A Spotlight on Dark Age this Week
July 16, 2011 by beerogre
After Darrell's shameful overview of Dark Age: Apocalypse on TURN 8, we've sent him away with a copy of the game's Quickstart rules to try to ease him in to the Dark Age universe more easily.
The Quickstart set looks fantastic and it contains everything you need to play a small game of Dark Age, including templates and counters. All you need is a friend, some starter sets (or proxy models) and dice.
If you haven't seen any of the cool miniatures available for Dark Age, then get a look at these beauties!
So join us this week as we spotlight the Quickstart rules of Dark Age and perhaps we can get Darrell to read some fluff for once... well... maybe we'll not hope for too much right away.
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Will have to give this a look in – has intrigued me with the models so will see what I think and give it a playtest with mates next week.
Quickstart? This looks like a fat slice of the rulebook (sans fluff) with about 30 pages of rules in tiny print. Not what I’d call a quick start, by any means, pretty as it is (and it is pretty). If they want to get people into their game (and why wouldn’t they) then they really need to think of something a little easier to access. If I’m going to learn by someone teaching me then I don’t need this, and if I have to read it all on my own before I teach someone else then it ain’t happening. I… Read more »
Fixed it for you! There are now five seperate downloads that correspond to the Starter Box sets, all five have the same game play rules, then go on to list the specific rules for each faction. This is so you can play right out of the box! Enjoy!
Thanks dabj, that’s a lot easier to start off with. Kudos to you guys for your rapid response!
already ordered me some toxic mistresses a abomination and father something king of toxic waste or w/e and a club m8 ordered some drag(queens) lolol im so immature. gonna test it when our stuff arrives.
It’s good to see you guys covering more stuff, more often now. I look foward to it.
You’ll probably have to threaten Darrell with a cheese focused lobotomy if you’re to get him to read fluff 😉
Dark Age looks interesting. I’m going to have to spend some time checking the game out. The miniatures are certainly nice! Thanks BoW for pointing them out!
The minis are really, really cool… That alone makes the game (at least) worth trying, I think !
BoW Romain
The ranges do include a large number of very nice sculpts. As I mentioned elsewhere on BOW, I particularly like some of the big Dagyri. I have more than a starter set for all of the factions so I’ve had a chance to look at them up close and there re some real gems in there. The only real downside I find in the ranges are the wild variations in sculpting style from the various different freelancers that sometimes makes models look odd next to each other, and the even wilder variations in the size of models that look like… Read more »
Its not just you, I have to be honest and say when I was at the Maelstrom it was actually having the mini’s in hand that put me off of buying into the game. Maybe I’m way too nit picky but its not a consistent range at all, even within factions there were oddities. Plus there’s just too many other cool products out there. I’m not going to take the lead on this one in my area as I’ve got way too many cool games to play as it is.
I agree… But I ca overlook it, because i’m used to pick out the good stuff in every range. Of course, it can be a problem if you don’t want to proxy the “bad seeds” to play the game…
BoW Romain
I really HATE using proxies!!! lol. don’t know why but it has never sat well with me. I’ve converted mini’s to represent certain things, but given the sheer amount of games I’m playing at the moment I just do not have the time to do that anymore. I’ll hang fire on this game because I’m not too sure about it. I’ll let others lead and decide if I want to follow.
The quality of the sculpts is really uneven, reminds me of the classic Warzone range.. I wouldnt be getting this game for its miniatures primarily, but if the rules are decent It could happen. Looking at the nice Brom artwork and comparing it next to the miniatures made it even harder to like the look of them though :/
I am planning on picking up both books the outcasts starter and hoj at gencon! I would love to see more done on this I love their range and have been following the company for a few years. Just haven’t gotten anything yet.
Arrgh more cool stuff
The minis are looking good
Is there a link for a summary of the factions please
(will pop one up if I find it first)
Oh silly Chibi
think and look before ye type and maketh the fool of thy self
http://www.dark-age.com/forces.php
Like the look of Dark Age, downloaded QSR ages ago. re Minis some awesome mixed in with some dire for sure.
Great to snag the new quick start rules and the not so short start rules- looking forward to relaunch, hope its well supported
I’m a big fan of Brom’s artwork but I can not get into these figs at all. The quality is just not what I’d like.