Was Aberrations a good set?

[Pinotage]

I've heard people say that certain miniatures sets are bad, and others good, and in particular reference to Aberrations. I was just wondering if this was a good or bad set, and what people's views were on why it was good or bad. More out of curiousity than anything else since I don't really play the game or use the miniatures.

Thanks!

Pinotage

 

[DaveMage]

I've heard people say that certain miniatures sets are bad, and others good, and in particular reference to Aberrations. I was just wondering if this was a good or bad set, and what people's views were on why it was good or bad. More out of curiousity than anything else since I don't really play the game or use the miniatures.

Thanks!

Pinotage

Bad set to me. It was too heavy on humanoids IMO, especially PC race humanoids.

For those that like that kind of thing, though, it's a great set.

For me, it was the only set that I had buyers remorse after buying it. Hated it.

 

[Sammael]

It had pretty good Commons and Uncommons, but its Rares were a bit lackluster. On the other hand, Deathknell had the worst Commons to date, and pretty "meh" Uncommons, but many people love it because of the two good rares (Beholder and LBD).

Aberrations originally seemed bad for Skirmish as well, because its minis were designed for the 100 pt format, which is pretty much dead. Still, there are several Aberrations minis that are frequently used in 200 and 500 pt games (HEBI, Crow Shaman, Frenzied Berserker, Green Dragon, etc.).

 

[JoeGKushner]

Bad set to me. It was too heavy on humanoids IMO, especially PC race humanoids.

For those that like that kind of thing, though, it's a great set.

For me, it was the only set that I had buyers remorse after buying it. Hated it.

That was my feeling of it.

Character miniatures I can get Reaper, Magnificent Egoes, Classic Reaper, or other things for. I don't want them in my D&D minis.

 

[Mercule]

Bad set to me. It was too heavy on humanoids IMO, especially PC race humanoids.

Probably explains why I liked it. I use DDM for D&D almost exclusively. I tend to run PC race opponents.

 

[Kunimatyu]

I was happy I bought a case of it. It had a lot of useful aberrations (if you like aberrations), useful PC/NPC minis, and the rares were nice(Chuul) but not the focus of the set -- the Mind Flayer and Wyvern were the only really big ones.

Bottom line: If you like PC/NPC minis and aberrrations, get some. If not, don't bother. War Drums, for example, has good PC/NPC minis, but giants and magical beasts instead of aberrations.

 

[Nightfall]

Which probably explains why I liked Archfiends, Deathknell, War of the Dragon Queen and probably will like Blood War. Especially since I didn't care for War Drums. Abberations...eh. medicore set for me.

I'm pretty much in Joe's camp, individual NPCs/Iconics are more interesting to me than just a bunch of low level npcs types.

 

[Mercule]

War Drums, for example, has good PC/NPC minis, but giants and magical beasts instead of aberrations.

Sounds like I should look into War Drums. I'd heard the paint job was pretty bad, though. How bad is it?

 

[Nightfall]

Well me, I saw worse Merc. *my friend is a huge D&D mini collector/enthusist. He has almost all the sets and every monster*

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Overall, I like Aberrations. It helped out CG a great deal, it had a number of really nice figures - hells, even a gnome, and they're way to rare these days. I don't mind that there were less monsters in there than usual, since those we have are top notch - with one or two exceptions maybe.

Sounds like I should look into War Drums. I'd heard the paint job was pretty bad, though. How bad is it?

There's a couple of pretty bad cases. Chimera is the worst of the rares, and for non-rares, it has been aeons since anything even remotely as bad as the frost dwarf showed up. Several others have more than one colour completely missing.