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Board Games – Steamwatchers is a big box game with several expansions that add to the game play and introduce new elements. As a huge game these parts are pretty small but also pretty well detailed.

I don’t know that most people would spend time painting all these minis, but using a few techniques you can get some paint on them quickly to give the game a bit more life that the colored plastic provides.

The game sounds interesting, based on the info from the publisher:

Steamwatchers unfolds in a frozen Europe, broken by an ice age that followed a brutal water level increase. In those hostile conditions, nomadic clans struggle to survive with the regular and puzzling outbreak of steam columns everywhere on the continent. These columns are a testament to intense subterranean heat sources. They free earth from the grasp of ice and allow mankind to grow food once again. These oases of heat are vital for survival...and, unfortunately, only transient. To make things worse, a strange sickness spreads around them: The Bane. It affects both mind and body, and to this day, no cure has been found. Handling it is necessary to the survival of the clans.

Steamwatchers is a 2 to 5 player game in which you play as the leader of a nomadic clan. You will struggle over the geothermal resources of Europa in scenarios that last from 3 to 6 rounds. At the end of the last round of the chosen scenario, the winning clan is the one with the most geothermal resources (steam columns and farms), but a clan can claim victory before the end of the scenario by acquiring 10 geothermal resources.

Board Games – I’ve painted up a few of the expansions for Mythic Battles previously, mostly just extra monsters/heroes. This time around I painted up one of the core boxes for the game.

With 37 miniatures the core box is pretty packed with plastic. The figures range from large size gods and monsters to smaller scale heroes to slightly smaller troops. The scaling I assume helps to represent their importance on the board. As with the previous kits I’ve painted for this game the sculpts are very nice for a board game. Nothing ground breaking but nice.

The games sounds pretty cool Post-Apocalyptic Ancient Greece. Boardgamegeek has a pretty decent write-up detailing the game.