Modern Wargaming 28mm Why not ?

As a youngster i looked at modern wargaming and wanted to try it, but back them the world of warhammer with its space marines and dragons, was a bit more sparkly, but we now are in a new age, the minis available in modern wargaming, are up to date,big thanks to empress, and the tanks and technology, are pretty much scifi in some of their abilities.

lets look at empress here, these guys have arose their modern range much thanks to their kickstarter campaign.

look at these guys !!!


















pretty darn scifi if you ask me in some regards, and more exciting in feel than say a 9 foot space marine... these guys can rope down buildings, set demolition charges and bug eyed night vision to boot.

Another advantage of modern is the rule sets, their evolved there more skirmish like often, and have more realism and battle field effects rather than being sets of rules based on Napoleonics with laser guns...

and what about vehicles !!!!

























Now that is a Vehicle !!! and trust me this thing is Huge !!! would make a APC from 40,000 years in the future seem pathetic !!!


in 28 mm the range is expanding fast with companies like Spectre ( http://www.spectreminiatures.com/ )coming on the scene thanks to their great kickstarter, they show that not all battles happen out in the dust of Afghanistan... planet earth is a very interesting melting pot of wars and possibilities,, some times the truth is more scary than a scfi horror movie...




So are you interested in Modern wargaming ? whats stopping you or holding you back ?

Battle Los angeles Aliens 28mm project

also around the same time the idea was forming another project was on my mind, and i picked up on ebay 6 box sets of Therian assault gollems for the great value price i felt of £25 inc postage from America !! i thought the price was to good to be true but the guys feedback showed he had sold others at the same deal... hell i had to !!!

to last week they arrived and sat in the box awaiting to be cyborgs, then it hit me the battle for Los Angeles type alien would be great for my game system and to test how flexible it could be for adding new species...

this is what i made to begin with



since then ive added a command modle, and 3 special forces.

game wise i see the comander as level 5 very hard to suppress, and a real head to command the force, equiped with R-pod = L Chem Auto with UGL B blast slow  Armour = L

special forces level 4 with R-pod = L Chem Auto with UGL B blast slow  Armour = L

grunts level 3 with R-Rifle = B Chem Armour = L


reason for grunts not having auto was in the wiki they suggest they where more powerful than the special forces version, in the film we mostly see the special forces.

the chem represents the multiple warheads and incendiary all in one go, the current weakness is no anti Armour this will be covered by the drone. current WIP

any way open to ideas and thoughts on this :)i think the drone is not going to look much like the one from the film, just due to budget and finding suitable parts...

spectre minatures wargame

Early Play testing of the game system.

this was a game using spectre rules, we find it important to play many sytems to see if they do thing we may have forgot or missed.



basic forces where my insurgents V some crack SAS



heavily out numbered my enemy, in some ways due to the fact my friend mike miss read his army list (lesson learned armies lists are not always as obvious as one would hope)



battle field was a modest sized games table.



victory to the insurgents, fill those body bags.



this post was a brief view, and a test on adding pictures to a blog.

This is a test blog..

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ok as well as gear we need to be in shape, found on another website is what currently seems a great free fitness routine that can be done at home with no exspensive gyme equipment YAY

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