Starter and Booster Kits

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To the contested skies question, alot of the ground units have abilities against air units or abilities that enhance your air units, so thats why there are a lot of tanks and soldiers in the Contested Skies set.

i found the limited AAM rules…. its a starter and a booster or 2 boosters played with 1 army of 80 points. <<< official from wizards >>>

my thoughts about this…

you are getting 18 pieces totally random. appr. 9 axis and 9 allied pieces. building an 80 point army. if you pull a 30-40 point rare tank awesome… but what happens if you pull a 50-65 point tank… you almost can’t use it. and what if you get the pieces i consider “time and place pieces” that have uses, but not every day army usues… it just seems it could get too unbalanced too quickly with only 2 boosters totally random.

however i am thinking 3 boosters drafted instead of random gives you more options… i would prolly suggest 100 point army or true tournament style with 2 different 80 point armies. with the draft you could either draft heavy axis or heavy allied with 1 army or if doing 2 armies makes you select the best piece from the box. it takes some of the randomness of opening out of the picture. then if you pull that 50+ tank you could be more inclined to take a good UNC instead and hope that you are getting passed a 30ish tank that the next player didnt need for his army.

honestly there is so much that you could do… and withing the next 2 weeks I will be doing this… will post all rules and results after then.

what we do know… it will be 4 players with prolly 3 (maybe 4 if we have lots of time) boosters choosing (1x reserves, 1x d-day, 1xcontested skies) or we could sub in a set II or base set as we will be doing the 10 pack to save money and give most variety.

Those are pretty decent pulls.  You got a Nashorn!  That piece is like rare rare!!  More rare than the King Tiger.

Ive only bought two cases……one of Contested Skies and one of D-Day.  The Contested Skies one was the best one I got.  I didn’t get any duplicates, thus only missing three pieces.  Its the set that im just about to complete.  I’m going back to basics soon and getting myself a case of Set I and II’s.  :-D

i just bought 4 boosters 2day n was lucky enough to pull 2 aircrafts ( 1 IL-10 Sturmovik n 1 messerschmitt bf 109 E) but the last last 2 boosters i got 2 Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind…(which one of is to be traded in the trading post…which i have already update… :-D)…most of the uncommon vechicles i got was frm the german faction…most useable was the elite panzer IV ausf d…the uk  bofors l60 is a good anti aircraft unit…the infantries are also impresive specially the 82mmm pm 37 mortar, communist partisan, quad 50, snlf fanatics the bmw r75 20mm flak 38… how about u how did u do?

On GW: Oh if I could only have all the time and money back that I spent on GW.  The only game of theres I still even play is Blood Bowl, and only because it’s not nearly as cost intensive as the rest of their games.  GW games aren’t bad, and can be quite fun, but I found it’s just not worth the effort, especially with lugging all your boxes of units around.  AAM is sooo much easier to transport, set up, play.

Amen to that. I have case upon case of 40k stuff- and that’s just for ONE army. A&A? A Walmart tackle/tool kit with one army in it…lol

I can only hope and wonder what will be included in the new booster. A couple friends of mine and i were wondering what the planes will look like and we came to the conclusion that they might go the same route as “hero clix” and have the clear base. Also, do u think that they will include german motorcycles? sidecars? They have already released a ton of german units, but will they cut back? -PEACE

@djensen:

In general, you’ll spend less money on a game like this than something like Flames of War.

As I look over at my unpainted, unused FoW models I can only sigh and agree. :)

-=Grim=-