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Well, I am pretty sure I won’t be trying this game any time soon. The last thing miniature gaming needs is another collectable game in my book.

When I first began playing miniature wargames like warhammer fantasy and 40k I saw another game being played by some of the CCG regulars, Wiz Kids’ Mage Knight. When I saw the figures all I thought was, “bleegh”. The figures looked liked crappy knock off action figures that spent too much time in the sun. I did appreciate the bases containing the stats, but was quickly turned off by how they looked. A friend of mine one Christmas gave me a starter pack of them, and while I appreciated the gift, after I played it with him a few times, they took up space in my closet and have never left (anyone want some old Mage Knight figs?).

When Heroclix came out, I thought, hmm I will give this a shot. I mean, come on. It has super heroes, how can it suck? And ya know what? It didn’t. It was and still is a pretty fun game. Wiz kids simplified some of the movement rules by supplying a map divided into squares and some ideas of buildings/terrain/etc. There were rules for throwing people, throwing your own heroes at other heroes, all kinds of super-hero type of things. A friend of mine at work, at the time, played many a lunch time games each having a starter and a booster or 2. The problem was, if we wanted to expand, we needed to buy boosters. While I have no problem paying good money for a game that gives me hours of enjoyment, I don’t like playing the lottery…

Thus ended me playing hero clix. Back in the day, I used to play Magic:The Gathering (sheesh I am busting out the geek now) and while I really enjoyed that game at the time, I HATED having to either:

1. ..buy a cases of cards in the hopes of getting some good cards or…
2. …paying through the nose for good singles

In fact, one of the things I liked a lot about most miniature games was if I want to play with 10 of X trooper I go out and buy 10 of X trooper (more or less). I don’t have to worry that X trooper is a “rare miniature” and that only 1 of the 5 miniatures in a booster is a “rare minature” and that there are 20 “rare miniatures’ for that series of booster… ad naseum for lottery conditions. I want to go into the store, slap my 10 pence on the counter and say “I would like a box of Puce Rapid Fire Kabold Troopers, fine sir”. That is how I like my miniature games.

So, where am I going with this? Well, tonight I saw that what I thought originally sounded like a cool concept from a decent game studio turned out to be another lottery miniature game. No thanks. If you want to give me some free blisters to try it out, fine, fire away, but unless your game is like crack on acid while smoking heroin out of a tuna-fish sandwich, I doubt it is going to have me riding the gaming lottery again. Looked neat, but no thanks