Review: Tribes of Legend

    
 

So orange the Dutch would feel at home!!!

So this is the big one! Well it's the review some of you will have been waiting for, as soon after I'll be announcing who has won the Jake Thornton signed copy of the book. I don't even know yet as I haven't drawn the raffle ticket from the hat! Oh this is exciting... well maybe not for some of you but for me this is my first prize give away and that makes it a big deal! Any who I would just like to say thanks to Matt and all the guys at the Foundry for:

A) Giving me a copy of the game to review and
B) Giving me a copy to give away as a prize draw

I guess I should also say thanks to Jake for signing it too... so... erm... thanks Jake. So what is this product all about then?

Product description

Well it's a full colour hardback book full of rules. With an exceedingly orange cover, by exceedingly I mean it wouldn't look out of place amongst a bunch of Dutch football fans! The hard cover is a really nice thick hard cover with a nice glossy surface, so if you spill any Bovril on it, it should wipe right off of it. There are also 112 good quality satin finished pages. I like satin finished pages as they tend not to be a horrid feeling in your hands as glossy pages and are still 'smudge' resistant unlike matte finished pages. You can't beat a nice satin finish! The book contains 3 sets of rules though to 3 different games... what a coincidence. It also has a small amount of Greek Mythology background in it, as well as a few painting guides in how to paint the miniatures the Foundry paints using their own brand of paints, which by the way are bloody extensive.

Win a signed copy of Tribes of Legend

   
 

My first 'official' prize giveaway!!!

Well today is a very special day indeed! It's a leap year and so we get to experience the delights of the 29th of February. It also means my good friend Mr Chaos Space Marine actually has an birthday for once! Yep he was born in a leap year on the 29th!!! Unlucky, as this means all his mates have a legitimate reason normally not to buy him a drink or any presents most years. Sadly this year that excuse is removed. So happy birthday buddy. As it's a special day though I've decided to try something a bit different for this here Blog. The lovely guys over at Foundry Miniatures were kind enough to give me a brand spanking new copy of Jake Thornton's 'Tribes of Legends' game to give away to one of you lucky lot. Jake was also kind enough to vandalise his own pristine creation with his autograph, so yep it's a signed copy.

Foundry open day

  

Well on saturday the 25th of February 2012, myself and the Cursed decided we really ought to trek over to Nottingham for the Foundry open day. Primarily because we lead sad lives devoid of any real meaning or purpose... nah it's because we're geeks and we like toy soldiers. Although some might argue, and with some merit, that they are indeed the very same thing. The reason for our excursion though was that Jake Thornton was running intro's of his new game for them, Tribes of Legend. As I'd been having discussion's with him, on and off now for months, about issues we both have with various rule sets I thought it would be really interesting to see how he dealt with the issues he'd identified as being of concern to him. Plus it was a chance to play with toy soldiers, which is always good.

Who are Foundry Miniatures?

Foundry Miniatures is one of those gaming companies that you've probably never heard of, or half remember from a brief conversation with some old guy at a gaming club with an impressive beard. Most gamers of my generation won't have heard of them at all, although they've actually been in existence for quite some time. They were founded in 1976 by Bryan Ansell, not 12 months after Games Workshop were themselves were founded by John Peake, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston. So they themselves are a venerable old beast of a company, who must have been doing something right all those years to have actually survived as they have. Like Games Workshop, and indeed much of the British based wargames firms, Foundry Miniatures are based in Nottingham, also like many other manufacturers of miniatures in the area they too have a little bit of an incestuous relationship with the Lenton Lane Behemoth.