New stuff for Weird Wars - (15/07/2019) Heer 46 E-100 Kickstarter live

[Wyrmalla]

The plan to break us off and move the country to the middle of the Atlantic for the best (or worst) of both worlds for shipping is still in progress...

[Ballardian]

 West Wind have released some pics of what the finished German War Wheel from their recent KS will look like.

[Rich H]

Where does the driver sit?

[FramFramson]

Where does the driver sit?

Well, if he's a 500-pound gorilla, wherever he likes.

...I'll just get my coat.

[Jakar Nilson]

Where does the driver sit?

Supposedly, there's a bunch of mirrors that allow the pilot to see through those slots. But that's not my cup of tea when it comes to suspension of disbelief.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Where does the driver sit?

That is not so much the issue (in the centre part - it functions like a monowheel), but how the driver can see. Mirrors might work but alignment would be lost on rough ground.

The only thing about that arrangement I can see that is an advantage is that the track functions as frontal armour. Are the contact points between the hull and the track units unsprung,the suspension being between the bogies and the track faces (behaving like HG Wells' Land Ironclads https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedrail_wheel).

Would have preferred a variant on the kugelpanzer.

[Ballardian]

 WestWind have put a nice painted pic of their Sherman mech from the recent KS up - it looks good though I'd be tempted to replace one of the cannon for anti-infantry weapons.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice, the MBR04-MkVI styling continues.

Anti infantry weapons would have been useful even if it is not a 180mm GL, autocannon, HMG and laser pack.

http://deculture.wikia.com/wiki/MBR-04_Destroid_Tomahawk_Mk_VI

[swiftnick]

Supposedly, there's a bunch of mirrors that allow the pilot to see through those slots. But that's not my cup of tea when it comes to suspension of disbelief.

How about a camera above the gun on each side.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

How about a camera above the gun on each side.

Vacuum tubes are just as vulnerable as mirrors.

I have always assumed that the Vampir active infrared sight was a one piece converter and not a camera, processing and display system.

[Ballardian]

 Since the recent decree the Cthulhu must now be a part of all games Dust has gone and instigated a Mythos faction (that's somehow going to be linked to their also-upcoming Japanese force). Since I play plenty of other Lovecraftian influenced games I'm happy enough about it & sure I can find a home for some of these minis.

[Wyrmalla]

Oh, I hadn't realised that those were actual DUST models till I noticed the bases. Well DUST's just a mess of weird war concepts to begin with; throwing Cthulhu into the mix just cements that. I believe that something of the sort's been implied since the game first came out, though well, a lot of the DUST stuff's never really been my cup of tea to begin with (perfectly nice walkers ...then they throw in mutant gorillas just to check all the boxes).

[Ultravanillasmurf]

...then they throw in mutant gorillas just to check all the boxes).

Are mutant gorillas compulsory as there is one in SOTR as well?

[Ballardian]

 I think the cross-over came about as a result of the Dust/Achtung Cthulhu RPG from a little while ago.
 Weirdly (appropriately) the various genetically engineered primates popular in Weird Wars has a (small) basis in 'fact' - some of Lysenko's (who provided the Soviet Union's 'answer' to Darwinian theory) loopier adherents thought it might be possible to cross breed humans with other primates in order to create a breed of stronger & more obedient soldiers.

[Ballardian]

 Here's a WG/CG dog-handler for the Brits in K47, given the level of padding he's wearing I'm going to assume it's a big 'dog'.