An eclectic mix of everything that fits nowhere else including miniatures, terrain, house rules, comics, lyrics and anything that doesn’t have a home elsewhere.

The idea of using transformer style robots as tyranids is an interesting one.

Running a simple pallette along with various sized cheap plastic models for troops could be a real winner.

Building up a stockpile of cheap robot toys could be a way to get the best option for each unit AND if all else fails the toys could be cast up to fill units in larger mobs for apocalypse scale battles.

It would also allow for necron models being used for parts (like weapons and heads) plus it could be used as a counts as force to stand in for necrons.

Additionally they could be used to stand in for the genestealers in Space Hulk to give it a different feel for a couple of games.

That’s right game fans, the Space Hulk is now all sold out. Unless you can get your hands on a copy from one of the extra boxes ordered by stores, you are out of luck. Which means I missed picking up a copy myself!

Here’s hoping that they decide to run a set of the plastic miniatures as a special mail order piece.

Put up a couple of iphone sized images from the new space hulk on my other website, drop by if you want some space hulk images as your iphone wallpaper!

http://spedr.com/pqpc

Enjoy!

New Space Hulk rumor from BoardGameGeek:

I have actually seen the prototype of the new version. They are testing it out here because it’s a niche market and they hope the information wouldn’t leak.. well, too bad they ran into a BGG’er.

Anyway, the new version involves the following:

– Plastic hallway pieces that stand on small legs so you can reach underneath with magnet sticks (explained beneath).

– Each miniature has a small magnet on its base. Addionally, genestealers are fitted with a small battery which makes them move their arms

– To reinforce the “realistic experience” (as stated in the manual), you are not allowed to touch the pieces directly but have to use magnetic sticks which you stick under the boards and use them to move the figures “remotely”. This sounds ridicilous but actually works just fine. GW stated that if this catches on, they think about including “magnet sticks” in the Warhammer series.

– SH has a new ruleset that does away with those pesky ” 4 action points” and “command points” and uses a much more elegant system: you throw a little 6-sided cube with numbers 1 to 6 on it; the number you see on the top when it stops rolling is the number of “action points” you have on the turn. Genious!

Anyway I would post some pics but I don’t want to breach the signed “prototype test” contract too much.

Cheers!

• Space Hulk down for September release
• The box set should contain 5 unique, character style plastic terminators
• It’ll have clip together plastic floor pieces

Okay, the 5 terminators seems cool, even if there is only 5 in the box, that is still good to see some individual models coming out. Perfect for conversions!(as we will all get more than one box…)

Fingers crossed, holding breath to see if these are correct!