Dang — out of SF and Fantasy, but terrain and RPG still available.

So how often do they have the Crazy Box sales? I remember them from the holidays.

Signed up for their newsletter, so thanks!

Shipping: Got free shipping at $150 to USA, although shipping page shows a $250 threshold.

I was tempted but I want to get specific minis,  I don’t mind some restic but wouldn’t want to do a whole Firefight army of them.   Even once new stuff is out e.g. for Rebs it will be handy to get additional old minis for options and variety.   I looked  a while back at doing a Deadzone Rebs team and getting the minis from eBay and it would have been hard to do and not cheap.   And the rulebooks wouldn’t be good for me as I want less rather than more of them on my shelf 😀   Hope if they are putting the Vanguard book in the crazy box there is going to be a new edition.

I have no idea but I assumed the Vanguard Book and tokens were there to temp you into playing the game?

They would like to tempt you into playing the game but I think it’s the weakest of their games.   The game seemed to do well at the start then it went into a decline as far I can see.   It’s the Mantic game that most needs the rules looking at and points adjusting.   I think it needs a complete re-write to get up to the level of their other games.   I still found it fun….

Got mine today as well!

Terrain: Jam-packed, but also non-fantasy stuff. Not surprised, since the fantasy was more popular. Good for post-apoc gaming or lovely pleasant day dioramas, I suppose. Did get two more trees to add to my shoddy Mantic tree collection!

RPG: Pretty scanty supply compared to the terrain box. This is where some of the fantasy terrain ended up. No rulebooks. 28mm. Got lucky with fantasy terrain I wanted more of, such as traps and a boulder! I didn’t back any Mantic boardgames, so haven’t seen these mini’s before. Got a Hellboy miniature, but didn’t see the plastic quality some Mantic backers said was an improvement over their previous games. EDIT: Pretty much the same contents as Stubbybrush!

Satisfied my curiosity and got my dopamine hit. But since I skipped out on the boardgames, I got an idea of what I missed. It’s boardgame plastic, so I’m glad Archon is around with its inexpensive harder plastic.

I got the Terrain crazy box.  I couldn’t be bothered to track out which sets everything came from as it was loads of part sets.  I could imagine it would roughly be around the £125 mark.  Around 2/3 would be useful for early-mid 20th century – statues, ruins, bomb-damaged furniture, telephone box, that sort of thing. The rest was mainly modern stuff like tents.  One pile of treasure for fantasy and some “dungeon furniture” type stuff that I will probably donate to D&D-playing friends.  I’m happy with that.  I won’t be using the modern stuff anytime soon, but its good stuff, so if I ever take up a game in that genre then the stuff’s all ready for me, or if a friend does I’ll give it to them. And I easily got my money’s worth of things that I definitely will use.  With this kind of random buy, you are unlikely to have an immediate use for everything and I was anticipating that.  Would I have wished for a bigger proportion of “useful” to “not immediately useful” stuff? Sure.  And I really would have preferred more chunky blocking terrain rather than “dressing” and “scatter” type items.  But it was still worthwhile.  And part of the fun is the punt – £25 isn’t a lot these days to chance on some fun.