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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gunter uxbridge" data-source="post: 826668" data-attributes="member: 7526">I have been playing Mechwarrior: Dark Age from WizKids for just over a month now, and my experience with the random packaging scheme has been a positive one.  Now that's not to say that I haven't went to some secondary marketing sources (about 40% of my collection was bought off of eBay), but getting a fresh pack of minis and seeing what you got is all a part of the fun.  If they fit in with the faction/factions that I have chosen, then cool beans.  If not, then I have units for friends to play or trading fodder.As for the Wizards side of this lucrative market (and lets face it, this is going to make them a load of money), I'm all for it.  I DM mostly and hate having to use the same set of 10 year old crappy painted minis that fight the "dice gollem."  Even if the paint job is only one-half the quality of a custom job, its still better than anything I could do myself, and $1.25/mini is a steal IMHO.  I'm going to start by buying the intro pack and a booster, check it out, and decide if I continue from there.  Between the 3.5 books, minis, and other stuff coming out this summer/fall, I plan on taking out a second morgage, but if the quality is there I'll be in heaven.  WizKids really hit a home run with their MageKnight and other combat dial games, and I have been constantly amazed at the ease and elegance of the MechWarrior game.  I keep hoping that they dust off the old FASA Star Trek license and come out with a new Star Trek starship combat system based on the combat dial system.  Just a dream I guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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