@Geoff Maybury @JTam Thank you very much! I've been lurking off and on through the winter but there's so little time, and I sometimes get really tired of that internal voice that I get when w...
I'd be perfectly happy using a set of figures like this in fantasy gaming to represent bandits, cultists, assassins, slave conscripts, rebels, mobs, gladiators, and more. They should be prett...
I think this is a great idea - definitely doesn't seem like it was meant to be a cash-grab to me: it's not a lot different from a "pre-order" option, with the ability to put the funding towar...
Not sure which Death Fields faction I'm looking at, but it looks darned cool:
I haven't had much chance to do anything game-related over the winter, been pretty busy with a reorganization and other adventures at work, among other things, and I'm not big on digital printing, ...
I'll absolutely second the suggestions for accessories that include chainsaws, control devices, drones, and I'll add in hand grenades and sci-fi claymore/land mines, and sensors/trackers/geiger cou...
Gotta agree on cyberpunk being a different animal from the other "punk" subgenres, as the only real hard sci-fi option of the bunch (if only in a "20 Minutes Into the Future" sense.) From a certai...
Looks like a fun discussion, I'm always on the lookout for new music. I mostly listen to music while driving - I think about half of the bands Pierre mentioned are on regular rotation in my playli...
I'd be aboard for both ideas - sounds like a lot of fun to me. The pulp ship crew really is the sort of thing that crosses over well with the partisans, which seems like it was a successful from t...
Nice work! I'm cool with the sort of Victorian Sci-Fi thing that the Grognards and Bulldogs would generally fit right into., but I think I really prefer this sort of souped-up post-apocalyptic WWI...
Nice find - given a new coat of paint and a little weathering, these two don't look half bad for '70s style sci-fi in the vein of Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and the Buck Rogers TV series, whi...
The story that was going around back then was that the guy who made the film (I'm never going to remember his name) was supposed to be adapting the Heinlein story, but read one page of it, decided ...
"Back in my day, we had to Telnet and IRC uphill in the snow - both ways! - to get to our social media, and we LIKED it that way!" And the kids stayed off my lawn while we did it.... ...
That's great! I'd been saying for a while that the giant spiders ought to make great alien bugs, played straight with the sci-fi bits included in the kits, but I hadn't considered modifying the fi...
Hand grenades and horseshoes, when it comes to my resources and budget :) The 28mm figures I'm working with are about the same height as the 1/48 scale drivers, and some of the (nonimally 28mm) Re...
Thanks for that, Mithril! I might check one of those kits out! sounds like they're bigger than I thought. I remember seeing those Gundam kits all the time back in the early '80s, and I...
I'm not familiar with Rubicon miniatures, but came across two 1/56 hard plastic army kits by them: Viet-Cong Fighters and USMC Marines, and figured I'd give a quick first impression of them h...
I don't think the Eisenkern sets currently available from Wargames Atlantic are very much taller than the Cannon Fodder - I've mixed-and-matched pieces between these sets with no trouble at all, an...
Fair enough! I had no idea there was even a concept sketch out there, so I pretty much took it for granted until now that WGA's giant spiders - with the biomechanical bits - would be the prox...
Nice looking stuff! I might end up having to downsize my gaming habit and I'll sit this Kickstarter out, but if I were in the market for big terrain, this looks like it would be perfect...
Hey everyone - I don't have a Facebook account, would anyone mind dropping any of the Facebook teasers here? It would be greatly appreciated! This is the first I've heard of the bugs!&n...
I imagine a 1/35 scale AK worked pretty well at that scale - maybe a little big, but then the guns are always big on minis with more "heroic", exaggerated proportions, so on a tabletop, it probably...
A huge, tactical gyrojet lungbuster with a 300 round magazine, AND a barrel shroud? Come on man, you know the 23rd century will be a really dangerous, dystopian place! If they could possibly...
Oh, that's a great find there, another one that's totally new to me! Lots of great stuff there, but for some reason, the "Dr. Mindetwist" mad scientist character is my favorite:
Nice work - I love the green uniforms, the palette of colours work together really nicely here, and the kitbashing looks great! I'm getting a really grimy post-apocaluyptic vibe from these guys - ...
Another Ooh Rah sneak-peek! And... This week, we apparently have a sneak-peek of a modern or near-future marine on the right, with... a mystery on the left? Looks organic, maybe a...
Oh, good catch on the Starship Troopers' rifles, @Grumpy Gnome - I'd forgotten what those looked like! Starship Troopers Aliens The rifles for the Ooh Rah guys are not an exact m...
@Danforth Laertes - The reason rules get mentioned is that Wargames Atlantic did mention the possibility of dipping their toes into writing some wargames rule earlier in the year, or late las...
I saw it when I was really young, back in the '70s or '80s, and then saw it again several years ago to make sure it really exists! I was mesmerized by it as a kid - loved the monsters and shi...
"The Lost Continent" (1968) - a desultory tramp steamer full of dangerous explosives is stranded in a "lost continent" of deadly man-eating Sargasso Seaweed with the wrecks of antique sailing ships...
I agree with @JTam - looks like a fine homage to the Aliens Colonial Marines, by way of "heroic" 40k proportions. I'm not sure that's meant to be a rail on top of the handgun, but a barrel shroud...
These look fantastic! I haven't tried kitbashing those apocalypse survivor bits to the Wargames Atlantic Afghans yet, but I have kitbashed them onto Eisenkern figures of all things, and can c...
I think they look fine, and they look like they would be broadly useful for a variety of sci-fi purposes other than Death Fields Raumjager, such as Eisenker, as mentioned by John WIlson. The...
I almost thought for a moment these were the previewed kit I'm assuming are "Ooh Rah!", but yeah, these are definitely something else entirely. Very interesting - I wonder what else (if anyth...
I'm not on all the social media for Wargames Atlantic (I'm canceled from Twitter and Facebook), so it's possible some of the fluff has gotten by me, but as near as I can tell, Wargames Atlantic are...
Yeah, I imagine that there's a certain IP line that very likely gets crossed if they were to officially refer to these guys as "colonial marines" or "space marines" or "starship troopers" - I've be...
The Cannon Fodder, "Ooh Rah!", and Operators sets all sound like they'll be fun sets for near-future/cyberpunk wargaming, they'll make great soldiers for skirmishes against zombies and mutant apoca...
The Fantasy Giant Spiders are also aliens, with biomechanical sci-fi options. There was a poll a few months ago where WGA more or less asked for suggestions for alien factions - any time one of WG...
I wouldn't count the ogres out yet - a lot depends on how many votes it gets, and I don't think that a second- or third- or even fourth-place poll result necessarily write a set off from being rele...
The Treefolk sound like a barrel of fun - like the halflings, it sounds like exactly the sort of offbeat fantasy wargaming kit that almost nobody else is doing (I think Mantic has a set, but I wasn...
According to the latest update, there were some hurdles to clear as their USA manufacturing team caught up on a couple generations of experience with manufacturing that had been ceded to the Chines...
Ooh, I didn't see the poll last night! (G-Men and Mobsters got my vote!) Interestingly, there's a few options on the poll that aren't actually in the Release Schedule (yet) - G-Men/Mobsters,...
This kit is looking better and better: "Mood: Gavotte-y!" To add to what @John Wilson mentioned about the Release Schedule, looks like the format has been updated, and a lot of ne...
Thanks for the review! I got a kit of the Stargrave ladies the other day, and I agree completely with the review. I have a box of the wild west ladies in the mail, I'll see how those wo...
LOL - I bought a big grab-bag of several dozen Heroclix minis a couple months ago for about 30 cents or so a piece, which included two full sets of 28mm ninja turtles - I gave the turtles and most ...
I guess there's always room for surprises, but my own instincts would be that a set of armed civilians will always sell better than a set of unarmed non-combatants, and that a civilian set that inc...
True about not using Persions unless you have some around, but then, we should all have a box or two of the Persions hanging around - it's a cool little set with a bunch of figures that can be mixe...
I think a ninja box would be fun, but I really like the kitbash/proxy suggestions by @Mark Dewis - those ideas all sound great to me. Reaper has a couple Bones plastic figures that ought to ...
Speaking of US light infantry (or maybe near-future faction?), here's this week's sneak peek: That's a curious mix of stuff! We've clearly got some sort of modern/near-future military (...
I for one certainly couldn't complain about basing a fantasy demi-human faction on a pirate them (or vice-versa) - WA has goblin and hafling kits already, but a hard plastic kit of dwarfy pirates s...
