In the Pipe...... Critical Mass Games "Suits You Sir!"

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Craig at Critical Mass Games, dropped this little taster into my inbox..... 15mm Protolene Ayame Assaultsuits.

Available later in the year....but available NOW are last week's new release. There are 4 Agaamid infantry packs for the Kaamados Dominion and 3 new Mercenary packs, the Astagar (snakemen), Ygs Fighters and Mercenary Drop Troops.

The Ygs Fighters are by far my favourites from the new Mercenary releases. There's just something about the figure with the helmet that makes him a great non-human intergalatic cop. The miniatures have a great deal of character and I think over and above being characters in their own right they will make good corporation mercs or starport security in games such as Mutants & Death Ray Guns.

It's difficult to know what to say about the Kaamados Dominion Agaamids Battlesuits - they break with 15mm conventionality and you know, when you put a platoon of them tightly packed in a ship's corridor (yes, I have a platoon worth), they are effectively menacing. I visualise them advancing slowly but determinedly like the Battlesuited Mondoshawan arriving at the beginning of Fifth Element.

The photo below shows the relative size of the new Agaamid minis against a Critical Mass Light Recon trooper.

Even if you have no space for an army of Agaamids in their own right, these minis could potentially provide some interesting colour and heavy firepower to any human or even alien force in the form of robotic infantry or synthetic drones.

Cheers

Mark

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In the Pipe..... Micropanzer.com 15mm Sci Fi SAS

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I've been following Jason's work over at Micropanzer.com for some months now and have to say that I love his concept work for Project Slipstream.

Jason's first 15mm Sci Fi miniatures are now available as a promotional  deal - 51 British Sci Fi SAS for $25.

Get yourself over to Micropanzer and take a look. 51 SAS? Now that's an ARMY!!! I like the idea of having some dedicated futuristic British figures - these are going to be a Tomorrow's War favourite.

Cheers

Mark

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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

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I really don't think I have to say anything......



Except....... WWW.MICROPANZER.COM

Cheers

Mark

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Octopod Rising!

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Inspiration has come knocking alongside 15mm.co.uk's new Octopod releases! Perhaps helped by the fact I've been cast into a leading role with the Union over the last fortnight, I've used my morning train communte creatively to draw up the outline of a game system for an uprising and rebellion by subjected and downtrodden Octopod (sic. Ood) workers in a city sized factory complex.  

 ZZ Octopod

"Coz every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man!"

The idea is to use all the different figures in the range as different classes of workers, technicians and specialists. Some will be more prevalent in certain parts of the complex than others and will have different tools, equipment and chemicals at their disposal that can be turned into weapons according to their skills.

Cheers

Mark

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Octopods arrived in the post

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My Octopods have arrived from 15mm.co.uk, and very nice they are too in a very Ood sort of way. Definitely worth getting for a couple of games based around a Critical Mass Games Refinery or GZG shanty town.

Looking at 20mm Moderns, I have to say that the whole thing has made me appreciate 15mm Sci Fi manufacturers more. Particularly just how easy it is to purchase the miniatures and accessories from GZG, Critical Mass Games, 15mm.co.uk, Khurasan, Rebel plus others. ALL give largely unparalleled service with quick, if not near light speed turn around for orders.

Been reading Razors Edge by Hugh Bicheno on the train. Whilst not ostensibly Sci Fi, being about the Falklands conflict - turn the Falklands into a moon or mining colony, Britain and Argentina into two spacefaring powers and you simply wouldn't believe the story if it was a Sci Fi novel. Think of the landing at San Carlos as making planetfall. The best book I've read about any conflict - the egos, the posturing, the mistakes, the risks, the chances of war, the cover ups. The whole good, bad and the ugly of conflict on a world stage.

As the 20mm Polk are making it difficult for me to spend my hard won and fast disappearing earnings on their minis - time to brave the exchange rate, buy some Lhurgs from Khurasan, finish off my Wasteland Warrior ASQL2.0 army and get that third platoon of Special Assault Brigade troops before the Pound finally goes to hell in the last government handcart before it gets out sourced as well.

Cheers

Mark

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INCOMING...... Octopod Reinforcements from 15mm.co.uk

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Something very interesting has happened at 15mm.co.uk. Gavin and Alex have released three new packs of 15mm Sci Fi Octopods! bringing the total number of packs in the range to four.

15mm.co.uk 15mm Sci Fi

HOF53 Octopod Infantry

15mm.co.uk 15mm Sci Fi

NEW! HOF59 Octopod Command

15mm.co.uk 15mm Sci Fi

NEW! HOF60 Octopod Heavy Weapons

 15mm.co.uk 15mm Sci Fi

NEW! HOF61 Octopod Seer Guard

I was instantly taken by the industrial drone nature of these minis and have some on the way. I envisage them having a more post apocalypse MADRG role than Sci Fi as slimevil would be harvesters of the planet's remaining chemical resources (or humans). But I also see a scenario where they are colony worker drones rebelling against their human corporate masters who contemptuously call them "squids".

Cheers

Mark

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