Attention dropship passengers...
In today's news, UNSC Hardsuit Marines are on the move. Deploying to a conflict near you. Here's what their supreme commander Jon Tuffley had to say about them...
The long-awaited
new sculpt UNSC Hardsuit Marines (UNSC/H) are NOW AVAILABLE! They are all up on
the webstore and fully available.
OUT NOW:
(Inc. VAT prices apply to all customers in UK and other
EU countries, ex VAT prices apply to all customers outside the EU.)
SG15-U10 UNSC/H
Marines in Hardsuits - Plasma Rifles pack A (8 figs)
£3.00
inc VAT, £2.50 ex VAT.
SG15-U11 UNSC/H
Marines in Hardsuits - Plasma Rifles pack B (8 figs)
£3.00
inc VAT, £2.50 ex VAT.
SG15-U12 UNSC/H
Marines in Hardsuits - Plasma SAW gunners (8 figs)
£3.00
inc VAT, £2.50 ex VAT.
SG15-U13 UNSC/H
Marines in Hardsuits - Micromissile Launchers and
Laser Snipers (8 figs) £3.00
inc VAT, £2.50 ex VAT.
SG15-UX UNSC/H Grav Jump Packs to fit Marine
Hardsuits - 24
backpacks £3.00
inc VAT, £2.50 ex VAT.
The SG15-UX pack contains 24 individual grav-packs,
designed to fit any of the Marine Hardsuit figures in packs U10-U13; each UX
pack will therefore be enough to equip 3 packs of Hardsuit figures. In MOST
cases the Grav-pack will simply glue on over the small cast-on backpack of the
hardsuit - it has been designed to be a very quick and simple fit with a drop of
superglue, and most figure poses will require no cutting, filing or other work
to fit the grav-packs. There may be just a few cases where a little filing and
fitting of the pack or the suit is required to make it sit correctly on the
figure, depending on the pose of the arms and shoulders and the weapon that the
figure is carrying, but we have tried to keep this to an absolute minimum.
PLEASE NOTE that the picture shows examples of the grav packs fitted to several
UNSC/H figures - the UX pack does NOT contain the figures themselves!
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SPECIAL OFFER!!!
We also have a little special offer intro deal, for a
limited time only - by buying the deal you get enough grav packs for all the
figures FREE!
UNSC/H "mini intro" deal pack: 2 x SG15-U10, 2
x SG15- U11, 1 x SG15- U12, 1 x SG15- U13
(total of 48 figures) plus two FREE packets of
SG15- UX grav packs!
Deal price £18.00 inc VAT, £15.00 ex VAT.
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Since the first sample figure of the new UNSC/H got
previewed a few weeks ago, several people have commented on the major
differences in weapons and equipment between the new UNSC/H and the UNSC/L
Light Infantry - well, here's why....
The UNSC/L (Light) Infantry are the regular ground troops
of the UNSC forces, under Army Ground Forces command; they are equipped to a
fairly high tech level, using full-body light armour combat suits and carrying
rapid-fire gauss weaponry (the IGW-68 infantry rifle and SGW-75 support weapon). The flexible combat suit gives
the wearer reasonable protection against shrapnel and some small-arms fire; it
is also fully sealed and has sufficient life-support for short term operation
in hostile atmospheres, though for hard vacuum operations it is more common to
deploy the Hardsuited Marines where available. The large overhead-curving faceplate of the combat helmet
allows excellent optical vision, supplemented by head-up displays projected on
the inner faceplate by the suit's sensors and comms links.
The UNSC/H (Hardsuit) Marines are a separate organisation
completely, under UNSC Fleet command and used as a primary strike force, often
dropping from orbit in individual ablative capsules or deploying via high
altitude grav-pack drop from atmosphere-skimming transports. The UNSC Marines
are equipped to the highest tech level available to any human infantry, each
Marine wearing an advanced power- assisted combat hardsuit sealed against
vacuum and most hostile environments, and carrying High Energy Weapons tech in
the form of the IPW-80 Plasma Rifle and the SPW-82 Rapid-Fire Plasma SAW. The
very distinctive bulbous helmet of the Marine hardsuit contains extensive
sensor, comms and AI support for the wearer, with panoramic head-up displays
for full situational awareness at all times - the narrow "visor" slit
in the faceplate is normally protected by an internal armoured shield when the
Marine is in combat conditions, and is usually opened for direct optical vision
only when out of combat, or in emergency circumstances such as sensor equipment
damage.
The Marines are considered the elite of the UNSC forces,
highly trained in all combat situations including vacuum and microgravity
environments, and there is certainly a strong inter-service rivalry between
them and the regular UNSC light infantry - somewhat exacerbated by the fact
that they are organised under completely separate command structures. As throughout history, this rivalry has lead to many a
bar-fight when troops are off duty; to
the Marines, the Light Infantry are "just a bunch of dirt-grunts",
best suited to the jobs of garrison duties, peacekeeping forces and the like;
the Light Infantry, in their turn, see the Marines as "cocky glory-hogs
with all the best toys", who "drop in, kill everything then bugger
off to space again". In action, of course, all this is forgotten - it is
not uncommon for Infantry and Marines units to be found fighting
shoulder-to-shoulder, and even to be cross-attached to each others' units right
down to platoon level when the situation warrants.
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So, there we go - lots of you have asked for these, so
we've done them! :-)
