Author Topic: Mecha Wargames (Read 9151 times)

abhorsen950 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 05, 2010, 04:09:48 PM »

Cheers guys ill look into some of your reccomendations

Cosmotiger · « **Reply #16 on:** February 05, 2010, 04:31:43 PM »

Quote from: fourcolorfigs on February 05, 2010, 03:01:13 PM

Any chance I might get you to post a better pic of the Longbow/Spartan? It's the one with the missile pods for arms, and has always been my favorite Mech.

It's available at Hobbylink Japan:
http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN953436

fourcolorfigs · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2010, 08:22:30 PM »

I'm glad the one I like is available, but I cannot seem to find any of the others. I did find the Marauder and Warhammer kits, but they're listed out of stock. Too bad.

Cosmotiger · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2010, 09:47:49 PM »

Patience, grasshopper. All Japanese mecha kits come back into production someday.

Smith · « **Reply #19 on:** February 06, 2010, 03:30:09 PM »

There's also Wardogs from Majestic 12 Games: http://www.mj12games.com/wardogs/mjg1301.html

Not played it, but it's meant to be pretty versatile, and has a mech creation system that can handle pretty much anything.

fourcolorfigs · « **Reply #20 on:** February 06, 2010, 07:26:04 PM »

Quote from: Cosmotiger on February 05, 2010, 09:47:49 PM

Patience, grasshopper. All Japanese mecha kits come back into production someday.

Got it! I'll keep a watch!

Cosmotiger · « **Reply #21 on:** February 06, 2010, 07:48:06 PM »

I would suggest scanning HLJ periodically. Many of the old kits do come back into production. Often it has to do with a 10 year anniversary of the TV series they were based on, or a new movie realease, etc. No guarantees, but I've collected some old Gundam and Yamato kits that way. Easier than eBay.

steders · « **Reply #22 on:** February 12, 2010, 12:52:29 PM »

http://www.hobbyxstyle.com/EN/ItemListing.asp?MCid=21&SCid=0&StoreID=1

This was the bunch I used to deal with on ebay, I haven't bought anything from them since they stopped dealing through ebay. The chap I used to swop emails with was spot on and gave me some great 'frequent buyer' postage rates!

Viper · « **Reply #23 on:** February 12, 2010, 04:23:41 PM »

I've always been a huge mech fan, but I've always tended towards the more military/"realistic" styles of the likes of battletech/mechwarrior, some heavygear and possibly armoured core.

The only models I've ever really liked were the 28mm scale armourcast ones, which were huge and are sadly no longer avaliable.

The Battletech miniatures for the wargame are too small a scale really for me to like, I would love it if there were BT models of a size similar to the HeavyGear stuff so there was more detail.

I think the best example of the style I like has been the Critical Mass Games 15mm walker, as shown off brilliantly by Vulture, I just wish they had some more styles so I could play an entire game using only them, perhaps I'll just go for conversions to make 2 forces look different.

They are big enough to be incredibly detailed, but also small enough to still be at a great price, and they fit my liking for military style rather than over the top anime style.

steders · « **Reply #24 on:** February 12, 2010, 04:39:01 PM »

Quote from: Viper on February 12, 2010, 04:23:41 PM

The only models I've ever really liked were the 28mm scale armourcast ones, which were huge and are sadly no longer avaliable.

I got some of those before they went out of production, really lovely. It was whilst building all the various kits I had a moment of realisation/clarity, which was 'We're going to need a bigger table'. The next option was reducing the scale of the mechs and so I moved down to 1/72

Viper · « **Reply #25 on:** February 12, 2010, 07:05:17 PM »

Hahaha, yeah I think it was on another forum I was talking with someone about Battletech and how I'd love it if the models were slightly bigger and more detailed.

The person was like...yeah it would be cool model wise, but to use the BTech rules you would need to scale up the size of the battlefield by the same level as you scaled up the model.

Considering even a lance vs lance fight, 4 mechs each, usually gets played on a 4x4 board atleast, the battlefield size starts getting a bit silly.

steders · « **Reply #26 on:** February 14, 2010, 02:53:00 PM »

Quote from: cheetor on February 05, 2010, 03:13:55 PM

Those big mechs look great. Do you have any photos of Battletech tables with terrain in that scale?

Cool stuff.

Played a game today with my son

Vinlander · « **Reply #27 on:** February 14, 2010, 04:29:25 PM »

This is looking awesome!

I've wanted to do something like this for a while but its really hard to find mecha kits here.

How big a space did you play on?

steders · « **Reply #28 on:** February 16, 2010, 12:25:43 PM »

Quote from: Vinlander on February 14, 2010, 04:29:25 PM

How big a space did you play on?

Just 1.5m by 1.5m, but I'm lucky in that I have the space to extend the table to 2m by 2.8m. I just need to build the frame work!

cheetor · « **Reply #29 on:** February 16, 2010, 02:51:51 PM »

Quote from: steders on February 14, 2010, 02:53:00 PM

Played a game today with my son

That looks cool, thanks for putting up the photos.

What did you use for the buildings?

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