Monday 31 May 2010

At last! 15mm German WW2 Heads in Gasmasks

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Piotr has come up trumps with two new 15mm separate head sprues from Pole Bitwy......



Piotr stayed up till 4am in the morning to create several sample headswops including this figure from an FOW Mid-Late War German rifleman - definitely worth the effort too!


And this WWW2 themed wolfschutzen....


......At last, because I have a WWW2 project waiting in the wings, screaming for them!


Cheers
Mark
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Saturday 29 May 2010

IN THE PIPE... Pole Bitwy 15mm June Releases

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I'm pleased to be able to share with you the first pic of Pole Bitwy's new releases for June.

Pole Bitwy 15mm Sci Fi
Click on image for larger picture

There are bugs, sea warrioirs, a Lycanthrope, human PA trooper, Cylonesque androids plus accessories such as separate heads.

More details from Piotr later. Keep an eye on:


Cheers
Mark
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Friday 28 May 2010

IN THE PIPE... New 15mm Endoskeleton Droids from The Scene

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Mike over at The Scene has shared with me photos of his new Endoskeleton Droids that will be available on the webstore from Sunday, 30th May.

 The Scene 15mm Sci Fi
 Large Endoskeleton Droids, 5 per pack, 24mm tall


The Scene 15mm Sci Fi 
Endoskeleton Droids, 10 per pack


The Scene 15mm Sci Fi 
Endoskeleton Droids Size Comparison

Some great new miniatures. Looking forward to adding them all to my Sci Fi armies and post apocalypse forces!


Cheers
Mark
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Tuesday 25 May 2010

The Apocalypse is Nigh..... in 15mm

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Khurasan's new post apocalypse Road Outlaws dropped through the letterbox this morning and what can I say? They are beautiful sculpts far exceeding my expectations and those were set high in the first place due to the superb paint job by Artmaster Studios.

I'm glad I bought several packs as I'll use these Khurasan post apocalyptic warriors as the basis for an Outlaw Gang army in Alien Squad Leader (ASQL2). Plus extra for individual skirmish games using Mutants and Death Ray Guns et al.



OUTLAW GANG ARMY LIST 
107 points (ASQL2)

1x WARLORD (Fighter) @8 points

To give my Warlord a bit of character I've made him and his retinue 'Fighters' @8 points. Master Chef is fine with it if I want to give the same movement as a Light Vehicle.


1x CUSTOMISED AFV with turret heavy weapons upgrade at @11 points
Not compulsory in the rules but de rigeur for any Hollywoodesque p.a. gang army.


GANGS: Each Gang must have a Gang Leader and 3-10 other stands.


Gang No. 1 = 44 points

1x GANG LEADER (Light Vehicle with heavy wpns upgrade) @11 points

3x EASY RIDERS (Light Vehicle with heavy wpns upgrade) @11 points each =   33 points

Gang No.2 = 24 points

1x GANG LEADER (Inferior Infantry) @9 points

3x MERCS (Inferior Infantry) @5 points each = 15 points
(or 3x SCAVANGERS (Fighters with 'Loonies' upgrade) @4 points =12 points

Gang No.3 = 20 points

1x GANG LEADER (Shooter) @8 points

3x LOW LIFE (Shooters) @4 points each = 12 points

There are some neat rules for Outlaw Gangs in ASQL2 - such as 'Shoot on the Run' and 'Loonies' - which really give them character. Don't be surprised if I end up with more than one Outlaw Gang army doing battle for dominance of the scarce resources in the glassed desert wastes.


Cheers
Mark
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Sunday 23 May 2010

Battlefield in a Box : River Bends

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No man crosses the same river twice
For the man has changed and so has the river
Heraclitus

Unless that is you've purchased a Battlefield in a Box river set from Battlefront.

If like me you've been humming and havering about the boxed river sets from Battlefront, I thought yesterday that you might appreciate a review whilst I had a camera handy.

I purchased the Battlefront Battlefield in a Box – River Expansion: Bends (#BB514) from Maelstrom Games for £13.50 - normal RRP £15.00. Choosing this boxed set deliberately over and above the main Battlefield in a Box River set (#BB105) because I only need three feet of river and don't want two overpriced and quite frankly, ugly model bridges.

What do you get in this box then? 3x 30cm meandering painted rubber river sections and the tiniest bag of bright green flock you will ever come across.

Each river section comes painted and has earth and rock detail moulded onto the banks. The river itself is 60mm wide whilst including the banks, the sections are 95mm wide overall. The rubber used is flexible without being bendy and quite durable at 3mm thick across the width of the river and 5mm thick at the banks.


You can see from the photos that the banks are painted in a flat khaki earth tone. You can leave this as is, enhance with drybrushing or paint/flock to match your gaming board and a small bag of 'summer' green flock is included. The river itself comes painted an 'Ultramarine Blue' with pale blue currents as accents - it's definitely a satin finish rather than glossy as shown in the box art.


The river sections join together perfectly, sit flat on the game surface and are flexible enough to follow slight variations in the playing surface.

Value for money? Three 300x95mm river sections for £15.00 (RRP) from Battlefront vs 5 x 300x50mm very straight flexible rubber river sections from LKM/QRF for £18.00, or 4 x 300x55mm painted straight resin river sections from Terrain Warehouse at £16.00. Not an exact comparison but it demonstrates that the price is roughly comparable with other products on the market.

To sum up, I like the fact that this is an attractive, robust product that can be taken out of the box and put straight on the table with no extra effort, but also that it has plenty of potential for extra detailing as whim and free time allow.

Cheers
Mark
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Critical Mass Games - 15mm Arc Fleet Buildings Review

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My first Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi Arc Fleet Buildings arrived earlier in the week and they are without doubt superb! I can honestly say that they are the best resin scenery items I have ever purchased. I am impressed, seriously impressed.

The buildings are made in a good quality resin that feels like plastic. They are robust, cleanly cast and have sharp definition. They come cast onto an integral resin textured base. Air bubbles, chips and webbing are non-existent on any of the models I received.

Tonight I'm going to look at the industrial storage elements of the refinery set, AFBD17, 18 & 19 as these are probably the most versatile models in the whole range. At a pinch they can be used any time from WW2 onwards - and be appended to whatever model Sci Fi buildings and structures you already use.

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
AFBD 17 - Large Silo £15.00 each

The Large Silo is 100mm in diameter and stands 55mm tall in it's own right - 70mm to the top of the supports (excluding depth of base). The supports are 1cm wide at their base tapering to 3mm at the top of the silo where they meet. The silo has a different facet - hatch, pipes etc on each vertical section, whilst the top has rivetted plates as detail. The base is hexagonal, 3mm deep and 165mm across, with each face of the hexagon being 85mm long.

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
AFBD 17 - Large Silo (base)

I thought you might like to see the base of the large silo as it demonstrates how solid and robust all of these models are.

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
AFBD 18 -Small Silo (x1) £6.00 each

The Small Silo is 50mm in diameter and stands 45mm tall. The supports are 4mm wide and project 1cm from the silo at the base to 5mm at their top. The silo has different facets - hatch, pipes etc on five of the six vertical section, whilst the top is rounded and smooth. The base is again hexagonal, 2mm deep and 70mm across, with each face of the hexagon being 40mm long.

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
AFBD 19 - Storage Tank £12.00 each

The Storage Tank is 120mm long and 45mm in diameter. Overall height (not including base) is 55mm. The base is 2mm deep, 90mm wide x 130mm long. Definitely my favourite piece in the collection.

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
AFBD 19 - Storage Tank (reverse)

These Arc Fleet Buildings are great for use as part of an industrial complex or perhaps singly and in sets on the edge of your star port colony, shanty town etc as water, produce or mineral fuel storage tanks.

The buildings feel like a quality product in your hands and are perfect Dropship Horizon fare - no construction required or basing needed - just wash in detergent and get straight down to painting.

Well done fellas!

Cheers
Mark
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Saturday 22 May 2010

FIREFIGHT FRIDAY No4: Those Damn Hills Again

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Master Chef and I are agreed that our gaming this week was the best in a long time. Two games - The first, a 1940 BEF skirmish action using elements from Ganesha Games' FLYING LEAD plus additional rules we made up as the action progressed. One of our most inspired and fun games ever.

Basically, a platoon of Tommies (Maff) are retreating to Dunkirk and have been cut off by Jerry (me). The thing is, we are playing a virtual based game where the only figures on the table are Corporal Compo's section plus Jerries as and when required.

The game required action, if the Brits decide to 'camp out' and snipe from long range, more and more Jerries from Auflerungs Aufschwardron Leichte will turn up to bar their way. However, a straighforward dash to the safety of the farm will probably see them cut down.

Compo did a sterling job leading his men. His section made it across the field to the road. They took cover and beat down the Jerry fire sufficiently to make a dash into the orchard across the road. A short cowboy and Indian skirmish with the Jerries hiding behind the apple trees ended with the section losing a couple of good blokes but well and truly ensconced in the farm.

Compo's Bren half section beat back a half hearted German assault whilst the rest of the platoon slipped out the back and another couple of miles towards the coast.

It was fast, fun and we were on a roll. Couldn't leave it there so set up game two, a futurist hill assault loosely based on the Falklands but set on the Moon.

GZG L-UNSC (me, figures painted black, GI Joe movie-style) assaulting Rebel Minis Earth Force Marines (Maff) ensconced amongst rocks, craters and crevices of Mons Hadley. Again some of the action was virtualised, and I'll explain more about that later. The game was really aimed at trying out our emerging ideas. One squad of L-UNSC were in play the others being virtualised. Hits against the squad in play were 'passed onto' the virtual squads - unless, one of the L-UNSC decided to have a Sgt McKay moment and heroically, but conspicuously take on the enemy.

Inch by inch the L-UNSC fought up the hill, the virtualisation of hits keeping the momentum of the game going even though there were moments when the L-UNSC just had to hunker down under the weight of Rebel Marine firepower. Every now and again, an L-UNSC trooper stepped into the breach, giving his life to take out a Marine position to allow his squadmates to move forward.

The hill fell with two L-UNSC going forward against the last Marine sniper team in a bloody final encounter. Only one L-UNSC trooper remained standing to be joined by his three surviving squadmates.

Another successful game - the virtualisation system worked brilliantly - meeting our expectations and removing the old "my figure is firing at your figure" as being the sole measurement of firepower and combat stressors on the tabletop. Of course, it helps where you have two gamers who are friends first and for whom the game and how it plays out is more important than who wins.

Photos later. I want to enjoy the day and build some 15mm Spanish fincas out in the sun.

Cheers
Mark
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Friday 21 May 2010

Life Work The Universe...... The best laid plans of mice

“Oh, I know what you mean there, Robbie, yes… Fucking plans ganging aglay by a fucking truckload…”
Eddie Izzard

You may remember that Big Damn Cough? Well, the cough and chest problems never went away. Following the impromptu and sudden visit to hospital a couple of weeks back, I had the diagnosis this week and with that, a reality check.

Nothing immediately life threatening but it does mean a few life changes and setting parameters for myself. However I can still have my beer, bacon, egg and chips - so life ain't that bad!

We've been through the change curve this week following the news, both individually and as a couple. The diagnosis answers so many things and now we know whats wrong can work around it. The future may have gang aglay somewhat but that's life and you know, it may just be for the best.

Cheers!
Mark
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Wednesday 19 May 2010

More Bots from Antenociti's Workshop

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More photos have appeared on Antenociti's Workshop of the new 28mm Governance of Technology Sci Fi range.

I love the Mass Effect style of the new miniatures and have picked up ideas for converting some of my 15mm figures including Critical Mass Games' new Vadorian Assassins.


I want to draw your attention to a new G.O.T. Sentry Bot pack with some tasty aerial drones that have great potential for 15mm games. Again, you get two Sentry Bots for £5.00. I think these look great - I'm going to have to investigate further as I'm sure there's a role not only on my 15mm Sci Fi battlefields but as hunter-killer drones in far future post-apocalypse games.

Cheers
Mark
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Road Outlaws on the way!

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I've ordered several packs of the first set of Khurasans superb new post apocalypse Road Outlaws. I just want them now! They are vindication to myself if needed, for the effort put into creating my post apocalypse scenery. They are also going to see plenty of action in running gun battles through my GZG shantyville and raids on the Critical Mass Games refinery complex.

In a more Sci Fi vein, I can at last finish my ASQL Outlaw Gangs army. Plus these Road Outlaws should even proxy for Reavers in the Firefly 'Verse.

By the time pack 2 of the Road Outlaws becomes available, I'll probably be in a position to put in a larger order to Khurasan which will include the new Mekanoids and I may even want a couple more packs of the characters from the first set!

Shipping to the UK is only $4 for $16 worth of figs, which is about the same as ordering a smilar amount from Peter Pig at the other end of the country, so no worries there. And definitely worth it to push gaming projects forward with these Road Outlaws asap!

Cheers
Mark
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Tuesday 18 May 2010

It's all gone a bit Blitzkrieg!

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Master Chef is trying to tell me something. A dozen 28mm WW2 Germans from Crusader Miniatures dropped through the letter box this morning. Very nice grim faced Nazi buggers they are too.

I didn't order them......... but I could virtually feel the evil grin over my shoulder as I inspected them. So my arm was forced, yes forced I tell you, to order a corresponding section of Brits from BEF Miniatures to do battle.

I'm resisting more at this time because I now how easily this could get out of hand - two sections becomes a platoon, then two platoons......

These boys are going to be led by 'Major Cadd' from Artizan's Thrilling Tales range as they are an "absolute shower" and needs someone with a bit of oomph to get them to put up a "good show".

Rules? MC wants to use "Flying Lead" - whereas I want to try out Troops Weapons and Tactics picked up during the recent Lardy sale. Doubtless we'll try both. The 1940 supplement for TW&T (no sniggering at the back) can be downloaded free here (click to download).

I'm also toying with using our own Cross of Iron rules - yes that was us - turning Jerry into faceless 'Goon squads'. All Commando Comics' "Gott Im Himmel!", "Raus!", "Schell!" But let's get 'em painted first.



Cheers
Mark
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Monday 17 May 2010

Khurasan Goes Beyond Thunderdome!

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Khurasan Miniatures 15mm Sci Fi/Post Apocalypse
Road Outlaws Set 1: x5 for $3.99

Khurasan's new Road Outlaws go beyond Mad Max, beyond Thunderdome, beyond even the Forbidden Zone. If you want to see what artistic ambition can look like in 15mm - look no further than Ben Siens latest Road Outlaw sculpts for Jon at Khurasan Miniatures.

These miniatures ooze with exceptional flair and presence. Leatherface the chainsaw king is one bad two-stroke hombre erupting with dynamic energy!


Whilst of course, they will make great apocalyptic outlaws - the Road Warriors will also be perfect for your Mutants and Death Ray Guns gang of apocalypse born and bred warriors, whether pure, transfigured or even android.

Khurasan Miniatures 15mm Sci Fi/Post Apocalypse
Road Outlaws Set 2: x5 for $3.99 (NYA)

Pack 1 available NOW! Pack 2 will be cast within a few weeks as the caster is mastercasting them now. But don't wait, If the packs prove popular Jon will follow up with mutants and post apoc warlords.

Available from:



Cheers

Mark
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Security Bots from Antenociti's Workshop

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Antenociti's Workshop have introduced a new dedicated Goverance of Technology range of 28mm Sci Fi figures and scenery that will be of interest to 15mm Sci Fi gamers too.

Antenocitis Workshop will be familiar to many UK gamers as stockists of Testors Dullcoat, Silfur and a host of modelling accessories. They are possibly less well known for their range of excellent 15mm WW2 German bunkers and Douves Radar Station.

The new Governance of Technology range includes a broad range of models that could easily find their way onto your tabletop. The 28mm Security Bots above (x2 for £5.00) are an easy choice but amongst the G.O.T. scenery range is a plethora of items that would be suitable for 15mm gamers too such as the security barrier pictured to the right (x8 for £6.50), crates, fuel stations, pollution scrubbers etc.

I'm going to buy that 28mm trooper - she is a perfect proxy for the default female Commander Shepherd in Mass Effect.


G.O.T. 28mm Sci Fi (28mm trooper in pic)
Secure Crates (x12 for £7.50)

Secondary Heat Converter: £4.50

I like this one as it's useful as a15mm secure comms uplink station, defence grid generator, alien greeblie device (bomb, energy shield, beacon).

Aegis 4 Turret: £4.50

Defend your colony and starport with real firepower

Well worth your time to visit ANTENOCITI's WORKSHOP and take a look.

Cheers
Mark
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Saturday 15 May 2010

NACHT DER UNTOTEN 15mm style!

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I've been playing Call of Duty: World at War Zombies on the train home in the evening this week. Had a blast with this and want to recreate the feel of these games in 15mm. So, I need some appropriate 15mm WW2 US troops to beat off my Rebel Minis Nazi Zombies.

A WIP photo from January

I was hoping the latest WW2 US releases from Flames of War including the Devils Brigade and Late War Assault Platoon would supply some cool miniatures - only find that they are essentially just repackaged and rebadged versions of previous miniature releases - with the odd new fig thrown in. All very much 'emperors new clothes'.

The 'fluff' on the FOW website for the Assault Platoon platoon says "They were specially trained in reducing enemy strong points and bunkers using demolitions, bangalore torpedoes, and flame throwers." Not so much fluff as 'fluffing' as there is not one demolitions, bangalore torpedo or flame thrower figure in the pack, but instead several guys on their knees with entrenching tools. Which reminds me of a sketch from Eddie Izzard's Definite Article live show.... "I got done for assault, and I was running away! Assault is motion towards, I feel… it takes an accusative".

Not the first time FOW has badged one guy with a shovel, three guys buying newspapers, four walking the dog and six weeding the lawn as an assault pioneer platoon or similar.

So we turn to Peter Pig, who have some really laudable WW2 ETO American Infantry. My favourites from the range and absolutely perfect for fighting Nazi Zombies are Pack 60: US with SMGs.


This pack just hits the button with some classic US soldiers in great poses which ooze character. Plus, the figures really look comfortable and experienced holding and using their weapons - not always true of Pig but more so with the many of the recent sculpts. But this can be said of and is often worse with other manufacturers lines. Anyhoo....a couple of the carbine troops, the LMG being carried and fired at the waist and we are done - ready for NACHT DER UNTOTEN 15mm style!



The video above from the XBOX360 game will give you a flavour of the game action. The iPhone version is subtely different, with more of a bunker setting than ruined farmhouse and much more claustrophobic as a result.

Cheers
Mark
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Even the Master Chief needs more firepower

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Why do we insist that a Sci Fi figure line must have heavy weapons at the squad and individual level? Afterall this is Sci Fi - I mean SCI FI - where that itty bitty energy pistol could potentially have the same firepower as a modern day SAW or even an Abrahms tank in plasma energy form.

For me there are four reasons:

1) Tactical diversity. Especially if you play squad level games.

2) Figure diversity - 5 standy abouty figures with the same WTFIT firearm and only apparently different because they have differing degrees of tennis elbow doesn't pop my credit card.

3) Character diversity. The chopper gunner is alway the hard ass of the squad eg Blane (Predator) Drake and Vasquez (Aliens).

4) They are generally just frikkin cool. Admit it, you loved the stabilised M56 rapid fire support weapons when you first saw them on the screen in Aliens (back in 1986...ahem).



Of course, in the far future man carried squad support and heavy weapons may well take various other forms - robotics, heavy walkers, gun drones etc but it's safe to say that there will always be an eight tentacled accountant on Tharg or slimy blue skinned Minister of Defence on Planet Millibrand that will work out the cheapest way of upgunning their soldiers is to give some poor grunt in each squad/pod a bigger, meaner, heavier piece of killing hardware to carry
(supplied by the lowest bidder of course).

Khurasan Miniatures 15mm Sci Fi
Felid Heavy Battle Circle: TC1301

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Light Recon Support Weapon Greens


Cheers
Mark
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Friday 14 May 2010

Backstories: I don't give a......

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Show me the minis. Show me the quality of the sculpting. Show me a range of believable combat poses. Show me the leader figures, the SAWs, heavy weapons.....

I don't care if you call them Nid Mercs - on my gaming table this week they will be Blu Ars Marines, next week they might be Zoltarian Drop Troops. Humans, clones, synthetics whatever, according to scenario and what the miniatures best pass for.

I just want to be able to put my minis on the table and have enough poses that will compliment each other and allow me to tell a story on each base - this is a fire team giving covering fire, this team is assaulting, this team is under fire and taking cover.

That's the only 'story' I want from your minis.

Have a backstory to present a coherent design philosophy across a range of miniatures, AFVs, heavy weapons and accessories - I applaud that - but I'm still not going to buy into it.

Maybe it's because I'm from the Airfix Generation and not Generation Y, not bought into Warhammer and W40K - I accept this - but I also know when one or more disparate packs are being passed off as "the emperors new power armour" ;-)

Cheers
Mark
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Wednesday 12 May 2010

New Zombie Hunters from The Scene

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Mike has some new Zombie Hunters / Survivalists. These should be available on The Scene webstore for pre-orderfrom tonight along with 40 odd other releases including 15mm scale barb wire with picket fences (Mike sent me a sample - it's rather excellent!), radar dishes and building accessories.




Cheers
Mark
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Monday 10 May 2010

Critical Mass Games - New 15mm Buildings

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A preview of Critical Mass Games new 15mm Sci Fi buildings and building sets. For several months we've been given tantalising glimpses of the new buildings that Craig and Dale would be using on their Kyushsu Bay game board, and now they are available to the gaming public.

Let's take a look at the building sets:

ARC Fleet Building set 1: AFBD1 £50.00 (RRP £56.50).
6 buildings: 1 x AFBD4, 1 x AFBD6, 1 x AFBD8, 1x AFBD10, AFBD12, AFBD14


ARC Fleet Building set 2: AFBD2 £50.00 (RRP £56.50).
6 buildings, 1 x AFBD5, 1 x AFBD7, 1 x AFBD9, 1x AFBD11, AFBD13, AFBD15


ARC Fleet Otilium Refinery set: AFBD3 £60.00 (RRP £64.00).
5 buildings, 1 x AFBD16, 1 x AFBD17, 2 x AFBD18, 1x AFBD19

For more photos visit the Critical Mass Games Forum (click here).


Now some individual buildings in more detail:

The buildings come with interior details
such as doors and windows


This is really cool, very useful for RPGs and individual skirmish games but also looks so much better than having your miniatures imprisoned in a slab sided box. Well done guys!


One of my favourites: AFBD15 - Research Facility - £11.50

No more buying plumbing from the hardware store or taking extra straws from Starbucks with my Latte & extra shot!

Another favourite: AFBD19 - Otilium Storage Tank - £12.00

For more photos visit the Critical Mass Games Forum (click here).

For the building sizes, check the Critical Mass Release Schedule


A well conceived range of Sci Fi buildings for the 15mm gamer. Even if you have no reason to purchase the hab, office and store buildings because you already own GZG's great range of buildings, or like the look of those from Basement Gaming Bunker, there's still room for the refinery pieces, either individually or as a set.

Even one or two of AFBD19 would compliment my GZG Colony prefabs or my desert dwellings from The Scene. I can see the use for the refinery models going beyond Sci Fi to post apocalypse, near future and future pulp gaming too.

Overall, the new Critical Mass buildings have a more robust and permanent look to them than GZG's prefabs and to my mind would suit a more established colony or outpost. There's no reason why you couldn't mix and match GZG's and Critical Mass Games buildings to create interesting frontier settlements and company towns with unique character.

What can I say? Some amazing buildings that can only push the 15mm Sci Fi hobby forward and establish it as being here to stay. These new buildings should be available online during the course of this week from:



Cheers
Mark
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Sunday 9 May 2010

Critical Mass Games at Carronade

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See what I missed.....Doh!

Critical Mass Games
Kyushsu Bay Game
Carronade, Falkirk


More pics on the Critical Mass Games forum:
Click Here


Cheers
Mark
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Thursday 6 May 2010

House Antigonus: Tiger Scouts

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Wednesday was not a normal day. I began in the morning taking part in a conference call/webinar from my study at home and ended the day in hospital having a chest X-Ray.

I'm OK, but the result being a couple of days off under doctor's supervision. Best will in the world looks like I'll miss Carronade at Falkirk tomorrow, where I was hoping to meet up with Craig and Dale at Critical Mass Games and take part in the Kyushu Bay game.

Still, painting Critical Mass figures is chicken soup for the soul. A platoon of these with bot support for Tom. War plus cleaning and building five GZG Light Gun & Scout Sleds keeping me busy.

If I haven't said it before, the Critical Mass Light Recon are a joy to paint - crisp detail, clean castings, no mould seams, flash or rough spots - I'm glad that Craig and Dale chose to expand the Light Recon range with support weapon troopers, available towards the end of the summer. I'm really looking forward to these as they will make the range 'pop'! I'm thinking that I might get some packs to be a discrete Commando unit in their own right.

I do still think the Light Recon need a pack of command/leader figures but having said that, in my games these guys are fully netted into the command grid - each member of the team receiving his own personal AI leadership and direction through his earpiece/displayed on his faceplate.

Cheers
Mark
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Wednesday 5 May 2010

In the Pipe......Critical Mass Games NEW Sci Fi Armour

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Critical Mass Games are releasing some exciting new 15mm Sci Fi armour to support their newly released 15mm Kaamados Dominion range. Here is a preview of the 3D renders

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Dractamaa APC Body and Heavy Tank


Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Dractamaa APC turret options

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Heavy Tank turret options
(green box = 15mm figure height)


Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Heavy Tank size comparisons

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Kamaados Scout Cars

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Kamaados AFV size comparisons
(green box = 15mm figure height)

When Craig sent me these pictures a month ago, it caused me to sit down and rethink my 15mm Sci Fi gaming strategy.

I like these models a lot. The APC is rugged and purposeful - you can 'see' it at work on inhospitable worlds. The tank is pure HALO and as for the Scout Cars ..... I think they can be used in any future wasteland/post apoc setting as well! Imagine 3 of them as desert raiders.

These new models give me new focus for building and painting my armies over the coming months, where the successors of great houses are at war for control of a Tatooine/Dune'esque desert planet.

The Harkonnens battle force will have GZG's latest Rommel III hover gun-tanks and the Atreides/Antigonid faction will oppose them with the new Critical Mass Kamaados Heavy Tanks. Mercenary and alien cannon fodder abound. Gunships roar overhead and bots will secure the flanks.

Those Scout Cars, mmmm? Sahadeen raiders allied to no side but always ready to pick off the stragglers.

Speaking to Craig last night, the Kamaados armour should be available in July/August, which suits my pocket fine. Pop over to the Critical Mass Game Forum for more pics and updates.


Cheers
Mark
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