The Red Planets

Just finished my Martian Dreadball Team. 

First up the blockers

The blockers are the more heavily armoured martians aesthetically at least.  They aren't actually more armoured in game.

Now the Jacks

The jacks are the real strength of the team.  The martians are decidedly average players and are fragile.  However the jacks make up for this by cheating.  Jacks carry hidden weapons.  They can knife their opponents... or shoot them mwu hahahahahahahahaha!

Now the strikers

There have skin tight body suits, no helmets and smaller air tanks, all of which I presume makes them more agile.

Now the prone guys

 Remember I said the martians were fragile? Well that's what these guys are... smush.  They've been split open, had limbs severed and have been de-helmeted.  They're dead Jim.  Also the pva attaching them to the base hasn't dried hence the white blob.

All in all these were pretty fun to paint, although attaching the helmets was a bit of a pain.  Can't wait to take these guys to the pitch.

Mars Attacks Unboxing

My copy of Mars Attacks came this morning.  I'm still waiting on the rest of the kickstarter arriving but I got the main game and that's what counts.

 The Box

 Rulebook, paper gamemat, tokens and wounds chart.

 Terrain (separate blog for that), martians (turquoise) U.S marines (tan), heroes (red), bag of d8's and game cards

 The paper mat unfolded.

 The human heroes.

 One pack of martians, you get two sets in the box (so 20 in all), and the come with clear helmets.

 U.S marines (10 of these guys).

General Tor the only martian hero in the box.
I'm impressed with the quality of the figures.  There's only a little flashing and some slightly bent bits, both of which are easily fixed.

I also got some of my extras.

 Both expansion books, Humanity Resists and Extermination.  Now if they'd hurry up and send my extra minis so I can use these books I'd be most appreciated. 

And another 3 game mats whych I might borrow for batman.

I can't wait to get a few games of this.