EAGLEMOSS MODELS: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA BLOOD & CHROME COMING THIS WINTER!

The Eaglemoss Battlestar Galactica collection has a good Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome series now... finally including the wonderful B&C GALACTICA! This is one of my favorite BSG ships... ever. This mini-series should have been a full series.

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!

COLLECTION DIARY: FEBRUARY 2020

Hurray new Vipers! I did not go crazy on these because MkVII's are scarce in the fleet.

I felt like Ultron's minions needed to be represented in an Ultimate Encounter game, and these crazy little Alternate Ultrons are perfect! Since I upgraded Ultron I of course had to do the same for Tony with his Hulk Buster and Battle car! Being me I also needed to have a cool model for Professor HULK... cause it helps me to sleep like a baby!

Happy Collecting Boss out!

THE NEW EAGLEMOSS CYLON BASESTAR ENTERS THE BSG EPIC GAME!

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!

ARES PREVIEWS THE VIPER MKI!

Ares Games starts the week off right with their Previews of TOS Classic Viper and it's NEW Reimagined Series Viper Mk1, which is an updated version of the ship! This all looks fantastic! Ares plans to release these ships along with the TOS Cylon Raiders in the first quarter of 2020!

ARES PREVIEWS THE BLOOD & CHROME VIPER MKIII!

Ares games is working all of the time to make their games great! I happen to be very keen on what they are doing with a few of them, particularly BATTLESTAR GALACTICA STARSHIP BATTLES! This is a property that many people want to be great. I say all good things come in time my Friends!

This first preview of the Viper MkIII will soon be followed by the Cylon Razor raider!

We can look for ORIGINAL SERIES Vipers and Raiders this Autumn, and then BLOOD & CHROME ships are set for release in late 2019 early 2020!

For me this is the better version of The Galactica Universe because you can do so much with it. The developers are not limited by the old or new series, and thus I am most excited by what Ares is going to do with THE FIRST CYLON WAR!

CHECKOUT THE NEW "LET'S PLAY LIVE" ARES BSG SSB GAME *LIVE PLAY* VIDEO!

Ares BATTLESTAR GALACTICA STARSHIP BATTLES Game has been out for a while and it is good to see videos like this are still being made as new people discover how cool the game actually is! If you are new to the game this is a going to be a fun and helpful video for you to enjoy.

BSG SSB COLONIAL VIPER MKVII MODEL PREVIEWED!

Roberto promised us another preview of a forthcoming Starship Battles Fighter last week, and sure enough here she is; The Colonial Viper Mark VII... and she is lovely! Rest assured there will be a verity of paint schemes on this model. I love the classic Blue-Metallic myself but some white and red or blue variants will be just fine too!

The Viper MkVII Starship Expansion is scheduled for release in Q3: late Summer- Early Fall!

BSG SSB COMPLETE RULES VIDEO TUTORIALS!

GOOD OLE CRABBOK... he is The BEST Jedi Crab... evah!

     

ARES BSG SSB UNBOXINGS!

We saw some nice previews of forthcoming BATTLESTAR GALACTICA STARSHIP BATTLES goodies at Essen 2018 this October! Now that the event is over and certain motivated attendees have started to share their love of the game with the world we have some cool new things to see!

 Phil GC of our ARES BSG FBG posted his detailed look at everything that comes in the BSG SSB Starter!

To round the week out we have The Best BSG Unboxing Video I have seen... WOW!

BSG SSB CLASSIC (1978) MODELS PREVIEWED!

The BSG Starship Battles FBG posted a nice preview of The First Cylon War Era Colonial Viper MkI and Cylon Raider digital models in progress, and they are both looking fantastic! These Classic Ships Expansions are coming in early Spring!

THE GLORY IS COMING TO OUR TABLES IN 2019!!!

BSG EAGLEMOSS COLLECTION CAPITOL SHIPS 2019 - EPIC SCALE GAMES!

Eaglemoss Hero Collector FBG shared images of the BSG Collections unpainted prototypes on display this weekend at NYC CC 2018. The upcoming; Classic Battlestar Galactica and Modern Battlestar Pegasus along with the already in production Cylon Bases are going to allow us to play some seriously cool EPIC Scale Battles in 2019!

The next ship following Galactica (2004) is the Cylon Baseship (1978) available early this spring!

BSG EAGLEMOSS CLASSIC CYLON BASESHIP PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE!

I love this model! Now we can secure this beast early at Entertainment Earth for a very nice price! I actually called EE this week before posting today's article because $30 is much lower than any other preorder that I know of! It had just been newly posted last week and I wanted to be sure the price was correct. The agent I spoke with confirmed the price... go get one or two gang,,, because that is a crazy cool deal.

I will admit it; as soon as I started my Eaglemoss BSG Subscription and saw the preview images of the forthcoming Cylon Baseships... I wanted the Reimagined version! The main reason being that the BSG Starships Battles Game is starting with the NEW BSG. Also my first Epic Game Scaled Galactica is the NEW BSG. 

I watched BSG RAZOR again and was reminded that the Classic Basestar is there in The First Cylon War. We saw TOS Cylons (kinda) show up from time to time in the 2004 BSG Series too. 

Conclusion: I am fine with mixing both of The Cylon Eras in some of my games... it will be FUN!