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I know some gamers may disparage it, or otherwise feel that it’s a bad tendency, but having a stockpile of lead on hand sometimes can be really awesome. I just discovered a box with a custom-cast set of GZG tanks that I had thought lost when I moved in a sudden terrible rush two years ago. But lo! There it was. And how better to take one’s mind off the chaos of daily existence than with a little games project? So last night, when there was a sudden break in the insane humidity, I cleaned up a portion of them and primed them. Late-night priming sessions – oh yeah.
So here’s a little work in progress 6mm game project underway, probably to be added to my “Banana Stompers” game set, to be used with rules as yet undetermined. The location of the conflict: the Republic of Costaguana, where a recent coup by the military-backed “Montérist” party has destabilized the region, especially the neighboring Republic of Sulaco. The Sulaquéro government, with a scant national militia to defend itself, has parleyed its rich silver resources into hiring the Earthlight Division from Europe to defend their borders against an expected Costaguañéro invasion.
Earthlight Division (Erdeslicht Verteidegung-Systeme GmbH) is a high-tech Dispute Resolution Organization licensed in the Mitteleuropaisch Demokratische Republik, specializing in rapid intervention and heavy combat support. This Kill-Team (Eingrifftruppe) is a typical unit that follows the Modular Combined Arms doctrine common to DRO’s operating in South America. It consists of eight squads of SPzKpfZ “Tandem-VII-A” powered armor troopers. Four squads are equipped with support micromissile suites, two with antitank guided missiles, one with a man-portable kinetic kill cannon and one with a rapid-fire fixed-wave pulse laser. They are transported in AswkSPz Ausf. E “Angriff” Armored Personnel Carriers. And of course, the heavy hitting power is backed up by four AswkPz-VIII Ausf. A “Super Leopard-8” heavy repulsortanks.
Paint goes to metal this afternoon. I’m going with a tan and blue-grey pattern-breaker that I think will play well. I have a pile of untouched CinC hovertanks and some “Red Faction” and “Foundationist” infantry on hand to form up some forces for the ENC (Ejécito Nacional de Costaguana), and some Sulaco National Militia forces as well.
You are so rock and roll!
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Does your game world have a map I saw, or did I dream it?
Or was that your comic?
First Earthlight Division AswkSPz-VIII Ausf. A “Super Leopard-8” heavy repulsortank in Sulaco Service pattern-breaker camouflage. I’m thinking of ordering some decals for markings, even though I’ve hand-painted insignia in the past.
By the way – fully based repuslortank, hovering two yards off the ground on a superconductive electromagnetic field. The turret has a magnet in the base to keep it in place, and the hovering is accomplished with a thin but remarkably strong length of brass wire.
Almost went through TWW withdrawal there during the service rollover!
At any rate, here’s the ELD’s first Combined Arms Strike Element. It’s a low-level battle doctrine the Earthlight Division cribbed from ENSPUN units operating in Mitteleuropa during the First Upheaval. This one has two PA infantry squads (one with a scatter missile weapon and the other with a pointfire railgun) plus an armored transport and a Super Leopard repulsortank.
Real life keeps progress slow, but when I have time it’s nice to paint for an hour or two.
And dragging this thread out of the dim, dark past, I have finally achieved, in the modest task which was my charge. The Earthlight Division Kill-Team, re-based for Horizon Wars.
Complete with T-7 “Mastodon” Support Strider, with its hellbore cannon!
These guys are going in against the mercenary team Blue Helix at the club today. We’ll see how it goes!
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