Battlegrounds now has in stock Steve Jackson Games‘ line of Munchkin card games. Embrace your inner Munchkin as you “Kill the monsters, Steal the treasure, stab your buddy!” Munchkin comes in a variety of genres from classic fantasy (the original) to Cthulhu to Pirates to Superheroes. You can also pick up the “Munchkin Blender” and use them all together.
Two new lines have landed at Battlegrounds: Palladium roleplaying games and World of Warcraft Miniatures Game! Palladium offers great titles like Rifts, Ninjas & Superspies, and the new Dead Reign zombie survival RPG. World of Warcraft Miniatures features characters from every class available in the World of WarCraft computer game, including signature heroes like Warchief Thrall, Leeroy Jenkins, High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind, and Archmage Arugal. Times up, let’s do this!
In a move that has surprised coaches and players around the Battlegrounds Blood Bowl League, D.O.A. head coach Jordan Bassett has engaged his team in a cross-promotional effort where they are taking part as the chorus line in a cabaret show called “Zombie Jamboree” with Calypso legend Harry Belafonte in Branson, Missouri (see picture below from a recent rehearsal and be sure to click on the play button for the titular music). When asked about the move, coach Bassett (in a lavender unitard and drinking a Tab cola) appeared incredulous. “I don’t understand why people are surprised by this. Zombies and Calypso music are deeply rooted in Afro-Caribbean culture so having our team perform as dancers in a Calypso cabaret was inevitable. Besides, it’s a morale booster. Our whole roster is very dejected at the recent death of Michael Jackson. We needed this to lift spirits, no pun intended.”
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From Games Workshop: Planetstrike is a game of glorious invasions and desperate last stands set in the battle-ravaged universe of the 41st Millennium. Will you take the role of the defender, repelling the enemy’s vanguard with heavy weaponry and heavier fortifications? Or will you play the attacker, raining hellfire and damnation upon the foe before sending an army of your best troops to claim the smoking remains of his strongholds? This is truly a war on all fronts in which the enemy can appear at any time, from anywhere – especially from above!
This 80-page expansion book contains all of the rules and information you need to play games of Planetstrike; including: full rules for configuring your forces for planetary invasion, a full-colour hobby section on preparing your defences, and a comprehensive background section detailing some of the most infamous planetary assaults.
Congratulations to D.O.A. and head coach Jordan Bassett (pictured below smoking a celebratory pipe) for winning the first ever Battlegrounds Blood Bowl. It was a hard-fought battle against the orcs of Da Pain Train but D.O.A. claimed football’s greatest prize in a 1-0 victory. The Fancy Lads’ Man-Gore Camel-Toe received the Spike Trophy for ending the season with the most star player points.
Season 2 of Blood Bowl begins on Sunday, July 5th. No rest for the wicked! New teams wishing to join the league may do so with a budget of one million gold pieces. See Paul at the store to order your team. We will be voting in a new commissioner on July 5th so do all you can between now and then to garner support if you want the job!
The regular season will go from July 5th to August 16th with playoffs and the Blood Bowl Cup taking place in the final two weeks. The winner of the Blood Bowl Cup will receive 70% of the victory points amassed during the regular season and the runner-up receives 30%. With only four regular participants in the Spring league the winner of the Blood Bowl Cup earned a staggering 56 VPs and second place earned 24! This total will climb even higher with more teams in the league.
One change for the summer league will be that league games may only be played on Sundays at Battlegrounds. This is to make record-keeping for the commissioner as simple as possible. League games will remain at $3 per participant.
From Games Workshop: Ork Warbosses and Battlewagon krew everywhere have been awaiting the release of the Battlewagon Upgrade Pack since the Battlewagon’s release in Janu-Waaargh!-ry – and today at Toronto Games Day, it was finally revealed.
Ork Battlewagon Upgrade Pack
This new sprue – the first plastic frame to be designed exclusively as a Bitz Pack – includes the mighty Deff Rolla, a lobba, a brutal-looking killcannon and a cheeky Grot rigger. Available to order from the 1st August, make sure you check out the Incoming! article on Monday to see more of this new Bitz Pack.
It’s time to start earning the hardware! The first season was fraught with casualties and injuries but this is where it all pays off! This will be round 1 of the playoffs and it’s single elimination, winner take all!
Match 1: Dead on Arrival VS. Napoleon’s Dynamite
The DoA Necromantic team has been rolling over the competition and wracking up star player points like nobody’s business. Head coach Jordan Basset has placed his faith in Werewolves and it has been paying off for him in victories. That being said, don’t count out the upstart humans of Napoleon’s Dynamite. Nick “Angel of Death” Goodwin leads this squad from the sidelines and, although his team may not have the most wins in the win column, he is merciless on the pitch putting casualties first and touchdowns second.
Match 2: The Fancy Lads VS. Da Pain Train
Early on in the season, Coach Engler’s Orcs took one of the worst thrashings at the hands of Mexican head coach Adam Alejandro Gazpacho El Guapo Zapaots Maria Conchita Alonso Hamilton in the history of Blood Bowl. Minotaur Man-Gore Camel-Toe on the ‘Lads is a shoe-in for Most Valuable Player for the league… if he survives. Coach Engler is also the commissioner of the league this season and throughout most of the season he’s kept the two roles admirably separate this policy has clearly gone out the window for the playoffs. Engler has hired a mercenary team of ogres managed by profiteer Paul O’Cthulhu to play Da Pain Train’s stead.
From Games Workshop: Today, at Baltimore Games Day, hobbyists in the US were given a first look at the forthcoming Space Marine Ironclad Dreadnought. Just one of the great new Space Marine miniatures released this summer, this imposing walker is ideal for attacking enemy fortifications in games of Planet Strike.
Looking to start a new army for AT-43? Good news! In a recent press release from Rackham it was revealed that AT-43 will soon feature army boxes wherein you get a 2000 point playable army with everything you need to play. The first two scheduled for release are Cogs and Red Blok and, according to Rackham, they will be available “as soon as the month of July.” You can click here to read the full article on Rackham’s site. Here is what you can expect to find in the Cogs and Red Blok army boxes:
Stay tuned to the south wall of Battlegrounds this week as we should be getting in the first big shipment of Warhammer Fantasy miniatures and army books! There’s some great new stuff coming out like the massive Empire Steam Tank.
Steam Tanks are monstrous, smoke-belching creations that rumble towards the enemy, firing deadly cannon balls from their steam-powered guns. The advance of these iron behemoths is terrifying to behold, as arrows ricochet from armoured hulls and enemy warriors are crushed beneath their immense bulk.