BANDAI POST IMAGES OF NEW YAMATO CLASS!

The Wave Experimental Yamato Class BBY-03 GINGA is coming in the next chapter of the 2202 series later in the year. The NEW Yamato model is already being previewed too, and it looks great! We can expect to get this Badass Baby late in the year... just in time for the holidays!

Now if only Star Wars and Star Trek could be just half as good as this absolutely magnificent series!

Blazers 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!

STAR BLAZERS GAME CARDS PREVIEW: TEST CARD ONE

I recently started working on making STAR BLAZERS into a game using The X-WING Rules. Over the last two weeks I have hunted up about 300 images, and done some serious thinking and a bit of writing too.
I started doing test graphics this weekend. What follows is an early look, to give my buddies here an idea of what my Game Materials are going to look like.

The X-Wing Cards will be entirely redone, with (Ha, Ha!) STAR BLAZERS Art! I am keeping the very nice X-WING layout however, as you can see in the first cute little work in progress sample above.

I had to include the best moments of the big battles from YAMATO 2199 in my game cards, that is why I have happily spent two weeks Goggling my butt off, and taking screen captured scenes from HD video. I think I am about half way there now, but I will need a bit more art to complete my card sets.

I am going to make this game play EXACTLY like The STAR BLAZERS series that we know and love...well as good as it can be with miniatures. The way that I can make this happen is with the game cards. The X-WING Rules are fine for any fighter game I think, but the abilities and stats make up the flavor of the setting. I am diligently reviewing series one, two, and the redone series one. As I watch these great series I am taking notes to be sure that I include the important abilities of the ships as depicted on screen. I am making the game materials look like the new YAMATO 2199 art, because in my very well informed view it is now the best version of the glorious STAR BLAZERS Universe.

YAMATO 2199 CONSOLES WILL BE USED TO MAKE THE FINAL CARDS.

More to come...

Boss out!