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What The?! Miniatures have posted photos of the greens for their upcoming Super Soldier and Lil’ B and Herr Skull miniatures. The Super Soldier and Lil’ B set will be a limited edition set with only 50 sets cast.
Fantasy Flight Games have posted the first scenario, Work The Angles, in their summer Tannhäuser campaign.
From their website:
After intercepting a transmission from Reich forces, the Union has sent a crack team to prevent delivery of a powerful artifact. Join them in part one of a summer long campaign to prevent the possible usurping of the Kaiser and the President.
The Dust website has been updated with a small note about the lack of updates as well as a new piece of concept art of a walker from the upcoming game.
Wargames Foundry have announced the addition of more Victorian miniatures to their online store as well as new War of the Plains figures and army deals.
by Brian Rempel
Hydra Miniatures were kind enough to send the first two Galacteers miniatures from their Retro-Raygun series of 30 mm Pulp Sci-Fi miniatures, Rocky Rizzo and Ace McGuire, for review. Both miniatures came in individually packed and clearly labeled plastic baggies.
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Spyglass Miniatures have posted a preview of some upcoming 30mm WWII German Zombies.
From their website:
My good friend Neil Roberts has been exercising his sculpting fetish for the living impaired. He has ended up making these rather nice WWII German zombies for himself and we’re thinking about getting them moulded up and on sale as a direct sales exclusive if people are interested.
The zombies have separate heads and each one will come with a choice of two (ten heads overall). I think these guys are really characterful and straight out of a 70s era zombie movie stylistically (obviously a movie about WWII zombies though).
Darkson Designs have posted issue 5 of their Over the Wire AE-WWII newsletter.
From their website:
This month we’re featuring two new planned scenarios. The first is an ape-filled bash certain to entertain as well as annoy. The second scenario is one by our very own ‘myincubliss’, Olly, who is our Scenario Design Contest winner. Give these new scenarios a try. In addition, two handy Vallejo Paint color-combination charts have been included to help painters make their forces shine.
Darkson Designs have announced an AE-WWII Demo event to be held in Portland.
From their announcement:
My name is Steve and I am a new Partisan. I will be running my first event soon and I wanted to get local players attention. So if you live in the Portland Metro Area please feel free to come to my event and meet other AE-WWII fans.
Here are the event details
locations: Z-games
2100 SE 164th Ave
Suite D111
Vancouver, WA 98683
(360) 567-1684
Date : July 20th
Time : 3pm to 6pm
event type: demo - nothing to structured just come in and learn to play the game, meet others interested in AE-WWII and have fun. I have plenty of models for everyone to play with but if you have your own bring them in too.
Ironclad Miniatures have updated their websites with news of some upcoming product releases and some new releases.
From their website:
It has been a been another busy month here at Ironclad with attending several shows and work on some new ranges and models, which we hope to release over the next 2 weeks. New ranges in the pipeline are some palisade and ditch defences, also some gabion/earthwork defences. We have been working on some new models for our VSF range which includes some new figures.
New releases
New range - 25mm Dark ages
- DA-1 Straight roman road
- DA-2 T junction roman road
- Small and Large shell hole craters
Killer B Games have released several new 28mm pulp sci-fi figures in their GAFDOZ range.
From their announcement:’
Available now are two new GAFDOZ retro Sci-Fi figures: Major Canis: Lord Protector of the URSUS Protectorate and Sagitta of Vega: One time Galactic Gunfighter, now Assassin for Hire.
Both are heroic 28mm scale, fully in keeping with the other GAFDOZ figures (and ranges such as W.S.D.). They were sculpted in the iron forges of Titan by Bob Olley. Both are £2.
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Killer B Games have announced the release of their first expansion for their Geezers! Shut it! game.
From their announcement:
A quick word in your shell likes, Vice Palms the 1980’s supplement is now available to the masses. The rules are 56 pages of eye-liner-fueled 80’s elements for your Geezers games, with a smattering of blusher-tinged scenarios and high-octane Sinclair C5 action.
New rules include: Speed Boats, Helicopters, Undercover Cops, and Vigilantes. The new rules cost £12 + £1.50 P&P in the U.K., and £3 postage overseas.
Recreational Conflict will be stocking the rules in the U.S.
What The?! Miniatures, a company specializing in weird WWII miniatures, has now turned the power on to their website and is open for business.
From their announcement:
We’ve got 11 new minis about ready to be shipped over to the caster so we should have more stuff for you guys in July/August to use with your Weird WWII gaming. We will hopefully be doing a PR blitz in a week or so on all the big forums and in THW’s new fan mag “In Sight” so look out for us. Check us out and support your super small minis company if you can. Thanks for all those who have already supported us through the chaotic ways of the past but things are sure to change for the better and I hope ‘08/’09 will be the year of Weird WWII.
Minis slated to release in July/August ‘08
- LE Super Soldier & Lil’ B
- LE Herr Skull
- Lilith and the Sage Twins
- Late War US Airborne Zombies
Copplestone Castings have announced a restock of two of their products.
From their announcement:
K18 Polar Encampment - £10
K30 1920 Rolls-Royce Armoured Car - now a resin and white metal kit - £15My friend Richard Kemp has cracked some new resin-casting techniques and is getting great results. This means that some items that had become uneconomic because of the high price of metal and postage costs are now becoming viable again - the African Elephant, for example.
Artizan Designs and Copplestone Castings have each added the first releases in their joint Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 28mm 60’s spy range.
From their announcement:
At last we have our first 1960`s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang heroic A.N.T.I. agents and evil V.I.R.U.S. villains:
- KKBB101 Top Agents
- KKBB102 Trainee Agents
- KKBB103 Henchmen
- KKBB104 Guards in Berets
- KKBB105 Freelance Agents
- KKBB201 British freelance Operatives
- KKBB202 Field Agents
- KKBB203 Double agents
- KKBB204 Guards
- KKBB205 Dr Felix and assistants
All of them come with 25mm slotta-bases.
Hydra Miniatures have withdrawn their Saurian Idol terrain piece.
From their announcement:
Due to numerous casting issues, Hydra Miniatures has temporarily withdrawn its resin Saurian Idol from production. In addition, both of our Thrilling Expeditions bundles are no longer available. We hope to have the Saurian Idols back in stock soon and are exploring using different casting resins. In addition, we are considering the option of hiring an outside company to cast our resin scenery items for us.
If you are North American customer interested in purchasing a Saurian Idol, you can order it from Recreational Conflict on their online store. Likewise, European customers can order the Saurian Idol from Miniaturicum in Germany on their online store.
Pulp Figures won’t be able to attend the upcoming Historicon event in person but you will be able to buy their figures at the show.
From their announcement:
As well, I’m trying to prepare some new packs to be released at Historicon. As you may know, I won’t be attending Historicon this year, nor will my infamous, `pass d’nitro’ comrade Kurt. Transportation costs and new border regulations are making getting to Historicon next to impossible for us. We thought about using a mini-sub to cross Lake Erie but they’ve all been booked up by cigarette smugglers. Instead, RLBPS will be carrying the Pulp Figures line. Bob and Ann Bowling are long time Historicon stalwarts who also carry many other fine ranges including Mark Copplestone’s brilliant figs.
The special pre-release Historicon packs should be 3 initial packs of Melanesian Warriors and 1 preliminary pack of Zombies of the Stratosphere. If I can get the moulds made this week these sets should see the light in Lancaster on July 24th.
Ramshackle Games have sent along a preview photo of some upcoming 28mm Mutant Plant miniatures.
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From their announcement:
The sculpts are finished on our new range of Mutant Plants. These models are for the games Mutants and Death Ray Guns, although we’ve tried to address the general lack of monstrous plants on the market at the moment. They will work well for Venusian Death plants too, I’m sure.
Still in progress are a large plant, an exploding fruit bush and a humanoid plant armed with a choice of weapons. Here are some pictures of the “greens”(they are made form ProCreate so are actually grey.). The figures should be up for sale within a month.
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Fantasy Flight Games have posted their second Tannhäuser strategy article this time looking at the Union forces in the Tannhäuser board game.
Darkson Designs have sent along a photo of the green for the AE-WWII German Rohilingsoldat. The miniature is 35mm from the bottom of the feet to the top of his head. It also comes with an MG42 arm set, 2 different heads, 2 backpacks, and a 40mm round lipped base.
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Rattrap Productions have announced the upcoming release of a set of miniatures to accompany their Broadsword Adventures ruleset.
From their announcement:
In August, with the release of Broadsword Adventures, we will also be releasing 5 new packs of 28mm miniatures. I just got some of the early metals in and glued a few together and dusted them with some primer.
- RTM-BA-001 Goran vs. Phaecia (2) $7.00
- RTM-BA-002 Ibyssian Lion Guard (2) $7.00
- RTM-BA-003 Héralte City Guard (2) $7.00
- RTM-BA-004 Heftig and Kurze: Black Company Mercenaries (2) $7.00
- RTM-BA-005 Ungeheuer (1) $12.00
You can see all of them in the Rattrap Store. Though they are not available for sale yet. The miniatures stand 30mm to the top of the head. Though these will not be available until GenCon, we will have a very limited number of packs available at Historicon, exclusively through Brigade Games.
Fantasy Flight Games have posted a new Tannhäuser strategy article focusing on using the Reich’s forces in the board game.
From their website:
In Tannhäuser, the Reich’s forces have a distinct disadvantage at longer ranges, but are deadly up close. JR shows you how to use this to your advantage in Reich Strategy 101.
Killer B Games have released two new 28mm Pulp sci-fi miniatures, Major Canis and Sagitta of Vega, for their GAFDOZ range.
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Hydra Miniatures have announced several new 28mm Pulp, sci-fi and fantasy releases for June 2008. All prices are in US$.
From their announcement:
After numerous delays, we are very pleased to unveil our latest releases:
Primal Dawn: 30mm Prehistoric Fantasy
- Kithix Hunter (large, clawed insect creature) $13.50
- Kithix Hunter Unit (3 Kithix hunter models) $36.00
Retro Raygun: 30mm Pulp Sci-fi
- Jane Hunter, Galacteer heroine $4.00
- Galacteer trooper, firing $4.00
- Galacteer trooper, advancing $4.00
- Galacteer trooper, kneeling $4.00
- Galacteer trooper, at ready $4.00
- Galacteer sergeant $4.00
- Galacteer Command Squad (contains all 4 troopers + sergeant.) $18.00
- Galacteer Tactical Squad (Contains 5 troopers) $18.00
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by Ken Whitehurst
In addition to their stunning Huntsman Spider Tank kit, previously reviewed here, Ramshackle Games produce a line of 28mm-30mm metal figures for their post-apocalyptic skirmish game, Nuclear Renaissance. Ramshackle Games’ website includes the following in its introduction to the Nuclear Renaissance universe:
In the not too distant future, the once sprawling metropolises of man are now nothing but dust. Wars, over-consumption and the wanton destruction of his own environment has left the earth as a barren rock. Across these trackless wastes, gang fights gang for the possession of scant resources, food and bitter glory. Move fast, stay in cover and watch your back. Outside of your gang is a short life of hardship and starvation followed by a quick, pitiful death.
For this review, Ramshackle sent along three figures from this bleak world: Larken, Hareward, and Isembard Kickass Brunel. Each is available from Ramshackle Games’ online store for £2.50.
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Grindhouse Games have posted updated templates and counters for Secrets of the Third Reich.
From their announcement:
Attached below are the counter and template sheets version 2.0. They clarify our intent and contain a few tidbits that did not make it into the first set of counter and template sheets that we released before the book. Namely, they specify which blast effect goes with which template as John intended from the getgo. The new sheet also clarifies our intent regarding Heavy Flamethrowers and Barrage attacks.
If you have already printed counters and templates, there is no need to reprint. Simply keep this pdf around for guidance.
The Sticks and Stones Gallery has been updated with photos of painted samples of the Sticks and Stones stone-age miniatures used for the prehistoric skirmish game of the same name.
Bob Murch has started a new Yahoo Group for fans of his Pulp Figures range(s) of miniatures. The list is an announcement only list meant to keep people informed of new figures, previews etc. and is not a discussion list.
Rattrap Productions have sent along details of their next two rule books and expansions. They are currently soliciting pre-orders for both.
From their announcement:
We have a big summer planned with new releases and convention attendance. If you are going to be at Historicon in Lancaster, PA we’ll be there all day Saturday running demonstration games. If you will be attending GenCon in Indianapolis, IN, we’ll have booth #407, where we’ll be running quick demo games, for the entire convention. And on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night we’ll be running full games. I hope that if you are in attendance at either of these events, you’ll stop in and see us.
Now for the new release pre-order information. We have just begun requesting pre-orders for these titles from our retail and wholesale distribution partners. If you would like to get either of them, make sure your store of choice knows to stock them.
Among the War Parties
Among the War Parties brings the high adventure of Gloire into the forests, jungles and frontiers of the Americas. Create imposing war chiefs who do great deeds in battle, or terrifying and greedy Conquistadors, or stealthy and straight-shooting frontier woodsmen. This book introduces over a dozen new character archetypes, as well as new skills, weapons, and equipment for you to fight and survive in the unforgiving wilderness. This supplement contains a mammoth 35 Scenarios in five linked campaigns, ranging from the streets of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, to the frozen and trackless forest in winter, to the wars of colonists and natives in early America.
Polish fans of AE-WWII now have their own dedicated fan site for the game.
From their announcement:
I would like to invite all Polish AE WWII fans to the first polish site dedicated to this great game. Visit my site and let me know what do you think about it.
For now site contains mainly basic, introductory materials but I am planning to build more content soon. I hope this site will help us find more AE-WWII players in Poland.
Pulp Figures have added several new packs of 28mm Pulp miniatures to their online store.
Weird Menace
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