THE END OF ARES BSG SSB... BUT NOT BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!

Ares didn't "Roll The Hard Six"... no they dropped the ball on this wonderful game... real bad! I know that they are a small company but the game was winning awards. The miniatures looked great, and the rules were fast, fun, and simply wonderful in terms of representing the Reimagined BSG series combat. 

Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles should have been glorious. 

My experience with Ares BSG SSB begane soon after it was announced in the Summer of 2018.

I have been friends with Roberto for the two years BSG SSB has been a property. He was delightful and we had fun on FaceBook for sure. I had the miserable experience of watching him slowly became distant as people started to complain about the atrocious release schedule. Roberto and Andreas made a lot of cool posts about new product... but it got stale! We got lots of promises, but very little came to be. 

THE COLONIAL SHIPS WE WERE PROMISED 2018-2019

THE CYLON SHIPS WE WERE PROMISED 2018-2019

In my time knowing them I realized that Ares Games are like ancient wizard who are slow to do any actual magic. I am sure many of us wanted them to be like Gandalf say... at Bilbo's birthday party! 

A few people who liked my enthusiasm and frequent postings about BSG SSB on relevant FBGroups warned me about the sleepy way Ares produces their products. I ignored their friendly advice because I was happy to see a cool miniatures game FINALLY being made for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!

EVERYTHING ARES RELEASED WAS LATER THAN EXPECTED!

ARES BSG SSB EPIC... NOPE!

I want to be clear here gang. I am not angry... not anymore, just disappointed with Ares Games! I became friends with Andreas too in the early days of BSG SSB, and none of the failures we have seen in the last two years are his fault, not at all! As the Lead Game Designer for BSG SSB Andrea has been wonderful! I hate to say it but Roberto, and plain bad planning is what ruined this franchise. It is truly a genuine shame! 

I have had the privilege to chat with a few hundred people about BSG SSB over the last two years and more than half of them told me they just wanted the BSG TOS Ships to be released. The next comment from at least half of them was: I am going all in and will likely buy a few hundred dollars of BSG TOS products! 

So Was I my BSG Brothers and Sisters.

BSG SSB had only two releases by the time of it's first birthday (both ridiculously late), and I was well aware that the game was suffering from low sales. Of course this was because products got previewed but never released. In fact the game only saw one expansion come out on time (after it had been postponed once... of course). Why did Ares murder the game and themselves like this?

NOPE... NOPE... NOPE!!!

If Ares had just sold the classic ships first and if Roberto had spent less time chirping about social agendas which hurt sales for the company too, BSG SSB would of sold much better. The limited resources and low sales excuses started to make the rounds online, and Spaceship Packs we had been promised (YES Roberto said promise a few times) remained in limbo. 

ARES BSG SSB FIRST CYLON WAR... NOPE!

"Limited resources and low sales!" was an excuse I continued to hear from friends closer to Ares than I was. That became Felgercarb to me because all kinds of established products continued to be released... for FRAK Sakes! Then delightful covid... blah... and evil-china factories... blah. Nope you had already frakked up the game by that time Ares! 

It has been interesting to see how this franchise blossomed and then died over the last two and a quarter years.I had many hundreds (and even a few thousand) views on all of my early BSG SSB articles here. I KNOW that in the first year people had a lot of excitement for this cool little game. By the second year however it went down fast. My BSG articles barely got a hundred views then, and people were openly complaining on the BSG and Ares FBGroups.

SOooo now the teasing and the felgercarb promises are finally over and the sleepy Ares-BSG game that we dreamt about is just leaving us all behind. Meanwhile Ares Games is off the hock and can continue to putz around... being small.

I am alright with this ridiculous situation and I will continue to enjoy BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and BSG GAMES in my own way. Ares made enough for us to play with... and we can have fun, just not as much fun as we wanted to have. It's A'ight.

IN 2 & 1/2 YEARS THIS IS ALL WE GOT... FRAK YOU ARES, BUT HAVE A NICE DAY!

I am going to continue loving this wonderful universe, and when something else new comes out again someday in the foreseeable future I just might buy it and love it too... MAYBE!

THE ARES BSG SSB FTL EXPANSION

 

Ares has FINALLY released something for BSG SSB. Rules that should of been in the game in 2018. Checkout the Ares Games FTL Expansion Article for more details... I mean FRAK... you might as well.

Battlestar Galactica: Faster Than Light (Preorder)

...and look forward to getting the new models by 2021 years end!

BOSS SHOP: BSG CUSTOM DICE PROJECT!

I love most of what I know about ARES BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SSB... but that Dam-FFG has got me to love Custom Iconic Dice! So now that I am in love with ARES BSG too... I have to cross the streams and make my own cool little BSG Universe Dice!

So far I am getting the icons to look cool, but it has been a little bit of an effort. I needed to upload many versions of my art to the BGM Dice app, to get everything looking clean and centered on the di-faces. I am happy with these test uploads and now I just need to tweak a few more details to finalize the project.

I am going to make these dice in January. I want to spend some time with the actual BSG SSB Game and make sure that I like my ideas for how the Hero Dice are going to work. It is going to be very cool to have these unique dice sets in my BSG Games!

See you in January!

COLLECTION DIARY: NOVEMBER 2018

I am having a Wonderful Holiday and I hope all of my B6*R7 Fliers are too!

It is a great pleasure to continue my BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Universe Collection! I have played these starship battle games for years and never used a laser line. The cool thematic complexity of maneuvering in BSG SSB with it's tight firing arcs has inspired me to finally buy a cute little grade-A laser thing-a-jig. With the exception of HEAVY METAL Magazine I have not bought any comics in years but now I am enjoying that hobby again too with BSG graphic novels.

My rediscovering of The Battlestar Universe has made me very happy, as it is one of my childhood friends! I have washed away the negativity that had been growing in my mind over the last two years with Star Wars too! I am having with BSG! I even reread some of the beloved old BERSERKER WAR novels which is of course where Glen Larson got most of the inspiration to make BSG 1978 to begin with. I am so happy of late that I even bought of bunch of STAR WARS Expansions from dirty ole FFG again... lol... but XW2 can wait!

Very Happy Collecting Boss out!

COLLECTION DIARY: OCTOBER 2018

I have wanted good BSG Universe models for years! Now that EAGLEMOSS are making great gameable models and ARES has made their badass BSG Starship Battles Game with beautiful miniatures the dream is becoming wonderfully real! I am very pleased to finally be able to begin my BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Universe Collection!

I love these wonderful Shapeways models! I am going to use these babies for my FFG Armada-like EPIC Games, and in ARES SSB Games they will function as strategic tokens for large battles, and as interactive Technical Terrain! Now that I own these cuties and have compared them to the lesser quality Armada models... I am going to get a lot more of these cool little miniatures!