Rebel Minis Z-Hunters

Hi,

below is a pic of 3 (out of 5) of my Z-hunters from Rebel Minis
I'd like to use them as main characters (Stars in THW game system) for my sci-fi games... I think the woman on the right can be a nice mercenary, while the other girl looks like a special agent and I suppose the man with sunglasses to be an hard boiled detective...

Will post more soon,
Cheers,
Andrea

New buildings in progress

Hi,

I was looking for some inexpensive raw material to build up new buildings for my next 15mm battles and I found this brick at the flower shop (!) for just 1,50 euro.
They put flowers in it (of course, that's what they sell...) but it looks great also for modelling as it can be easily cut with a knive.

So, I started making some tryouts...

Some little houses...

... and will update you if this material resists to the primer or just get melted!!!!

BatRep: Battle at Affro's

Hello,

I finally have had the opportunity to play the game I was planning!

Military patrol vs Insurgent PEFs, Sci Fi setting, Chain Reaction 3 rules: let me say that I've never found rules as good as these.

The mission: patrolling an abandoned area where Sahadeen scouts have been detected.

First of all: the table. Me and my friend Affro set up something that was between "Passable" and "OMG, that's horrible", with some well made pieces of scenary together with some crap:

As it was our first game we made some mistakes here and there, but everything has been quite smooth.

After determining the PEFs, our Recons (we played cooperatively) started patrolling the area close to the boat. A scout detached from our group found a Sahadeen presence (not a formerly determined PEF) in the Church area:

Then we kept on patrolling the other sections where we found a "false alarm" and then a "real" menace:

Then a lot of things happened! My Rocket Launcher trooper had a bad reaction to his Leader getting stunned and went away looking for cover... and became useless for the rest of the game as I sent noone to rally him (!), and we found the third PEF in the abandoned facility area, close to the Artillery Cannon:

But, despite all the resistance... at the end we won!

After this first battle I think I will have soon more... 15mm minis and THW rules are just the Holy Graal of miniature wargaming!!!!

Cheers,

Andrea

Sahadeen army: ready for tonight game!

Hi,

I finally succeded in painting all my Sahadeen insurgents from Rebel Minis!
The paint job is quite simple, still I think that's enough for 15mm minis.

I'm going to try out tonight Chain Reaction 3 introductive scenario with Affro (have a look on his nice blog here ).

We well play as a couple of squads of hard boiled Light Recon bada$$ (from CMG) patrolling an area where Sahadeens are supposed to have left some forces.
As you can see I painted the bases with different colors as suggested in THW yahoo group so it will be very easy to recognize every guy's Reputation (the main stat in Chain Reaction system).
Red=Rep 5, Black=Rep 4, Green=Rep 3, Yellow=Rep 2.

I will post soon the battle report,
Stay tuned!

Cheers,
Andrea

Support fire

Hello,

after seeing a video preview of the next Ghost Recon, I put together this little robot to support my fireteams.
It is a very old toy tank from micromachines with components taken from a mechwarrior:dark age tank. The parts I took from the MW:DA model are supposed to be gatling guns but I will try to paint them to resemble four "robotic eyes"!
The big gun is from the nice game "Star Quest" -I'm still a big fan of his brother "Hero Quest!"-

Cheers,
Andrea

Maybe one day I will finally be able to PLAY!!!!

Hello,

I'm going a bit slowly with painting but I'd like to show you some wip.
Below are my Sahadeens, both soldiers and special weapons.
As soon as possible I will complete the force to use it as insurgents for Chain Reaction 3 "Patrol" scenary at the end of the book (you can find all the infos and download the rules for free here: http://www.angelfire.com/az3/twohourwargames/index.html ).
A very nice thing of this scenary -and of THW in general- is that you can play in cooperation with a friend and let "the game" handle the Possible Enemy Forces.

Then, as the background I'm planning involves marsh and savage environments, I was thinking to add some random threats... like bugs or some strange monsters.
Well... after years of collecting all kind of crap I have a lot of stuff that can be useful :)!
Some rubber spiders and old minis from Mage Knight would perfectly work:


And if you have any question about the size...

Hope to be able to post soon a batrep!!!!

Cheers,
Andrea

First of my Sahadeen!

Hello,

I'm working on tons of Sahadeen warriors...
I post a picture of the first tryout: while it is far from being perfect (need some more work) I think this level of detail could be ok for "common" troopers on the table.
About the face under the hood, I'm thinking to cover it in black (just leaving the metal breath mask) and leave it with a "nazgul" feel!

Ps: as for all my 15mm, the base is the most inexpansive: an Euro cent!!!
I will soon post the entire platoon!

Cheers,
Andrea