Pyramid Review
Crimson Skies: Collectible Miniatures Game
Published by WizKids
Rules Pack: $7.95
Aces Pack: $15.95
Squadron Pack: $15.95As well as producing a trio of comics-based games using their Clix-based mechanics -- Marvel HeroClix: Infinity Challenge, DC HeroClix, and the forthcoming Indy HeroClix -- WizKids continues to delve into the magic box of old FASA developed intellectual properties. Having already advanced the BattleTech universe 50 years in MechWarrior: Dark Age and will be adding a customizable aspect to their forthcoming Shadowrun: Duels game, WizKids turn the clock back for their latest release, the Crimson Skies: Collectible Miniatures Game.
Based upon the Crimson Skies board game designed by Jordan Weisman and published in 1998, this is the game of dogfights and aerial dueling in the skies over the Shattered States, an alternate America of 1937. Weighed down by the effects of the Great Depression, the United States of America has splintered into some 20 rival and allied nations, such as the Confederation of Dixie, the pirate haven of Free Colorado, the political and economic powerhouse that is Empire State and her cultural rival, the Nation of Hollywood, the militant, stridently anti-bootlegging Lakota Territory, the fundamentalist Christian People's Collective, and (of course) the Republic of Texas. Torn by regionalist drives, both the intercontinental railways and the new highways were ripped up and disrupted, forcing both trade and travel into the air, . . .
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Article publication date: June 6, 2003
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