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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Phil Robinson on May 18, 2013, 12:36:55 AM
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Just came across this on Frothers
http://www.manticblog.com/?p=7699
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:o
OMGA!
(Oh, My Giddy Aunt!)
This could be so good!
Please get it right...
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:o
OMGA!
(Oh, My Giddy Aunt!)
This could be so good!
Please get it right...
Ack ack! :)
If your a fan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mars-Attacks-Zina-Saunders/dp/1419704095/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top#_
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How mental is that? Of all franchises for Mantic to get involved with! lol
Mars Attacks has always had a pretty cool style, but their brand of violence makes me feel ill.
Still going to follow this with interest!
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Ack ack! :)
If your a fan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mars-Attacks-Zina-Saunders/dp/1419704095/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top#_
Not that much of a fan, but it could provide a good laugh as a non-serious game for my group of nutjobs!
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Sounds like a great beer and pretzels style game. If nothing else we'll get some Martians out of the deal.
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Not my style but, done properly, will be a fan favorite I suspect.
Wishing them well.
Gracias,
Glenn
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Mars Attacks is owned by Topps who basically ARE Trading Cards... However, they own the Shadowrun liscense!
Very odd.
I just hope these are not 'restic'!
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http://www.trading-cards.org/Cards-M/Mars-Attacks/index.php
The original card series for others like myself that thought the movie was the first mars attacks thing.
It looks great and beyond great. I have collected most of the things already like giant bugs and GI's so this is right up my alley.
The book in the link I posted has all the card series in, front and back, I forgot to thank Matakishi for the link to this.
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The word on the street is that it is going to be in 15mm, totally underwhelmed now :-[
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Noooooooooooooooo! WTF!
Just as well you can get everything you need in 28mm already including the martians. ;)
Yes, but we demand variety! More variety!
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Where can one get the Martians in 25-28mm? I wasn't aware.
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I remember collecting the cards when I was a kid. Bloodthirsty stuff but they were great. There was a range of cards out around the same time about the ACW - equally violent and equally collectable for a young lad. If only I'd kept them they'd probably be worth something now. Hey ho.....
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@Sardoo. I had the cards too, also the Dinosaurs Attack set. I never got the ACW ones, but have seen the images online.
@Scurv: Thanks for the info.
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Flying Frog Productions is the company with the Martians:
http://stores.homestead.com/FlyingFrogProductions/Categories.bok?category=Invasion+From+Outer+Space
Actually 15mm sounds good to me. Far easier to built (and store) stuff like this:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_C6K4wQCgXDc/SkjL7yWpxDI/AAAAAAAAIwk/n4SHM3BkWiI/s320/MARSATT40.jpg)
(pic takenfrom here: http://hairygreeneyeball.blogspot.de/2009/06/compleat-mars-attacks.html )
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Pity if it is 15mm, but I'm still keen to have a nosey, the comic series is a bit of silly fun at the minute...
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I was quite stoked about the idea of there being some 50s era GIs... really hope it's not 15mm :(
However, the idea of the game is still pretty awesome and of course 15mm will work for the vehicles and machines. In true 'toy soldier' style though, the figures should be 28mm and the models somewhat smaller.
;)
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Yuppi! They're coming in peace!
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I was a bit confused when he mentioned 'Tripods' in the first place... there aren't any in MA. Quite big machines, but no Tripods. :?
You are right in the main though. Unless there is some way of producing clear plastic helmets in 15mm, the Martians are going to look a bit shit to say the least. How many model 'war machines' are you going to field in a game, compared to actual figures? It's not Battletech after all... although it is beginning to resemble 'Epic'.
Right now and thanks to one comment on the forum, it sounds like the game is just going to be a copy of the 'All Quiet' project. Can the market support two quite similar games?
*Edit: From his response to Scurv's post it looks like Mr Gilbert was talking out of his arse and doesn't really know what the plans are. ::)
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Likewise, it has prompted me to return to my guilty pleasure of 50-60's sci-fi and pulp... I even blew the dust off my AC57 figures. lol
After thinking for a while, I did sort of think that if they went with a Dystopian Wars/Dystopian Legions type two-tier game system sort of thing, they could in fact please everyone... well, almost everyone.
;)
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Can the market support two quite similar games?
Three. ;-)
http://www.troublemakergames.co.uk/
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Mantic: one bad decision after another. Although...
if you are going to flog a dead scale
Khurasan et al might take issue with that statement. 8)
However... in this case I agree that the martians themselves themselves would probably work better in 28mm. You're a bit more stuck if you want to field all those human tanks vs. saucers, robots, and giant bugs, though.
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They do look a bit bigger on the cards than they did in the movie, admittedly still a tad shorter than humans.
Personally I think the whole game in 15mm should work well, newer stuff often comes closer to being 18 or even 20mm anyways. Though that would greatly depend on the quality of the minis, which tends to be fairly hit & miss when it come to Mantic.
They should sell a box of 28mm (possibly placcy) Martians as well. Bit like Spartan Games.
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Tripods? ???
Tripods?! :o
TRIPODS? o_o
OMG. :-[
When I read that I almost freaked out. Then later I saw where that might have been mis-spoke. :)
I would think that a major injustice and I never even saw the movie... :?
Freakin' Tripods... ::)
As for the scale, if done properly it would (could) work in 15 mm. The problem is that "if" word...
Gracias,
Glenn
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You can relax Glenn... at least I think you can anyway. :?
The 'Tripod' remark was (I think) said in error, by someone who has very little idea of what MA is all about. I'm sure he meant the big mechs with the claws and such.
I'm hoping for 28mm for quite selfish reasons, I have always wanted some 50s/60s pre-M16 US troops and some late 50s/early 60s civilians... I may, or may not actually play the game itself on its own merits.
Having said that, I could easily get into a 15mm game, again, on the strength of the models and rules... potentially it could be a lot of fun.
:)
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<snip> all brill cream bobby sox and beach boys albums.
An aged Johnny Weissmuller is their president. ;)
lol
Brill Cream!? I refuse to answer any questions about any reported use of Brill Cream in my youth... for anything!
Beach Boys, still have the records... Fer sure...
Johnny Weissmuller, Now, HE would be a president to follow! And Duke Kahanamoku as V. P. completes the Executive Branch!
Gracias,
Glenn
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<snip>I'm sure he meant the big mechs with the claws and such.
<snip>
Well, that would make more sense.
Gracias,
Glenn
Edit: Big Mechs... claws... sense... nah, not going there.
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Look at this way in 15mm they will look like 28mm testicles in jars..... with legs. Surely there must be a use for those?
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Out of curiosity Arlequin what would be the differences in a 50's national guardsman to ww2 GI?
Their boots and their uniform... weapons and helmets were the same, except for the M20 bazooka, which was also quite distinctive.
Almost every WW2 figure out there is wearing an earlier style uniform, with the waist length jacket and spats. In the 1950s you would only find that uniform worn in places like Batista's Cuba.
It's not really that big a deal, all things considered, but when you know, you know. It will stand out in 28mm, but not so obvious in 15mm. Sure it's button counting, but it's the specific 'look' I am after... accept no substitutes!
;)
Beach Boys? They're fine if you want to put an ultra-modern spin on the game I suppose... I was thinking more Dick Dale. I suppose you could have some characters looking a lot like Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Sandra Dee et al to draw in the youngsters...
;)
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I'm completely thrilled at the prospect of a Mars Attacks game.
The genre and the setting is right up my alley... and I've been tampering with the idea for ages anyway.
I can't say that a 15mm endeavour has me thrilled, but you never know what these clever plastic people can sort out. As a customer I have the luxury of waiting and seeing before I commit, I guess.
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Artizan came close with their recent Special Service Force/ Devil's Brigade figures, if you can live with pistol holsters and shirt cuffs. Alas they are packaged so that there might be one or two figures in shirts in each pack with the others in various types of jacket, M-41 Parsons, tanker jackets etc. Puts me off buying them. Had they done a packet in shirtsleeves, another in jackets etc they would be far more tempting.
If you fancy a fair bit of filing and some fun with green stuff, then their US Infantry could be used. File off the gaiters, green stuff to extend the pants and you'd get a reasonable figure, many of the packs are in shirts. Lot of work if you are planning on a platoon's worth though.
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A while back, LAF regular Dags painted these from Brigade's AC57 Range.
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Atomic%20Cafe%2057/kp338.jpg?t=1269084639)
The officer should have the Ridgeway (or 'Castro') cap, but otherwise these are pretty much spot on. Unfortunately these and a pack of NBC-hooded figures are it... no Browning machine guns, no Bazookas.
Atomic Cafe... now there was a range with potential... :'(
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Really love the Mars Attack style and very excited to hear about this project. I would prefer to see it in 28mm, since as others has pointed out, it is hard to see how you could do the iconic transparent domes in 15mm with any reasonable detail. However, 15mm is hardly a dead scale - tomorrow's war, rebel minis, GZG, Khurasan...etc. I will reserve judgement if it turns out to be 15mm..
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cheers for the heads up on the uniforms. Looks like my ww2 guys will be perfect for surfa rosa if batistas boys were wearing the same thing.
Another question re uniforms. The ones in the pic above are all in a dark green but other pics I have seen they are in a yellow brown uniform and only the helmet is that colour. I personally like the ones above as it gives them more of an 'army man'* feel.
The 'Army Man' look is exactly it ... as this hound dog is modelling...
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dqG-vxTOUdM/UZtBgU3w6DI/AAAAAAAAOBo/uoTOVHxJkk8/w1314-h512-no/adateEP1.jpg)
The green varies, depending on how many washes it has had and except when brand new, its various parts are never the same colour, especially when pants wear out quicker than field jackets and shirts. If you want to do a more exhaustive search for colours etc 'OG107 fatigues' is perhaps the most typical type of the pre-Vietnam era.