Picked up the game yesterday and played three solo apprentice games of BM v PR. Great fun and plenty of emergent strategy. Swarm, big one, big few, beat up, etc. Got tired of vanilla mages so went to apprentice book, half map but full Mage abilities.

Oh wow. How on earth can the PR deal with the BM swarm in this set up? Is this a poor way to take a step up from apprentice?

All help appreciated.

Played another solo match and found the fairly simple solution. Brogan guarding.

Hello fellow UKians.
From Cambridge here.
I play and demo at my local gaming store.

Which local gaming store might that be? I'm around Herts. / Essex / Cambs. myself.

There is an excellent, detailed walk through of a full game on board game geek. By Tox from Crits Happen. I watched that and could pretty much play the game without reading the actual rule book!

http://boardgamegeek.com/video/22621/mage-wars/critical-plays-mage-wars-part-i

A Vassal module for Mage Wars would be lovely. A Zun Tsu module would be just as nice. Zun Tsu tends to be a bit more glossy and might work well with the simple mechanics of MW. particularly given that there would be no need for an AI.