"WizKids has announced a new line of games. During the Galactus breakfast giveaway WizKids revealed CSG, or Constructible Strategy Games. The first in the new line will be “Pirates of the Spanish Main”. The CSG line is to be based on the idea of a game where players build their game pieces using styrene cards sold in card packs. As

units take damage they are disassembled until destroyed. The Pirates game will retail for $3.49 a pack and will be available in July. We’ll have pictures for you in a few minutes. " From Gaming Report.

I don't know about anyone else but this sounds stupid to me. I bet those card ships don't have a long life span since you have to keep taking them apart and putting them back together.

are you serious ?

Yes I am here is the link to the official news site. They now have pictures.

http://www.gamingreport.com/modules....ews&file=index

I hope that thing fails so that they might decide to give Indy Clix an expansion...

Lets review recent WK ideas-
Indy-lets get a small base set with 50% of figs most people don't know, and leave out some figs that could sell the set(ie Ethan, Giselle, Obo, various others just from Crossgen). Well, this idea failed.
Creepy Freaks-lets make gross out figs for little kids to get them into our games. Nice idea, failed miserably.
Sportsclix-play baseball with dice and miniatures. What the hail? I have seen a demo and could never see myself playing this. Don't know about sales, but in my area they have been minimal. Probably fails.
Pirates-biuld ships from foam cards and somehow destroy them using dice. You have got to be kidding me. This is what the braintrust at WK is coming up with? We'll see if this even hits the stores, as this will fail worse than all of the above combined.

At least the production cost should be less...but it may be tough keeping your collection together!

Perhaps the Pirate theme is a Ninja face-slap?

So, will there be a Ninjas game to counteract the Piratey goodness here?

[edit: Bad tidge! Out of my head!]

I don't know...pirates sound like fun!! On the other hand, there is no buit-in audience for a pirate game, as there is for Heroclix, LOTR, baseball, or Star Wars....

....and speaking of Star Wars, here are some pics of miniatures from that same site:

http://www.gamingreport.com/modules....owgall&gid=101

There goes my Heroclix budget!

The cards are the same as the ones that are used for Constructed Terrain, Relics, Items, and Domains for Mage Knight 2.0.

Constructed Terrain didn't really go over all that well in Mage Knight 2.0 and it's not even in the first expansion. I think the problem was mostly because you needed 3 cards for alot of the terrain pieces -- they seem to have over come that by makign each card it's own ship.

I'm still pretty iffy on this one though. Historical games can be a difficult sell in the first place and the catch (build your own ships) in this isn't really all that interesting. That's just my initial impression though -- I'll probably check it out when I hear more about it as.

This would have been a perfect tie in to ONE PIECE, ####it. The Going Merry could beat any of these joker ships...

Amen.

Not one of WK's better ideas.

On the other hand, I wish wizkids would stop failing. If they keep screwing up game lines, we are gonna have no wizkids to make our plasticrack.

"This is a pill.... for giving worms... to ex-girlfriends... you just don't get it!"

I'm posting just to praise you on your quote urlmaker. Absolutely hilarious!

Arr Pirates ahoy! Lol... Seriously thats not going to sell at all... Wizkids has 4 good things going now, Heroclix, Sportsclix, Mage Knight and Mechwarrior, they should just stick to those 4