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Over the years I’ve expressed my fondness for Monsterpocalypse: Privateer Press’s game of giant kaiju battling it out in cities that players put together before thrashing them to smithereens.  It’s an awesome game that has a lot of appeal and when it first came out a decade and a half ago it enjoyed quite a dedicated fan base.

Then some decisions were made.  And they weren’t necessarily for the better.  In its original iteration Monsterpocalypse was a “blind box” game that you bought a package of without knowing what was in the box.  The idea was that you could trade game pieces with others.  Some of us filled out our factions by purchasing the wanted pieces on eBay.  That in itself was sort of a fun pastime “game within the game”.  That wound up being replaced by traditional packaging that let you see what you were getting.  And then ...

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I’ve written tons before on this blog about my mad love for Monsterpocalypse: Privateer Press’s awesome game of giant monsters and metropolitan destruction! And if you haven’t checked it out yet right now is a great time to give it a looksee. Privateer Press recently announced that the game was moving to a non-collectible format (making it much easier for new players to get into it) and a full-length Monsterpocalypse motion picture from DreamWorks involving Tim Burton is currently in pre-production.

And now those ever-clever folks at Team Covenant have come through with – ta-daaaah! – new Monsterpocalypse playmats! Introduced at MonCon 2011 this past weekend where attendees were treated to the convention-exclusive “Mayhem on Memorial” map (I really wish that I could have made it to MonCon, ahh well hopefully next year :-), the Covenant Maps Campaign brings you a new playmat every sixty days, with the ...

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I’ve been so busy with community theatre and other projects that it’s been months since I’ve had time to get in a game of Monsterpocalypse: Privateer Press’s terrific game of giant monsters and metropolitan destruction (or defense, depending on which faction you wanna side with). But that hasn’t stopped my love for this sweet lil’ game (which I wrote of my love for over a year ago). I now own sizable armies of each faction and every Mega figure except for Mega Vorgax (one just sold for $197 on eBay: I love the Planet Eaters but not that much :-P). And I’ve come to develop a pretty good metagame-thinkin’ style so far as strategy goes.

Monsterpocalypse is one of the most fun games that I’ve ever played. But there’s been one complaint about it: that its been a collectible miniatures game. Meaning, you had to buy booster boxes ...

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Folks, please understand something: this is NOT a joke! That was my first thought when I read about this situation late last week. And then over the weekend I played Monsterpocalypse for the very first time (and very much enjoyed it) at HyperMind and this was the #1 topic of discussion among the faithful players meeting there.

So then I contacted the good people at Privateer Press, the producers of Monsterpocalypse, and received confirmation: the Department of Homeland Security has delayed the publication of the Monsterpocalypse Series 3: All Your Base Strategy Guide due to “national security concerns”.

Throughout the day I have made attempts to contact the Department of Homeland Security, by both phone and e-mail. As of this writing no one in any official (or unofficial for that matter) capacity with the United States government has gotten back with me about why a collectible miniatures game ...

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