While at the Game Haven (just one of my FLGS) for a Wings of Glory event, I spied a copy of
Yahtzee on the shelves. While I am a fan of most dice games (I'm a gamer for Pete's sake) I'm not normally a fan of Yahtzee. But this one was different....
That's right...Firefly Yahtzee. Now I couldn't care less about the dice in the game. What I wanted was the cool 'collectible' dice holder and rolling cup that just so happened to be a nice plastic version of the freighter Serenity from the old Joss Whedon series "Firefly". My first thought was, meh, nice, but too expensive. Then I noticed it was 'on sale' for 40% off.
SOLD!
went home, took it out of the box and dragged out some of the 15mm stuff to see how well it scales with the model. I think it'll work fine.
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| Here we are parked next to a Matchbox 'Russian' interceptor that is intended to be rebranded as an aerospace defense fighter. |
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| Same as above, but with the Ground Zero Games high tech grav tank added to the mix. |
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| A Vargr (right) argues with two civilians while a port security officer tries to sort things out without resorting to violence. Air car is from the Laserburn range offered by Alternative Armies. |
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| Traffic at the local startport changes a lot. Here's a "Doe" gunship from Khurusan Miniatures. It's just had a base coat of desert tan applied. |
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| And with a 15mm Battlefront Jagdpanther, again for scale. |
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| Assorted ground vehicles including a 'not-air raft' from Laserbun and a light recon grav AFV from Ground Zero Games. |
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| More activity at the downport. Another small freighter arrives - bigger than the Firefly class, but with a similar configuration. (This is a kit-bashed Hunter-Killer toy from the Terminator:Salvation movie. It usually serves as a drop boat for the Mobile Infantry in my Starship Troopers games, but can pull double duty as a ship for 15mm games). |
So the Firefly model should work well as a gaming piece. It's clearly on the 'terrain' end of the scale, so if it's a little small that's okay. It'll serve as a nice objective or spice up the downport setting for the table top game.
