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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: pixelgeek on June 02, 2007, 05:50:54 AM

Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: pixelgeek on June 02, 2007, 05:50:54 AM: I am casting about for a new unit to add to the troops for the American army list for the Pulp rules I am working on.

Currently the Americans have

Super Soldier (character)
Airborne Rangers
Ranger Mortar team
Ranger AT weapon team
Ranger Captain
Rocket Troops
Buffalo Infantry Armour
Marsh Infantry Armour
Mechanic

I need one more unit of troops and was looking for something "high tech" in a 1940's sense but that could be done with 28mm miniatures currently available.

For comparison the Germans currently have

Geschöpf des Todes (character)
Gas Troopers
Wehrmacht Infantry
Wehmacht AT Team
Zombies
Zombie Controller
Zusammengebaute Soldaten
Panzerkampfanzug 1A
Thule Society Doctor
Thule Society Shocktrooper

One idea that I am thinking of would be an OSS Field Team but I am at a loss as to miniatures to use for them
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: dominic on June 02, 2007, 07:49:39 AM: Darkson Designs has an OSS Agent in its release schedule. You could check with them first.
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: pnweerar on June 02, 2007, 08:08:53 AM: Aye, Americans are hard.

I'm making some 15mm WW2 pulp armies and I ran into the same problem.

The Americans get rocketeers and Captain America - but then it gets hard.

Air Pirate auxiliries a la Sky Captain?
Native American psychics?
Talmudic scholars with clay Golems?
Eccentric science geniuses (Doctor Who wargame rules for inventing things)?
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: Lowtardog on June 02, 2007, 08:52:31 AM: You have to have Hellboy and his team surely!!!
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: matakishi on June 02, 2007, 10:08:22 AM: There's plenty of other wartime superheroes. Even if you only go with overtly American ones and ignore the Human Torch, Submariner etc, you have ones like Uncle Sam, Lady liberty, Liberty Belle, the Shield and many others.

There's Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. The Haunted Tank, the Unknown Soldier. I wouldn't use Sgt. Rock or many of the other DC war heroes because they tend to be more realistc than pulpy (except for the ones already mentioned). Marvel characters are better suited.

Don't forget the Blackhawks!
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: revford on June 02, 2007, 11:17:23 AM: Artizan have a few models in their Thrilling Tales range I use for OSS Agents.
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: pixelgeek on June 02, 2007, 01:42:51 PM: The Darkson Designs OSS Agent is in the works for Phase 2.

Hellboy would be an idea but the minis are currently only available is a limited release boxed set from WizKids. I'm not sure if they are going to continue to be available.

And if you think Americans are tough... try Russians :-0

I'll have a look through the Artizan range again to see if anything works.
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: Operator5 on June 02, 2007, 01:46:37 PM: Quote from: "pixelgeek"
Hellboy would be an idea but the minis are currently only available is a limited release boxed set from WizKids. I'm not sure if they are going to continue to be available.

Get the WK Indyclix version instead. Not as good as the limited edition release but easier to find. You could also add Lobster Johnson from the same set to your American team.
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: pixelgeek on June 02, 2007, 03:13:01 PM: Quote from: "Operator5"
Get the WK Indyclix version instead. Not as good as the limited edition release but easier to find. You could also add Lobster Johnson from the same set to your American team.

I'm trying to avoid speccing any units based on minis that aren't easy to access. Ideally they are all figs that someone can get online.
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: TadPortly on June 04, 2007, 10:46:10 AM: How about some Heli-borne Aircav based on something like this:

http://www.swannysmodels.com/H5.html

You could have gunships and "slicks"
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: dominic on June 04, 2007, 05:48:46 PM: Here's the American OSS agent from Darkson, newly released:

(http://store.valueweb.com/darksondesigns/catalog/AME010_lg.jpg)
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: pixelgeek on June 08, 2007, 03:06:42 AM: Quote from: "dominic"
Here's the American OSS agent from Darkson, newly released

Already planned for wave 2 :-)

I think that I am going to go with an OSS field team. It lets me use a wider range of minis and even allows one to use a whole series of personaility minis from ranges like Artizan without it being out of character.

Now I just need to determine some interesting abilities for them

I'm also planning on adding characters to correspond (loosely) with the minis in the Tannhauser set as well. They are just too nice to not include.
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: majorsmith on June 14, 2007, 11:26:17 AM: i have a werewolf and frank n stein to go with my allied troops as well as some ww1 british ghosts to fight with them
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: Poliorketes on June 14, 2007, 12:01:33 PM: Why not an army equivalent to SeaBees (CB = Construction Bataillion of the USMC).
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: xeoran on June 24, 2007, 02:29:52 PM: How about a K9 squad?
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: pixelgeek on June 24, 2007, 04:44:28 PM: It would need a hook though to make it fit into the genre though

Darkson are coming out with some German and US dogs.

The issue for me though is that as soon as you start modifying the dogs they would seem more of a German unit.
Title: American Unit suggestion
Post by: xeoran on June 24, 2007, 06:15:04 PM: Well to keep it American and clean they might be robot/cyborg dogs? Or a pack led by a Native American Indian who can speak to them?