The bulk of my Attack Wing collection was up for sale recently and if it were not for distance and freighting the large collection, it would have gone, but I did suffer some regrets when packing it up.

I was splitting out a decent little Delta Quadrant and Enterprise era set, neither wanted by the buyer. This would be seeded with some hypotheticals and variants (Species 8472, Tholian and Borg who tend to get everywhere) and as much of their own stuff as I had along with any duplicate mission or upgrade cards not needed in the sold portion.

Like a lot of things, I got the jitters about selling it so cheaply, but more than that, I started to actually fall back into full fan mode.

Yesterday I managed to pick up a few ships that have been only mildly desirable until now, but with sale prices about, it was time to go forwards, not backwards. These were all about $10au.

The Donerios Lightship, a scenario driver and source of some decent Bajoran upgrades. This is it for Bajor, a major player in DS9.

Quarks Treasure. Another scenario driver, a small, but usefull representative of the Ferengi and their role in the game. Not my favorite faction, but this ship fits into the game nicely for me and effectively covers these nasty little guys.

These two add variety to my skirmish scale DS9/TNG set.

Another Nistrim Raider. This makes three raiders, which in the relatively lethal Delta Quadrant, is reasonable and brings the Kazon closer to the same level as the other factions.

ISS Avenger. A third NX, but with a twist. These guys are the ones who encountered the Tholians, so it fits and the chance of playing three regular or two mirror NX’s is tempting.

If I could get them, the Montgolfier and Valiant would also be good, both for the skirmish level game, but I think these are now long gone.

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Following on in the sale period of bargains, my wife and I hit the stores in Hobart and I picked up 4 of the 7 wave 1 Malifaux 2e arsenal packs, the rules, a Penny Dreadful, 2 sets of Shifting Loyalties campaign pack and 2 of the wave 2 packs for $3 each! Best $30 I have ever spent and full retail came in at about $300au.

My figs are 1e and I intended to re-purpose them, but the 2e system and cards appeal and now I have an official upgrade from 1e. The rules and suppliments are free on the Wyrd website, but for $3, the cards are cheaper than printing the book pages on plain paper and cutting them out! I then spent a little too much at Noble Knight on the missing ones, just getting the full set, all for about $200au, including the above. Not too bad.

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In a final pair of wins, although the Osprey RPG’s have bitten me before, I got Sigil and Shadow, the DWD based modern occult game that is a fusion of Bare Bones Fantasy and Covert Ops, both favourites and a project that caught my attention a year or so ago, then seemed to disappear.

I went in looking for “Jackals”, an Openquest derivative, set in a stylised version of Ancient fantasy, but even at the same price for a bigger page count, it was not as instantly appealing as S & S. I still bought Jackals.

For modern cross-over games though, S & S will add something to a more favoured period. I have The Laundry Files (as itself), Delta Green (like the X Files), After the Vampire Wars (like The Dresden Files), Seasons of the Dead (like The Walking Dead, War of the Worlds or Skyfall) but this one is a different beast, a bit more like “Supernatural” or “Fright Night”.

For Bronze Age games I do have the original Mythras range, all basically set in this earlier period, including Runequest Essentials 6e, Mythras Rome and the long promised Greece suppliment coming and to be frank, this is enough, but Jackals called and the art is gorgeous.

Like all D100 games, anything added can cross boundaries to other games easily enough. It could even be re-aligned to real Greek history.

Jackals scratches an itch, S & S was a gift from the ether.