Critical Mass Games, Merc Vehicles

Critical Mass Games just released their new Merc Vehicles.  These are no nonsense vehicles that could be used in just about any army.  I think I am more inclined to like the grav variant over the tracked version.

Each vehicle retails for £8.00 or you can purchase a platoon for £23.00.  It looks like the entire vehicle is resin, including the guns.  I would have rather seen metal guns, but other than that, they look fantastic.

Critical Mass Games, Painting Tips

Here is a great airbrushing video showing how to do digital camo.

I asked Rob Baxter to go into a little more detail about the Reflex portion of the Sedition Wars rules.  Rob is the game designer for Sedition War ruleset.  I was wondering how they were going to work and if there there would be something like Overwatch in the game.

"There are units that can effectively go into an Overwatch like mode based on two factors.

• How you position the model
• How the models reflex trigger is set off

While in reflex mode, a model with a reflex trigger can activate abilities under certain conditions, like when an enemy model moves into line of sight or ends it's movement near or adjacent to a model. Basically a conditional trigger. When this happens, certain abilities kick in.

So yes. You can have models that can guard a hallway, cover a retreat, or effectively enter overwatch over a specific lane of fire."

If you want to know more about the Sedition War rules or have a question for Rob, go check out BoardGame Geek for more answers.

Pole Bitwy, New Troopers

Pole Bitwy is coming out with a set of new 15mm troops next week if everything goes as planned.

Sedition Wars, Battle for Alabaster, KickStarter

Sedition Wars, Battle for Alabaster is 2nd cool KickStarter project that I am going to make a pledge for.  The first one was Steve Jackson's Ogre.  

The game is a fast paced tactical miniatures game for two players, developed by Studio McVey and published by CoolMiniOrNot.

The base game comes with

• 50 highly detailed 28mm miniatures
• 50 Scenic miniature bases
• 5 double sided full colour expandable game boards
• 60 page rules and scenario book
• Vanguard and Strain stat cards
• 100+ full colour game counters

I said base game, because if you buy into the Biohazard pledge ($100), you are going to get a special edition resin figure, + 12 more Vanguard figures.  At least that is the current stretch goal status.  That said, I really think this KickStarter project will have legs, so I am sure we will see potentially more figures thrown into the mix.

If you liked the look of SpaceHulk 2nd edition, you will probably like the Sedition Wars tiles, since Rich Wright is the main artist.  Since Sedition Wars is a high-tech universe, the designers tried to steer well clear of any dark and gothic elements.

Currently there are ten different tiles, and one transit network car (that's a train!), so that gives you a wide variety of different  board set ups.  The size of the tiles are 12x12 25mm squares, so they are 350mm square (including borders) - pretty big!

Bottom line, if you want a lot of sci-fi figures and bio craziness, this game is definitely for you. 

Hawk Wargames, Taranis MLRs, Post Human Republic

Here are some cool vehicles for the Post Human Republic called Taranis MLRs.  Love the look.  Great concept.

Black Hat Miniatures, Goblins

Very excited to see Black Hat Miniatures pick up the WWI fantasy Goblin range from Frank Hammond.  These figures are very cool and would certainly make for some great scenarios.

Single figures retail for £2.00 and larger sets for £8.00-£15.00

The 28mm goblins (20mm to the eye) were designed to use against the Hasslefree Miniatures Kindred WWI Halflings.

Hangar 18

Those who are in search for some cool spaceship type terrain might want to check out Hangar 18's Flash Gordon and Sky Kings line.  Most of the resin terrain is priced between $8.5 - $30. 

They also have some pretty cool spaceships and weird war aircraft.

Trench 2114

Here is what looks to be a super cool game called Trench 2114.  You can check out the rules.

The setting is based 42 years after world war 3, the surviving or new "Neo Nations " of the world have reverted to a mentality along the line of their colonial ancestors as they fight to secure the few remaining resources on planet Earth. It is a tabletop game designed for 28-32mm miniatures, however they will also be making 15mm figures as well.

There looks to be 6 main factions including the Consulate (Has a Napoleon flavor), The Iron Will (German based), The Free State Alliance (NATO), Scavengers (Poor Countries), Conglomerate (Not sure) and Sosoei Tech (Robotic based maybe?).

They have a campaign running on Indiegogo to raise some capital.  I hadn't heard of that platform before.  If it isn't successful, I would suggest they use kickstarter.  Go check it out though.  They are only looking to raise $2,500.  Not much for a game.

Here are some 15mm Sculpts for The Iron Will.

Antenocitis Workshop, 15mm Sci-Fi

Just in case you missed this, Antenocitis Workshop who carries a fantastic assortment of 28mm figures/vehicles, also carries a line of Governance Of Technology (G.O.T.) 15mm vehicles that retail for 6 pounds.  I hope they eventually offer more in this price range.