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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Chico on 17 May 2014, 06:55:25 PM
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Hey boys & girls + plus boys with manboobs :D
I've got into SMV2 alot recently, so much so I'm building up some scenery for a new gaming table (Imperial urban world but swampy and Ork invaded). So would be after both huts/shacks for Ork camps and more Imperial buildings that are both complete or wrecked/damaged.
Now I was wondering what is out there (companies or sets) and what would people recommend either first hand or hearing good things.
I've ordered some Deamonscape Buildings and hand a look on Anglebarracks, so anyone have any advice? pictures of you own painted up would be nice too as it'll give some ideas.
Cheers
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Hey boys & girls + plus boys with manboobs :D
I've got into SMV2 alot recently, so much so I'm building up some scenery for a new gaming table (Imperial urban world but swampy and Ork invaded). So would be after both huts/shacks for Ork camps and more Imperial buildings that are both complete or wrecked/damaged.
Now I was wondering what is out there (companies or sets) and what would people recommend either first hand or hearing good things.
I've ordered some Deamonscape Buildings and hand a look on Anglebarracks, so anyone have any advice? pictures of you own painted up would be nice too as it'll give some ideas.
Cheers
Germy has some 6mm paper model terrain. Even if you're not interested in paper terrain, you could use the files as templates for scratchbuilding your own.
linky (http://www.germy.co.uk/paper2mm.html)
There are more available, but since I'm @ work, I've got no access to my collection of links ::)
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Raid the recycling bin.
(http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/Overrevdsquat/IMG_0909w_zpsbe7e286d.jpg) (http://s804.photobucket.com/user/Overrevdsquat/media/IMG_0909w_zpsbe7e286d.jpg.html)
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Raid the recycling bin.
(http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/Overrevdsquat/IMG_0909w_zpsbe7e286d.jpg) (http://s804.photobucket.com/user/Overrevdsquat/media/IMG_0909w_zpsbe7e286d.jpg.html)
Can you identify a few of the bits you have recycled?
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You could search on ebay for a seller called wargame-model-mods, I think I saw his kits at Retford show and although most are aimed at 40k or 28mm
Otherwise there are some very good looking buildings for Dropzone Commander (yes I know they are supposed to be 10mm, but aliens might be tall) including some MDF ones.
Ground Zero might know of some (I seem to recall they stocked some 6mm terrain a while back) http://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/
There was a range from Mainly Military & MBG, but they were aquired by Chiltern Miniatures in 2011 and have subsequently vanished.
Brigade Models have some nice pieces http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/6mmSF/index.html
Old Crow used to have some really nice stuff but may be difficult to get hold of.
There was a thread on here a few weeks ago saying how to get pieces.
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Thanks for the help and links so far everyone :) Brigade Models have some rather nice bits I see a order to them at some point :)
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Impressive how everything will look like a building once you paint it grey and arrange it nicely. lol
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This is quite interesting. And the suggestion of raiding the recycle bin is very commandable. Give this man a medal. Or better...The much coveted BFGI award. I will definitely be looking into the possibility of using this idea more closely. Cheers
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Gateshead Gaming makes a wide selection of epic 6mm Buildings
http://www.gatesheadgaming.co.uk/search.php?category=1&catTitle=buildings&startpos=1&endpos=10 (http://www.gatesheadgaming.co.uk/search.php?category=1&catTitle=buildings&startpos=1&endpos=10)
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some N gauge (10mm) scenery would be useful for bigger skyscrapers etc. GZG used to do some resin 6mm sci-fi buildings, don't know if they or someone else has them now. quite easy to kitbash stuff at this scale too. various other scale sci-fi bits can easily be chooped up and re-used - perhaps a wrecked spaceship could for the mainstay for some ork buildings/ork encapment. also look at the 6mm WW2/Modern stuff - the adobe style middle eastern buildings look like the old 2nd ED 40K ork buildings.
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AB carry the Brigade models and they're pretty sweet. I don't know if New Hope Design are still going but they had some good pieces. Mainly military did some sci-fi I swear but they sold off their lines all over so good luck with finding those. I know Leven had some. Monday Knight Productions, bnice pieces horrible web site, the old SnapDragon bits are sexy and over at Moondragons although mainly bunkers they have about a dozen general buildings too, GZG have a few bits, can't think of much more... oh second city games have a small range, and jrminis have some massive ones more battletech than anything else.
Make some too! Good tutorial here: http://6mm.wargaming.info/page10.shtml
Might also be worth having a look on ebay for epic/epic amageddon.
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Can you identify a few of the bits you have recycled?
Throwing some guesses out here...
Slightly left of dead centre is a rooftop cylinder. That's a spray paint can lid.
Bottom edge of the table right of centre is a rooftop dome. Half of a plastic easter egg or half a ping-pong ball.
Upper right round building at the edge of the city looks like three food containers stacked bottom up-top up-bottom up.
Middle of page, right side, three rows of buildings going off the picture look like breaker switch boxes from a home improvement store.
The red things scattered throughout are Squats from GW's recycle bin.
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Try Angel Barracks - their stuff is goof.
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Once again thank you everyone for your help and knowledge :)
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Hawk Wargames has a pile of free buildings here (http://www.hawkwargames.com/pages/downloads) that you can print out and make for quick and cheap Imperial buildings. They are for 10mm scale rather than 6mm scale, but if you print at 60% size it kinda solves that problem! ;)
Hawk also sell these pre-printed onto cardboard, and can be found online for £25.00-30.00 a set (and despite being 10mm scale, they still fit Epic okay IMO).
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Actually, I plan on using the DZC buildings for Epic as well. After all, GW is always ranting about how incredibly huge and impossibly big and Gothic the architecture of their far future is.
I mean; if you can have a throne room large enough to have its own weather system, and libraries stretching on for miles, the Hawk Wargames buildings are practically hovels! lol
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Some stuff I can remember ...
(http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/Overrevdsquat/IMG_0909w_zps27e4a819.jpg) (http://s804.photobucket.com/user/Overrevdsquat/media/IMG_0909w_zps27e4a819.jpg.html)
(http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/Overrevdsquat/IMG_0913w_zps11e6f930.jpg) (http://s804.photobucket.com/user/Overrevdsquat/media/IMG_0913w_zps11e6f930.jpg.html)
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That's not the game J and I were playing is it? Good times.
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Well, they are scaled more in line with the buildings you got in Titan Legions than the ones you got in SM2. ;)
@ Chico:
Are you going to be using the TL or SM2 rules? There's almost nothing between them, but I did find the titan shield rules better in TL (basically, you need at least a -1 sv modifier to take a shield down) as it made Titans much more worthwhile, and I liked the titan objectives too.
Also, did you have the alternative objectives from the WD196? I quite liked them, and they added more dimension to the games as they often needed specific conditions to be fulfilled.
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@ Chico:
Are you going to be using the TL or SM2 rules? There's almost nothing between them, but I did find the titan shield rules better in TL (basically, you need at least a -1 sv modifier to take a shield down) as it made Titans much more worthwhile, and I liked the titan objectives too.
Also, did you have the alternative objectives from the WD196? I quite liked them, and they added more dimension to the games as they often needed specific conditions to be fulfilled.
We are running for the most part SMV2 for the 10 Player game and the 3/4 stand alone 2 player games at the Oldhammer Weekend. But for my home games I'll be using a slightly modded SMV2 (Not as changed as NetEpic though). for exsample Orks aren't limited to one of each Clan Card.
I can't remember the 196 objectives but I do have the WD somewhere so I'll have to have a good look :)
Cheers
Chico
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I have to say that I thought NetEpic was pretty good (specifically, it helped to balance a lot of niggles that I had even when young), although I'd likely play it without the "new" rules like artillery spotters and such. I felt the cards and formations were better too, as some overly-good ones often had points costs and break points tweaked a bit to make them fairer.
The WD I mentioned was one of the early editions that had the card insert section introduced. Shame they phased that out.
Basically, the objectives were all placed as usual, face-down; upon "capturing" the objective, the player looked at it to see what it was and then acted accordingly. Some needed to be escorted off the board, some had to be destroyed in melee or shooting, some were a one-off bonus, etc. Coupled with the Titan objectives, I thought they were fun, and helped to prevent that one-turn-mass-objective-grab that was so easy to do and resulted in an early sudden-death ending.
God, I loved Epic. 8)
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Get your ass down to Wargames Foundry on the 9th/10th of August and your'll get your Epic fix... It's 100% free :)
Theres a number of other games being played too:
• GorkaMorka RT Bash
Organiser -Whiskey Priest
Day - Sat evening/Sun morning
Max players - ???
Current players - 6
• RT Skirmish (Confrontation/Necromunda)
Organiser – Asslessman
Day - ???
Max Players - 4/5
Current players - ???
• Pirate RT Skirmish
Organiser – Whiskey Priest & Cheetor
Day - Sat morning
Max Players - personal [but other could join]
Current players - Whiskey Priest & Cheetor
• Giant Epic
Organiser – Thantsants
Day - Sun
Max Players -
Current players - 10
• The Engines of Avalone Siege game
Organiser – Thantsants
Day - Sat
Max Players - ???
Current players - 8
• RoC Warbands - Orlygg (for anyone interested, could be either day)
Organiser – Orlygg
Day - Could be either
Max Players - anyone interested
Current players - ???
• WHFB 'Get to the other side' - Lustria Based, rules: HERE
Organiser – Golfag1
Day - Sat & poss Sun depending upon Sat's play
Max Players - anyone interested
Current players - ???
• Bring and Bash Epic - Chico (Stand alone games, Sat morning)
Organiser – Chico
Day - Sat morning
Max Players - anyone interested
Current players - ???
• The siege of Siege of Caraz-Lumba
Organiser – Erny
Day - ???
Max Players - ???
Current players - ???
• THE BIG SUNDAY GAME - "which might give a few people - nightmares!" :shock:
Organiser – Golfag1
Day - Sun (obviously!)
Max Players - ???
Current players - ???
• Old Bowl
Organiser – Harry
Day - ???
Max Players - ???
Current players - ???
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That's not the game J and I were playing is it? Good times.
That is indeed you hairy hand :)
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Cookie you swine... are you really from Watford??? :P
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Never mind cookie, what about ass?
It's arse I tell you, arse..... lol
When I see stuff like these old hammer weekends I wish I was still living in the UK.
Sigh
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Cookie you swine... are you really from Watford??? :P
No I'm from Wigan Me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_cnZs_5Uqw
When I see stuff like these old hammer weekends I wish I was still living in the UK.
Sigh
Theirs a French Oldhammer weekend or mini meet up this year and a Oldhammer Spanish meet up
French Oldhammer Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OldhammerFrance/
Spanish Oldhammer Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldhammerspain/
And the Good O' English (Yanky for Phil too) Oldhammer Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/400319303383363/
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:)
Fantastic, I'll look into that. Thanks
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Got my large(ish) Daemonscape.com scenery order today (Ordered Saturday), wonderful buildings. Recommend them to everyone.
(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10291338_10152432889340149_2982199436149448824_n.jpg)
Plus they sent me a freebie, bonus :D