These were the two on show at the London
Toy Fair, Firefly and Dr. Who, you see those two on the same
shelf and you know something magic this way comes . . . and you're not wrong -
Sir or Madame!
Lovely, role playing 28mm, D&D style
with shipping containers as the 'dungeons', lovely figures sort of Wild West
meets Steam punk meets Blade Runner! Didn't enquire as to games mechanisms,
it's about the scenery isn't it! And the figures!
Dead counters are card flats which is a
good idea as it makes them less intrusive to continuing play, but they can
build-up in a gory fashion as the mayhem
progresses!
Unit six looks like a rather unpleasant
screened field-latrine I once knew in Kenya - yes - 'intimately'; the whole
battalion was queuing-up for them, we'd been given some scaled fish when we
landed in Nairobi the day before, which looked, cut (read 'sawed' or 'didn't
cut') and tasted like gone-off, coelacanth might, I imagine!
Another shot and the catalogue 'flyer'.
I've missed Firefly, and I think
there was another mid/late-1990's late-night sci-fi serial along the same lines
(sentient talking ship?), I'd catch the odd episode, but never stuck with the
first and missed the other altogether, but I can see the appeal of this game,
with its clear elements of several genres. It reminds me of a few favourite
graphic novels too!
Ahhh! More NSD's and quite well detailed
ones at that, along with that pesky K9-unit! If I understood the sales-rep
correctly, there are four Doctors in the game box, with more planned as
separate figures or figure sets, with other 'enemies' to be added or with
extension-packs if this does well?
Again; the flyer from the catalogue, no
inappropriate memories triggered this time, just me cowering behind the sofa
while a giant spider clung to the back of Sarah Jane and a bunch of cultists
taught me a Buddhist chant!
Ohm-Mani-Padme-Hum, Ohm-Mani-Padme-Hum!
I don't think this was on show in London,
but it looks fun for Trekkies (or are they Trekkers?), there even seem to be a
few figures among all the micro-space ships, but not enough for me to get
excited-about until I see it in a charity shop, and games like this never (or
rarely - he says; remembering two Golden
Compasses in two weeks!) turn-up in charity shops!
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