Crooked Dice releases - SHIVA's Villainous Christmas Spree!

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**BrookM**

Ruglud wrote:Ooh, I think i'll be making a beeline straight over to Crooked Dice's stand at Salute in April. They always have such great games and terrain to go with these fantastic minis... Money will be changing hands...

Please bring a camera along, they always have such gorgeous demo tables!

From the Crooked Facebook:

Crack open the party seven! Am looking thru Helena's amazingly good draft of 'The Beat', for the inclusion in the Heroic Programme Guide once we've dragged it down to a cell and knocked it about a bit. How was this series never made? You're all going to love it. G@CD

**BrookM**

Coming soon, Simian soldiers!

**BrookM**

Out now, Simian minions / soldiers: http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/simian-minions/

Grab four savage Simian Minions straight from the labs of mad geneticist Professor Andros (The Man From 2000: The Year of the Monkey). Mark Evans has sculpted these horrific hybrids; two armed with rifles, one with baton and one wielding a sinister man-catcher. Each different pose comes with a separate head. £11 for the 4 model deal or £3.25 each.

Also, from the Crooked Facebook: SCUBA Divers by Ian Mountain — March 2013 Releases

**Conrad Turner**

And you even get a left-handed SCUBA diver. Shame you missed the trick to make a simian soldier a 'south-paw'. Still, plenty of time to do one for the next batch, eh!

**BrookM**

**BrookM**

Out now is the third good guys program guide: The Beat!

http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/programme-guide-the-beat-pdf/

The Serious Crimes Unit, popularly known among law-abiding citizens and villains alike as the Beat, is a specialist branch of London’s Metropolitan Police. Its operational remit is the prevention and investigation of armed or dangerous crimes across the capital and beyond.

Find out more about 7TV‘s grittiest show in this 48 page PDF. This PDF will be made available as a print publication, combined with The Man From 2000 and Department X, no later than April 2013. This PDF contains a voucher for £2 off the print book.

It should go without saying that Life on Mars fans will enjoy this guide in particular! But people looking to field a force of plods, plonks and whatnots in a more normal setting using the 7TV setting will also be very happy.

**endtransmission**

I suspect lots of money will be going CD's way at Salute next month...

**BrookM**

Big yes to that! Not only are they launching a new line (7th Voyage) but if all goes well, the print version of their program guide should also be on sale by then.

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The 7th Voyage board is shaping up nicely on their forum

**BrookM**

As I say every year now since I've discovered Crooked Dice: I wish I could see them in person!

**BrookM**

Sculpted by Ian Mountain.

**Necroagogo**

Some nice sculpts there. Blake especially looks good. Man, I grew up with that programme. It was awesome.

**notprop**

BrookM wrote:
As I say every year now since I've discovered Crooked Dice: I wish I could see them in person!

It's only a short flight from Amstadam to London and Salute will soon be here; go on you know you want to!

I know I will be hovering their books up like no bodies business if they don't sell out too quickly like last year.

**BrookM**

notprop wrote:
BrookM wrote:
As I say every year now since I've discovered Crooked Dice: I wish I could see them in person!

It's only a short flight from Amstadam to London and Salute will soon be here; go on you know you want to!

I know I will be hovering their books up like no bodies business if they don't sell out too quickly like last year.

I know a ride from Amstablam to Lundun isn't much but right now, I'm skint as all hell.

Hopefully they'll attend Crisis later this year, which is in Belgium, Pantswerp I think it was.

**Riquende**

Been waiting a while for these, they look great! One problem is how I'm going to paint a transparent box though...

**endtransmission**

notprop wrote:
I know I will be hovering their books up like no bodies business if they don't sell out too quickly like last year.

That, my friend, is why you get there early and queue. It also means you get to join one of the demo games more easily. I know that's our plan anyway

**BrookM**

Can't remember, but they don't do reservations now do they?

**endtransmission**

BrookM wrote:
Can't remember, but they don't do reservations now do they?

They have said they will allow you to pick up on the day if you've bought they before hand; not sure about reserving copies to buy on the day though

**BrookM**

endtransmission wrote:
BrookM wrote:
Can't remember, but they don't do reservations now do they?

They have said they will allow you to pick up on the day if you've bought they before hand; not sure about reserving copies to buy on the day though

True, can't have that.

**Padre**

Gawd, they even got Avon's signature hand gesture right...

He needs a different gun though, more the "blaster" that he used later in the series from Scorpio onwards, seen in the bottom picture...

Okay, now I'm showing my age...

**Kilkrazy**

notprop wrote:
BrookM wrote:
As I say every year now since I've discovered Crooked Dice: I wish I could see them in person!

It's only a short flight from Amstadam to London and Salute will soon be here; go on you know you want to!

I know I will be hovering their books up like no bodies business if they don't sell out too quickly like last year.

Yes, I made a serious mistake to not buy the 7TV book when it was launched at Salute a couple of years ago. I was forced to buy it only a few months later at the non-sale price.

**Darkjim**

Even now, 30 odd years later, whenever I hear or see the word 'confirmed' I repeat it in Zens voice.

**BrookM**

Got the March newsletter late last night, here it is: http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/news/160313.pdf

For those who cannot, will not or should not click the link, a quick summary.

- Release of the 100th mini: MadameDroid. Rules can be found in the newsletter along with a special deal of the month link.
- Alongside the not-Blake's 7 minis we can soon expect United Radionics minis: Lancelot Cray, Lionel and the Man in the Lead Lined Suit.
- The 7th Voyage will go on sale at Salute this year, along with the Heroes programme guide. It will go on sale on their site after Salute.

For those attending Salute this year, you lucky sods, here's what you can expect!

Our five quick play games will allow you to get your action:engine fix on the day with three 7TV games, one 7ombieTV and 7th Voyage.:
- 7TV: Cops & Robots - The Beat vs Argonauts in the East End! Shut it Sparky!
- 7TV: Queen of the Envoys - Kitty Stroker must protect a scientific research station against the cosmic crustaceans!
- 7TV: Fiddler's Green - Solomon and King must shutdown some rampaging robots in a sleepy english village.
- 7ombieTV: Underground, Overground - In the crumbling capital, the kooky kids of Zombieville High need to reach the safety of Crooked Towers before the undead horde descend! Get to play on Andy Maclachlan's brilliant ruined London board.
- 7th Voyage: Eye of the Idol - Try out our new stop motion mythic fantasy rules as either 'Jason and the Argonauts' or 'Sinbad' games.

**Synthetik**

trying out Action Engine this weekend, going to pit GI Joe vs Cobra , got some cracking new minis from Reaper , and I think this will be a blast.

**BrookM**

7th Voyage and the 7TV Heroes Programme Guide have launched and are in Store NOW! PDFs available immediately, print products available 20th April. Cards and tokens also available, downloads of these will be up shortly.

http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product-category/00-new-releases/

Reminder to those who purchased the Program Guides individually: Each one has a voucher code that can be entered for a two quid discount.

**BrookM**

http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product-tag/future-freedom-fighters/

**BrookM**

Lancelot Cray.

Lionel.

The Man in the Lead Lined Suit.

**Conrad Turner**

Padre wrote:
Gawd, they even got Avon's signature hand gesture right...

He needs a different gun though, more the "blaster" that he used later in the series from Scorpio onwards, seen in the bottom picture...

Okay, now I'm showing my age...

Sorry, no prize for you. The gun in the bottom picture is a Federation handgun, which Avon only used in the last part of the Episode "Terminal" (possibly) and the first episode of the 4th (Final) season. The Crooked Dice models are all correctly wearing the Liberator handguns as seen in the first 3 seasons. By the time Avon used the gun you showed, Olag Gan was dead, and Jenna Stannis and Roj Blake had disappeared. The gun he used throughout the 4th season looked more like this:

To everyone else, Sorry. My Nerd is showing!

**BrookM**

No please, by all means, educate us!

**BrookM**

Andrew May has just finished the greens for three time lost travellers: Eliza, Victorian Samurai; Sachs - a mutated manservant; and Genevieve - a martial maid. Eliza and Sachs come with human head on the tab PLUS an alternate Saurian or Toad-face head for variety. Went to Griffin for mastering today and due out early next month.