Jeff White
United States
Kyle
Texas
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Played a 4 player frag fest of Block-Mania last week (technically, with 4 it's called Mega-Mania, but whatever).
I led the citizens of Buddy Holly block and ended up on the far right of the table. However, the game wraps around so it doesn't matter. Well, visually it does as my opponent on the far right (Sly Stallone block) flew a fattie, in a batsuit while riding a power board and wielding a chainsaw, clear over the other two blocks in between to crash into the upper levels of mine. In hindsight, I'm not sure fatties can use power boards, but heck with a batsuit, why not? In retaliation, I sent a superhero doused in gasoline into his block which erupted into a roaring inferno that scored major points. Said hero died in the flames.
Besides that 'missile' attack, I couldn't get much offense going as synth-burger and knee-pad shops kept opening up drawing the attention of my fatties, juves, and spugs. Apparently, my block spent most of the conflict eating and shopping. The two middle blocks traded rocket fire all game with the threat of kleggs in hand that neither wanted to commit to as on the following turn the other player would be able to outbid for their services. The nefarious Stallone block on the other side was crippled with low command points every turn.
By the time the judges arrived and started putting boots to throats the Stallone block was a towering inferno, blocks Nixon and Fox where teetering on the edge of collapse, and block Holly was pretty much unscathed except for a chainsaw wielding fattie rolling around in our observation levels.
The Buddy Holly block had the least damage, thus won this round of the war.
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Bryce K. Nielsen
United States
Elk Ridge
Utah
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Block Mania RULES!!! There's nothing more satisfying than to see a floor collapse and watch all the floors above it start collapsing. I have yet to play more than 2 players (and yet to play a game in over what, 20 years?) but man this is a fun game. I've always wondering with 3+ if the blocks "in the middle" get hit more simply because players can't visualize the "wrap around".
Here's hoping FFG will reprint this masterful game! Oh, and great report, short sweet and gives the real essence of the game.
-shnar
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Jeff White
United States
Kyle
Texas
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Thanks.
It had been about 10 years since my last game, as I recently required another copy. I'm sure we got a few rules wrong, but still the game was a rip-roaring blast!
As far as the middle blocks, I don't think we had an issue of not being able to see the wrap around, but it just happened in this game the end blocks were kind of hampered. I was drawing the type of units that Mania cards can prevent from taking actions, and the guy on the other end kept rolling low command points. My inability to get out there and mix it up may have saved me from some of the rocket fire that was getting thrown around in the middle. :)
Glad to have this one back in the collection, and I know we'll be playing again soon.
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Adam B
United Kingdom
cheshire
Unspecified
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SAMMY FOX FOREVER!!!!!
A flying Fatty!!! Superheroes unheroically startinng fires! READ THE RULES. On second thoughts who cares! Make mine a thermite bomb and Rocrete Virus special please.
Have to dust this off now - thanks for the inspiration!
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Jeff White
United States
Kyle
Texas
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Yeah, my first game in awhile and three players who hadn't played before we did good to get the basics down and the game done in about 2 and a half hours. I knew there were a few things we were doing a bit outside the rules, but in the next few plays we can tighten down some of the particulars...
...or just keep anything goes!
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Joseph LaClair
United States
Watertown
New York
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Nice session and GREAT game but is it any wonder, I mean after all Richard also designed the greatest game of all time, SH.
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William Hostman
United States
Eagle River
Alaska
Gaming in Greater Anchorage area, Alaska since 1978. Looking for Indy-willing RPG players in Eagle River (or willing to drive to Eagle River). Geekmail me if interested.
Yes, this really is what I looked like when I uploaded that avatar. Not that it's quite current anymore.
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shnar wrote:
Here's hoping FFG will reprint this masterful game! Oh, and great report, short sweet and gives the real essence of the game.
-shnar
GW no longer has rights to the Dredd setting. So they can't license it to FFG.
Mongoose has rights to Dredd, but doesn't do board games.
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Jeff White
United States
Kyle
Texas
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Speaking of Richard Halliwell, I was also a big fan of his Dark Future game back in the day.
Anyone know what happened to him? What's he up to these days?
(Also, it's good to see folks peaking in on the Block Mania page. I wasn't sure if anyone here would read that brief report.)
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Joseph LaClair
United States
Watertown
New York
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I'm not sure. Someone asked this same question after the Space Hulk reprint. They said (Don't quote me because I could be wrong) something to the effect that Jervis Johnson had run into him and he was not doing to well, whatever that means.
I don't know if that meant physically or financially or what.
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Bryce K. Nielsen
United States
Elk Ridge
Utah
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Well, that just means it can't be in the Judge Dredd world (also doesn't mean they couldn't license it from Mongoose too). It would be trivial methinks to make the exact same game in a similar world without treading on the Dredd IP. Say in the Android universe?
-shnar
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William Hostman
United States
Eagle River
Alaska
Gaming in Greater Anchorage area, Alaska since 1978. Looking for Indy-willing RPG players in Eagle River (or willing to drive to Eagle River). Geekmail me if interested.
Yes, this really is what I looked like when I uploaded that avatar. Not that it's quite current anymore.
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shnar wrote: Well, that just means it can't be in the Judge Dredd world (also doesn't mean they couldn't license it from Mongoose too). It would be trivial methinks to make the exact same game in a similar world without treading on the Dredd IP. Say in the Android universe?
-shnar
Actually, they'd need a license from Rebellion, not Mongoose.
Mongoose COULD, in theory, do a reprint of BW on their extant Dredd license (since it covers pretty much all non-computer games, from what I've read, and explicitly includes RPG and minis wargames), but Rebellion Group owns the Dredd IP. And Mongoose's license was exclusive. So Rebellion can't license it to FFG, and Mongoose probably can't sublicense the Dredd IP.
So it's incredibly unlikely that FFG could wrangle it, especially since they have been hinting at a new major license. (And it looks, based upon the denials of "not us" from everyone else, to be the Star Wars license that got scooped up just before Mongoose went to go after it.) It would require a joint deal with Mongoose and GW, and result in a Mongoose product.
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Jeff White
United States
Kyle
Texas
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jphien wrote: I'm not sure. Someone asked this same question after the Space Hulk reprint. They said (Don't quote me because I could be wrong) something to the effect that Jervis Johnson had run into him and he was not doing to well, whatever that means.
I don't know if that meant physically or financially or what.
So, I looked over in the old SH threads and he appears to have responded to this question last year.
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/434489/any-word-on-richard-h...
Doesn't look like he ever posted back to the thread or that there's a lot of action with his account. I hope things turn around for him. His games were lynchpins in my high school and college gaming years.
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Bryce K. Nielsen
United States
Elk Ridge
Utah
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aramis wrote: So it's incredibly unlikely that FFG could wrangle it, especially since they have been hinting at a new major license. (And it looks, based upon the denials of "not us" from everyone else, to be the Star Wars license that got scooped up just before Mongoose went to go after it.) It would require a joint deal with Mongoose and GW, and result in a Mongoose product.
Now that would be interesting. Queen's Gambit reprint anyone?
-shnar
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