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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: TripleBackflip on July 03, 2020, 08:00:43 AM

Title: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: TripleBackflip on July 03, 2020, 08:00:43 AM: Hello everyone.

Quite a few years ago, there was a wargame of The Starship Troopers films.
Here is a picture:
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/opengraph/img/-7whthKvMn_8RKLQlLiORRk98as=/fit-in/1200x630/pic198903.jpg)
Sadly, this no longer exists, given that other Games such as the Classic Doctor Who one is available from Black Tree Design, I was wondering if you guys know if another company might be selling this?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: Samsonov on July 03, 2020, 08:23:50 AM: Rebel miniatures sell some of the metal models: (http://www.rebelminis.com/screecher.html http://www.rebelminis.com/sciencefiction.html). The plastics have not been available in many years to my knowledge.
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on July 03, 2020, 11:04:32 AM: I think Eureka had a metal range, and possibly GZG, but that might have been the Eureka ones as well.

Plastic moulds and moulding needs a lot more care and attention than metal or resin.

Plus, as a licensed product it is likely they were scrapped when the license expired.
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: FierceKitty on July 03, 2020, 11:43:12 AM: Where's the shower scene?
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: Cypher226 on July 03, 2020, 01:44:39 PM: I think I still have a load of stuff if you're interested? Definitely got two boxes worth of bugs plus a tanker and a load of the plastic animated series infantry, character types and some assorted other bits.
Might even have the rulebooks and templates etc. Pm me if interested.
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: katie on July 04, 2020, 11:26:47 PM: Some of 1st Corps sci-fi figures are rather movie-ST like. Small 28s. Nice figures.

(https://www.fysh.org/~katie/wargames/pictures/scifi/dscf0019.jpg)

Sadly GZG stopped making their 28mm bug figures. If you talk them into restarting, let me know...

(https://www.fysh.org/~katie/wargames/pictures/scifi/dscf0018.jpg)
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: punkrabbitt on July 04, 2020, 11:47:46 PM: If you don't mind 2.5D papercraft, check out the following links for free bug templates in PDF format. The Warrior bug is bottom left here: http://onemonk.com/onemonk-dl.html Hopper bug is in the "Hoard Of The Procrastinators" center second up from the bottom at http://onemonk.com/fh-2017.html (as well as my pink/magenta refits for the Bugs to match my pink alien terrain.)
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: Pictors Studio on July 05, 2020, 05:42:06 AM: I have a copy of the game in the box as well as one of the boxes of Bugs I think. I'm in the US.
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: chromedog on July 06, 2020, 02:07:31 PM: Eureka got a C&D about their "Chaos chickens" and "chaos weasels" (Aliens) quite a few years back and stopped doing them.
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: Commander Roj on July 06, 2020, 06:14:05 PM: Quote from: katie on July 04, 2020, 11:26:47 PM

Sadly GZG stopped making their 28mm bug figures. If you talk them into restarting, let me know...

Yes me too. I would love more of these as big bugs in 15mm as well as to use in 25mm skirmish.
Title: Re: Starship Troopers Board Wargame
Post by: darthfozzywig on July 06, 2020, 08:29:26 PM: I worked on that boardgame. For AvalonCon, I ran a large-scale demo game using 3/75" action figures for the Troopers and the 12" long Galoob Warrior bugs. Was really fun. :)