If I there is one thing that I've accumulated since starting this blog, it's been labels, tags, etc. Not knowing the direction this blog was heading, I tagged A LOT. Some things never had relevance again, some are things that could best be described as an inside joke with myself. I'll be purging a number of the very minor ones by labor day, but today I'll be covering the first odd one of the list Anthromorphic Animal Minis.
Through TMP, Impact Miniatures announced the release of their Platypus Warriors.
Normally, that would be enough to warrant a post. I definitely love a healthy dose of wacky animal minis. But, at closer inspection, these weren't just cute minis. They were for a team for the game of Elfball.
Elfball looks like a variant of Bloodbowl, I'll be doing more research to either confirm or retract that statement, so that's as far as I'll go with that today. I did notice that they made tons of teams for this game, and that the figs are pretty cool.
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The Platypus figs vary between $6.50 and $7.25 (a bit steep) and are 24mm at the eye (the Swiss Gnomes are 25mm at the eye)
The other item that caught my eye was another Lion-man for consideration for Wizard of Oz minis.
I will spend some time later to describe the Gnome line for Elfball. Fun stuff.
For the Platypus directly here.
For Impact Miniatures here
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ReplyDeleteAttempt at comment take two: The platypus minis are great! With some modding the one in the Crocodile Dundee hat can become Agent P!
DeleteElfball is definitely its own game and VERY different from Blood Bowl (hex based pitch, 6 players on the field per a team, entirely different dice for resolution of action, focuses on short pass and hand-off action rather than hold and grind and all the players are balanced against any other player from any other team. Elfball has is rated pretty highly on BoardGameGeek. Has its own Wiki page for game strategies and ability descriptions ( http://elfball.wikispaces.com/ ) and is played in organized tournaments in both the US and the UK. And was favorably reviewed by Drake's Flames which is pretty brutal on most games they review as a norm ( http://drakesflames.blogspot.com/2008/04/board-game-review-elfball-introductory_20.html ). Finally, you can look over the rulebook for free ( http://www.impactminiatures.net/Elfball/ElfBall_Rules_SecondEdition_Deadling.pdf )
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