FFG STAR WARS GAMES - GEN CON 2015 REPORT: THURSDAY & FRIDAY!

Another GenCon is upon us my Star Brothers! Last year was awesome! This year is also awesomeness!

Fantasy Flight left an awfully wonderful lot of empty space in their display cases Wednesday night. Hot-damn!

Thursday

Last year many of us just wanted to see that terribly evil back corner of the X-WING shelf get filled up.

As always the gang at Team Covenant bring us the good stuff at every FFG gathering. Thanks for being cool Star Brothers... you boys rock! I think I just might need three of these badass Hound's Tooth Expansions! I have always liked the YV-666, but now... I love the damn thing!

Friday

FFG started things off this year with the full ARMADA Wave Two and X-WING Wave Seven display on Thursday, as expected. Then during the Inflight Report they went full on metal!!!

We can expect better pictures from FFG very soon...

I have been saying (with other FFG Star Brothers) that we are so going to get the Imperial Gozanti and Ghost from REBELS, for over a year. Well sure enough FFG dropped Wave Eight REBELS Ships, along with the last two important Bounty Hunter Ships!
I love it!

Just like last year I took some time to hunt up the best images of the new goodies that I could find, and edited them to look as nice as could be. Thus I wrote this article over the last day and a half. So here I am chilling and prowling the appropriate sites for news and pictures...

SURPRISE JOE!!!

I take a little lunch break and while nibbling I of course have to zoom over to the FFG News stuff for the hundredth time, when the suddenly updated news articles hit me like a plasma bomb!
FFG changed it up this year! "Goodness Gracious Me!" Fantasy Flight Games did not wait around at all to post awesome official product images of the new goodies!
Damn Sneaky FFG... Damn Sneaky!
It's no wonder that the glorious SCUM Faction is the best faction.

 My Star Brothers... STAR WARS X-WING WAVE 8 IS GLORIOUS! 

So here I am just as happy as any true Star Brother can be about all the coolness of Wave Eight, basking in dat glory I tell you, then... here comes THE SECOND IMPERIAL EPIC SHIP!

You went and finally made dat badass Gon-Gon-Zilla! Yup you killed it good this year FFG! Okay, I'm gonna go and take a little nap now.

A Ridiculously Happy Boss out!

FFG CONTINUES PROVIDING THEIR EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE!

The first time I placed a replacement request FFG was right on it, and the same remains true two years later. I was actually amused at getting a bad Firespray because it is a large ship and things are more noticeable... you would think.

Hel-Nah!!!

The truth is that the missing left wing is kinda hard to notice in the box, so I am not annoyed with Miniatures Market for sending me this bum-ship. Oh well I want to build a roughed up Madalorian Mercenary with some repairs made to their ship... the bum-model will be perfect to do just that.

Hel-Yah!

I wanted my first three Firesprays to be in good shape however to represent Boba, Emon, and Kath. It all worked out as I now have four of these badass-babbies... and I even paid for three of 'em too!

SCUM Ship Salvaging Boss out!

COLLECTION DIARY: JULY 2015

I made it another STAR TREK Month... and it was fun too!

I finally got that damn glorious 1/2500 scale Klingon Vor'cha! I had all kinds of X-Wing goodies to buy many times when this baby was in stock. Then when I was thinking about what to get next for my BBA STAW toys the damn thing would be out of stock. Kinda funny... I have her now and it is a fine model!
I continued to run a muck and got two of the pricey newer OP STAW ships. I added the very nice K'vort Class Pagh to the fleet as well. The Dominion was upgraded with a second Jem'Hadar Escort Cruiser and another 1/2500 scale model in the excellent Delta Quadrant Models Breen Cruiser. This one was on my radar for about a year, and it just got re-released a few months ago.
I plan to have a good little Vulcan force for my Federation Allies and so I wanted to make one of them a better than average ship with the OP Tal'Kir! The little Eldar gun bits are part of a crazy idea I have for my Species 8472 fleet.

I had to grab up a few more of these wonderful Iris Cases this month too for all of my new space babies to sleep in... lol... and I figured I might as well get a decent tripod while I was prowling on Amazon.

It was a fun collecting month. Getting two of the important Klingon and Dominion ships rocks!

Trekking Boss out.

FFG POST THEIR X-WING WAVE VII SCUM AND VILLAINY OVERVIEW!

Alex Davy talks about all of the ridiculously glorious coolness that Wave Seven is about to bring to our game in the Wave VII Scum & Villainy article posted this week! This is fun reading gang... check it out!

I love everything about Scum & Villainy... make more Fantasy Flight... make more!

SCUM Boss out!

IMPERIAL RAIDER VIDEO UNBOXING & PREVIEW!

Adam Harry from BOLS shared his Imperial Raider Goodies today. Thanks Man... you are a true Star Brother!

Very Happy Epic Imperial Boss out!

FFG X-WING AND ARMADA STRATEGY ARTICLES CONTINUE!

 FFG has been doing a good job of posting strategy articles recently and with all of the turnies coming up it makes perfect sense. We get some very fun ponder worthy goodies for the TIE Punisher in the Wave VII Imperials article today!

Everything about this squad and the image as a whole makes me smile!

There are a lot of people holding off on ARMADA, including me... for now. The funny thing is; this might be the best STAR WARS game in the world. I like it more and more, and as I read these Fantasy Flight articles it gets harder to put off buying the game!

The  Bomber Wings and Fighter Screens article gets up close and cool with using fighters and bombers in ARMADA!

Keep up the great work Fantasy Flight Games!

Boss out!

FFG POST ANOTHER ARMADA STRATEGY ARTICLE!

FFG posted a couple of fun strategy articles last week, and they have added to the ponder worthy goodness with another ARMADA offering with their Move Into Attack Position article today.

This is all very interesting.

I am going to have have to get up with all of this ARMADA candy this Christmas...

Fleet Boss out!

FFG POST COOL NEW X-WING & ARMADA STRATEGY ARTICLES!

The X-WING Wave VII Rebels article is crazy. Thanks to Paul Weaver for casting some light on things to come!

 
The ARMADA Many Paths To Victory article is very interesting too.

Lots of cool reading and pondering to do... and it is fun too!

Boss out!

BOSS SHOP: HUTT CARTEL & RIM WRAITH PROJECTS - HUGE SHIPS - PART 1

Rim Wraith and Hutt Cartel Wave 1 Huge Ship basic components are all ready for cutting and main body assembly. I have everything cleaned up and sorted now so the next steps should be straightforward and fun to work out.

I think the Banshee just might be my favorite ship for my SCUM X-Wing EPIC Fleets... other than the Mando Assault Carriers of course.

I am going to make the various weapons on all of my custom ship magnetized so that I can swap them out. This will provide some fun variety, and I will be able to equip my ships for specific rolls. Trouble coming in from The Outer Rim!

More to come...

PROJECT PREVIEW

PART TWO

SCUM Boss out!

FFG PREVIEWS THE TIE PUNISHER!

Fantasy Flight is bringing the pain to all who oppose the Empire! Checkout the awesome new TIE Punisher in today's Obliterate Your Enemies article!

This thing is a real monster! Just like the K-Wing, the new TIE Punisher is going to be a great new expansion for the X-WING Game!

Imperial players rejoice! I think I need three of these badass babies... for sure!

Imperial Bomber Boss out!

OPENED THE BATTLE PARLOR THIS WEEK!

BOSS' BATTLE PARLOR is my new blog specifically for online miniatures gaming of X-WING, STAW, and similar space combat games. A group of good people at Battle Builders are going to be participating in these Google Hangout Battles with room to grow as we progress. It will probably be a lot of fun.

I am going to be uploading all of my forth coming battle reports there too. All of this badass star battling should get going pretty good by Autumn, I think. Once everyone gets settled back into indoors hobby stuff we are going to be rocking some epic battles!

BBP Boss out!