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 Manchu wrote:
Debatable judging by Gates of Antares. Although all the design work is already done and WLG do make nice miniatures (as opposed to the ones they buy from others).

Well said. BtGoA has yet to produce a single inspiring (or inspired) mini.

 Manchu wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
The big plus here is that we can hope for good 28mm figures for all the major monsters.

Debatable judging by Gates of Antares. Although all the design work is already done for Cybermen, Daleks, etc, and WLG do make nice miniatures (as opposed to the ones they buy from others).

So the GoA design team isn't inspired, but the miniature sculpts themselves are crisp and well detailed (at least the 4 boxes of figs I have for GoA are)

Heresy make a line of not dr who models that are much better than the crooked dice one.
The dream would be for this to use the rule set from the terminator game, and have plastic darlek / cybermen box sets. Add in the terminators and my mars attacks minis and maybe some of the alien vs predator stuff from prodos and i have a great Sci fi club game in the works.

 judgedoug wrote:
So the GoA design team isn't inspired, but the miniature sculpts themselves are crisp and well detailed (at least the 4 boxes of figs I have for GoA are)

Right, that's the point I was making. Bad designs, nice miniatures.

 Tamereth wrote:
The dream would be for this to use the rule set from the terminator game

Seems unlikely. WLG are just the distributors for Terminator, which is by River Horse (although River Horse employee Dylan Owen did the layout for Blood on the Nile and Devil's Playground, as I discovered recently). Also, not sure how Terminator rules would apply to essentially non-violent Doctor Who games. I guess the dice step thing could be cool in a Doctor Who game, given it will probably be a fig-by-fig sort of game (like Terminator).

The great thing about a Doctor Who game is that it could conceivably cover any genre from Lovecraftian Horror to Sci-fi epic and anywhere in between. Not to mention you could get away with using damn near any miniatures as well. Since Warlord is doing this, I suspect plenty of cross-selling it with their historical lines.

Black tree Designs had the official (pre revamp) Dr Who gaming licence quite a few years back and released a boxed game along with a significant miniature line. The game is long oop but they are still selling off the old stock in the online store -

http://eoeorbisuk.com/collections/doctor-who

I should also note, I would buy the hell out of Cybermen. Especially if they use the modern robotic designs.

While I love the idea of doctor who models as a game I just don't see it being good

Yeah, I keep wondering what would you do in such a game. The modern show is driven by character arcs. Can that work as a miniatures game? It will be interesting to see details. I mean, it has to be some kind of cooperative game or else it's monsters versus monsters where the Doctor shows up as a kind of AI-controlled trouble maker.

with a game system you all know and love

So, any guesses on what this could be? Based on Bolt Action? Judge Dredd? Or are they going to license some other game system?

BA seems unlikely, right? I mean, it is unit-based.

Chances are they'll do a new set of rules for this one. Bolt Action is very out of place and the Dredd rules belong to Mongoose Publishing or the like, so I wouldn't count on those being used either.

Well they did say they will use a system we know and love.

 BrookM wrote:
Chances are they'll do a new set of rules for this one. Bolt Action is very out of place and the Dredd rules belong to Mongoose Publishing or the like, so I wouldn't count on those being used either.

Dr Who in MC1 -

Pretty sure there is a Tom Baker block mentioned somewhere - in the GW material if not fleetway........

Will we finally get a Peter Cushing Dr Who sculpt?

 Manchu wrote:
Well they did say they will use a system we know and love.

We'll see then, maybe the Terminator Genesis system? I'm having a hard time seeing the Bolt Action, or any of their other historical systems being applied to this. Unless it's a modified version of Bolt Action or Gates of Whatever.

 BrookM wrote:
maybe the Terminator Genesis system?

Again, Terminator is River Horse just like Judge Dredd is Mongoose.

I am not very aware of what Warlord do, do they mainly make miniatures in hard plastic, metal or resin?

I am very interested in seeing the sculpts for this.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I am not very aware of what Warlord do, do they mainly make miniatures in hard plastic, metal or resin?

I am very interested in seeing the sculpts for this.

They do alot of good work - personally I am not a fan of their sculpts /scale but loads of cool stuff on their wbsite

 torgoch wrote:
When's the Blake's 7 miniatures game coming eh Warlord? Eh eh?

The campaign is rubbish though. Roll a D6:

1-3 Your spaceship explodes
4-6 You all die

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
do they mainly make miniatures in hard plastic, metal or resin?

They make plastic and metal figures as well as plastic and resin+metal vehicles for WW1 and WW2. Many of the metal figs (ancients through WW2) and resin+metal vehicles they sell are scultps they purchased from smaller companies. The stuff they have designed themselves is better quality sculpt-wise (barring the Gates of Antares concept designs, although as noted above the figs are still of could quality in terms of manufacturing). They also distribute rules and figs for other companies, such as some Perry plastics and ranges like Terminator for River Horse and Judge Dredd (and at some point Victory at Sea) for Mongoose. They also just announced they will be distributing Wargames Factory figs.

Flashback!

Like some others, I'm curious how the DW franchise will be adapted to a tabletop miniatures game. A straight up skirmish combat game seems a poor fit, but if they can incorporate some non-violent victory conditions it could end up being something new and different.

In any case, unless they are total rubish I'll be buying the miniatures at the very least. One set for me, and another for my nephew.

 George Spiggott wrote:
Will we finally get a Peter Cushing Dr Who sculpt?

Black Tree already made one - http://eoeorbisuk.com/collections/doctor-who/products/dw901-peter-cushing-as-the-doctor?variant=4538995075

Can't wait until there's a Monty Pythons flying miniatures game

 Surtur wrote:
Can't wait until there's a Monty Pythons flying miniatures game

Age of Gumbys?

In all seriousness, your point is well taken. Wish they had kept this under their hats until they could give a bit more explanation.

 endtransmission wrote:
They did indeed. They still sell the starter booklet, though the website for it hasn't been updated since 2013 (http://www.drwhominiatures.co.uk/). Time to do a site scrape before it (potentially) goes away. They did close down the Yahoo and facebook groups a few months ago though

I'll be interested to see what rules Warlord intend to use for these too

Thanks for the heads-up. I just grabbed everything besides The Dalek Invasion of Earth, since I'm not joining a bloody Yahoo group for it. Anyone else here got a copy of that?


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 Manchu wrote:
BA seems unlikely, right? I mean, it is unit-based.

They could always go U.N.I.T.-based?

Wonder if I should write to them about the possibility of a Red Dwarf miniature line?

Although as a game, it could possibly be one of the most difficult of all time to get right!

 Manchu wrote:

 Surtur wrote:
Can't wait until there's a Monty Pythons flying miniatures game

Age of Gumbys?

In all seriousness, your point is well taken. Wish they had kept this under their hats until they could give a bit more explanation.

I wonder if in part the early announcement is intended to let companies with unofficial (and once official) minis/rules etc offload as much as their stock as possible before the Warlord game comes out and they start sending out polite letters asking them to stop

since in taking on a big licence you are usually obliged to enforce it as part and parcel of it

Seems like having to kill the Doctor 13 times would be annoying.