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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Charlemagne on April 04, 2021, 08:31:36 PM
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Hi everyone! I'm starting a new project in parallel with my 28mm Sengoku Jidai Ronin project that will hopefully culminate in a Traveller Sword World campaign using the seemingly highly recommended Stargrunt 2 rules. Thus far I have the armor for 2 planetary factions done, plus an infantry platoon done for one of those sides, and I am working on a heavily reinforced platoon for their opposition. The plan is to expand those 2 sides out a bit and then start working on some Zhodani and Imperial minis to serve as advisory troops deployed to the planet that will eventually lead to the 2 sides coming to blows. In-game forum regular Metternich and I will likely represent these substantially higher-tech troops (the Imperials and Zhodanis) as being functionally in power armor or something of the sort. I should have enough of a playset ready to get some games in with the 2 basic local planetary factions within the next week or so, as I finish up the infantry for the one side. Thus far, due to the decals I had lying around, the 2 sides have taken on a distinctively "neo-bundeswehr" and "neo-soviet" flavor, which I'm pretty happy with. Let me know what you think, and if anyone has tried using Stargrunt rules for Traveller, or gaming in Stargrunt with dramatically disparate tech-level troops!
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^Neo-bundeswehr armor with some of the neo-soviet infantry around them for scale
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^Neo-soviet infantry platoon
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^Neo-soviet armor with their neo-soviet mechanized infantry platoon attached
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Am really looking forward to playing this with Charlemagne; a wonderfully painted group of figures. Have been a Traveller fan since the 1980's. Am also amazed at how quickly Charlemagne can turn out a quality 15mm paint-job that looks "realistic" for futuristic warfare.
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Great looking army!
Very Hammer Slammer style
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That's looking very nice. I see Brigade just put up some teasers for some new 15mm vehicles that are in the pipeline, so even more options to choose from soon. Plus GZG is supposed to have some resculpts coming as well.
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Love every element of this: Traveller + Stargrunt 2 + 15mm
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Excellent camo schemes, really like the Neo Sov infantry as well, very crisp and the colours work well together!
Also, those paddy fields are slick! :-*
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That neo soviet infantry looks fantastic!
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I'm credited on page 1 .
With forces of different tech levels , what works really well is :
Higher tech less boots on the ground - smaller squads and platoons
Lower tech more boots on the ground - larger squads and platoons
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Love every element of this: Traveller + Stargrunt 2 + 15mm
Agreed on all counts. Kind of my dream combo for a project.
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Just finished up some new stuff for both sides and thought I'd share it! I'm still working on some additional shots of the light mechs with terrain, and I'm finishing some Unmanned Ground Vehicles for the Neu Swabians, but I thought I'd drop some pictures here since it's been a while (hopefully that's okay, it's warning me that it's been over 120 days haha)!
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Looks good :)
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Wow, impressive! I’m jealous. :)
Dan
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Great looking forces, and a really nice table too!
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That all looks wonderful, nice work!
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Looking good. That is quite the table. It all works together so nicely.
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Looking forward to playing this with Charlemagne. Past games have been with StarGrunts 2 rules, but Charlemagne is talking about our using Gruntz rules, as the game system requires fewer redundant dice rolls. Charlemagne has been talking that he is making the NeoSovs a bit more armored, with the Neue Swabians (primarily Jaegers) as lighter and faster. The new layout with the streets looks fantastic.
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I see part of the running subject title is "Traveller Project".
I don't know if you are aware of additional information that maybe is useful to your gaming.
First up is "Hammers Slammers" home page, a lot of very useful information and stats for many of the vehicle that are carried at Brigade Models. http://www.hammers-slammers.com/home.htm (http://www.hammers-slammers.com/home.htm)
Second is the "Hammers Slammers" Traveller RPG rule book. This might add some flare to your gaming. If interested in RPG games. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/63338/Hammers-Slammers (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/63338/Hammers-Slammers)
Third is "Traveller Striker" rule books Strike I, Striker II and Equipment Book for 15mm, that you might find useful as well https://www.amazon.com/Striker-Rules-15mm-Traveller-Miniatures/dp/B000HOVZ62 (https://www.amazon.com/Striker-Rules-15mm-Traveller-Miniatures/dp/B000HOVZ62)
Well, that's my two cents, enjoy.
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Thanks War Monkey. I have owned Striker since the rules first came out (and frankly find them so complex they are almost unplayable - some canon information that is useful however). Stargrunts2 is some improvement on that, with Stargrunt.ca (a fan group consisting of players who were testers for the original Stargrunt 2) have various systems for converting Traveller equipment to Stargrunt 2. Stargrunt 2 remains a bit overly complicated (the system has redundant dice rolls for firing, hitting, penetrating, causing damage, etc.). The beauty of Gruntz seems to be that it compresses the die rolls needed.
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Charlemagne and I each purchased the Xenos Rampant rules and are considering using those for our Traveller-based games. They are highly adaptable and reasonably playable. We have played one game with Gruntz, not a Traveller based game, and it was reasonably playable (albeit more complex than Xenos Rampant).