What sets for Moderns/Near Future?
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What kind of sets would you want to see as part of a Moderns/Near Future range? Delta? SWAT? Cartels? FFL? Yakuza? Royal Marines? Zombies? Lizard Alien Invaders? Rioters? Meal Team Six? Let us know!
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Like I said on Facebook: 2 sets: Yakuza and Japanese SAT with cyberpunk bits in each, covers survivors and what you actually need for outbreak cops and both should remain simple enough to not end up with over priced bit box filler kits, also lets be honest everything happens to Japan in modern/near future fiction land why not just build around that🤣. Fits a lot of games and I already have at least one rule book for it (pictured below) and you can easily alter most other modern/SF rules around that theme:
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The only other set idea that would be cool and work for a lot of things is Stalker themed set(s), unless we are talking real conflicts in which case my vote goes to the Bush Wars and the Soviet Afghan conflict.
That said are you guys not already working on genric contracter types? why not just do them and either add Arab/Taliban heads and diffrent minionish helmets or make a custom sprue.
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@Estoc Pfft, someone should just do a "Its not a Toyota Hilux honest" technicial kit if we are going to add vehicles to this line:
And the "Modern Merc" types they had preveiwed look like they would probably work for Zone Alfa/Stalkers though some added gas and ballistic mask head swaps would be nice maybe one or two of these:
Beyond that I think it would be smarter to do something like Yakuza or urban terrorists after them with maybe a couple of unarmed poses to make them civilians as opposed to a modern civilian set. I say this because those are more useful than just a "civilian set" and can double as civilians and Zed Apoc survivoirs. Take the Yakuza for example:
They look pretty much just like average joes overall, a few unarmed poses and you've got civilians. Likewise they will work great as apoc survivors since they have guns:
And melee weapons:
Overall they are useful for several things including whats on the box, have a clear theme with which build later sets on, and whats more already have games asking for them in warband levels.
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Fair enough - there's a lot of wriggle-room for sleeves at this scale and you can get pretty far on something generic, but hazmat suit sleeves - like the sleeves for the Boxers and Afghans - are kind of a special case!
giving it a little more thought, I suppose that armless hands holding certain bits of smaller gear can free up a lot of room on a sprue, allowing the hands to be swapped onto either type of arm, while avoiding two-handed gear like rifles can help even more, but those sleeves are going to be a limitation to mixed body/costume types no matter what!
And @Brian Van De Walker 's Toyota Hilux suggestion is still awesome, I love it! For bonus points, just add explosive reactive armor packs, and they'll be invincible!
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YES. In the name of all that is abominable and eldritch, I command this thread to arise, and walk the earth once more!
That also sounds like a great set for SWAT, special ops, corporate security guards, the works.
Start with balaclavas/ski-masks, helmet-with-full-face-shield, and helmet-with-goggles-and-respirator head options, and you're hitting a lot of those SWAT/Terror-goon nails in one kit.
Keffiyahs could also complement such a set well either as headgear, or accessories to loop around the necks of the figures (like those scarves from the Partisans I set!)
MP-5's seem like a great, well-rounded weapon option, and for variety some other SMG types as well (Uzis are a classic option, as are MAC-10/11 style machine pistols. Skorpions and Bizon II's are interesting and don't seem to be common in this scale.) Include generic handguns (it's tough to tell them apart at that scale, anyway), tear-gas guns, riot guns, and maybe a sniper rifle or two. Flash bangs/grenades would fit the set, and perhaps a couple riot shields and batons round out the weaponry nicely. Doesn't need to be enough of all these items for everyone, seems like a mix of most of this sort of thing works better.
If there's any room left over for radios/phones, drone controllers, and perhaps small drones, even better.
Of course, assault rifle options for M-16/M-4/AR-15, Kalashnikov, G-36E, and other patterns would be missing, but could easily be kitbashed from other hypothetical modern sets to follow (one or more separate combat-grunt sets with such rifles, along with a couple SAWs and similar heavier automatic weapons, would probably benefit more from enough rifles to outfit all the figures with fairly uniform rifle options, compared to a "special weapons and tactics"/terror-goon set like this, where variety might work better....)
Short of a dedicated "historical" set of this sort, I would improvise with WA's Ooh-RahDeath Fields faction, though it's a bit limited to over-the-top sci-fi rifle weaponry and helmet heads, with only a handful of ball-cap heads and a couple sci-fi SMG, shotgun, pistol, and BFG options for variety. One really wishes there'd been some room for balaclava heads and a just a few more SMG, tear-gas gun, and other special weapon options! (Perhaps a great opportunity for an accessory sprue?)
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NPFL rebels from the Liberian civil war. :P
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