[KICKSTARTER] TT Combat's Striketeam Commander

[Daeothar]

TT Combat is Kickstarting the newest game in the Commander series; Striketeam Commander.

After two pretty good games, Dropzone Commander and Dropfleet Commander, the first being a 10mm platoon/battallion sized game of plaentary invasion and the second being the fleet action in low orbit over those dropzones, they finally made the third component in 32mm for squad level combat.

I've always said they should have gone with the name Dropsquad Commander, but nobody ever listens to me

I don't know anything about the system yet, but from what I can glean from the KS page, there's two variants of the game; a skirmish game like Necromonda and a slightly larger game with multiple squads and even some vehicles.

Anyway, here; have a link...

Striketeam Commander

[mcfonz]

Worth noting that they are calling the 'scale' they are using '32mm heroic' scale. The kickstarter displays this as 40mm in total to top of head.

[Daeothar]

Including base.

I have one of their resin pre-release minis from a while ago (the one with the scale next to it on the KS page), and that's on the tall side for sure, but not 40mm tall and I'm hoping their plastics will be compatible to that... 

[mcfonz]

Yeah... which is even dafter right? Who includes base height in "scale"? 

[Rick]

Hmm. I always thought the strength of the TTCombat mini's was in the tanks and spaceships - the figures and illustrations of the different races never really interested me in the way that the vehicle and ship aesthetics did. We'll see.

[mcfonz]

Having had a look at the pledge levels.

The small skirmish version of the game likened to Necromunda is £65. You get 20 models and dice, rules etc.

The larger game more a standard skirmish game with units and tanks is £65 and you get over twice the model count. I must be missing something here... Does striketeam have a lot heavier rulebook or something?

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Having had a look at the pledge levels.

The small skirmish version of the game likened to Necromunda is £65. You get 20 models and dice, rules etc.

The larger game more a standard skirmish game with units and tanks is £65 and you get over twice the model count. I must be missing something here... Does striketeam have a lot heavier rulebook or something?

The larger figure count is of plug together figures, the smaller are multi-part multi-pose.

[mcfonz]

The larger figure count is of plug together figures, the smaller are multi-part multi-pose.

Is that really such a massive value difference? I'm guessing it just means the plug fit have more on a sprue? It also very much depends upon the multi-part multi-pose I guess.

Gates of Antares were called that but in reality, there wasn't all that much multi-posing.

Don't get me wrong, it looks great and I'm vaguely tempted, just not the funds or the desire to buy into another system at the moment... buy very nice models is always a draw.

Plug fit can often be quite unique too, some of the plug fit GW stuff had a fair amount of variation still. You can do 10 plug fit troops all look different.

[Daeothar]

Since I really like the setting, and their earlier 32mm resins were really good, I'm planning on pledging for the skirmish set with the battle book as an add-on. That will keep the model count down and if I like what I see, I can always upgrade to the bigger one with more minis...

[Inso]

All I'd want is the vehicles... and there doesn't appear to be an obvious option to get them on their own so I'll be waiting to see what appears on the TTC shop site in the future.