Author Topic: PAPER DIGGER (Read 5510 times)

revford · « **Reply #1 on:** September 20, 2007, 01:36:31 PM »

Great looking machine, reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Malamute · « **Reply #2 on:** September 20, 2007, 01:41:00 PM »

Quote from: "revford"

Great looking machine, reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

or - "At the Earths Core" with Doug Mclure

and Peter Cushing

and wasn't Caroline Munroe

in that one?

Hammers · « **Reply #3 on:** September 20, 2007, 02:09:24 PM »

Quote from: "revford"

Great looking machine, reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Ahhh... Brings me back. One of the greatest games ever created. I was mesmerized before my borrowed Apple computer.

TadPortly · « **Reply #4 on:** September 20, 2007, 02:54:12 PM »

Quote from: Malamute

Quote from: "revford"
and wasn't Caroline Munroe in that one?

Princess Dia - cool movie.

Rhoderic · « **Reply #5 on:** September 20, 2007, 03:02:55 PM »

Quote from: "hammershield"

Quote from: "revford"
Great looking machine, reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Ahhh... Brings me back. One of the greatest games ever created.

So true, so true. In fact, it is the Indiana Jones adventure (of any media) that I have the fondest memories of.

pnweerar · « **Reply #6 on:** September 20, 2007, 04:29:09 PM »

Aye. I found it recently and introduced my 12 year old cousin to it.

He LOVED it.

Orichalchum robot, I never get past you...

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #7 on:** September 20, 2007, 05:17:50 PM »

Quote from: "Malamute"

Caroline Munroe

Ahhh... Miss Munro... :roll: :roll: :roll:

Ahum. Yes. Those trashy VSF flicks had a certain quality of their own.

twrchtrwyth · « **Reply #8 on:** November 17, 2007, 03:20:43 AM »

So were is the paper mini actually from?

Argonor · « **Reply #9 on:** July 15, 2008, 06:19:25 PM »

You can get it from rpgnow

Vanvlak · « **Reply #10 on:** July 15, 2008, 07:13:36 PM »

So has anyone built a non-paper (i.e. lead/other metal/plastic/wood) large scale beastie of this type yet?

darquebus · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2008, 05:16:53 AM »

I did some time ago and had it posted here....

It's about 20cm high and featured just lately in a small .45 adventure we played

Vanvlak · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2008, 07:44:12 PM »

I missed that! VERY nice beastie. That's one dilemma I always had, incidentally - the pose - whether to model one just lying on the ground (or on caterpillars) or emerging from underground - your version looks grand

darquebus · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2008, 01:30:55 AM »

Quote from: Vanvlak on July 17, 2008, 07:44:12 PM

I missed that! VERY nice beastie. That's one dilemma I always had, incidentally - the pose - whether to model one just lying on the ground (or on caterpillars) or emerging from underground - your version looks grand

Thanks.. well I think it is more a scenery piece than a model you would use like a tank in a wargame and push it around and go vroom vroom

otherwise I find the use of these mobile pieces very limited. I haven't figured out how to make them take part in the game apart from being an objective
I painted the interior as a floorplan (also somewhere here in the forum) so I can move figures around if I want. If somebody has some other ideas I would be very interested to hear that. I think it is the same situation with submarines etc. I love them on the table but the main purpose seems to be putting minis on it (like scenery) but they don't play a really active part in the game...

oh and paper models on the table ...no no no no no

Vanvlak · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2008, 07:14:03 AM »

Well, going 'vroom, vroom!' isn't bad

My sole contributions ideas-wise would be:
1 - to use it as mobile scenery - for example, someone is starting up a temperamental digger, it moves forward slowly and tries to reach the end of the board which represents the side of a mountain to dig in. The opponents have to board the beastie before it disappears underground. So it starts off as scenery and then finally moves at a less than alarmingly fast pace, possibly firing (if it has weapons, possibly trampling over stuff which gets in the way. Boarders could fight within the digger using your floorplan idea, whilst the monster moves on the main table; and if someone hits a switch it turns right, or left, or blows up.... a random table could lead to some fun here.
2 - to use large vehicle rules (eg contraptions in G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T.) and have it represent an armoured transport which can appear/disappear
3 - (most ambitious, applies well to subs) - have a 2-level table with surface vehicles and machines on top and a digger and other subterranean types (Morlocks, anyone?) below. For the more ambitious: remember Space Hulk? imagine this:
top level table with plains or mountains or a river or town or whatever you fancy
lower level table - a maze of galleries a la Space Hulk with troops attackers and/or defenders or a third force (did I mention Morlocks?) AND a great big digger cutting across the tunnels, creating new paths, and at some point surfacing on the upper table.

Mind you, a big board is needed in all cases. Oh WHY don't I have the space for this stuff... wailey, wailey.

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