BattleLore, the board game
Yay! We received a copy of BattleLore on Friday! "BattleLore" is a fantasy miniatures war game in the same style as "Memoir '44" (WWII) and "Commands and Colors: Ancients" (Rome/Greece). We haven't had the chance to play the game yet (busy weekend!), but we've played a bit of Commands and Colors and I think BattleLore is going to rock. It was a tough game to find, being currently out of print. The rights were recently transferred from Days of Wonder to Fantasy Flight Games, and there are rumors that FFG is having trouble manufacturing it affordably. Sigh.
I just opened the game earlier tonight to go through the rules (80 pages, but lots of really nice artwork), and the inside of the box was amazing. The miniatures were not on sprues, but were already mounted to bases. Standards already had stickers affixed, and standard bearers had individual molded spaces in the plastic inner cases. All tiles were pre-punched and the tray was perfectly designed to hold all the non-miniature components (chits, terrain tiles, cards, etc.) Daqys of Wonder really spared no expense in putting this box together. Hopefully the gameplay will prove worth it.
I just opened the game earlier tonight to go through the rules (80 pages, but lots of really nice artwork), and the inside of the box was amazing. The miniatures were not on sprues, but were already mounted to bases. Standards already had stickers affixed, and standard bearers had individual molded spaces in the plastic inner cases. All tiles were pre-punched and the tray was perfectly designed to hold all the non-miniature components (chits, terrain tiles, cards, etc.) Daqys of Wonder really spared no expense in putting this box together. Hopefully the gameplay will prove worth it.