Friday 24 January 2014

Sci-fi Wargames

Having recently purchased  some GZG and TheScene figures, I thought I'd go with a sort of UN concept.

Centred around human forces but maybe with alien units on peacekeeping and security missions throughout the known worlds. My good friend has purchased an opposable force, so hopefully we'll have some battles soon. Not that taken by  any of the commercially available rules I want a totally flexible but point costed set of rules that reflect warfare at all tech levels. so that I can field units of sword waving Martians against my Gundam.

Rules are at an early stage but are generic enough to enable any species to be reflected with any weapons / equipment. High tech options get very expensive. The game begins with blank movement 'blinds' following  your commanders  developing battle plan. Good commanders develop their battle plan more quickly and enable 'blinds' to go about their business. Spotting can be  carried out with sensors or specially trained troops and all troops have a spotting potential and an autospot capacity.

Anyway, here are my first units- UNSC Heavy Scouts adapted from The Scene figures.


The walker is meant to have a  post-apocalypse type crew. I  shaved his mohawk off and removed the spikes from his armour. If you inspect the legs you can see they wouldn't really work. One leg bends the wrong way and - like this- in the picture -  the walker would just topple over. Would have been better to have both legs  set as  the right one is (his right).


These are my scout bikers again, heads shaved and spikes removed. These bikes are definitely not designed for mobility - perhaps better for patrolling long straight highways.

And a shot of my new UNSC troops -


This is platoon command at the front  with Squad 1 behind. There are two squads each with six troopers, four SAW, one sniper, two grenade launchers and one plasma unit.


These are the SAWs


...and  these are these  squad support weapons, sniper, grenade launchers and flamer.


Above is the platoon commander with his AT launcher and the liason 


These are the two heavy blaster teams that support the platoon. So that's it for now with the UNSC until I find them some transport.