In my book, a ~20-24 figure box, like the Survivors (24), Agents (24), and Operators (20) is going to be fine, even for skirmish games: that's enough figures for two opposing gangs of gunslin...
I'm not picky, anything historical and specific is OK with me, but I'm also OK with a broad-strokes fantasy any-tribe suitable for "Hollywood" western gaming. I'm sure that wild west gaming takes ...
If WGA's other sets are anything to go by, you can start with a better price-per-mini: a box of GEG's Gunslingers contains only ten figures, while WGA's Survivors and Agents sets, with a simi...
@timbus the thirteenth "dnd-style dwarves tend to have that big round cylinder helmet and plate armor...." Really? Maybe that's a 4th/5th edition thing? Seems like most of the D&D ...
@timbus the thirteenth I'm open to that. Out of the sets for the Damned Deadth Fields faction, some of the more interesting bodies were one-offs on the Command sprue, in the form of a robed p...
I agree with Brian - seems like Wargames Atlantic has checked a LOT of boxes for me with the Pulp Adventure product line's Surivors, Agents, Operators, and Zombies, the Partisans I and II sets, the...
I'm still up for something a bit more Rip Van Winkle than LotR or Warhammer, and I never was a fan of historical theming for fantasy "races" (the demand for "Viking", "Scottish", "Japanese" "Assyri...
@Brian Van De Walker "The other issue that did come up each time this has been talked about which effects both the manufacturer and the model builder is "what outfit do we do the genric bodie...
I'm a big fan of the (currently digital-only) Victorian police kit made by Wargames Atlantic, they're great for Call of Cthulhu style Gaslight and Jazz-Age pulp horror, in my book; Strange Plastic ...
The more I think of it, the more I think that, if I were to need to build an undead army right this minute, for a Dark Ages, Medieval, or Renaissance setting, I had mostly only WGA kits to work wit...
"Can your cult summon its very own Endless Horror? ENDLESS HORRORS FROM BETWEEN THE STARS is a game of playing Evil Cults who have decided that the world needs to end, that the Things between the ...
@Thomas Johnson "Halloween Bestiary..." I think WGA did a fantastic job on the zombies kit, but before that appeared, I suggested a generic undead kit that I envisioned as sort of a set of bodies ...
Not to hijack things too much, but not sure I'll ever see a better opportunity to mention that the default Wargames Atlantic skeleton kit is an excellent source of skulls and bones to decorate base...
Can't speak much for other countries, but for armed civilians for a zombie apocalypse/Red Dawn scenario in the USA, these sets are pretty well-rounded and covered, with a few curious omissions that...
I know it's been a couple years, but I wanted to reanimate this thread, just because there were a lot of great ideas in here, and now that I've had a couple years to mull it over with some fresh pe...
@timbus the thirteenth "Anyhow, if I keep yapping about this, I'll never stop. But yeah, I think kits based on this 'magitech' style could go insanely fucking hard. After all, advanced enough scien...
I forgot there was an eldritch fish-man kit, I might check into a box of those one day! I've bought a box of the nightstalkers before, my only complaint is that they're a bit pricey compared to Wa...
Why not? There's probably an Official Wargaming Law against it, but as long as youre willing to take the risk, endure some flipped tables, and can escape the Kitbashing Police, you might sur...
I've never actually handled the Einjerjar kit, I've thought of buying a box more than once at least for the bits, but never got around to it. If they were available as bonus sprues for The Da...
Forehead-to-Keyboard contruction techniques are a valuable skillset that takes talent to get the best use from. It's not something I'm good at! And Oaglurbers seems like the perfect name for...
I always enjoy any outside-the-box stuff that can be imagined, but I think most customers are going to be more about either substitute factions that can be used in popular wargames like 40K (space ...
I like that idea: the WGA world war kits are surely a great source of older weapons that can be handwaved into something a little more futuristic with some creativity (the original Star Wars movies...
@Travis Johnson "Hell, even give them two mandables to discourage infringement lawyers lol." That's the spirit: "expy" characters are a time-honored tradition in comic books, the pulps, B-mo...
You do you @Brian Van De Walker , but I didn't invent the term, it's over 40 years old by now, older than Warhammer, and the style itself is even older: Raygun Gothic The hayday of the style...
A bit late to this, but I'm going to say that it's Edgar Rice Burroughs and Frank Frazetta that you get to blame for the fantasy barbarian in loincloth archetype - Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barb...
Wow, I feel terrible I missed this thread when it was still fresh - what a great find! I took the "dungeon crawl" description the same way Brian did, but I think the idea of a Weird World War-them...
I was wondering much the same thing. I haven't seen one of the Quar kits in person so I don't know how well it would work, but I think the bodies are a bit shorter than typical 28mm figures, ...
No worries! I think I had a picture-heavy post or two disappear, and throught it was just me - I had been going blind by that point and couldn't see well enough to try to figure out what happ...
I love this sort of thing. A couple that have occurred to me over the last couple years, often while kitbashing weird character ideas or modifying off-the-shelf plastic scale model kits: V...
Cannon Fodder II (female cannon fodder) has been available from the Wargames Atlantic online shop (link) for quite a while now, several months or even a couple years now. If you like the two Canno...
Brian's answer is pretty much on target with my experience, if it helps. In INTENT, I thinkj the "Heroic" scale is meant to be easier to see as a unique Player-Character personality (hero) on an R...
I'll agree with @Paul Mitting . I've handled some of the Stargrave Automaton sprues - the bits are going to be more or less compatible with Death Fields kits, and are similar in spi...
Nothing wrong with scratch-building that sort of stuff - I do it all the time - and I could even recommend some 1/48 kits that were probably aimed at WWII modelers that supply a great variety of to...
Don't know how many people remember these guys from a short period of time in the 1980s US toy market, but they were pretty obviously "inspired by" the old D&D monster manual art: They were ...
@INSURGENT Skirmisher - Agreed completely, my thoughts almost exactly. I think I usually prefer Wargames Atlantic's sets, but Northstar's Frostgrave Cultist kit is great stuff, and any Oathma...
I actually suggested this idea in one of the polls a couple years ago, I absolutely add my "+1" to the idea! And yes - if there were a forum for the pullp line, I think this would fit right in.&nb...
Ah, a Grand Battle Scale samurai boxed set would make far more sense than anything I'd have imagined! I was wondering about it myself - I noticed the reference in the last couple newsletters, but ...
Behind Grampy's house, down the rough path between waste-high grass on one sie and the briers on the other, in the back of the rickety old workshop, you'd find a false floor covering a steep, dark ...
@Mithril2098 - I'm sure that 1/72 scale tanks, artillary, tractors, and many "battlefield accessory" type elements will work just fine for the Quar, given their small stature and the fa...
Coming soon: Grampy's Tale of the Night-Stalker. Plus, another haunted tank. (Illustration: A Handful of Haunted Tanks with a 28mm figure and ~1/56 Model T for size comparison) ...
Just goofing off between projects and games, starting with a couple Haunted Tanks. (Illustration: The 'Frits Driving a Mark II) I. Grampy's Tale: On the 'Frits My brother and I learn...
Very nice - I especially enjoyed seeing the creative "misuse" of those demon shields: they make excellent armor like that, and that armored critter is, I think, the star of this show! W...
Agreed - Tootie makes a fine unofficial mascot for Wargames Atlantic! I was laughing all day the other day about the one where Tootie was talking about how his quiver magically sticks to his hip l...
For what it's worth, the arms themselves are probably easy to source from this and other kits. What might sound tricky could be the stuff that gun crews would hold in their arms and hands! ...
I've never done so myself, but I think I've seen someone suggest using these guys for pulp gaming before, and it' sounds great to me. I can't help noticing that the Digital catalogue is loaded wit...
I'm not sure if they decided to go through with the Damned Power Armor - they were mentioned in GameFound Update #52 as one possibility for an alternative to the Damned "Terrae Motus" vehicle, whic...
Weird, I had gotten a handful of bodies in officer uniforms at about the same time I'd gotten a batch of Iron Core sets years ago, if they didn't come with the Iron Core stuff, I don't know where t...
I'd love to see more generic sci-fi kits. Not sure if you've heard of it yet, but I believe that a wargame or RPG themed on the "Expanse" TV show successfully crowd-funded a couple months ago...
This might help: I'm not familiar with Zone Patrol, but that's a nice use of Cannon Fodder figures! I wonder what the vehicle was? it works perfectly with these guys!
@Brian Van De Walker - A lot is going to depend on where you date the end of the era of "Imperial Conquests", and, as always, a lot also depends on how sensitive you and your gaming group are to we...
