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Devil Pig Games just released the trailer for their upcoming Heroes of the Pacific game, which will stand alongside Heroes of Normandie, Heroes of Stalingrad, and Shadows over Normandie series of games.
These are all WWII-era games that follow a miniatures-without-miniatures concept, using top-down illustrated counters on a square-grid game map.
This is also the company that produced the Heroes of Black Reach (Space Marines and Orks), but though still sold, the discontinued license means no new material.
The board game can be easily played with 15mm miniatures.
I have most of the range and think it is good. I like the cross compatible nature of it.
The square grid is an improvement over measuring to me.
I plan to complete more 40K factions by altering existing 40K lists and using the various existing options to make them work with the pulp/WW2/horror/40K framework.
It does really disappoint that they lost the 40K license after only 2 factions were complete.
2023/03/27 01:15:27
Subject: Re:Devil Pig Games - Heroes of the Pacific
kenofyork wrote: I plan to complete more 40K factions by altering existing 40K lists and using the various existing options to make them work with the pulp/WW2/horror/40K framework.
It does really disappoint that they lost the 40K license after only 2 factions were complete.
Yes the force building aspect of the game really lent itself well to the 40K background.
Though you've clearly gone the miniatures route, I really appreciate that the game is so visually appealing just with counters - miniatures without miniatures.
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2023/03/30 05:21:55
Subject: Re:Devil Pig Games - Heroes of the Pacific
kenofyork wrote: The board game can be easily played with 15mm miniatures.
I have most of the range and think it is good. I like the cross compatible nature of it.
The square grid is an improvement over measuring to me.
I plan to complete more 40K factions by altering existing 40K lists and using the various existing options to make them work with the pulp/WW2/horror/40K framework.
It does really disappoint that they lost the 40K license after only 2 factions were complete.
To be fair, they really bollocksed up the release of Black Reach. The constant delays upon delays, lack of communication, the lies about the state of the product, holding the product people had already paid for to ransom on the contingency that new kickstarters adequately fund. The entire run of the system was a complete shitshow. If I were GW I wouldn't have given them the option to renew the license.
The Heroes system is so awesome to play. I have loved it since the days when it was a scifi game called Frontiers!
I have most of their European theater stuff, and have always been tempted by the Black reach material.
The only reason I don't pledge on Pacific is the awful shipping.
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
2023/04/08 08:24:33
Subject: Re:Devil Pig Games - Heroes of the Pacific
11527pts Total (7400pts painted)
4980pts Total (4980pts painted)
3730 Total (210pts painted) 
