Out of Our Element: Starter Sets

In this installment of OoOE, I'll take a look at the two starter sets for WM/H, one for Warmachine, one for Hordes.  This dips into four different factions and two different rules sets, each with an iconic casters and a list that can touch on many different aspects of the rules sets and relative power levels of the different models.  Some of these things won't be immediately obvious to new players, but some will.  Let me say that as I've been trying to get my feet under me, I've learned some of the models I thought were utter ass at first look are actually some of the most useful.  So I'll be doing a brief overview of all four boxes and then talking about the models in relationship to each other.

Out of our Element: Wild West Exodus

Howdy there pardners, and welcome to the first of two articles teased in my GenCon review, an assessment of Wild West Exodus. As hinted at earlier, this is a game that I'd heard talked up a lot in the local area, and when I stumbled across their booth, I was actually, for the first time in my life, drawn in by something with a steampunk aesthetic. Was my visit rewarded? Hit the jump and find out!

Out of Our Element: Hordes, First Impressions

Hey everyone!

It's been and frankly still is a crazy summer, but in some of the down time I've found I've been considering trying to both sell off some of my 40k armies and using the resulting funds to support finishing a Skorne army that the owner of the Wizard's Keep hooked me up with a few years back.  I'm not as fond of steampunk aesthetics that permeate Warmachine, but the Skorne aesthetic is deadly and gaudy, so it seems like some mixture of Dark Eldar and Imperials.  The unit choices and board size (4' x 4') push the game toward melee combat.  While I know Godfrey has made close combat work in 40k, I've generally been leery of its viability in that system.  So not only am I getting into a new system, I've got an army that doesn't believe firearms are honorable in warfare, so I'll let Bill handle my first impression.

I think I'll be sticking with this game for the foreseeable future, so this post will just be about the differences between Warmachine/Hordes (WM/H) and our beloved 40k.  I'll be posting soon about how to get into the game and then get you some battle reports.  This will be a shorter article, so please be kind to it, it doesn't have the same amount of time behind it that Corvus' article did.

Out of our Element: X-Wing Miniatures Game

Hello dear readers and welcome to our new page tag which is designed to cover all non-40k related gaming. For our intro series, I'll be taking a look at one of the newest games to be making a splash in the miniatures gaming community: X-Wing! According to a recent poll over on BoLS, this game came in second among the top 5 minis games, right behind 40k (top spot) and ahead of WM/H. For a game that's not even turned 2 yet, that's pretty impressive. Add to that the fact that Havoc is the biggest Star Wars junkie I know and a few locals had already gotten into it and recommended it, and I figured I'd cash in some of my points at GPB and grab the starter as the no risk investment in the start up was a no brainer. Hit the break for my full review!