Lord of the Ring details! Shipping 11/15/11

From Alliance Game Distributors

Lord of The Rings 24. ct. Counter-Top Display (70353): Featuring 21 precisely sculpted miniatures from the award winning Lord of The Rings films! Pin your favorite heroes and villains from the Trilogy against each other in this completely HEROCLIX COMPATIBLE set! Your price for the Lord of The Rings 24 ct. 

 Lord of The Rings Starter (70357): Featuring 8 collectible miniatures from the Lord of The Rings Movies! Included in the 8 Figure Set are 3 figures EXCLUSIVELY found in the Starter, with the other 5 COMPLETELY REDIALED from the base set! The Starter boasts Campaign Rules, which let you recreate the battles of Middle Earth over multiple maps and sessions! Also included are 6 Lord of The Rings maps, 1 HeroClix rulebook, and one set of themed dice forged from the depths of Mount Doom! 

This means we are getting the $30 Starter set with single pack boosters a la Street Fighter/Gears of Wars.  At this time ALL are said to be 100% compatable with HeroClix.

Of Hulks and Halos!

Two brief notes today.  First the print add for Marvel HeroClix: The Incredible Hulk is in Game Trade Magazine next week.

See that the "Hulked out Heroes" from the larger 2010's World War Hulk story line.  Expect to see some more elements from WWH, such as teh A.I.M. created A.I.Marine Hulks as the Brick figure.

Next today is a couple more HALO previews, instead of the Covenant or USNC, this time we're getting a peak at the monstrously infectious Flood. Head to HeroClix.com to get that bit of news.

In the mean time DC HeroClix: Superman and Halo HeroClix are due out on September 28th, so make sure you let your local retailer of choice know that you want some to make sure they get sufficient quantities.  

HeroClix post "Heroes", how will you play?

(Updated 8/17/11, 11:23 pm)

This week and last week saw the release of the first non-comic, non-comic-related movie, HeroClix!  Street Fighter and Gears of War, while arguably both containing Heroes, sees the video game character go from pixels onto the map with HeroClix staples from between the pages of your favorite comic.

Now this really is nothing new.  Players in the past had fun times trying to fit Mage Knight, HorrorClix and ActionClix into their HeroClix unofficially.  Some pieces lent themselves easier than others (HorrorClix's Predator and Aliens for one).  But now for the first time we can actually use dials designed for HeroClix with these new properties, no extra work involved.

Officially, these pieces are not legal for Modern Age play.  That may change and venue-by-venue they may add these to their House Ruled Modern Play, "Bronze age" as some people refer to it.

In any regard, they are a new twist in play.  They bring new team abilities, new mechanics and new potential for power and Keyword combinations.  Will they have a lasting effect on the game, undoubtedly.  Will this launch a new "age" of play, who knows.

No matter what, they will let people play out some much anticipated scenarios, and maybe see once and for all with genre is king ... until the next set release that is.



Your local venues and Game Play:
BuyMeToys.com: "Expanded" sets legal in both Modern age and Golden age.
The Griffon: "Expanded" sets will be allowed in specific games only.
Fantasy Games: "Expanded" sets legal in both Modern age and Golden age.

GenCon Indy this weekend!

GenCon Indy 2011 is THIS weekend in Indianapolis!  Just 3 short hours (if you drive real slowwww) away.  If you are heading there, PLEASE send up pics and info of what you see.  Game reports, previews, cool stuff happening...don;t spare us poor unfortunate people who can't make the trek any details!

Michiana players that are headed there don't forget about the HCRelams meetup ... and bring an alarm clock.... ya know, just in case.

Great weekend for Organized Play

Has anyone been outside latley?  Seriously.

Come beat the heat and get your game on.  Thursday night at Fantasy Game, Friday night at The Griffon, and Sunday afternoon at BuyMeToys.com.

Stay indoors!  Nobody here will judge you!

Oh Captain, my Captain [America set]

Days away!

That's where we are sitting right now, just days away from the first of the Captain America related HeroClix of the summer.  This Wednesday we'll see the 10 figure "micro set" of Marvel HeroClix: Captain America. and 2 short weeks later the full 60 figure set of the same name hits.

Personally, this will be my favorite set since the relaunch.  It has some of my all time favorite characters in it.  SHIELD vs. Hydra, Cap vs goons line Mr. Hyde and Cobra as well as classic uber villains Red Skull and Baron Strucker.  These are the icingon my huge love of HeroClix cake!  And, I don't care how crumby they work on the map, I'm using the Great Lakes Avengers!

Just days, folks! I'm finding it hard to wait.