Hush / Firefly Review, Fire Errata + Giveaway Winners

Hey all!
My latest review is now up on the Wayland Games Blog. A look at Hush from Arkham Knight and Firefly from Arkham Origins.

But that's not all!

Due to the awesome power of Firefly, Knight Models have updated the Fire rule.
In the book, when a model has a Fire marker, it costs 2 Action Counters to remove it.
This has now been changed to 1 Action Counter per Fire Marker.
Still dangerous but easier to survive.

Finally, the winners for the 'Owly' giveaway have been announced. You can find the names in the Hush / Firefly review HERE and Wayland have also sent emails out to all winners.

- Hendybadger

New Knight Models June Releases

Hi all!
Knight Models have posted up their June releases for the Batman Miniature Game.
Available to order now from KM and should be in the shops in a couple of weeks.

First up is something I have been wanting for ages.....

A Court of Owls boxed set!!!!!!!!
This new set comes in around the 220 Rep mark making it one of the largest boxes so far.
Benjamin Orchard is the Leader with the Talons William Cobb, Strix and Xiao Loong as Henchmen.
If you want to look up the characters, Orchard is in the Talon series, Cobb is in Batman, Strix is in Batgirl and Loong is in Red Hood and the Outlaws.
They are limited to only using Court of Owls models though.

The Court also get a Free Agent in the shape of Felix Harmon, the Gotham Butcher.
A big and dangerous Talon from the Talon comic series, the Butcher is 81 Rep and makes the Court up to a full 300 Rep with their initial release.

Hush has also arrived as a Free Agent for Joker, Ivy, Scarecrow and Riddler.
At 73 Rep, Tommy Elliot brings some good firepower and some interesting new rules to these crews.

The final figure for this month is Firefly. a 73Rep Free Agent for all Villain crews.
The first flyer and flamethrower in the game means that a lot of Villain crews will be hiring his services.

The June releases are finished off with some Court of Owls counters and a pair of MDF Bank of Gotham Safes.

You can check out all of the new goodies as well as the full rules cards on the Knight Models Site.

Does anything this month take your fancy?

- Hendybadger

Flyers coming to the Batman Game?

A very interesting thread has appeared on the Batman Beta Test forum HERE.
The 'FLY' Trait!

- Fly (1SC+1MC):

The basic movement distance of this Character becomes 30cm until the end of the round. This character can move in any direction (VERTICAL MOVEMENT IS ALLOWED ALSO) the final place must be a location where the model’s base can fit.

This character can pay 1 MC (in addition to the above) if so, she/he is considered to be flying until end of the round (Add the flying marker to him/ her). While the character has a flying marker he/she can only be attacked by ranged attacks or melee attacks from another character flying (melee attacks from characters without flying can't attack him/her). 

A character can use Fly as a Passive Trait at a cost of 1SC to avoid damage and knock down effect from falling. 

At the beggining of the raise plan Phase remove the Fliying counter from the model.If a flying character becomes KO or Knocked Down while it has flying marker the character receives 2Blood damage counters and they lose the Flying marker (the character is no longer flying and takes falling damage). 

This character can't run and use this trait during the same round.


This is only a sample of the rule at the moment. It needs some more work and testing and is then due for a future expansion for the game.
I can't wait for this myself. There are always people swooping around Gotham. Maybe Batman will even get one of his flight suits?

What do you think of this addition?
A good idea or not?

While reading over the forum, I started to think about characters that would use the 'Fly' Trait.
Below are my top 5 flying wants.

First up HAS to be Red Robin (Tim Drake) from the New 52. Fitted with collapsible wings and rockets, Red Robin could be a great Free Agent for a Batman crew.
I know there is already a Tim Drake Robin, but Red Robin would fill out the modern Bat-Boys nicely along side Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin (Damien).

Talking of flying good guys, what about Terry McGuiness aka Batman Beyond?
Beyond could make a good alternate Leader to the Batman crew. Or maybe a Sidekick so he could run with Bruce Wayne?
If a model does appear for him, I hope its a 'wings spread' sculpt like pictured.

 Staying with the Bat theme, Batman's opposite, Man Bat! Kirk Langstrom has terrified the skies of Gotham for a while. This deadly creature could work well as a Villain Free Agent, giving all of the Crews access to Flight.

Another possible flying Villain Free Agent is Firefly. The one from the Arkham Origins game, not the rubbish one from Arrow.
Firefly would also bring more Fire to the game as there is only one model that uses it so far and a few that are vulnerable to it. Probably even more when the Freeze Crew appears.

The final member of my Flying Five is actually the model I want the most. STARFIRE!
I know she is probably too powerful for the street level Batman game, but they have powered down characters like Lobo already so I can still hope.

Who would you like to see added?

- Hendybadger