Tiles are similar in thickness to Space Hulk but are Matte and lack the embossing.
The little arrows show you how to align the tiles so you do not walk into a wall. It is semi random since the different adventures have you place certain tiles into the stack at a specific point or range of tiles. The game is a dungeon exploring theme where new tiles are semi randomly revealed when a character end his turn on the edge of an existing tile. I bagged up the tokens into different groups. Sturdy Box for the game and the box is taller than I expected.īox has a nice storage insert with 5 compartments for cards, board tiles, and the figures. I broke it open and check it out before heading back to work. I happen to have three of the Reaper Bones dog familiars, so I'll probably use them to replace the three Castle Ravenloft wolves.My copy of the new Dungeons and Dragons Cooperative Board Game: Castle Ravenloft arrived today while I was home for lunch. The ostensibly 1/72 Iberian wolf from Arcane Legions is not much smaller. Depending on your taste, the original figure might be just fine in 1/72 scale. The original mini is just a little too tall for my taste, but would probably look okay in 1/72.
Clearly these are spears and not the "javelins" the monster card describes, but they are perfectly fine. Other alternatives would be the giant spider from the World of Warcraft game (the blue mini), or the toy Halloween spider. The original mini would probably have been just fine as a slightly more giant spider in 1/72.
The 1/72 guys are mods between Italeri barbarians, Caesar undead, and Twilight Creations zombies. I suppose some clever work with skeletons and Milliput could also work, if I ever have the inclination. So these skeleton archers from Caesar will serve as adequate substitutes. I despaired at ever being able to find something like that in 1/72, but I realized that they were basically skeletons with ranged attacks. This one was easy, just Caesar Miniatures undead.īlazing skeletons. Arcane Legions has some clear ghost minis, but they're dressed in Chinese armor, so I decided on something more generic. Read more about these (and the ghouls and gargoyles) here. These are mods from Caesar Miniatures undead. You wouldn't think of them as undead, but they have both the pointed ears and the edible hand of the original mini which is a rather unusual coincidence. The replacements are Twilight Creation demons. These shots include the original mini and their smaller scale replacements for comparison. I'm also excluding the rat swarm minis, as they also work for 1/72 scale, so I have no interest in replacing them. I'll start with the monsters from Castle Ravenloft, the first D&D Adventure System game. To be honest, this last point is also part of my motivation: it's a bit of a challenge to see if I can recreate these game minis in my scale of choice, and gives me some direction when considering what minis to seek out next. Or maybe you just like to see what minis can be found in scale. Or you can buy all the game pieces separately at places like Auggie's or Hoard o Bits, and get cheaper minis for the game as shown here.
A few reasons one might be interested in this: you do what I did and buy the full game, keeping the minis you like and selling the rest. I recently thought to myself, why not buy all the D&D Adventure System board games, replace the minis with 1/72 equivalents, and sell the rest on the secondary market? This sort of thing only begins to make sense if you are already collecting 1/72 fantasy minis (and who doesn't?).
So this is the rather involved and curious project I'm undertaking.