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This month's Collection Diary is all about celebrating the long awaited release of BSG SSB Wave II!
It is great to have these models at last, and it has been fun to play with them this holiday season!
The little things in life make life worth living! I hope you all have a great holiday this year! There is more Battlestar Coolness coming in December, and January... and I love it!
FFG's new Shifting Strategies article is full of fun!
For we RPG types who used miniatures with our narratives way back in the wonderful West End Games days... this "New" format might be fun to try. Gaddam the tournament blather, but there are some fun little ideas to play with here.
Ares games and Eaglemoss Productions have both been working for just under two years building their Miniatures Game and Model Collections. Both companies have just over a dozen releases. If you know The Battlestar Galactica universe; you know that 12 and 13 are important numbers with multiple meanings. I like that these companies have randomly (fatefully?) aligned in their efforts to bring us a great Miniatures Game and Collectible Models!
The American Debut of The Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles Game was at Gen Con in August 2018! A awesome social media friend of mine Roberto Di Meglio stared in a number of cool and fun to watch informative videos at the event. As he told us his intentions for the game: speaking with authority as The Production Manager of Ares Games... I liked him immediately!
The next Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles Game debut at Spielin October (Halloween-week) 2018 was the start of large BSG SSB group event demo plays!
ARES has released six models thus far with alternate paint-jobs making up a total of fourteen Spaceship Expansion Packs! There are two more models already done: the TOS Viper MkI and updated (Razor-B&C-1st Cylon War) Cylon Raider. These two models will makeup the next five Spaceship Expansion Packs which are all planned for an early 2020 release!
The BSG COL is looking great! The series is going to continue past the original plans of being a limited edition of twelve issues! I expect that Eaglemoss is going to make everything... hotdam... like they have done with Star Trek. I am not buying the entire BSG Collection. I am using the six wonderful Capitol ships for my versions of BSG EPIC (Star Wars Armada) scaled games.
The Eaglemoss BSG Collection Issue 13 is bringing Colonial One to the fleet and gaming table!
Colonial One is scheduled for release December 31st, and is available for preorder in the USA web store right now! I am getting mine as part of my BSG Subscription! My advice to non-subscribers is to preorder this issue by December 1st... otherwise you'll likely miss the initial release.
There is nothing else to do now except be glad I was wrong
...and celebrate a wonderful COLONIAL CHRISTMAS!
I just got my first NEW Cylon Basestar Issue #12 this Halloween-week! Issue twelve is sold out or on a delayed preorder status everywhere. This is why it is good to setup a subscription for the collection(s) you want because subscribers get their issues first. I am very happy to have one of these wonderful ships, and I am going to get at least one more of this issue!
The same rapid sales happened last year when Eaglemoss released the NEW and TOS Galacticas. There is good reason for these ships to sellout as soon as they are released; the models are awesome!
I will post more images of my Eaglemoss BSG Capitol Ships from an EPIC Game... soon!