My Fellow Naval Gamers,
It is with great excitement that I present the 12th MBS Forum Newsletter! It is hard to believe that it has been a year since these little newsletters have started. Rest assured, I have no intention of stopping now. That being said, if any of you have suggestions or recommendations on how they can be improved, please feel free to share via email or the forum!First things first, please welcome the following new members to our gaming community:
Delta
ALice-13
warhawk
Big Mac
captainrockman
GREETINGS!
As for the forums, the last month has been one of the busiest in a long time! There has been a lot of big news in the naval gaming world recently. One of the biggest announcements was that Spartan Games has secured the licenses to produce miniatures games based on the Halo video game series:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?topic=814.0
Another new space combat game is on the way, this time set int he Dropzone Commander universe:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?topic=816.0
Not to be outdone, Fantasy Flight has kept up a stead stream of previews for its upcoming Star Wars capital ship game, Armada:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?topic=621.0
In the general discussions area, Landlubber has started discussing a project to build a standing modeling station, our book and TV show discussions have heated up, and I posted a thread discussing the upcoming World of Warships video game:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?board=1.0
The Dreadfleet game, by Games Workshop, has surfaced once again in the Fantasy forum:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?board=6.0
Speaking of blasts from the past, the minis game Quantum Expanse has come up in the Space forum:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?topic=818.0
Folks have been busy painting lately, it seems! In The Shipyard, a number of topics have been updated with new projects:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?board=9.0
Likewise, the Showcase is stuffed with the results of those projects, some of them by Your’s Truly 😉 :
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?board=10.0
The blog has been updated with a few new posts as well, including a book review of Fatal Choices 1914:
http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2015/02/02/fatal-choices-book-review/
And a tactical discussion of flanking forces in Dystopian Wars:
http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2015/01/27/dystopian-wars-tactics-thoughts-on-flanking-forces/
And last, but certainly not least:
THE 2015 PAINTING CONTEST HAS BEGUN!!!
That’s right, the biggest MBS contest of the year has started. You can find all the details on how to enter as well as a list of the great prizes available in the official rules thread:
http://manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?topic=828.0
Until next time, Good Luck and Good Hunting!
Ruckdog & The Man Battlestations Forum Team.