Twilight 2000 Project (4/21/2016 First pic of Painted Models)

[MajorTalon]

I wanted to go with 28mm. What miniatures would I use for US, Brits, and Soviets? I was also unsure if the British minis should have SA80's or SLRs.

[commissarmoody]

Depends on what version your using. But you could get away with both honestly. Or just mixs it up. As for miniatures see if you can find some of the old MoFo or mongrel miniatures line.

[Max Hazard]

You should check out Empress Miniatures for their British, Americans, People's Liberation Army, etc.  They're quite nice.

[commissarmoody]

You can also snag some extra weapons and bits from TAG or some of the war-games factory survives (Men and Women). To make a nice motly collection of survivors, raiders, bandits and civilians.

[MajorTalon]

I was going to be using the 2nd Edition rulebook for my campaign. Got a box of books for the game for $35 on eBay. THanks for the suggestions everyone.

@Max Hazard: I've already purchased Empress models, but they don't really fit 1990's US.

[Too Bo Coo]

Great game, never actually got to play more than a few times...

I really think minis wise, you could get away with any current/slightly in the future (a year or two) NATO/ Russian minis as well as a variety of terrorist/insurgent types.  The question is really what scale you'd like to do and what you plan for the game.  If you guys begin with a LAV, you may want to think more 20mm than 28.  Not only for size, but cost and availability.

Looking forward to seeing this get going!

[Earther]

I'd go for Gripping Beast/Mofo US (90s Somalia) and also take at look at the mercenaries - balaclavas and AKs for the win - great marauders or bandits.

Empress/Red Star Chechen conflict Russians, plus Eureka's new Afghan War Soviets (the NBC gear wearing tank crew is superb!).

For the Brits, GB/Mofo also do the Falklands-era UK Task Force with SLRs, and mix them in with SA80 toting TAG Brits, maybe with a few wooly hat or different helmet head swaps (also from Mofo, and they do loose bergens too).

Plus, all the suggestions above work very well.

[6milPhil]

Eureka and TAG are my faves for 28mm.

I used to play Twilight 2000 in 6mm, gave a great scale to it and a lot more opportunities for widely different tactics, especially the running away bit. 

[Arlequín]

Another fan here too. I used to like that you could pretty much make up a force of pretty much anything you liked for a group isolated from its supply lines (as in the Warsaw scenarios). Great suggestions for figures, but I always favoured those which who looked slightly irregular in appearance, rather than the ones in full official kit. You have to work with what you have I guess.

Good look with this project though, will be looking forwards to see what comes from it.     

For 'atmosphere' dare I mention James Rouch's  'The Zone' books?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/94254-the-zone

[Gunbird]

Curious as to what you will be building.

I personally stuck to 20mm as you have quite the treasure trove of suppliers of miniatures that are suitable, and making conversions of the prototypes seen in the books won't break the bank.

[georgec]

I wanted to go with 28mm. What miniatures would I use for US, Brits, and Soviets? I was also unsure if the British minis should have SA80's or SLRs.

Well the game was published in 1984, with WW3 having broken out in 1995 and the game date being 2000.  By 95 even an RAF junior officer embedded in an IT industry project in central London had done the SA80 conversion course so the SA80 would have been the norm, but as the game was set in a period of 'broken back', post-nuclear war second-line/militia forces could easily have been equipped with SLRs.

[MajorTalon]

Thank you for the replies. My copy of the game has come in, and now I've learned of a board game "expansion" for combat resolution. Is Last Battle a decent idea for this, or should I choose a different medium?

On another note, I've decided to go with 20mm. I've put in an order to Elhiem minis.

[AzSteven]

Last Battle was actually a pretty decent boardgame, and has a good mix of vehicles, weapons and forces available.  Unfortunately, while it shares rules similar to other GDW boardgames in the First Battle system, it also had its own unique map/hex/counter size, so if you need to expand to other types of forces or vehicle, you might need to make your own coutners, or you might need to look at using GDW's Team Yankee, Test of Arms, Battlefield Europe or Sands of War.  All of which are decent wargames.

[Earther]

I've put in an order to Elhiem minis.

I believe there will be quite a few Cold War Gone Hot releases soon, so that choice was good timing!

Also, take a look at S&S for vehicles: http://sandsmodelsshop.com/shop/

[Hobbit]

GDW also published a set of tabletop miniatures rules in "Challenge" issue 25. In essence it was a stripped down and simplified version of Command Decision but tailored for T2000 and rescaled for 1:1 instead of 1:4ish. I'm not sure if this was ever published in its own right or as part of a T2000 product. It has the advantage that it will already include ratings for some of the core T2000 "what-if" equipment. If you ask nicely I could scan it for you