Tag: Unboxing

02/7/14

Picket Duty: Kamikaze Attacks against U.S. Destroyers – Okinawa, 1945 – First Look!

Michael Eckenfels unboxes another recent discovery!

 

Legion Wargames’ Picket Duty is a solitaire game from Steve Dixon, a designer that had a hand in creating B-29 Superfortress and its expansion, Hell Over Korea. I’ve been watching this title for some time now and was quite eager to get a copy, even though I’ve read discussions over on BoardGameGeek about how the current version 1.0 of the rules are confusing and a newer version is due out soon. Regardless, what I followed in development looked like a game with a lot of potential and great components.
You can view the game on Legion Wargames’ page here.

 

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The box is a standard-sized wargame box, if a bit thinner than a ‘normal’ one.

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01/24/14

World at War: Blood and Bridges and Operation Garbo – First Impressions!

Michael Eckenfels takes a look at two of Lock’n’Load’s key expansions to the World at War universe

Lock ‘N Load’s World at War series is a huge compendium of NATO vs. Warsaw Pack wargaming goodness, with several titles detailing that hypothetical conflict. In this First Impressions article, we’re taking a look at both Blood and Bridges and Operation Garbo as they are unboxed.

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Blood and Bridges has what I’d think of as a ‘standard’ size wargame box, with Garbo being a bit smaller in both height and width. That’s a little annoying to someone as anal as I am when it comes to storing and displaying games (as well as books, actually), but that’s about the only bad thing I can say (and it’s not even THAT bad). The artwork, done by veteran artist Marc von Martial, is his usual high standard of excellence.

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12/10/13

Tuesday Screenshot – Horus Heresy Unboxing

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The Horus Heresy, mine at last. Long have I craved to defend Holy Terra from the traitorous Horus and now, with my faithful companion, Brother Librarian Boudreaux, we shall turn back history and defeat Horus, saving the Empire and driving the forces of Chaos back into the Void where they belong.

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10/18/13

A Distant Plain – First Look!

GMT’s newest entrant into the COIN Series from Volko Ruhnke bring collaborator Brian Train into the fold.  A Distant Plain explores counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, and we’ve been following the developments for quite a while.  And while I didn’t force the designers to collaborate at gunpoint or anything, I did book them both into the same panel at Connections in 2011, so somewhere along the way I’m going to claim 1.87% of the credit of getting these two excellent designers together.

Brant Guillory, 18 October, 2013

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This is a pretty hefty box.  It’s a standard footprint, but several inches thick.

 

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And there’s a reason for it – this box is loaded: player aids, 2 books, a countersheet, a bag of other markers, and a deck of cards.

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