nicely without too much work.
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BrookM wrote: Could be he's using the same dollies. Also, Egon's glasses look horribly oversized.
And yes, they could even be resculpts of previous work, in which case the legs would literally be the same.
None of the Crooked Dice models jumped out to me to look awesome but they all look good enough and I would be happy to use them. In fact I do have some of them somewhere...
Bear in mind you see the image blown up on screen while the figures are half the size in real life.
Miami Vice! I also want a Viking Biker from Hell mini, that was an awesome episode.
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NEW BUSINESS DECISION:
Things are pretty busy at Dice Volcano HQ, am currently running myself ragged every day trying to get everything done ASAP, as well as dealing with school runs, and everything else I do round the house on a day-to-day basis. So…
From now on all Dice input is going in a pile. Orders, trade orders and enquiries will be dealt with in order, according to the time I reasonably have available. Bribes will go to the top of the pile, complaints in the bin.
Which means if it's busy (start of the month, say) you might have to wait an extra few days. Hopefully you'll all be OK with this. If not, please follow the yellow corridor to the Euthanasia Chamber.
The Paranormal Exterminators (PX) and the Accessories have SOLD OUT. If you have ordered one or both, check to see if you have an email confirming your order has been completed (posted/shipped). If not, you're in the queue for the next lot.
We have put another order of lead in, this should be with us next week, hopefully early next week. If your order contains other items, the whole order will be held until we get the PX restocks in.
SHH!… Don't tell anyone! Looks like we will be doing another 5 'very similar' models to go with these.
We have greens of the next 4 of our licensed figures from Sculptor X. Her in Charge (we'll give her the codename K) has OK'd 1 of them, some changes to be made to 3.
Emphasis mine. So nine new models. presumably five Ghostbusters ones and four from that 1960's kill Hitler show (yup, I forgot its name, and yes, I'm too lazy to just pop over onto the over page to find it out).
Quit making models which the plebs froth over and come out with more expansions for us rules whores.
Oh yeah, I forgot there was a cartoon. Hmn, I'm trying to think what those minis could be. The secretary lady, the guy who gets possessed, Weaver, ah... and that one guy who shuts down the Ghostbusters (the one with the beard, I think he was in Die Hard)? That or they're putting together some minis not directly related to Ghostbusters from another series, but which can fit in with the Paranormal Investigators theme. Something like the X Files maybe?
Looking at the cartoon series does make me ponder that despite growing up in the 90s, I did seem to watch a lot of 80s Tv for some reason. Bloody skinflint BBC. Come to think of it though nowadays I don't see many of those old shows being broadcast. The poor kids now have to watch small furry creatures who only speak in gibberish and bright colours instead. ...And one of them isn't even transgendered. =(
Here's a preview of the October release. Four more X Commandos sculpted by Ernst Veingart and painted here by Mr Kevin Dallimore. From l to r: female trooper with SMG (no, not a Sten Matthew); male trooper with pistol; female trooper with pistol; female trooper with SLR. All with heads on the sprue.
Beyond what's been posted in this thread there's some more Department X minis coming out and a new 7th Voyage supplement (eugh, my pile of Crooked Dice books is becoming a bit of a hassle to tote about).
The X Factor returns More Department X from Ernst Veingart and coming in October! We bring your four more troopers to bolster
the ranks (pictured above as painted and photographed by Kev Dallimore).
In November, Ernst will also be bringing us five Chronal Commandoes - futuristic armoured warriors fighting an
eternal war across time.
Ooh, I wonder if these will be based on the Time Lord soldiers from Doctor Who, or just another well known franchise (yeah, Chronal Commandos is probably a reference, but screw me for not being born in the 70s ).
7th Voyage: Once and Future Our next 7th Voyage supplement covering the myths of King Arthur, Robin Hood and Beowulf is nearly
ready. With just soem photos to be taken at the end of the month, we'd hope it will hit shelves in next month.
It's available in the usual PDF and print formats - and will have a deck
Oh feth yeah. I reason to buy one of the new Perry Men at Arms kits!
Get ahead This month: 2 for 1 on Hard Hats and Police Helmets. Just buy half the amount you need, and we’ll send you twice as many
Finished the last of the edits on our next 7th Voyage supplement - Once & Future written by Helena Nash. I'm off to Kev's at the weekend for a photo session and then it's all done. It will be available in PDF in a week or so and then in print later in October. Here's a cover preview.
Heh, its now the only game I play consistently, so I feel I have a stake in it. Given the ruleset's ability to be adopted by various settings (notably the post-apocalyptic ones) I've sort of lost interest in other games barring where other guys at my clubs are running things. Of course it also helps that there's less rules to have to keep up to date with that way, which is even better when you're a GM and you can just make crap up when things aren't working smoothly (in 40K players will start arguments with you over rules, with the 7Tv ruleset, well one people shouldn't be hyper competitive, and two, the rules aren't full proof to begin with, so making up crap to suit the situation is simple enough).
Anyway, back to never getting around to properly putting together my own supplement thingy. =P
7TV is designed to be a fun, easy play skirmish ruleset and does very well at that. The base concept is the kind of narrative playing style that 40K professes and totally fails to provide.
Yeah, try playing 7Tv against someone who has that attitude. I have...
In a game where you can easily shove in a killer death ray into a cast for the same ratings as two guys with pistols, I'm confused why that system doesn't just put WAAC players off. Then again 40k allows you to do pretty much the same thing. If you want to play 7Tv then you're faced with dealing with putting together a cast which is handicapped based on the narrative.
Heh, but go on and try and play a game where both sides are armed to the teeth. My average game runs for hours. A game involving military casts and little to no narrative beyond "kill kill, attack attack!"? Uh, I think they wound up being two or three turns at the most. =P
Nah, how about one side has all the guns and they other baseball bats and saucepans?
Any way to sculpt some G.I.Joe/ Action Team stuff?
Of course I'm probably not the only one who'd like to see some G.I.Joe Real American Hero stuff, but I'm partial to what I grew up with. some jackbooted cobra flunkeys might not be a bad idea. though.....
Along with a hot stacked glasses wearing accented hottie. A couple of adventure boxes, such as fight the giant spider, Seven ropes of danger, skull island infiltration, even add in the new and improved Man and Woman of Evil
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He Man, and the Masters of the Universe...
Hmmmm..... All those wonderful toys. Why did I have to graduate to women?
Yep, so far it's all 70's (or 70s inspired) British TV and film that is being emulated, with the ghostbusters and Grandville figures as some fun figures that they have licensed from the sculptors. From the rumblings there are a few more Ghostbusters related figures in the works being cleaned up.
The only other exception is this mystery official license that still hasn't officially been announced that, if hints are correct, involves 5 dangerous individuals from Oz
Brit shows I have seen since I was a kid
Fireball XL-5
Stingray
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet
Dr. Who
Blakes' 7
The Prisoner
Black Adder
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Are you being served?
Fawlty Towers
Space 1999
UFO
Various other sci-fi and comedies maybe a drama or two. So the game system has some appeal for me.
A halloween (PDF only) special has just been announced for 7th Voyage, covering Gothic horror and folklore. It covers witch hunters, stock monsters, headless horsemen and lots more!
Last weekend they also previewed some of their new models at a show, including the secret license. Apparently the license will be officially announced at the end of this week, though every hint so far is Danger 5. They are also working on a 2nd edition ruleset... make of that what you will.
The rulebook I have is from 2011 and it was out for a while before I got mine, so they are doing better than GW. There was talk last year about some of the potential plans for 2nd edition.
Mostly it was clearing things up and consolidating the core rules into one small Action:Engine book so they don't need to republish the core rules each time they want to do a new setting. Splitting the setting and core rules also means they could update the rules without invalidating any of the setting books.
Who knows what they actually have planned, but either way it should be interesting
Grot 6 wrote: Any way to sculpt some G.I.Joe/ Action Team stuff?
Of course I'm probably not the only one who'd like to see some G.I.Joe Real American Hero stuff, but I'm partial to what I grew up with. some jackbooted cobra flunkeys might not be a bad idea. though.....
Along with a hot stacked glasses wearing accented hottie. A couple of adventure boxes, such as fight the giant spider, Seven ropes of danger, skull island infiltration, even add in the new and improved Man and Woman of
+1 to this! The great thing is that GI Joe was released in the UK under the Action Force brand, an offshoot of Action Man. The Action Force line also had a bunch of very cool unique figures and characters. I'd love some Z Force troops and some Red Shadows and Cobra Troops.
endtransmission wrote: A halloween (PDF only) special has just been announced for 7th Voyage, covering Gothic horror and folklore. It covers witch hunters, stock monsters, headless horsemen and lots more!
I couldn't find any mention of this on the site or in their store. Don't suppose you have a link? I tried to get on the forum but you have to be registered to view it, and registration is currently disabled...
I couldn't find any mention of this on the site or in their store. Don't suppose you have a link? I tried to get on the forum but you have to be registered to view it, and registration is currently disabled...
~Eric
Send Uti Long Smile a PM on Lead Adventure, or just use the contact information on their main site if you want access to their forums. I know its an obtuse way of doing it, but they removed the registration feature due to having too many bots.
Tomorrow is also release day for the new Department X starter set and (hopefully) the new license set as they have all the lead and paperwork with them now.
Don't use the homepage link to the new book as it seems to be broken. Go to the New Releases section instead.
So far it's a great read. The selection of new stars, co-stars, villains, extras and location effects is fantastic... especially with the new addition of Production Crew.
For example, the Makeup Artists (25 ratings). When activated, grants D3 audience appreciation tokens for the stars/co-stars. Production crew are off-table, so cannot be activated by any abilities.
Not on the webstore yet, but Crooked Dice were selling these at the latest show. I will point out that they're short of a second rifle armed commando in this line up. I'm assuming he's still included in the set however.
Once and Future is also available on the webstore in book format for those who want that rather than the .Pdf (I.e. moi).
Eugh, I'm a little hacked off that nobody at my club mentioned that there was a show going on in Scotland this year, even if it was on the other side of the country.
Is it just me or is the "Specials" section gone from their webstore?
Oh, this month's newsletter is an interesting one as it goes into a bit more detail on the new edition next year.
Crooked Dice wrote:
But why change?
Simply, we think it can be better. We started from the ground up looking at what we wanted the system to be. But most importantly we looked at why folks weren't playing. We think it's a great game, but if there are barriers to people picking up the rules and playing, then we wanted to remove them. So we've been gathering feedback on: what players struggle with; ideas on how to make the game more accessible and exciting; and what mechanics and accessories are a little clunky and need fine tuning. We've simplified rules for lots of things: there's less numbers to add up when you are building a cast; less tokens required; and less chance of players 'min'max'-ing the system. It's shaped up into a cracking set of rules. Don't worry, it's still clearly recognisable as the Action Engine. But as you play there are a richer range of choices to make, and tactics for players to use
So what's different? We will be providing more details over the coming months, but here's a highlight of some of the features:
- All models profiles now on double sided cards with everything you need to play: stats, attacks, special effects all in one place. See some prototypes above.
- All Archetypes and Extras are bought 'off the peg', although you will still be able to be modify to build your own heroes and villains
- New 'Genres' which will tie your Extras into the Archetypes you choose for your cast
- New combat mechanic combining rolling to hit and damage into a single simple "strike roll"
- Resource management combining activation and audience appreciation counters
- Even during your opponents turn you are making important tactical decisions
- New countdown mechanic to determine when an episode will end and trigger the action
- Unit activations with the Unit Leader special effect
- Free PDF with the core rules and cards. That's a free version of 2nd Edition. Free.
They are looking for playtesters to help beat the new rules into submission. Details are in the newsletter
Will be interesting to see, especially how much the character creation segment will be changed, as that's the aspect I loved the most, not being a fan of using the premade characters myself.
Ack, so a load of books, tokens and cards to sideline. Fun. Ok they'll probably still see some use I bet, but damn my pocket winces at this.
Not sure about combining the roll to hit and to wound, but I'd have to see how that turns out. Also the use of cards rather than a roster sheet might impede players somewhat from writing up lists on the fly, but I assume that they have a solution for that. As for the rest we'll have to see what happens.
Hmn, now I wonder how sales of that new 7th Voyage expansion will fair given that people know a new edition is on the distant horizon. Probably to no ill effect I imagine. Hmn, was this new edition supposed to roll the various expansions all into one? I remember reading that somewhere. It would certainly be nice if that was the case, as (depending on how drastic the rules changes are) it'd mean not having to mess about adapting the main expansion rules to the new system. Not that I won't sit there and spend my time twisting the rules for a more post-apocalyptic flavour. =P
BrookM wrote: Will be interesting to see, especially how much the character creation segment will be changed, as that's the aspect I loved the most, not being a fan of using the premade characters myself.
The main characters are still customisable with character creation rules, it's just the henchmen that will be off the shelf... but by that I would guess they just mean they will provide cards with one of each of the option combos currently available? Looking at the url=http://s274.photobucket.com/user/pez47/media/Crooked%20Dice/2E/CardPreview_zps3ff3f51d.jpg.html]preview images[/url] of the it looks like they may be providing the base stats for all the archetypes on cards, rather than in the books. As they have mentioned that Stars/Villains and Co-stars are still customisable, I would imagine the back of the cards detail what extras you can get. Selling packs of cards like this would be a neat way of providing stats as we currently have to trawl through lots of different books to find that one elusive co-star to use.
I've applied for the beta, so we shall see what comes of it.
[update]Karl has confirmed that the cards in that image are for when you buy the archetype "off the shelf", but that custom characters will still be possible as that is one of his favourite parts of the game. They just aren't sure what the final form of that will be. It may remain in the rulebook[/update]
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Wyrmalla wrote: Ack, so a load of books, tokens and cards to sideline. Fun. Ok they'll probably still see some use I bet, but damn my pocket winces at this.
Your pocket winces at free rules? Apparently the V1 books and settings should be compatible with the v2 rules though. they will also still be providing the complete v1 books in pdf format for those that don't want to switch.
Wyrmalla wrote: Hmn, was this new edition supposed to roll the various expansions all into one? I remember reading that somewhere. It would certainly be nice if that was the case, as (depending on how drastic the rules changes are) it'd mean not having to mess about adapting the main expansion rules to the new system. Not that I won't sit there and spend my time twisting the rules for a more post-apocalyptic flavour. =P
No idea. They did mention that concept a while back, but I'm not sure if it is still the plan. It may explain why the v2 rules will be free, so they can sell setting books without having to worry about the main rules... but we will need to wait and see
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Crooked Dice wrote:
Beyond the Seven Seas We're currently preparing to set sail with another submission for 7th Voyage from the delightful and very patient Paul Sullivan. Beyond the Seven Seas takes your adventures around the world and into the Age of Discovery via some beloved Saturday Morning Serials!
This swashbuckling supplement covers Pirates, Musketeers, Shogun and Conquistadors. We have new rules for Ship Combat, Fame and Notoriety and Fencing as well as a motley crew of mortals and, stop motion monsters! Available in January in PDF only format
Well because its Christmas, Crooked Dice has put together a little set of character profiles and cards (nae scenarios unfortunately) for the Once and Future expansion based on The Holy Grail. Neat, and surprisingly well done considering how small a thing it is.
Those look superb, but I don't recognise the first one at all. There's a Rose with huge gun from Stolen Earth/Journey's End, a Sarah dressed for Planet of Evil and a Jo for Claws of Axos.
Those look superb, but I don't recognise the first one at all. There's a Rose with huge gun from Stolen Earth/Journey's End, a Sarah dressed for Planet of Evil and a Jo for Claws of Axos.
Two new PDFs today (well.. one is up already, the other is currently erroring)
As heads of our Global Multinational, we love to get other people to do all the hard work for us, so when we received the offer of two entire publications we could upload, we jumped at it. Then pushed the authors into the shark pool. Mike Jackson (RIP) has written the Agents of ACE Programme Guide for his own cast, and very nice it looks too – and it’s free to download. Meanwhile head off to the Barbary Coast for some swashbuckling pirate action with the Beyond the 7 Seas supplement for 7th Voyage, written by Paul O’Sullivan (RIP). Cheers guys!
The Seven Seas book is over 90 pages long and seems to include huge quantities of new stuff, including rules for pirate ships, new equipment, new cast members, magic, gaining notoriety, 6 setting guides and more events! Not bad for the £12 asking price
Evidently I pay enough attention to this thread (I actually noticed it had been updated whilst looking at News & Rumours instead of my own thread's page) to change the header. ...Ah yeah sorry for not paying as much attention with this thread as I aught to, though the same could be said of the other ones I'm curator of as well. Tsk, reminds me that I have to write a scenario up for a game of Fallout on Tuesday ...which totally won't happen at the last moment. Hmn, actually I think I'll just use that military base one I wrote for it, but never had the time to play. See, the laziness is strong with this one.
Kind of off-topic, but I'm honestly most excited to see the release of the generic fantasy rules they did for Otherworld miniatures. Apparently they have been finished for quite some time, but Otherworld (understandably) wants to finish fulfilling their last indiegogo before starting another. I really enjoy the crooked dice system and aesthetically I think crooked dice does the best job of all the companies out there with the layout of their rule books. They really look fantastic, and this is coming from a guy who plays games that are literally walls of text and loves them.
The dogs are penned in for a February release, so I'd expect them any day now actually. I'd recommend the Miniature Mojo dogs too if you're looking for a set.
@ Sabotage!
I was considering making some fantasy miniatures (Skyrim inspired actually) and a dungeon for the Otherworld release actually. However it didn't come so I went for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. instead. =/
Here's a shot from their Facebook page of their latest show board in the works, the Paranormal Investigators HQ. I like them using their new vans as part of the clutter. That and the whole idea of these small, but interesting boards interests me, but I'd hate having to transport the damn things anywhere.
I think its the same guy who made the 7th Voyage temple one, who may well be the one who makes all their boards. If it is the same guy then I suspect he has a thread over on the Lead Adventure or Crooked Dice forums like he did with the temple in case anyone wants more shots.
Its a pity that the shows they attend up here don't have display games at them. Its a shame that they have only small stands with one person at them, especially as well they're a Scottish company, but don't seem to make much of a show at the shows here (put it down to being between other larger shows down south or what not).
The dogs are penned in for a February release, so I'd expect them any day now actually. I'd recommend the Miniature Mojo dogs too if you're looking for a set.
Funny you should mention them. I just discovered Miniature Mojo a couple days ago. Their dogs and ICE Troopers definitely interest me. Any clue how well they scale up against other brands?
Check out this thread on the Lead Adventure forums. Its where the creator of that game posts his WIPs so I'm sure there's some sort of size comparison there (...in the seventy five odd pages, sorry I have to go out soon so I can't really search through them). Ah, as far as I can tell they sit at your regular 28mm (non heroic height), or well a titch smaller. If you're using them alongside one of the other 28mm makers who doesn't err more towards the 32mm side of things you should be fine.
That figure stands a little taller than regular 28mm IIRC.
Beyond that I think there's an image (a crap one that is) of a some of their wolves with Urban War Romans (chunky 28mm). Eugh, here it is, spoilered for terrible picture quality and painting. The wolves are sitting on 30mm bases btw and are a little larger than the dogs, well at least in terms of length. =P
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I have a friend who's into the whole setting and that game, so he's intending to make a whole terrain set for a Siberian base at some point. Hmn, I'll ask him tomorrow if he's picked up any of those miniatures, though I believe he's using another manufacturer for his snow troopers (someone was selling similar models at a gaming show a couple of years ago which he really pegged onto).
Damn, and searching through pictures trying to find one of a scale comparison came up with this. Holy crap I didn't realise making a Pseudodog for Stalker would be so simple. 0.0
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In other news, because yes I didn't check my Facebook messages till just after posting there, here's the latest new releases.
Huh, and cool Mounted Simians, £8 each or £15 for the pair. Does Crooked Dice have many Planet of the Apes scenarios or are they just selling and expanding on the Ainsty line?
Wow, now wasn't that an amazing hack job of what they posted on their sales page? I'd hazard that if you gagging for updates about this company to join their forum, ah, though I personally CBA checking more than a couple of sites for news, so Dakka's board usually does.
Heh, I didn't peg it was meant to be Weaver, despite my first look making me think it looked a hell of a lot light her. ¬¬
I like that they're using that sculptor for stuff like this. As I've said to me he's better at it than who they've been using for their regular lines. Of course they're keeping him to just this unfortunately, but saying that what he does come out with is pretty good. I'd like to see him going on to make other tv/film tie in stuff, like I donno Die Hard, the A Team, or well whatever stuff they can throw in with their 80s ruleset (even if Hasslefree already sells a few such models).
weeble1000 wrote: That's a Black Scorpion "Tombstone" miniature Wyrmalla. Black Scorpion tends to be more 30mm than 28mm.
Huh, oh yeah, I couldn't recall the scale, so couldn't be more specific than saying that it was a little larger than 28mm. By my guess those dogs would be in the same size range as the Crooked Dice ones, considering that Crooked Dice models are scaled a little large, and that Miniature Mojos models are supposed to be 28mm (I can't speak for the humans, but they're dogs fit in well enough). =P
MLaw wrote: The not-Ghostbusters are back in stock for a bit.. got a set just now!
I'd love some more CD minis but man, if there is a US distributor I would love to know about it.
Those new sculpts for the Paranormal Exterminators look fantastic!
The retail page on their site lists distributors (I don't know if its up to date however). Warpath Games Distributor is listed as their sole US seller. Surprisingly their list of products seems to be fairly up to date, but that doesn't indicate whether they have those items in stock of they have to import them from here, so there may be a bit of a wait with your order (though at least you'll avoid the international shipping fees).
Something for the weekend. A sneaky peek at the next release - Soldiers and Scientific Advisors. Sculpted by Ernst Veingart. Masters should arrive shortly, so hope to release in April.
Ack, this thread's been updated. Quick think of a witty title. ... Crap!
* It is fun to see that picture of Lister every time I change this thread's title at least.
More of the Doctor Who stuff then? Sarah Jane and that scientist from the Day of the Doctor with the scarf? Least the soldiers do for the Falklands, etc.
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Damn! This just reminded me that one of the shops near me is having a 50% sale on all Crooked Dice items. Heh, there goes my Saturday morning.
Wyrmalla wrote: Ack, this thread's been updated. Quick think of a witty title. ... Crap!
* It is fun to see that picture of Lister every time I change this thread's title at least.
More of the Doctor Who stuff then? Sarah Jane and that scientist from the Day of the Doctor with the scarf? Least the soldiers do for the Falklands, etc.
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Damn! This just reminded me that one of the shops near me is having a 50% sale on all Crooked Dice items. Heh, there goes my Saturday morning.
Sorry, you are wrong on who that is. From left to right.
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, The one from "Day of the Doctor", Kate Stewart - The Brig's Daughter from 'Nu-Who', and Sargeant Benton. Sarah Jane not included.
I stopped watching the series after the Scottish one died. ...I mean the ginger one. ...Before the silly pandering to the lowest common denominator one turned up. ...OK, I have never watched an episode of Doctor Who.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE! Some of the following may be true facts…
Graeme will be demo'ing 7TV 2nd Edition at this year's Salute. You will be able to come and have a shot on a 2ft square demo board with half a dozen models or so each side. Highlights of this exclusive event will include:
• See the rules in play and get to roll the dice and play the actual game and everything
• Marvel at the lovely and long fabled profile cards Karl has spent hours of his life putting together
• Savour the Countdown cards, realise they are a symbol of your own life ticking down to your inevitable demise
• Find out what we plan to release, when, where, why and how much money you will be giving us for all of it
• Be dazzled by the rules justifications from the game's designer* (pictured) and get prodded with a fork if you disagree
*: Karl has contributed many many things to the 2nd Edition as well. My favourite is the 'Karls Beard' PDF, which will be the first 2nd Edition supplement due to popular demand
Truly this is exciting. Graeme has been to special classes learning to deal nicely with others in preparation for this. Others will be on hand to ensure the correct medication is taken, meaning collateral casualties may be avoided altogether this year.
Something about them all being .pdfs and not invalidating the older books. I think so, but check back in this thread as it was brought up earlier when I had the same concern.
Ooh, but if they're already playtesting it perhaps I'll pick something new up at the show I go to in a few months. They certainly do have quite a few expansions in the works which aren't out yet at least.
Small companies and their inability to have working websites. #mylife
New masters arrived to day and are all spot on! Terrible phone piccie, but here they all are. There's a sneaky peak at an upcoming couple of head spurs too to help convert the existing DX troopers - some gas masks for classic SAS and a helmet with stowed goggles for a modern modern trooper.
I didn't think that their "General Gordon" was bad for a "Mawdryn Undead" to "Battlefield" era brig, but the new one is much better, more a younger, "Daemons" era character.
Thought you might like a look at this. It's early days, but now you can have a play with making a cast for 7TV* with this quick and dirty guide to the (current) models in the new rules, along with (current) ratings.
BrookM wrote: Rules of the second edition were free right?
Or am I remembering things wrong again? I'm not looking forward to start collecting books again.
It sounds like the core rules and cards will be free. I'm not sure about the episode guides though.
According to Graeme at Crooked HQ, 2E retains the Star/CoStar/Extras from the first edition, but the actual system behind it all is different. The free pdf core rules will cover all of the profiles from the 1st edition as well as adding in a lot of new options. There are no plans to drop any of the casts from the Episode Guides either, though how those will be dealt with is still under discussion.
Down from 100-300 ratings an episode to 25-50? Interesting. However now that stars have a base rating of around eight, what does that mean for their gear? At the moment its a few ratings just for a gun, so how does the reduced ratings effect them I wonder? Certainly the extra kit won't be costing too much given the lower total ratings I'd imagine.
Some new heads are coming out to. Time to go embassy raiding...
Hmn, quite a few changes then. I'd really like to know if there's an alternative to these like the existing cast sheets. Cards are fine, but they take more effort to write up than just a table. Well i think, looking at it maybe they could come out with a Word document or something, but that still seems a bit more awkward than loading up Microsoft Project.
7TV 2nd Edition playtest components!
Karl has worked the playtest rules up into a nifty 40 page rulebook 'lite', with about 1,000,000 cards which Graeme has scalpel'ed out and sleeved with only a medium Sanity loss. Pictured:
• Rules (centre)
• Countdown (x30) & Finale (x10) cards (left). These mark the turns remaining and provide the random events during play. 1/2 sized cards.
• Gadget cards (x20) (bottom left). Your favourite gadgets revised. Most casts should get a few gadgets each episode.
• Heroic Profile, Unit and Vehicle cards (top left). There are about 80 of these all in, with all the stats you need right there on the card.
• Villainous Profile, Unit and Vehicle cards (right). Same again more or less, for the bad guys this time.
• Mini reference cards (x6) (bottom right). Info on the turn sequence, statuses, weapon effects etc.
The final versions will be much the same as the current cards, and won't need sleeved. We're going to give it a go in the pub tonight, I'll get some photos and post them up later.
Wyrmalla wrote: Hmn, quite a few changes then. I'd really like to know if there's an alternative to these like the existing cast sheets. Cards are fine, but they take more effort to write up than just a table. Well i think, looking at it maybe they could come out with a Word document or something, but that still seems a bit more awkward than loading up Microsoft Project.
They will be coming out with all sorts of templates. These stats cards are like a quick-start option so you have premade cast members. The full rules will still have the creation rules and the ability to use the old spreadsheet style.
They have mentioned that there will be template cards as well as template cast sheets.
BATTLE OF THE PLANETS LICENSE!
Dedicated! Inseparable! Invincible! We are totally pleased to announce out next license. Expect rules for flaming spaceships, worried robot voice-overs and miniatures for chirping youngsters and lots and lots and lots of campy space villains. If you know about BotP you might guess it's a bit of a complicated license so bear with us.
Thus why I wind up using their ruleset for modern and post-apocalyptic games. The shows they cater for I only watched on my days off at primary school. When they eighties stuff comes out then perhaps I'll be a bit more in touch with their theme, till then I'll stick with zombies and nukes.
Hmn, though is this an opportunity for Daft Punk the tabletop game?
Oh how I would love to grab some Science Ninja Team Gatchaman miniatures (sorry, Battle of the Planets). But until this news carries over to tomorrow I am going to sit in a corner and cry assuming that it is an April Fools joke.
My attitude with April Fools is to act as though what everyone posts is genuine just to give people a kick out of reading my over exaggerated comments.
Ten feet tall Space Marine announcement thread incoming...
Highlights being the release of the Doctor Who and Ghostbuster minis shown previously in this thread. Upcoming models include *not Cylons (pictured below, but there's more images in the .pdf) and new models for Heroic stars (which surely are based on one film character or another).
This month's discount is 25% off Vlad's Army and its cards and tokens.
Not Crooked Dice this time, but in the theme of those Argonauts another company is releasing similar models.
I'd be into the second one for some post-apocalyptic guys actually.
But in Crooked Dice news, they'll be making an appearance at the show I'm going to tomorrow and bringing along a demo of the second edition. I'll see what I can drum up there, but may find myself just toting about the stalls buying stuff as I usually do (...for five hours). If anyone is going to the Carronade Gaming Show in Falkirk my friend when he asked was assured that the 25% discount Crooked Dice were offering at Salute will also apply here (...he said he's going to bring along a copy of the email just to bug whoever's there about it if they don't).
Dammit BrookM! Just because I'm too lazy to regurgitate the news letter. Git!
Aye well there wasn't many images in this months news letter due to all the shows Crooked Dice are going to.
The new Argonaut's that were shown earlier, including weapons sprues for upgrading the existing Mk1 models are now available. I saw those golden Mk2 Argonauts at the show I was at, hmn, could do with an ink wash.
The Heroic Archetypes that BrookM posted are due out in June. Another Paranormal Investigator (this time a female one with a different weapon) and an Argonaut Commander (whatever that'll do look like, IIRC Argonauts can't have the leader ability at the moment) are in the works for a release in July.
Crooked Dice now have a Summer Sale on too, with up to 75% off some items. Ok, big wow however, its mostly on rule books, which are on their way out of the door anyway. =P
I popped onto Crooked Dice's stall at one of the shows they were attending a week ago. Unfortunately I wound up being held up driving there, so didn't have that much time to peruse the traders. So whilst I did pick up some of the new stuff I didn't have time to see the new rules being played. Bugger. :(
Unfortunately, the tomorrow person seems to have jaunted them all to the moon, so unless there are some Judoon there, that is only a temporary condition.
It's been a long time in development, but I'm delighted to announce that our Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish rules are now available for pre-order in our webstore. We expect the official release date to be in mid-August, but pre-order customers will get theirs a week or 2 in advance, and at a generous discount on the post-release pricing.
Pre-order packages are available for single rules books, rules and accessory bundles, and 2-player packs. Individual accessories, and ready-made warband packs, will be available after general release.
This has been a project that Crooked Dice have been working on for a while alongside Otherworld Miniatures. ...One of their many projects which they've been working on for a while. Its pretty much the 7Tv ruleset, but in the D&D setting. What I do wonder is if this is using the new ruleset or not. The character sheets in the background of that image say its the old one to me.
Still... If I had the time to put together a Fantasy dungeon for this and collect all the miniatures I would, but I'm already too invested with my other stuff unfortunately. :(
I'm fairly meh over the new ruleset. If the This is Not a Test rules came out on paper sooner I'd have transferred over to those by now. As it is I'm playing 7Tv still, but I don't see myself transferring over the 2nd edition, at least for the moment. At my club I'm about the only guy who still runs games of 7Tv for the most part, with the other guys finding that Pulp Alley to be more suitable for such settings.
I'm glad to see the Otherworld book is finally getting a release. The rules will be v1 as they were written well before they started on the new version.
The v2 playtest is nearly done. I think they mentioned something about a public beta release of the files in about a month's time.
endtransmission wrote: I'm glad to see the Otherworld book is finally getting a release. The rules will be v1 as they were written well before they started on the new version.
It is finally getting a release because Otherworld is FINALLY shipping out the rewards to all of their INDIEGOGO campaign's backers - and he was waiting for that to happen before releasing this.
Hmn, and I wonder what the "something completely different" could be referring to, or is it as the above?
I notice that they don't have the Scottish Claymore show listed on their upcoming shows list. Boo hiss! ...Though seriously as a Scottish company they're really underrepresented at Scottish shows, but I guess the English ones are larger. =/
Slowly going through the rules now, quite surprised that the SMG is now a blast 3" weapon. Even stranger, the shotgun isn't a blast weapon, but the sawn-off version is. Ho-hum.
I like that not-Furiosa better... She has possibility as a Shadowrun character. The Hasslefree one is good and all but this one looks like she's geared up for an assault and toting a gun with a smartlink. Although, now that I'm looking at the HF one too.. I kinda want them both Thanks for posting this.
Hm.. Janey looks alright.. I bought the regular paranormal set but not the other stuff. I might end up having to get her though. The old-school BSG guys are not my thing but I'm sure someone is giving them plenty of love.
Tsk, I didn't clock on that these were the archetypes from the book at all there. I'm too used to them just chucking out random models and saying that they could suit profile x or y. Huh, well anyway, aye those are quite nice, and its a plus to see more coming out of that particular sculptor.
The 3D pics of the top four were used for the cards of the 7TV2 beta. The other chaps are the Underworld Boss and the errr... Sinister Mystic I think it was?
The first of the 2Ed Programme Guides has just been released and concentrates on the Paranormal Investigators
Here’s the first release for our 7TV second edition rules – the Paranormal Exterminators programme guide. With thirty new profiles for ghost hunters spectres, spooks and cryptozoological threats, this 24 page PDF will allow you to add a supernatural spin to your 7TV games. Also included are four scenarios and background material on the little known Dead On Arrival television show from the Barron archives – all illustrated with photography from Kevin Dallimore.
Rules for building casts for the two new genres: Exterminators and Paranormal
30 new profiles for hunters, spooks and cryptid creatures including: Poltergeists, Spectres, Demon Dogs, Ectons, Harbingers, Grey, Jersey Devil and Creepers to name a few. Plus named Co-Stars such The Bell Witch, the Aqua-Maniac and the Missing Link and of course our four most famous paranormal exterminators!
Background on 7TV Studios show Dead On Arrival and it's US counterpart - including a full episode list from the first (and only) american series.
four episodes - Cats and Dogs Living Together, Tunnel Vision, Shadow Over Funland and Fright at the Museum - with suggested scenarios and casts
Two new Unit cards for U.S. Police officers and a SWAT team.
How are the rules compared to other similar rule sets? Haven't seen anyone talking about it. Are there any other rule sets that would be suitable to use the Crooked Dice minis in?
Mymearan wrote: How are the rules compared to other similar rule sets? Haven't seen anyone talking about it. Are there any other rule sets that would be suitable to use the Crooked Dice minis in?
The rules are good fun. The new edition is quite a change to the last edition, so existing players are having to rethink how they play a bit, but for new players there shouldn't be any of this to worry about. They certainly give the feel of a 70s tv show, especially when you start using the event cards and gadgets.
The good thing is that everything in the new starter box is available for free in pdf format, it is just being made available in a box to avoid you having to print out all the cards and tokens. You can download the beta version on the Crooked Dice website now, or wait a few weeks for them to upload the final version.
As for the figures, they are all very generic characters and supporting character types, so you can use them in any skirmish system or board game that uses archetypes from the last 50 years. For example you could use them for a modern version of Strange Aeons or Pulp Alley; survivors in Zombicide, Mars Attacks or All Things Zombie, or even a 70s version of Across the Dead Earth... loads of things
The cast boxes are, mostly, one or two new figures and a selection of older figures to bulk things out a bit. This means some of the models aren't the best, but keep in mind that with 7TV you can use whatever you want as there are rules for creating your own characters and casts.
It's been a while since the Future Freedom Fighters had any new members. So here's four new sculpts planned for a March release from the amazing Ernst Veingart.
I bought all the Citadel 15mm sets for Traveller back in the early 80s, and they are still impressive figures, but although 15mm makes more sense for modern/SF given the range of firearms, I've switched to 28mm partly because of the huge variety of models available.
It's what 28mm is all about, the ability to make really characterful, individual figures. It's amazing what can be done in 15mm these days, but 28mm has a clear edge for obvious reasons.
I've gone out of 28mm miniatures...but that Servalan, Avon and Vila just dragged me back in.
Must haves!
Danke, I was trying to place them. I got Avon though, must be 25 years since I last saw Blake's 7 (I got hooked wondering how come there's 5 of them and none are named Blake?)
I've gone out of 28mm miniatures...but that Servalan, Avon and Vila just dragged me back in.
Must haves!
Danke, I was trying to place them. I got Avon though, must be 25 years since I last saw Blake's 7 (I got hooked wondering how come there's 5 of them and none are named Blake?)
No spoilers, but poor old Blake never did fare that well...
I've gone out of 28mm miniatures...but that Servalan, Avon and Vila just dragged me back in.
Must haves!
Danke, I was trying to place them. I got Avon though, must be 25 years since I last saw Blake's 7 (I got hooked wondering how come there's 5 of them and none are named Blake?)
No spoilers, but poor old Blake never did fare that well...
Now, if only they did these in 54mm...
I'm an old grump, my eyesight is not what it once was.
So how about upping the ante to 70mm. I have disposable income, and I would love the heck out of that Servalan, Avon, and Villa, plus a decent new pose for Blake, Cally, and Gan.
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But if it did include the ability to make 70mm display models, I'd be there like a shot!
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