After hearing about Dougram for years from various sources, your review finally made me track down and watch the first episode and I'm hooked - thanks guys! I also pulled an old Dougram model out of storage and am cleaning it up a bit.

I went out and pre-ordered the 2nd volume of Origin after listening to this episode/reading these comments. Had not realized it was out.

I see you have these now an ebay...where on earth did you come up with these prices? Good luck getting those prices - I've got a couple sitting around myself and never thought they could be worth that much.

Loved the episode. There was a mailbag question asking about when a Gundam show will move to full CGI for its depictions of mecha - like other shows such as Macross Frontier and Total Eclipse. One thing that you need to consider is that number of unique mecha designs in both Frontier and Eclipse is ...

I'm more of a miniatures gamer myself than a boardgamer, but I have picked up Dust Tactics. The models are pretty good, but I was not a big fan of the rules - they play like an extremely simple wargame. That said, Fantasy Flight has also produced a set of real wargame rules for the game called "...