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Welcome back to the Gallant Goblin!
I'm Theo, and last week we did a review of
Tiamat, queen of the evil chromatic dragons.
You can see that review by clicking
the "i" in the corner of your screen.
I asked you to leave me comments
telling me your favorite D&D dragon,
and I think the most popular response outside
of Tiamat was Bahamut, Tiamat’s counterpart.
Bahamut is a platinum dragon and the
chief deity of the good metallic dragons.
Today we’re going to look at both the Icons of the
Realms: Tyranny of Dragons premium figure Bahamut
and the D&D Attack Wing
premium game piece Bahamut.
Attack Wing is a tactical flight and ground
combat miniatures game from Wizkids.
The two figures should be essentially
identical… but are they?
We'll find out.
We’re also starting a new giveaway this week.
You can win a booster box of prepainted miniatures
from the Descent Into Avernus adventure.
To enter, be a subscriber and
leave a comment on this video
telling me either your thoughts on Bahamut
or about your most memorable encounter
with a dragon in your campaigns.
Tune in next Monday to see if you won.
We’ll reveal the winner of last week’s
giveaway at the end of this video.
But let’s open up our twinsie
Bahamuts and take a closer look.
Bahamut lives in the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia
but sometimes wanders the Material Plane in
the guise of a simple man in pleasant robes,
accompanied by seven golden canaries, really seven
ancient gold dragons in a polymorphed form.
He rarely interferes in the affairs of humanoid kind
but will attempt to thwart any interference
by his archenemy, Tiamat.
Bahamut is a lesser god capable of granting divine
spells to clerics and paladins who worship him.
One legend holds that Bahamut and Tiamat
are two halves of the same entity.
In ancient times, there existed a dragon god
named Io who created the first dragons,
willful lords of a newly formed world.
However, during an event known as the Dawn War,
Io was killed by a primordial named Erek-Hus
who cleaved Io in half using a giant adamantine axe.
The two halves became Tiamat and Bahamut.
The only time the two worked together
was to finally topple and kill Erek-Hus.
The Icons of the Realms and Attack Wing minis
are essentially identical aside from their bases.
The enormous size of the Attack Wing base, which is
6x6, may make it harder to put down on your battlemap
if you use Dwarven Forge or have a lot of scatter terrain.
The paint on the two is a bit different as well,
mainly the Attack Wing mini has a
stronger red coloring on his wings.
Now paint jobs can vary from mini to mini and
also from production run to production run,
so your mileage may vary a bit
if you pick one of these up.
Both do use the dreaded peg
system to support the flying mini,
but this one has the best implementation of it I’ve seen
as the peg actually fits fairly deep
inside the belly of Bahamut,
making the mini much more
stable and easy to assemble.
Bahamut doesn’t actually appear
in any officially published
fifth edition adventures at this time, but a statue of
Bahamut does appear in Sleeping Dragon’s Wake,
which is a followup adventure to Dragon
of Icespire Peak from the Essential’s Box.
There is no stat block for Bahamut in 5th edition,
but he does have one back in the Deities and
Demigods supplement for 3rd edition.
You could take those abilities and apply them
to Tiamat’s stat block in Rise of Tiamat.
Some enterprising folks have already
done that over on DMs Guild
if you don’t want to build a stat block of your own.
Now the Attack Wing Bahamut does come
with everything you need to play with him
in the tactical battles game including cards detailing
his stats, movement patterns and abilities,
various tokens, and a card to use inside
his base for gameplay purposes.
None of those materials would
necessarily be useful or applicable
to your regular Dungeons & Dragons games.
In general, many of the minis from 2014-2016
are available in both the Icons of the
Realms and the Attack Wing line.
As long as you’re fine with the different size
bases, just pick up whatever is less expensive.
Attack Wing was discontinued in 2016, but they
made quite a few figures in the years it was active.
It’s worth keeping an eye open for Attack Wing sales
as you can sometimes find rarer
minis at a discounted price.
There are certainly many Attack Wing
sets still available on online retailers.
Another possible source for Icons minis is the various
board games released alongside certain adventures.
We’ll take a deeper dive on those in a future video.
Congratulations to the winner of our giveaway
from last week, David Mijailovic.
Mijailovic—I hope I'm doing that right.
Contact me at thegallantgoblin@gmail.com
to collect your prize!
Another giveaway starts right now!
Be a subscriber and leave a comment
down below about Bahamut
or your favorite dragon encounter
in one of your campaigns.
Tune in next Monday to see if you won!
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