Matt Takes a look at the contents of Heroes of Metro City. The super hero card game that allows players to make the hero each time they play. Brought to us by 3 Some Games.
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I have managed to get some rest. I hope that mu post yesterday made sense, because I was out of it. Anyway I’d like to chat today about Dropzone Commander from Hawk Wargames. Since I first saw the pictures of these minis nearly two years ago I have been drooling over this game. I know it has been out for two years, but I live in a smaller city where the game stores focus on a handful of board games and Magic the Gathering. So I really haven’t seen it yet. Yes there are a lot of pictures and on the internet, but I like to examine minis. I did manage to get my hands on the starter though and I’m extremely impressed.
The story takes place far in the future (2670) where humanity barley exists. The race is scattered across frontier planets and Earth has been lost to an alien race. But after being forgotten the humans have decided to start fighting back, thus the war begins! It has a great storyline.
The basic game has two small forces, UNC and Scourge. The starter also includes a great rulebook, and terrain. Oh I forgot to mention dice and a measuring tape.
As I said before the miniatures are gorgeous. There is four factions and resin scenery. My favorite faction, based on looks, is either the PHR or the Shaltari. The PHR are a small tribe of humans that have really cool looking walkers. While the Shaltari are a technologically advanced civilization with some well weird looking vehicles that look like a lot of fun to paint. The Scenry is absolutely phenomenal. I have to get some of these. I play a lot of games and these kits are universal. Check out the Monorail.
Hawk Wargames have been busy with this game in the last year, They have added the United States to their convention tour. I have recently learned that the game has box sets designed for tournament play. What a great idea. Sadly, that has made me realize that I know far less about Hawk Wargames and Dropzone Commander than I though t I did. I really am excited about interviewing them and checking out the new releases.
I am going to come back from Gen Con with a lot more knowledge about Dropzone Commander. Of course I will share everything I learn with you.
Til tomorrow have fun.
Matt
Skull & Shackles Base Set
$59.99 SRP
All Hands on Deck! There’s adventure to be had on the high seas when a group of press-ganged pirates becomes embroiled in the plots and plunder of the Shackles – an infamous island chain dominated by pirate warlords. But as these new swashbucklers make names for themselves, rival scalawags, enemy navies, legendary sea monsters, and the infamous Hurricane King himself seek to see them walk the plank. Who will survive when there’s loot on the line?
Launch a campaign to control the Shackles with the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set. This complete cooperative strategy card game pits 1 to 4 heroes against the traps, monsters, deadly magic, and despicable foes of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game’s Skull & Shackles Adventure Path. Choose your character’s class; build a deck of allies, equipment, and magic; and explore lethal locations as you journey through multiple scenarios in an exciting fantasy adventure. Characters grow stronger after each game, adding unique gear and awesome magic to their decks, and gaining incredible powers, all of which they’ll need to challenge greater threats in a complete Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Adventure Path.
Magic: The Gathering: From the Vault: Annihilation
$34.99 SRP
Harness the savage power of fifteen of the most brutal Magic cards ever unleashed. These limited-edition, black-bordered superweapons are legal in many tournament formats. Sweep the battlefield clean with this powerful arsenal and blast the opposition into oblivion.
Contains:
15 Premium foil cards, including 6 with new art
1 exclusive Spindown life counter
1 collector’s guide
In order to receive From the Vault: Annihilation, Wizards Play Network stores at core level and above must sign up for it on the Wizards Event Reporter betweenJune 30th and July 20th .
Technology Guide
$19.99 SRP
Ever wondered how a laser gun would function in a world full of magic and traditional fantasy weaponry? Look no farther than the Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Technology Guide! Packed with 64 pages of new technology rules for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, this indispensable resource for Game Masters running adventures in the land of Numeria, the setting of the Iron Gods Adventure Path, will supercharge any fantasy game looking to add futuristic and alien technology.
Inside this book you will find:
-Scores of technological weapons, armor, and other items, including plasma grenades, force fields, and pharmaceuticals.
-New uses of skills to interact with technology, allowing players to translate computer code, place and disarm explosives, and disable electronic devices.
-Rules for crafting technological items.
-New archetypes allowing existing character classes to specialize in using or battling technology.
-The technomancer prestige class, frequently used by the members of Numeria’s sinister Technic League.
-Rules for cybernetic implants, power generators, artificial intelligences, and much, much more!
Pathfinder Adventure Path #85: Fires of Creation (Iron Gods 1 of 6)
$22.99 SRP
In the brand new Iron Gods Adventure Path, Pathfinder heroes explore one of Golarion’s most exotic and unusual realms – the land of Numeria, where savage barbarism clashes with the wonders and horrors of superscience. A strange violet bonfire burns atop the town of Torch’s central hill, its flames hot enough to allow smiths to work with the hardest of exotic metals harvested from the enormous crashed starship at Numeria’s heart. When the fire is suddenly extinguished, the heroes must delve a previously unknown set of caves below the town that lead to a strange buried metallic ruin. Will the heroes survive the technological dungeon, or will they fall in a hail of robotic foes and laser fire?
“Fires of Creation” is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 1st-level characters that, for the first time ever, blends elements of science fiction and fantasy to create a unique campaign experience. A gazetteer of the city of Torch and an exploration into the nature of the strange androids of Numeria round out this volume, along with the first installment of Amber Scott’s new Pathfinder Journal and several new monsters of alien and technological nature. Don’t miss the first installment of this ground-breaking new Pathfinder Adventure Path!
Pathfinder Player Companion: Advanced Class Guide (OGL) Hardcover
$39.99 SRP
Time to roll up a new character! Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide gives you 10 brand new classes to play, each offering new opportunities and exciting new abilities. Will you take on the role of the hunter, stalking your foes alongside a trusted animal friend, or maybe the mysterious shaman, calling upon the spirits to smite your foes and help your allies? Each class in this book is fully supported with a wealth of new rules, from archetypes and feats, to spells and magic items including tons that work perfectly with the existing Pathfinder RPG classes. So grab those dice and a fresh character sheet, because this book has a new opportunity on every page!
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide includes:
-Ten new character classes, including the arcanist, bloodrager, brawler, hunter, investigator, shaman, skald, slayer, swashbuckler, and the warpriest.
-Archetypes for all of the new classes, as well a wealth of archetypes and options for every existing character class in the Pathfinder RPG!
-Feats for every character, including a variety of options to customize the classes found in this book.
-New spells to give your character the tools they need to succeed.
-Gear to kit out your character and plenty of new magic items to fill up the GM’s treasure chest.
-Plenty of advice on how to construct a new character class, archetype, or prestige class, giving the GM powerful tools to make the rules they need for their game.
Guardians’ Chronicles
$69.99 SRP
Guardians Chronicles is a superhero-themed miniatures game in which you play as one of the members of the Liberty Patrol or as the group’s archnemesis, Professor Skarov.
To set up, the Skarov player arranges the nine double-sided game board tiles into a 3×3 grid, with his control room in the center space. Each player takes her character sheet, miniature and 7-10 action cards. These characters enter the grid on one of the side tiles and need to advance around the square – confronting minions and traps along the way – in order to achieve whatever objectives are in place for this game, such as thwarting a nuclear missile attack.
Each turn, the hero players play 1-2 action cards; each card shows both a special power and modifiers to that hero’s inherent statistics – movement, attack, defense and mental – and the played cards can be used for either the special power or the modifiers. Each hero player has four actions in a round, and the players can play in any order they wish; the actions are move across the base, attack an enemy, or use a special power on a played action card or the hero’s character sheet.
Professor Skarov then receives a number of action points based partially on the heroes’ actions, and he uses these to activate himself, his minions, or his robots, with these figures also performing move, attack, or special power actions.
As the players complete (or fail to complete) objectives, the newspaper’s report on who did what, and the sum of those reports determine who comes out on top.
2-5 players
Ages 14+
Doomtown: Reloaded Premium Set
$120.00 SRP
Saddle up, Partner!Welcome to Gomorra. A bustling settlement in the Weird West. Rebuilding after a cataclysm, the citizens of the town struggle to remake their lives. Now is your chance to take it to the streets of Gomorra and show who runs the most dangerous boomtown in the West.
Doomtown is an expandable card game set in the Deadlands™ universe. Based on the classic collectible game, Doomtown: Reloaded is a fast-paced game of gun slingin’, spell slingin’ and mud-slingin’! Use poker hands and card pulls for everything from gunfights to summoning abominations.
Doomtown is a game with a story, it puts you in charge of one of the four main outfits vying for control of Gomorra: The Law Dogs, the Sloane Gang, the Morgan Cattle Company, and the Fourth Ring. Who will control the town? Grab your hat, saddle your horse, and load your gun. You have a town to claim.
Firefly: Blue Sun Expansion
$39.99 SRP
Firefly: The Game – Blue Sun brings a whole new level of danger, adventure, and exploration to the ‘Verse. Leave familiar space lanes behind and strike out for the Rim! New challenges and rewards await captains enterprising and daring enough to brave the frontier.
Blue Sun includes new Supply Cards, Nav Cards, and Jobs, as well as Story and Setup Cards to diversify your gameplay. Two additional Reaver Cutters and new rules put the ‘Verse on high alert!
