Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Last weekend, I took home a DreadBall tournament trophy from Bristol (at Vanguard Gaming, a hobby center sitting nicely on the pictoresque canal seen above). Here are a few more details on the actual games I played. I didn’t take notes during the tournament itself, so a few details may be off. The basics should […]
Mantic’s DreadBall Season 3 is up for pre-order, and it’s full of all the quirky models and rules I’ve come to love from Mantic – and DreadBall in particular. Cheating Chimpanzee’s, Teleporting Turtles and giant Cthulhu-type tentacle-thingies playing violent Dreadball! What’s not to love!? DreadBall Season 3 – “DreadBall Ultimate” – introduces 4 new teams, […]
Forge Fathers! The Dwarfs of DreadBall. Like the Goblin & Orx Marauders, Forge Fathers are often considered one of the weaker teams from DreadBall Season 1. I’ve seen a fair few tournaments around the UK Midlands that give Marauders and Forge Fathers a few extra points to put them on a more equal footing. Forge Fathers […]
Mantic’s DreadBall Season 3 will introduce larger, multi-hex players to DreadBall. Glimpses of them have been around for some time, not least on Mantic’s GenCon display. Now Mantic Games updated their Kickstarter with images of the big guys (Why do Kickstarter backers get to see them only after GenCon visitors? Shouldn’t people who funded them be […]
One by one, we’re getting more insights into one of DreadBall’s (literally) largest remaining mysteries: the multi-hex players. During the Deadzone Kickstarter, Mantic showed off some of their new-found skills with digital sculpts by releasing renders of the DreadBall Mech. An armed variant, I believe, will be made for Deadzone (and Warpath) as well. Now, DreadBall […]
Quick Sunday update. If you’re on Mantic’s DreadBall Newsletter, you’ll probably have seen their latest colour scheme testers for two of the Season 2 teams for DreadBall. If you haven’t, than here are the pics. As you may or may not know, I have taken a special interest in the Locust City Chiefs Z’zor team. […]
