Over the past year Dream Pod 9 has released fleet scale exos (and fighters) for Jovian Chronicles/Lightning Strike in preparation for a new edition of the miniatures game being kickstarted in about a week called Jovian Wars. If you are not familiar with the game think Gundam combined with The Expanse.
Jovian Chronicles (the roleplaying game) has always been dear to my heart and while I've never been able to justify the cost of getting the 28mm scale exos to build a proper space force it became much more affordable now - besides looking a bit more in scale with the ships. I have now painted one of each sculpt of the new miniatures for CEGA and the JAF and thought it might be fun to share here.
For Jovian Wars the exos and fighters are mounted three to a stand, but as I'm using them for the rpg and Lightning Strike as well I've decided to base them singly. They're about 17mm tall.
JAF family shot with the Stormrider hogging the limelight!
The Vindicators come with three different options - standard, railgun or bomber loadout.
CEGA forces lead by the Dragonstriker prototype.
I based the colour scheme for the Cerberus on the Dom test type from Gundam Origins. Always good to stay close to the source material.
Last week the miniatures got to see some action as we played out a station assault in our rpg campaign. The red cross marker was one of the player characters floating in space after his exo got blown to bits by a missile. Of course he retained more or less the same velocity and vector as before (heading toward the station) and thought he might be able to simply land on it. After some quick calculations we realized his relative velocity was close to 200m/s and that hitting the station would simply squish him. Good times!
Next up I will get the ships painted and then play some test games of Jovian Wars - the alpha rules are available freely and the beta rules will be up soon.