https://swmrebirth.wordpress.com/

It's a Star Wars Miniatures web site. It's really cool, you should check it out!

interesting ideas
seem like a disgruntled Vset elf

On the contrary, these 2 paragraphs mirror my view of the V-sets excatly.
In a commercial environment it's naive to even complain about power creep, it's just a given in these style of games.
But in a non-profit environment, there was the chance to do something unique...and that chance was utterly missed.

Power creep is massive. Come on let's just own it.
The problem is that there are some wotc pieces that are just massively powerful that can not really be out done.
R2, thrawn, reeikan, dodonna, whorm, etc all the tech pieces. But other than those what attacker from wotc still sees play time?
Point being that 90% of wotc is not playable, per much ever.

Yobuck is the one attacker I can think of.
Dash rendar is obsolete, jarael never sees play, cad bane has not been seen, all Vader's are not played, Captain Rex is outdone by erc's, etc

I, personally, do not mind power creep if it allows for fun game play. I just want power creep to move towards Jedi force users.
I went to the site and like the idea, it's hard to use it though, but maybe I need more time with it or something

thanks for the awesome tipoff.
has anyone made 'first contact' there, and let them know about other places that SWMinis-players are?
that way, we can keep our archives lists and 'webring-group-referdex' all current.

as to theories on the origin of this source;
it might be someone who played,
though never found places like here, gamers, boardgamegeek etc,
and made their own approach entirely.
so, it might be indicative of a 'local-meta'/'regionalized variant of SWMinis".

metadata is suggesting this to be likely,
as there's no correlation with 'known metadata' from avg userbase at Bloomilk, Gamers, Boardgamegeek etc.
(don't worry folks, it's just Majestic metaindex search)
the power of AGI folks.

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I enjoy finding more SWminis related stuff,
the more the merrier!
I think it's a testament to the awesomeness which is the SWMinis game
as compared to other extant minis-games out there.

SWMinis is affordable and accessible, so that's a huge part to its enduring popularity I think.
SWMinis is chess/go-like, and thanks to printable VSet cards and miniatures proxies,
folks can easily get involved and go to real-world stuff.
there's then 'distance/correspondence SWMinis" - SWMPlay's miniatures app, TabletopSimulator, VASSAL SWMinis etc,
which allow folks to digitally play the SWMinis game.

maybe they are/were, before they became disgruntled

Truth be told, it's my website. This post was sort of my cowardly way of toe-dipping back into the bloomilk community to gauge everyone's response. I was worried that some would see the website in an adversarial light, and that was definitely not my objective. I have nothing but respect for all of you and I'm really happy that SWM still has an avid and active player-base.

So here's the story: A long time ago (in this galaxy), my SWM cards, kept in 3 different binders were lost! I still had the figures, and I was pretty sure that I had left the binders in a family member's trunk. He hadn't seen them, so I thought they must have been stolen along with some other things I had in my car at one point (I learned my lesson, I lock my car now). Fast forward a few years and my relative stumbled across 3 binders while moving! Apparently they had made their way into his garage and were lost to time! Suddenly, my game is complete again! So I remembered bloomilk being a great site (I also liked swshoebox, which is sadly now defunct it seems), so I went to check it out again after my absence from the SWM scene. I saw the vsets, which made me glad that people were still playing, but I also was overwhelmed by the amount of new stuff to absorb! I also quickly realized that many of my favorite teams and strategies would not be able to compete with the new content.

So I just went back to playing with my original WotC SWM, introducing several of my friends to the game. Like any new players, they would say "Oh, this guy looks cool!" and I would have to tell them, "No, don't use him, he's terrible." So I started thinking, "The game is no longer being made; why don't I just improve the minis that aren't up to par with the rest so I can use some of these guys that never see the outside of my tackle-boxes?" I had thought of doing that shortly after the game stopped being made, but I had thrown the idea out when I was demoralized by the loss of my cards shortly thereafter.

So that's when I started working on this revamp project! As some of you said, I have put a lot of work into it (although the site isn't that great since I don't know much about web development—I used to know HTML2.0 pretty well...lol), so I don't want it to just set there for my own use if someone else would enjoy it as well.

Anyway, thanks for your attention and kind words. And if you have any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions, feel free to drop me a line!

Nice to have you here, or back here, as it were. (and I'm very glad your cards were recovered!)

The membership here covers a wide spectrum of remaining players (and play formats). Speaking for myself of course, but I think most of us are open to and interested in any ideas to keep the game fresh, and that many of us lament that much of WotC's output just needed to be slightly better to be usable.

I've glanced at a few things on your site. I look forward to reading through more of your ideas as I have time. I'll just mention your Flanking Support upgrade: a one-word change that makes it much more compelling to attempt.

Cheers to your efforts.

My own little bit of feedback: you might want to change the wording of the "Triage" ability on your revamped Mon Calamari Medic. If I'm not mistaken, it currently allows the medic to heal an infinite amount of times as long as two or more wounded characters are adjacent to it.

The ability currently reads "Whenever this character heals an adjacent ally, he may heal another adjacent ally". So the medic can heal an adjacent ally, then another one, then the first one again, etc. (This is probably not the right place to critique the customs, but whatever).

Other than that, I thought they were generally pretty excellent.

Thank you! I was really happy with the way that one turned out. Revan is one of my all-time favorite characters!



Thanks again! I thought since it can only benefit a select few and can't be enhanced by Mas Amedda that it would be fair. Not to mention the danger of grenades, missiles and flamethrowers!



Thanks! It's good to be back. I've always loved this site. It is a great resource!



Yeah, I always wondered why it's 120 HP instead of 12 and dropping the 0's off of the damage. The thing I wouldn't like about that is needing to come up with 5 damage chits for tracking damage.



That's a really good catch! I hadn't thought of that. This is why I need a proofreader I just changed it to: "Whenever this character uses his Heal 10 ability, he may remove 10 damage from another adjacent living ally"