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Seoni is the sorceress in the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game.
I thought it would be neat to have an arcane spell-caster in my main party, so I decided to run a series of solo adventures with Seoni to level her up so she could join up with Seelah, Lini and Amiri.
All was going well until she reached the last scenario, Angel in the Tower…
I don’t know if anyone remembers the old Star Wars Dark Forces and Jedi Knight computer games, but they have included Kyle Katarn’s ship in the X-Wing miniatures game.
His ship was the Moldy Crow, piloted by his partner Jan Ors.
He didn’t do much flying in it. Jan would pick him up and drop him off between missions while he ran around shooting stormtroopers or chopping at Sith.
I broke one of my new ‘First Order’ TIE Fighters, but did a good job of gluing it back together. I am pretty pleased with myself and am tempted to try ‘fixing’ my B-Wing models.
The problem with the B-Wings is they are the wrong way up.
Time to see how the Millennium Falcon flies.
I set up a battle between Han Solo and bunch of Scum & Villainy ships as a change from fighting Imperials.
The Millennium Falcon is great because not only does it have a turret, allowing it to fire in all directions, but this is its primary weapon, which means it can get all the bonuses that regular primary weapons can get, such as an extra die for close range.
This makes getting close to the Falcon extremely dangerous.
I got the Slave-1 ship for the X-Wing Miniatures Game. This belongs to Boba Fett the bounty hunter.
It is one of the large ships in the game and seems much too big to me. I think it is because I always thought the window was about the size of a car windscreen and it would be Fett’s head and shoulders behind it.
If I had paid more attention during the second film, I would have remembered seeing Fett float the frozen Han Solo up a ramp at the back which showed the scale properly.
These miniatures are supposedly 270th scale based on original models and designs from the films, so it really must be this large compared to the X-Wings, etc.
Want more games stuff to spend your money on? How about coloured bases and pegs for your X-Wing ships?
Force Friday was a couple of weeks ago. Loads of game and toy companies announced their new Star Wars ranges, including Fantasy Flight Games who launched their new The Force Awakens core set for the X-Wing miniatures game.
I ordered one immediately and it arrived today, two weeks later.
If you drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas through the Mojave Desert you will pass a signpost for Zzyzx Road. This is a made-up place only officially recognised in the 1980’s. The original land-developer wanted a name that would be at the end of the alphabet. I bet he was fun at parties.
On the other hand, a Syzygy is a real thing. It sounds like a part of the brain or a rare grammatical construct, but it is in fact the astronomical term for when the sun and moon and/or planets align.
As you may expect, moons and planets align a lot more often than stars, but don’t panic. Big C only wakes when the stars are right.
Nevertheless, bad stuff still happens when planets line up and this is what the plucky investigators must tackle in Strange Remnants, the new small-box expansion for Eldritch Horror.
We set up both boards for the Rise of the Elder Things ancient one in Eldritch Horror. The game took almost 5 hours, with a few breaks, and used up a phenomenal amount of brain power.
We won. We had to solve four mysteries before time ran out and the doom track went down to 7, which was only two or three bad turns way from the ancient one awakening.
The game never felt like it was getting away from us, but it did seem very hard to make progress. It was about two hours before we managed to get even the first mystery solved.
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‘At the Mountains of Madness’ is one of my favourite short stories and that is why I really like the film Prometheus. They have the same plot, which I won’t go into because of spoilers.
Here we have Mountains of Madness, the first big-box expansion to Eldritch Horror, which brings the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the globe-trotting adventure game.
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