TeaBee said:
Can someone who is into MK tell me what the deal is with their Dungeons expansion? (I think it was called something like that)
Basically, it's a dungeon crawl/wargame. If you pick up Dungeon Builder's kits (which they expect you to do for the "normal" game, although it's not strictly necessary) the game runs as follows.
Each player picks a team of either 1 hero or 100 pts. of heros (depending on the variation, with the 2nd being preferred). In addition they each add at least 100 points of "monsters" to a dungeon pool.
Each player then places a certain number of dungeon tiles (very like the Geomorphic tiles with a bit of the Heroquest details) in turn to form the dungeon.
They each player places a certain number of treasure chests, maybe additional terrain features (doors are included in the Dungeon Builders kit), and tokens to represent wandering monsters. Each token has a "wandering monster chart" on the down side that's rolled on when it's revealed. It tells the opponent of the player who caused it to be revealed how many points of monsters, and how many monsters to place.
Then each player picks an entrance and exit to the dungeon.
The winner is the player who gets out of the dungeon with the most gold. Each player has so many activations each turn to move either a hero of his, or one of the monsters in the dungeon (with certain limitations, you can't do anything with monsters near your heros).
BTW, WizKids also has some Mage Knight figures that aren't random. Some dragons (which look very good and are only about $25 each) and a few tanks and such. I picked up the Dragons just to use in my D&D games.
Glyfair of Glamis