A&A Naval Miniatures: Previews e Quick Start

E conforme prometido, com o inicio desta semana a Wizards of the Coast colocou online as primeiras previews das miniaturas Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures, e parecem bastante interessantes à primeira vista.

Parece-me que estas miniaturas apresentam de facto um grande potencial, quer seja com a utilização das regras de jogo desta linha, ou para utilização em quaisquer dos sistemas de jogo de batalhas navais que já existem no mercado.

Opening Salvo: War at Sea

Part 1 - The Miniatures Behind the Stats

Axis and Allies Naval Miniatures: War at Sea hits the waves on March 26th, 2007. Starting next week, we will begin previewing new miniatures along with historical background and game play advice for each previewed piece. On March 5th, we will make the Advanced Rulebook available so that players can get a complete look at the rules behind the game.

To get things started, today we are previewing the images of miniatures that have already had their stats spoiled on the War at Sea product page and in the Quickstart Rules. If you haven't read the Quickstart Rules, now is your chance.

USS Enterprise

Bismarck

USS Iowa

HMAS Canberra

E também o mais importante, em termos de sistema de jogo:

Opening Salvo: War at Sea

Player Quick Start Guide

Dive bombers scream down from the skies, zeroing in on enemy flattops. Battleships blast away with their enormous guns, hurling shells weighing thousands of pounds. Submarines skulk beneath the sea, looking for the chance to fire their deadly torpedoes. To this day, the desperate chase of the Bismarck, the heroic defense of Malta, the defeat at Pearl Harbor, the unlikely victory at Midway, and the long, bitter struggle against the U-boat menace still remind us of the courage and perseverance of countless sailors, airmen, and submariners sixty years ago.

The Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures game is a hard-hitting, action-packed way for you to fight out these furious naval battles on your own kitchen table. Technology, industrial power, and above all human courage decided the fate of the world between 1939 and 1945. Now your skill, luck, and audacity can do the same. With the Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures game, you take command of fleets including powerful battleships, stealthy submarines, fast destroyers, and deadly aircraft. Victory goes to the commander who most skillfully combines air, surface, and submarine assets into a single deadly instrument of sea power.

You can use the Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures game in three ways:

• Play using the competitive Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures rules found in the rule book.
• Recreate historical naval battles and find out whether you could have won if you had been in command.
• Collect the detailed and historically accurate World War II-era fighting ships, submarines, and aircraft represented by the prepainted plastic miniatures.

Axis and Allies Naval Miniatures - War at Sea, doesn't hit store shelves until March 2007. Previews will begin sometime in late January 2007, but until then, you can keep yourself busy by reading the Quick Start Guide. The Quick Start Guide gives you the basic rules, plus an early view of miniatures and stat cards.

• Download War at Sea: Quick Start Guide (4.1MB zipped .pdf)