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Dreadball Season Five - What You Need to Know!

Season five serves the dual purpose of incorporating elements of Mantic's Dreadball Xtreme into the classic Dreadball rules.What Are this Season's Teams Like?Season five offers four new teams...

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I Am the Most Violent Dreadball Player in the UK!

Only a slightly hyperbolic title, but apparently true.  I participated in the 2015 North East Regional Tournament and clocked up a fairly impressive 13 fatalities over 4 matches thanks to...Yeah, the...

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Dreadball Void Sirens Team - What You Need to Know!

The first of the season two teams we're going to look at is the distinct counterpart to the Corporation, the Void Sirens.How Do I Get it?The team can be purchased from Mantic Games.  It includes 6...

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Dreadball Z'zor Team - Need to Know!

Today we are looking at the truly alien Z'zor Dreadball team.How Do I Get it?The team can be purchased from Mantic Games.  It includes 6 strikers, 4 jacks, 1 guard, 1 keeper and one prone player.Tell...

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Timm Tuesday - Domino

It has been such a long time since I did a Timm Tuesday post, but I rather miss doing them...  So here's Domino!Domino is one of those odd X-Men that I kind of like even if most of the teams she was a...

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Mantic Open Day (November 2015)

I joined a couple of friends on the trip down to Nottingham yesterday for Mantic Games' second open day of the year.  This was the second time we've made the journey and my first as a Pathfinder.  The...

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Timm Tuesday - Goblin Queen

The Goblin Queen, manifesting the hilariously dumb-sounding "Goblin Force"...  Ah, comics.

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Dreadball Robot Team - What You Need to Know!

The third team of the second season is the transformable robots.How Do I Get it?The team can be purchased from Mantic Games.  It includes 7 jacks, 2 guards, 2 strikers and a prone player.  This is one...

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Timm Tuesday - Nick Fury

The man, the myth, the legend...  Even if it is hard to remember a time he wasn't played by Samuel L.  Jackson.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Trailer Response)

There is a lot to take away from the trailer for this upcoming film, the first of two in 2016 to feature heroes fighting each other as the primary selling point.  Here are my thoughts...+ Ben Affleck...

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Doctor Who's 35th Season is Over!

...and I loved it!  It has taken a decade since the show returned, but the 35th season (or series 9 if you must, you heathen!) has been amazing.Even the worst episodes (The Girl Who Died and Sleep No...

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Timm Tuesday - Emma Frost, White Queen

Emma Frost, formerly the villainous White Queen of the hellfire Club.  Honestly, I've almost always hated her outfits, but really like the character and the prominent place she has had in modern X-Men...

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Dreadball Judwan Team - What You Need to Know!

The pacifistic Judwan are the fourth and final team from season 2.How Do I Get it?The team can be purchased from Mantic Games.  It includes 11 strikers and a prone player.Tell Me About the Team!The...

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Dreadball Season Two - What You Need to Know!

Season two was the first supplement for Dreadball and served to both expand the game and answer some lingering questions from the core game rulebook.What Are This Season's Teams Like?Season two doubles...

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Timm Tuesday! - The Nine Taboos of Batman: The Animated Series

Here's a fun one...  The nine forbidden elements of Batman: The Animated Series.  Most sound about right, but I'm sure there was windows being smashed and jumped through from time to time, wasn't there?

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The Christmas Invasion... A Retrospective

This is the first retrospective of those most contentious and polarizing episodes of Doctor Who...  The Christmas Specials!  While many classic fans dismiss them as too silly, they routinely have the...

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The Runaway Bride... A Retrospective!

By the time the second Christmas rolled around Tennant was already firmly entrenched in his role as the Tenth Doctor and had come off a strong season with a wonderfully melancholic finale (that would...

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Voyage of the Damned... A Retrospective!

I had forgotten just how much I disliked Voyage of the Damned...  It is really very bad in and of itself as well as marking the turning point for the Tenth Doctor to be more frustrating than he is...

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The Next Doctor... A Retrospective!

Well...  I like it more than Voyage of the Damned...  Which I accept is damning with faint praise.  Here's The Next Doctor.  While Tennant was nearing the end of his run as the Tenth Doctor, no-one...

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The End of Time... A Retrospective!

The Christmas special that was not really anything to do with Christmas, but instead marked the end of Russell the Davis' time as showrunner and David Tennant's Tenth Doctor role.  Spread over two...

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