{"id":12015,"date":"2021-03-02T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T11:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T11:41:49","slug":"a-billion-suns-review-and-playthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/03\/a-billion-suns-review-and-playthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"A Billion Suns &#8211; Review and Playthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/03\/a-billion-suns-review-and-playthrough\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Before we get to the main topic of this post, a quick update&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still a few days behind on orders &#8211; we almost catch up, the another bunch of orders arrive and we slip behind again! The delay isn&#8217;t too severe, around a week (as I write this most orders up to February 23rd have gone, and tomorrow I&#8217;ll be working through the 24th and 25th). As far as possible we treat orders on a first in, first out basis, but sometimes it makes sense to group orders for the same items together and do them all at once, regardless of when they arrived.<\/p>\n<p>In a further twist, the mould for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Spaceships\/Stations\/SFS-6003.html\">Kerberos space station<\/a> has just expired, so we&#8217;ve taken that off sale briefly while Phil makes a new one. As a consequence, if you have already placed an order that includes a Kerberos then you might be delayed a little further. As always, feel free to drop us an email if you want to know how your order is coming along.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guerrilla Miniature Gaming &#8211; A Billion Suns Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12017\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/03\/a-billion-suns-review-and-playthrough\/gmg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GMG.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GMG\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GMG-720x478.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GMG.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GMG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12017\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We wanted to post up links to some Youtube videos by Guerrilla Miniature Gaming dealing with A Billion Suns.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a detailed review of the rulebook:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmmss9aDaBs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second is a play-through showing aspects of the gameplay and featuring a lot of our ships (very nicely painted, it must be said).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6491wCsSHyg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ve also started a Solo campaign &#8211; here&#8217;s episode 1:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZh1cdMPrFs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get to the main topic of this post, a quick update&#8230; We&#8217;re still a few days behind on orders &#8211; we almost catch up, the another bunch of orders arrive and we slip behind again! The delay isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/03\/a-billion-suns-review-and-playthrough\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A quick status update on orders (spoiler - we're behind...) and some\r\nA Billion Suns Review and Playthrough Videos by Guerilla Miniature Gaming","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-billion-suns","category-spaceships"],"views":3292,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GMG.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-37N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12029,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/04\/its-oh-so-quiet-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":12015,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s Oh So Quiet&#8230;","author":"Tony","date":"April 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"We haven't posted here for several weeks, which is most unlike us - so much so that several regular customers have emailed us to make sure that everything is OK. 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