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Last week was spooky season, so we had quite a few ghosts and ghouls sneaking into this week’s edition of The News Stand. Read on for the latest updates from Spectre, Combat Octopus, Urban Scatter Gaming and more!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Spectre Miniatures Releases Spooky Insurgents and Previews Something Spookier Still<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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It was Halloween last week and Spectre Miniatures<\/a> were definitely in the mood for it with a pair of items. First up, we have the release of the Spooky Militia<\/a>, the latest in the range of Spectre.. spectres. As opposed to last year Operator, this guy is a little less well-equipped, with only his trusty AK and balaclava joining him in the afterlife. I’m not 100% when it’s coming to no longer be for sale so it might have gone before I even post this live in a ghostly kind of way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other announcement is a brand new range for Spectre<\/a>. There has always been a chunk of the Spectre fanbase looking to crossover Lovecraftian entities with the usual tabletop shenanigans and now it seems Spectre is about to join them. However, rather than merely bolting them onto the core system and calling it day, it seems that Spectre is taking us to 1930s America, a land of Thompsons, fedoras and horrible fish people coming out of the sea. The preview images show a mixture of models that could be coming while the description mentions Federal Agents, Townsfolk, Investigators, vehicles and lots of things to shoot at. I’ll be interested to see further details of this as they come out – although this is not an area of gaming that excites me, I can think of plenty of people who are happy about this news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Scatter Gaming Expands His Property Portfolio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Urban Scatter Gaming<\/a> is continuing on his role with another MENA release. And this time, he’s going BIG. The MENA Apartment set <\/a>contains 4 ground floor sections, 4 upper levels and 4 roof pieces which means you have 80+ combinations of pieces to put together. The modularity on these looks pretty awesome, with everything from small single-storey structures all the way up to multiple segment blocks that provide far too many windows to deal with. As with last week’s House release, all the pieces come in two variations – one with doors and windows built in, another all ready for you to customise with your own pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see here, you can make some cool-looking street setups with them, allowing for the creation of apartment blocks to fill out your boards and give plenty of locations for the bad guys to appear from. There are little touches like the roller shutter and the balconies that help to add some character to them. Additionally, they would do perfectly when combined with the other USG sets, such as the MENA walls and scatter sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This set is out right now over on the Urban Scatter Gaming Gumroad<\/a> with additional pieces on the way, such as corner pieces to let you build up entire blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As previously mentioned, BelloLudi <\/a>has been hard at work on a brand new ruleset based on their core system. This game, Kalashnikov is now out and available online at the BelloLudi store. The ruleset is definitely pitching itself as a toolbox set, with a vast selection of special rules to cover everything from small scale infantry fighting all the wayup to involving Aircraft and UGVs. The rules are available as either a PDF<\/a>, the basic rulebook<\/a> or bundled with the skirmish cards<\/a>. I haven’t yet had a chance to look at them, but with the BelloLudi system being used for a whole selection of games, I get the impression it’s working from a pretty good starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Hills Games Releases The German Airborne Specialists and A Roadmap<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As is tradition for Black Hills Games<\/a>, October’s releases landed just in time for the end of the month. These seven figures are the perfect expansion to the original Bundeswehr, giving you an NCO, two Grenadiers, two marksmen and two figures with the Panzerfaust 3 in order to bring the extra firepower. As with all BHG releases, this set also includes separate heads, allowing for plenty of customisation. This set is also out on the BHG Gumroad<\/a>, along with the previous set<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve also had a little preview of what’s coming up for the next seven months, based on the poll that BHG released a while back. This looks to be a pretty complete selection, so it is definitely worth keeping an eye on for the next few months:<\/p>\n\n\n\n