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Why miniature wargames?

June 4, 2009
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Late last year, without an MMOG to satiate our gaming needs, we turned back to miniature wargaming as an outlet, not just to fulfill our gaming wonts, but to stretch our creative muscles as well. What most people don’t realize is that miniature wargaming is a multi-tiered endeavor that goes well beyond simple tabletop gaming. [...]

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Our first Warmachine figure.

May 27, 2009

Albeit late, we’re finally coming around to posting pictures of our first Warmachine figure, a Khador Destroyer that we completed in late April to early May. It’s the first wargaming figure that we completed from scratch, and though we can see room for improvement, we’re quite happy overall with how the figure turned out. For [...]

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Possible Mage Knight comeback?

January 22, 2009

Not having paid too much attention to the recent shenanigans at WizKids, we almost missed the news entirely that the Clix line of collectible miniatures is now dead. While Mage Knight was discontinued by WizKids some time ago, the system behind the game lived on, primarily through the HeroClix line. Since Topps’ purchase of WizKids, [...]

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World of Warcraft miniatures game: blech!

December 21, 2008

Okay, so we haven’t played it yet so can’t comment on the actual gameplay, but we recently saw some of the figures from the World of Warcraft (WoW) miniatures game, and oh boy were we surprised. While we didn’t have high hopes for the game to begin with, we figured that the production values would [...]

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The lessons of a deceased Mage Knight.

October 12, 2008

We don’t do many post-mortem posts at mendax.org, but perhaps we should start. We say that because things are usually clearer in hindsight, and understanding historical events is a boon to future decision making. That’s why when we commented on the World of Warcraft (WoW) miniatures game the other day, we thought about the interesting [...]

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WoW miniatures game a footnote compared to Warhammer.

October 6, 2008

We were too lazy to report on the World of Warcraft (WoW) miniatures game slated for release on November 11th when we heard about it many months ago, but Massively’s recent post on the release reminded us of the irony. Warcraft has taken the opposite approach of its initial inspiration, Warhammer, by starting with video [...]

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