Everything we have in 15mm scale with no duplicates!
This has been a remarkable year for 15mm Space Opera fun with the massive push from The Ion Age. This line has surged in greatness and continues to build up steam into 2015. I have enjoyed seeing each and every characterful release that Gavin and crew have brought to life in their colorful and intriguing science fiction universe.
Gavin has asked me to share their year in review post along with some offers. So, please continue on, enjoy the pictures and let Gavin, in his own words, tell you the tale of the Ion Age...
-Eli
Hello IonFans!
Before we begin in earnest with the awesome I want to tell
you all about this festive season for us. As you might know The Ion Age is one
part of a bigger family that also includes the mighty
www.alternative-armies.com and the hugely popular www.15mm.co.uk. Its been a
busy year for us; increasingly so. In
fact we have all been working six or even six and a half days a week since the
late summer and now we have taken on more staff too. We have experienced a surge in demand for
everything that we make from miniatures in 15mm scale to miniatures in 28mm
scale as well as resin vehicles and terrain, pro-painted miniatures and armies
and also books. As a result we had been
a little behind on shipping out orders (normally we ship our four or five days
week). We are taking a break for a few
days for Christmas and the seasonal closure of the freight companies and the
post office but deliveries will commence once more as soon as things return to
normal. Let me take this chance to thank
you all for your support this year and always.
2015 is going to be an epic year and for us at The Ion Age we want to
commence with rounding up this annum and a pat on the back...read on.
What a Year 2014 Has Been....
We took a few hours off from the constant work that has been
our duty for this month and decided to take a series of photographs of our
display scenery set up with virtually every code in our 15mm scale range. Why?
Well We wanted to show you compared to this time last year, here is the
link to the Round Up 2013 posting on our blog, how much we had grown and in how
many directions. To that end each of
these photos has a caption telling you what it is showing. The display itself is some three and a half
feet wide and we filled it!
The Left Side of the 2014 Round Up
The Centre of the 2014 Round Up
The Right Side of the 2014 Round Up
A length wise view of the 2014 Round Up
In 2014 we have released another twelve monthly free
miniatures in the IMP series, we have expanded from some ninety miniatures to
over one hundred and fifty. From a few
Battlesuits and Bikes we now have over a dozen vehicles from the small to the
medium including the Adder series and the Mullo as well as the Skylark. We had our Hab Dome but now we have some
twenty different pieces of terrain which are able to create a whole Hab
Complex. We have met our expansion goal
for 2014 for the Prydian Army.
Corbal Tower under attack by Legionaries and Warlords
Space Goblin Maligs advance against Duxis Battlesuits,
Portable Weapons and Retained Knights
A smashed Adder Combat Lifter among advancing Khanate
Pioneers and Nox Troopers
A Skylark Patrol Flyer on its landing pad readying for take
off
Adder Combat Cars come to the aid of the Prydian Outpost!
Boom, Boom! Angis
25mm AP Cannons on this Mullo AFV tear into the foe!
Adder Combat Lifters with Muster support prepare to meet the
Khanate
The next year will bring lots more and in several directions
of releases too. It is our plan to
finish the creation of all of the original 28mm Ion Age miniatures into 15mm
scale with the Planetary Militia. This
will be a force with its own infantry, its own battlesuits and vehicles
suitable not only for our own space opera setting but also near future as it
represents the defence forces of a planet rather than galaxy fairing
knights. With that achieved we will
enter my own goal for the next year which is to take The Ion Age in new
directions with miniatures with two new factions entering the fray that are
totally new. Each will have its own
infantry, vehicles and so on. I can
confirm here that the first faction will be far future Chinese style Zin who
are traders and explorers. Concept art
exists now for this range and its looking really fine with unique ideas and
style. Jade Ape Battlesuits anyone? The second faction is not yet finalised but
it will not be Human and will be a foil for not only the Prydian Army but also
the Khanate Empire too. The first look
and news at the Planetary Militia is in early January.
The awesome nature of the miniatures is down to our team of
designers led by Sam Croes but my own commitment to The Ion Age has been in the
realms of fiction and communication and in one aspect of this...I failed. Why you ask?
Well the answer is Patrol Angis.
I had hoped to get the first book out already but that has not happened
so I estimate first quarter 2015 for it. Patrol Angis is a skirmish focused rules
set for one platoon or so a side so it can be played in less than an hour. It can go bigger though and the play testing
was carried out by more than twenty hard core 15mm science fiction wargamers
over six weeks. Its a 15mm scale game
and its initial book release will focus on infantry actions with Battlesuit and
Portable Weapon support during the Prydian Civil War. That is the Prydian Army against Marcher
Barons so you can use all of the core Prydian Army miniatures with it. About twenty miniatures a side and we will be
selling complete platoon or lance packs each with a unique miniature in
it. Its focus is what happens when one
recon force encounters another in open ground.
Its a starting place and it mattered to me that my own sons could play
it with not much study. Its low
intensity and easy to get into. I want a
game system that has not only great and fun rules (which they are, they work
really well) but also a damn good read too with a compelling back story and
that takes time to do. We have just been
too busy.
We had such an epic response to the Habitation Colony range
back in November that it out shone the original Hab Dome that kicked it
off. Its our plan to move into buildings
and such that would be 'small town' as well as our existing outpost or moon
base type items. All of this year we
have been training up and ramping up our resin production plant and we plan to
create more medium and perhaps even heavy vehicles in 2015. Perhaps even things on legs not tracks; you
will have to wait and see. If anyone
wants to keep up with what we are doing on a week by week basis with The Ion
Age I recommend sticking with this blog as it is where the gossip and news is.
I am confident that when we look back to this posting in a
year the change will be even greater than in the last twelve months. Thank you all for your support, for your
faith in us and for wanting a wargaming style and setting that is more than the
usual thing. We will not let you down!
Festive Season Offers during December 2014
We are taking a few weeks off making new releases (one per
week for a year is very impressive I am sure you will agree) but we have a few
offers for you too that will last until the end of the month while IMP16 Chrimbot
is the free miniature in every order automatically. Here are the details, prices already changed
on the website no code needed, and remember there are no more releases until
January:
IAF041 Corbal Deployable Hardpoint (all codes) 10% Off!
IAF023 Fallen Havelock 10% Off!
IAF032 Fallen Duxis 10% Off!
IAF037 Smashed Adder Combat Car 10% Off!
IAF013 Murdo and Galaine 10% Off!
IAF031 Duxis Drone and Pilot 10% Off!
IAF018 Legionary 3rd Tesseran Maia Mpi 10% Off!
IAF019 Legion 2nd Pioneers Flora 10% Off!
All of these offers are on our Early Supporter Page. Treat yourself during your December order
with us until months end.
Information Burst
Beep Beep! I am a
robot. Well not really but it seems you
all dig our festive fellow the current monthly free miniature IMP16 Crimbo Bot
sculpted by Sam Croes. Lovely is it
not. Makes you want to destroy all
Humans. You can also buy it on its own too during this month. Removed on 1st January 2015 there is one free
automatically in every order placed with us.
There is no other news just now apart from the work we are doing on the
upcoming Planetary Militia range. This
is the last part of our Prydian Army structure before we bring in the new
factions in 2015 and its nearly ready.
There will be a detailed post about this on our blog in the new year but
as a wee reward for reading this far I will tell you that there will be several
new vehicles and a battlesuit the primary vehicle being a six wheeled APC
called the Colobreta. Its near future
but its got a hint of off world and colony to it as well; perhaps even the most
mega of cities as well. Here is a wee picture to enjoy for the moment.
Finally remember that by placing an order with us you will
sign up for an account with the website and that means you get Reward Points in
all purchases (plus the monthly free miniature). These points can be used any time to get free
products and discounts on orders.
So as we say here in Scotland “Hae yersel a merry Christmas
an a guid new Year”!!!
See you all 2015!
GBS
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