My AT-43 Blog

Welcome to my new blog devoted to AT-43, the French sci-fi miniatures war game. I've been collecting for two months now, and have maybe six games played under my belt. But, on my other blog (Clix Mafia), I've discovered my love of photographing and writing up games. I started to upload pictures there, but decided to keep Clix Mafia devoted to HeroClix. After all, AT-43 deserves it's own space.

AT-43 (After Trauma 43, a name that sort of makes sense in the game fiction) is really great; it's like quick-start Warhammer. I was really into Warhammer back in school, but that was 12 years ago and counting. I'm not really qualified to compare the two games: I've got really fuzzy memories of the old game, and it's changed so, so much since I actually played. But AT-43 has the same feel. It's sci-fi, it's little; this is a pretty broad brush I'm using here, but that's what I liked about Warhammer, that I got all this cool sci-fi military stuff. The minutia of the fiction, of both fictions, I could take or leave.

The big difference between the games is that AT-43 is all pre-painted plastic. I spent a lot of time painting Warhammer stuff, and I won't argue with anyone stating that this exercise was the very point of the hobby. The point of AT-43 is all game. Our gaming group does a little bit of modeling for scenery, and might mod our stuff occasionally, but we don't paint. All of the miniatures look really good right out of the box. Better than Star Wars, D&D, HeroClix, or any other pre-painted system I've ever seen. I've got a sizable AT-43 force after two months in the hobby. Painting all of that by hand would have taken years.

Now, as for the blog, I don't know if that title will stay. Whenever one names a blog, it's necessary to rack the brains and come up with any negative connotations to the cleverness. Does it evoke fetishism? Well now that I brought it up, the title is sure to evoke fetishism. Uh... look at the monkey!