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Marvel Crisis Protocol Expansions!

So we’re finally getting more expansions for Marvel Crisis Protocol! I was a bit late picking these up, but I’m happy to finally have them and decided in my recent videos to do more than just an unboxing, but rather I’d also build them, since sometimes assembling these can be moderately difficult to some newcomers.

Shuri and Okoye Assembly and Unboxing

Shuri and Okoye are a 2-pack, and help you round out your Wakandans, if you were looking to put together a Wakandan list. Along with Black Panther and Killmonger, these two complete all current Wakandans available for Marvel Crisis Protocol. Okoye is my favorite from the Black Panther film, but in the game she seems to be a competent, lower priced hero. Shuri on the other hand, while more expensive, is more of a support character that can likely help out any team regardless of team affiliation.

Venom Assembly and Unboxing

Venom is the first expansion we’ve seen for MCP that doesn’t actually belong to any pre-existing team affiliation. And while he does have a special card that works specifically with Spider-Man, he seems more or less designed to work well in any build. He is a bit expensive, and larger than most, but also is very strong and has the ability to heal himself. To make up for that, he is also one of the slowest characters in game, so if you use him you’ll have to take your time getting into position, or consider team tactic cards that will help your movement.

With all the new expansions already revealed, and more showing up on social media all the time, Marvel Crisis Protocol looks more and more fun each month!

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Sci-Fi Corridor Terrain Reviews

With a growing focus on tabletop terrain for both Legion and RPG needs, I’ve been always on the lookout for new terrain to review. Having worked with LV-427 Designs before, I was delighted to see their re-designed modular corridors, which are now larger and more compatible with games like Legion than before!

The Hangar Bay is perfect for a large battle inside a Star Destroyer, or even the Death Star!

The Hangar Bay was the first or the new large rooms that I’ve seen. I was really excited to see rooms of this size because the first time I saw their terrain it was primarily corridors and smaller rooms, which work great for the RPG, but not as good for Legion. Larger rooms make it easier to fit and move larger units around the game board!

Hibernation Chamber and Conference Room are both a real delight!

The Hibernation Chamber and Conference room each feature a series of 4 interconnected tiles to make one large room. They each also have a removable centerpiece, helping make them versatile and perfect for both role play functions and also for battling inside a station or destroyer!

Stay tuned to see what’s next!

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Prime Prizes

I made a video about a Prime at Serenity Games in Florida for this weekend. The first place prize was a box to hold miniatures, and it was “Supposed” to come with 2 foam trays. The first place winner opted to give the box to my friend Sean, who took 2nd. The Judge for the tournament told us that when he opened the box there was only one tray, and he wasn’t sure what happened. It was suggested Sean could contact FFG for a replacement tray or something similar.

Those of us who were still there were talking about the situation and how the box looked strange with all that empty space in there. We verified on FFG’s announcement page that it was indeed supposed to come with two foam trays. We all began to speculate as to what happened to the foam tray, because the Judge appeared to have only opened the box with prizes at the end of the night, yet the box was behind the counter of the store throughout the day – so we wondered if someone wandered over and snatched something out during the day.

So in my video I talked about this. I speculated that perhaps someone stole the tray. I was wrong. Nobody stole the tray. I’ve since edited my video to remove the remarks.

It turns out every tray shipped from FFG with only one foam tray. We certainly didn’t know that at the time. And the way it was explained to us at the tournament, seemed to imply that the Judge was just as surprised as we were, (Which is why several of us suspected someone ELSE got into the prize support box when nobody was looking).

Anyhow, I’m sorry if it looked like I may have said that the store did something shifty. I didn’t mean to suggest that. I honestly thought that someone broke into the box and snatched it. I apologize to Serenity Games. It’s a cool store, with a very nice setup, and they ran a fine event. Would go again.

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Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2020! I hope everyone had a great Holiday Season! Things were busy and stressful for me, but overall they were also great! We got a dog and named her Hera! She’s amazing! I played in both an Armada Prime and a Legion Prime, and I’m ready for some new expansions to finally come out! So what’s actually coming?

Armada! Armada should be getting Wave 8 in January, but it’s beginning to look like it might end up getting pushed back to February. Wave 8 brings us the Starhawk and the Onager, two new large ships and some new mechanics as well! Wave 8 also is bringing us some new errata to how Raddus works, and a new attack range called “Extreme” range, (anything beyond long range). 2020 is also supposed to bring us the Clone Wars for Star Wars Armada! I doubt that we’ll actually see the Clone Wars release in Q4 like they had originally projected, but as long as we get regular releases AFTER new factions are introduced all will be forgiven. My fear is that we’ll get 2 new factions, and still be stuck in the “1 wave per year” schedule that we’ve been in. Fortunately, the plan is to increase the release schedule a bit more, so that’s good! And hey, maybe we’ll get some newer stuff announced beyond what we already expect!

Legion! Legion is due for a ton of expansions in the first quarter of 2020! R2D2, Imperial Bunker, Luke and Vader operatives, Trooper Expansions, as well as the Phase 2 Clones, Super Battle Droids, and Tanks for the Clone Wars factions! It’s going to be an expensive quarter if you’re like me and collect all 4 factions! We’ve also got a new expansion that will include Hostages and new objectives coming! And on top of that Cassian Andor and Iden Versio for Rebels and Empire were also announced! It’s also likely that we’ll see a few more expansion announced for the Q2 and Q3 timeframe soon! I’m really anxious what’s coming in 2020, as FFG shrinks their delay between announcement and release!

X-Wing! X-Wing have Wave 6 coming with a staggered release, in that the reprints aren’t coming at the same time the new ships are. But Wave 6 is still likely going to come by February at the latest. 2 New Ships may be slim, but we’re also getting new pilots and more scenarios in the 3 new card packs that are coming in Q1, 2 of which are already processing for shipment! We also are expecting the announcement of Wave 7 any day now! We do know that Wave 7 will have a new ship for both the Separatists and the Republic! A points adjustment is also coming in January!

There’s a ton of stuff on the horizon and I’m hyped! Between Marvel Crisis Protocol, and other kickstarters that should hopefully begin shipping soon also I’m gonna be up to my elbows in new games this year! Happy Gaming!

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Reviews!

So I’ve updated the website a bit to include a section for reviews. I get asked an awful lot about the products in my videos and I thought it might be helpful to consolidate my reviews here. I also have lists of some updated sections of videos in my discord, but for the reviews I wanted to keep them also here on the site.

Also if you have a product you’d like reviewed, feel free to reach out to me at mailcrabbok@gmail.com and we’ll work something out!

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Rebel Attack on Imperial Space Nine!

Had some fun taking photos of my Wiz Kids DS9, and my Star Wars Armada ships! They scale so perfectly with each other!

The Empire is enjoying a calm day aboard the station.

Makes me really wish we had Star Trek : Armada!

Suddenly an attack by the rebels!
The must be growing desperate to declare an attack this deep in Imperial Space!
It has been a hard fought battle… but the Empire will reclaim the station…. someday.

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Clone Wars in Armada!

At Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, FFG announced that they are finally bringing Clone Wars to Star Wars Armada! This will complete the cycle of Clone Wars coming to all of their games that still have physical product in development.

This is extremely good news for Armada players! There has certainly been a lack of news over the past few years, but now Armada is approaching what very well may be a golden age. The Super Star Destroyer, the Rebellion in the Rim campaign, two un-announced “sizeable” ships, and the Clone Wars itself, all in development at this point means we have more product in the pipeline for Armada than we’ve ever had before.

Hopefully this means new Armada players will have a cheaper entry point. Either through a cheaper starter or an essentials pack. Armada’s principle downfall has been it’s entry cost, and with a $99 starter, many players simply skip it and jump to X-Wing instead. Although the high cost of entry hasn’t been a problem with Legion, that may likely be due to the tremendous amount of units that come in the Legion core set, compared to the Armada Core Set.

So most of the new product should be in stores before the end of 2019, while the Clone Wars should be hitting Armada in 2020! And this almost certainly doesn’t mean the end of support for the Rebels and the Empire as well! Plus we have high hopes for card packs to come as well, which will allow new players to gain all the missing upgrade cards that were exclusive to only one faction previously! Armada’s future is very bright!

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Something BIG is Coming!

A few months back I was asked to take down my videos that talked about the recent flyer in the December issue of Game Trader Magazine, you know… the one that had the massive Super Star Destroyer article in it?   Well I’ve got my own physical copy of that flyer in hand now so I figure it’s time to talk about ALL of that juicy goodness now, since FFG won’t do it!

Here are all of the images, I’ve taken newer photos of them, hopefully they are legible enough!  I’ll be doing videos on them over the course of the next few months to hold us over until this gorgeous model finally comes out!

First video went up this morning!

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Giveaways!

Note – My giveaways are my own.  YouTube does not in any way endorse or have anything to do with my contests.  

Most of my giveaways tend to follow the same two rules.

  1. Be a subscriber!  (Public subscriber – if you keep your sub’s secret I won’t know!)
  2. Leave a Comment on a video!  (Mean comments will be disqualified!  Be kind!)

It’s as simple as that.   I’ll announce winners usually at the end of a video.  Giveaways tend to run for a few weeks, and the goal is that you’ll watch all the way to the end!

Update – 9/27/2020 – ARC Trooper Giveaway!

For the ARC Trooper Giveaway, I’ll send you one of my ARC Troopers following the above normal rules, however this will run up until Oct 31st, 2020.   Winner will be announced early November.

There is a SECOND ARC Trooper giveaway which follows my Social Media rule below:

Social Media Giveaway Rule:

In addition to being a subscriber, you must also Share a post on facebook, or re-tweet a tweet on twitter.   One of each will get you an entry.   Blindly sharing everything will not get you bonus entries.  I’ll announce your twitter handle or facebook username is you win.  It’s literally a 50/50 chance which of the two platforms will contain the winner, so either one is fine, but using both is better!

-Tim

Older announcements –

For January and February 2019, I’m running a Force FX Lightsaber giveaway.  The winner will receive an electronic Amazon gift card in the amount of $150, which can be used to purchase a lightsaber of their choice.   As lightsabers on Amazon tend to fluctuate in price depending on demand, this is just a flat amount.  If you want a $200 Saber you’ll have to pay the rest out of pocket.  If you find a Saber that costs $70, then congrats you can now buy two!   You can do whatever you want with the gift card – but I had to pick an amount and $150 seemed like a good and generous amount.

How will you know if you win?

Easy – watch all of my videos!   I announce winners at the end of videos, and this contest will have a winner announced on or about the 1st of March 2019.  I’ll announce the winner and then they will have to contact me through my ABOUT page on my YouTube channel.  I’ll then arrange to get them the gift card as soon as possible, usually within 48 hours of contacting me.

The spirit of this contest is to promote discussion on my channel, interaction among Star Wars and Gaming fans, and provide a little excitement and reward for one lucky subscriber.  I reserve the right to disqualify anyone from prize winning eligibility at my own discretion.  This would generally be spam bots, hate speech, are generally people being cruel to each other.  I will not reward someone for being a jerk to my subscribers.

Good luck!  May the Force be with you!