Shortly after starting this project I got hold of Vallejo’s Game Ink set and used it extensively throughout.
I used my then-usual white Krylon primer and then started in by… Painting the Minions Primed and ready! Sneak peek at Neré and Glorm up in the corner we’ll get to them another time.įirst things first, I applied primer to all the figures to get them ready to go.
Given that Heroscape is my all-time favorite board game it’s no surprise I enjoy this one, so take my advice as you will.Īs always, see my toolkit deep-dive for detailed information on the paints and other tools I use for this and other projects. Plaid Hat was founded by and staffs in part community leaders, so it’s no surprise that Mice & Mystics features a lot of ideas drawn from Heroscape like combat dice with a bunch of different uses and squad movement (and if calling them “Rat Warriors” instead of just “Rats” isn’t the most Heroscape thing ever I don’t know what is).
That said, on the whole this is a genuinely lovely game full of personality and endearing characters. In my experience so far it’s not quite that dramatic, but there are definitely quirks to get used to before you can fully dive into the wonderful narrative and rich setting. Mice & Mystics in particular has a few issues with its rules since it was really their first try at this kind of game, but as the owner of my local game store put it, Mice & Mystics is the only game worth playing in spite of its rules. In this case our story follows Prince Collin and his friends as they try to save the kingdom and Collin’s father, King Andon, from the evil Queen Vanestra – but almost immediately they get cornered and have to rely on the court magician Maginos to transform them into mice! They’re generally family-oriented and the concepts for them are consistently very cute and fun – see also Stuffed Fables, a game about stuffed animals protecting their child from her nightmares, and Aftermath, another mice game about tiny heroes cleaning up after the apocalypse that destroyed human civilization. It’s the first in their growing line of Adventure Book games, in which there is an ongoing narrative between sessions. Mice & Mystics is published by Plaid Hat Games, designed by Jerry Hawthorne, and sculpted by Chad Hoverter.