COLLECTION DIARY: AUGUST 2018

I have been building a HUTT Cartel with several cool little purchases over the months because I want to have these one of a kind toys in MY Star Wars Universe. This month I got the Hutt's Share of the classic models to make this a full army!

I made the same big purchases for my Techno Mutants Faction this month too. Part of the Techno Mutants background is that they crashed on some Outer Rim planets when they fled the newly founded Empire. I am going to build some neat faction specific ship wreckage for their terrain, and the crazy GW Killzone and 40K kits suite me just fine for the bones of the project!

I am going to have five complete Boss Shop Legion Factions with just as much unit diversity for game play as the Rebels and Imperials will have by years end! Once everything FFG has previewed is in our hands we are going to have fun options... but this is STAR WARS and I need more of what I know and love in this game!

I will be posting new build articles for all of my factions soon!

Boss out.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOWARD P. LOVECRAFT

I would like to wish a very happy intentionally belated birthday to Mr. Lovecraft!

Does anyone find it most curious that the month of Howie's B-Day is always full of celestial events?

The Stars Where Right On August 20,1890...

Happy CREEP Boss out...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GENE RODDENBERRY!

TODAY ONE OF THE BEST WAS BORN!

Today was a good day for Science Fiction... but Gene belongs at the top for August 19th!

BIG TREK Boss out!

STAR BLAZERS 2199 SPECIAL EDITION GLORY!

I am very happy to own the new STAR BLAZERS Special Edition version of SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO 2199! This is a universe which has been a part of my life since my childhood and I love it almost as much as Classic STAR WARS! I am so pleased to see Star Blazers reborn for this generation. Funimation did this release perfectly with respect and honor for the original... it is wonderful!

Very Happy Blazers Boss out!

THE CLONE WARS IS COMING TO STAR WARS X-WING!

Fantasy Flight Games made the announcement last week during their yearly In Flight Report that they are bringing The Clone Wars into STAR WARS X-WING with Second Edition! Of course this is causing mixed feeling among the gaming community. Some are happy and others are angry. I am of the mind that this is good for the X-Wing Game.
The Clone Wars Factions will have their own flavor and feel unique.  Fantasy Flight has made it clear now that they are remaking every STAR WARS Era so that it will feel like it did in the respective films and books. 
With X-WING Second Edition we now have three variations of The Good: with The Republic, Rebel Alliance, and Resistance, The Bad: with The Separatists, Galactic Empire, and First Order, and The Ugly: with Scum & Villainy!

The fact that FFG has done so much to improve this beloved miniatures game is very telling of their love for the property! Most reasonable players knew that X-Wing had become a mess in recent years. Now all of that confusing bloat and power creep has been swept away! The separation of the factions further demonstrates the new clarity of the game's rules and attention to thematic detail that FFG is lovingly infusing into Second Edition. IT IS ALL GOOD.

      

I am very pleased with FFG now. They are doing George Lucas level work to make STAR WARS X-WING GREAT... again!

Boss out!

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: STARSHIP BATTLES - GAME DEMO GENCON 2018!

So this is actually happening now. Checkout the goodies gang, it looks dam-sweet!

Battlestar Galactica – Starship Battles at GEN CON

Battlestar Galactica – Starship Battles is a combat miniature game based on the Battlestar Galactica™ TV series, including both the “Classical” and “Reimagined” settings. Players will take control of Colonial and Cylon spaceships and face each other in furious dogfights and daring missions, piloting beautiful pre-assembled and pre-painted miniatures, faithfully representing the spaceships from both the Re-imagined and Classic versions of the shows.

I AM SO IN... SO SAY WE ALL!

FFG ANNOUNCES WAVE TWO FOR STAR WARS X-WING!

The RESISTANCE 
This Conversion Kit includes everything we need to start playing The Resistance in X-Wing Second Edition!

FIRST ORDER
This Conversion Kit includes everything we need to start playing The First Order in X-Wing Second Edition!

SCUM & VILLAINY
The Second Wave of X-Wing Second Edition is bringing us more Scum ships. In this case one of the fun TIE from The Mining Guild featured in The Star Wars REBELS Show! Checkout the Yellow Destroyer... it is kinda cool!

I am on board, it all looks very cool to me. 

Happy Boss out!

FFG ANNOUNCES CHEWBACCA AND WOOKIEE WARRIORS!

FFG takes over Gen Con this week with a number of cool STAR WARS Announcements! First we get the confirmation that Chewie and his Wookiee Bros are coming to Legion in Wave Three. This is not a surprise to anyone but it is cool none the less! 

Checkout Chewbacca in the Let The Wookiee Win article!

Chewie brings some Wookiee Bad Asses with him! Checkout the Wookiee Warriors Expansion in the Kyshyyyk Killers article!

We can expect all of this Rebel Fury and Fabulous Fur to arrive Q4 - Q1; so around Christmas.

   Happy Legionnaire Boss out!   

FFG STAR WARS CRAZINESS AT GENCON 2018!

DAM FFG... GO CRAZY, GO CRAZY, GO CRAZY!

 "Battle with new factions including the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems." #FFGInFlight

 FFG I LOVE YOUR WAYS... OH BABIES! 

Comfortably Numb Boss out...

STAR BLAZERS 2199 PART ONE LIMITED EDITION SERIES BOXED SET!

ONE YEAR... ONE SHIP... ONE HOPE.
The SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO 2199 glorious reboot on Blu-ray and HD DVD released today!

THIS IS WONDERFUL!



I just ordered mine at Amazon... Dam Right!!!

STAR BLAZERS Boss out!