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Author Topic: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.  (Read 16049 times)

Offline Brummie

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #30 on: July 18, 2011, 09:17:39 PM »
Decided to throw my 28mm stuff into the mix. These are for more squad based, less expansive battles between elite forces of the various sections. These were arguably some of the first miniatures I actually seriously started of with the hobby on. So the paint job is here and there! Minis are from Red Star.


Last War Chronicles: Elite forces.

Between Warriors and Bears

The Russian Spetsnaz has earned some renown around the world, however whether this fame has come from true acts and facts or mere fairy tales (fairy tales and myths being a dominant theme of the 20th to 21st century) what has not been questioned is their potential to cause an ever increasing amount of aggravation against the enemy. None more so than the Alfa Group. Specially trained to not only counter sabotage, insurgent and terrorist activities, they themselves are more than capable of conducting a number of destructive operations against their enemies. Even before the war, Afla group like much of the various Russian Special forces groups were battle hardened. By the time war broke out, these troops were dealing more pain than they themselves were enduring, and were arguably, the force that rescued the Russian Federation from complete collapse.














The Spetsnaz in the years leading up to the war were hard pressed to handle the ever increasing threats to the Russian Federation, both within, and without. In the year 2012, it was clear that the fighting in the North Caucasus was in no way going to calm down. However, as fighting in this often volatile region, between the Federation, rebellious groups from Chechens, Jihadists, Ethnic nationalists to the Regional power of Georgia increased, Alfa and other specialist groups found themselves hard pressed and were nearly torn apart by rising political and ethnic tensions inside Russia. In order to survive, Alfa, and much of the Spetsnaz themselves consolidated a form of identity or belonging to their unit not uncommon amongst fighting forces around the world. Soon becoming an active player in the battle between the Russian Nationalist/Fascist movement, Ethnic Nationalists, Communists and Government supporters, Alfa often switched sides in order to survive often at odds with fellow Russian military units.
By 2016, the coming of the Caliphate drew Alfa away from the storm brewing in its home territory, as Russia came close to the brink of civil war, the Kremlin ordered those units not loyal to its corrupt cause to the near abroad to conduct operations against raiding Tribes and Caliphate operatives. By 2017, Alfa found itself in South America again placed out of reach and out of mind, guarding, training and fighting various groups, from Governments, to terrorist organisations, drug cartels and more, in the interest of a Government back home, slowly coming under the control of a vast Crime cartel. However, with the start of the Third world war some years later, Alfa would be permanently changed by the appearance of one of its newest members. Anatoli Titov born and raised in the town of Novodvinsk placed on the edges of Siberia. It would be this rough, aspiring individual, who would come to walk the footsteps of the Russian states old Soviet heroes, and be one amongst many to save a crumbling nation. His ideals were to become dominant amongst many of the newer members of Alfa during the war.

World War 3

When China declared war against Russia, in a surprise assault on its Eastern territories, Alfa was one of the first on the scene, outmanned, outgunned, and supported by an army that was ill equipped and unprepared for such an assault, Alfa found itself clinging to survival, fighting of Hordes of PLA forces that split across the border in waves.
The fighting was fierce, none more so than in the city of Khabarovsk, which soon replaced Stalingrad as one of the worlds most bloodiest battles. Both sides fought fanatically, Russia to maintain its home ground, and the Chinese to escape the vast expanse of toxic death behind them, created through years of industrial expansion. Alfa became connected to the places in which they fought, from the valleys and plains of the East, to the vast mongolian desert, and the wind swept icy cold wastelands of the far north. Losing men at every turn, finally the Russian Armed forces managed to draw a line in the sand, bogging down and weakening the invading forces watering them down until they could no longer afford to take ground. This temporary relief ensured that the occupants of the East narrowly missed nuclear oblivion, the Kremlin becoming desperate as its Eastern forces were pushed to breaking point.
The desperation within the Kremlin however would none other than bring all of Russia to war. Whilst most of Russia's inner turmoil had been reduced by the threat of outside invasion, to the East, to the West, a new threat grew.
In the year 2025 the Kremlin stretched in its war effort against the Chinese, and attempting to gain the favour of its otherwise rebellious subjects, ordered that all grain exports to Europe, the Far east (save for India its ally) to be put on hold and funnelled to the East and to the frontline against numerous foes in the near abroad. Soon afterwards, the Kremlin demanded that all gas and oil exports to all outside states be shut of, as with all natural resources. The result was catastrophic.
Less than a month after the order had been fulfilled, the E.U, demanded that a Coalition of its states, headed by Germany invade and occupy Russia's western and most productive regions. Hastily Europe's armies were mobilised, and soon launched a ferocious Blitzkrieg against the Federation. However, Russia was this time, not going to allow itself to be unprepared for the event of another attack by another neighbouring state. Its Western forces had already mobilised, and were merely looking East, Alfa had been withdrawn from the Chinese front, and placed on the border with Finland, its mission top secret to all but the highest members of Russia's military.
As the rumbling thunder of Leapord and Leclerc tanks rolled across the lightly guarded Russian border, the Western defense forces guns simply turned to face the new enemy, and within a week, the two sides were at a stalemate outside Moscow.
As Europe poured its all against the Russian forces on the mainland. Alfa, and a large contingent of Russian troops moved into Finland, under the cover of a large aerial and artillery bombardment. Alfa soon infiltrated a number of Finnish defensive spots, and after fierce fighting, Helsinki was surrounded and besieged, with those Finnish forces unable to reach the capital, left to withdraw into the north, to fight a sporadic series of battles, with little effect.
During 2026, Alfa was ordered to spearhead the invasion of Sweden, the Spetsnaz group was ordered specifically to hold the city ransom and, with the supporting Russian force, use it to create a hopping point onto mainland Europe. Anatoli, and a large number of Alfa voiced their disapproval against the move, coming to the conclusion that such a move would break the western defences stretching them beyond a point where they could efficiently take on the European invaders. Nevertheless, the Kremlin demanded that either its plans be carried out, or Alfa and its members would be hunted down and killed as traitors. To support the gesture, droves of Nationalist thugs, were marched into occupied Finland to keep the army in check, Mercenaries and Fanatics armed to the teeth with a wide array of weaponry followed the every move of their military counterparts, leading to outbreaks of violence and sometimes death. Atrocities by the bluntly named Death Battalions became widespread, with little thought as to who would be targeted.
Then in the opening months of 2027, the Russian Baltic fleet, having raided across much of the Baltic coast, carried Alfa and the invading forces to their destination, tearing through the ice choked waters they soon came into view of the city of Stockholm. The Cities defenders had come to be reinforced by contingents from Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Finnish troops and on that fateful day, the exiled British army. Alfa were the first to dismount and press forwards trudging over sea ice, to end the countries renowned ability to have never fought a war since the 1800s.
Alfa would remain in Sweden until Russia's withdrawal in 2030, the campaign having left only a handful of Alfas members alive. Upon returning home, they were rounded up by the KGB and sent to a reopened Gulag in Siberia on the grounds of having not fought hard enough for the motherland. As Anatoli and his comrades plotted their escape, they were completely unaware of the terrible virus that had infiltrated their overcrowded camp in the form of Chinese POWs, nor the gnashing of teeth, and empty groans that followed in its wake.
 

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #31 on: July 18, 2011, 09:37:42 PM »
Awesome fluff, keep it coming!

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #32 on: July 18, 2011, 11:42:55 PM »
Worlds going to hell in a handbasket. :o
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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #33 on: July 21, 2011, 12:22:07 AM »
Going back to the 20mm side of things for a bit, here is one of the strange (but not the strangest) factions that will turn up, and is perhaps the most important to the storyline. (And note everything before 2011 is based on or are real events, just to add some realism and depth to 'future' ones). Hopefully this one is not too nuts as there is lots to include, and its late at night so might be a bit crazy.  

The Sphere of Creation

 
The economic downfall offset during the late 00s, had a radical effect on Space science and exploration. Yet despite the cuts to Nasa, the limited technology (if not growing tech) of Russia, China and India the only department which was beginning to make swift advancements in Space faring technology was Europe, and none other than a combination of British independent firms working with international partners on a commercial basis. However, science as a whole came to be persecuted and punished, and not just on an economic scale. Signs of agitation and general contempt for the scientific community first seemed to develop in Great Britain and the U.S, and slowly started to spread into other Western states. In the year 2013 much to the surprise of China and India: two nations who had relied on co-operation with the West to develop their own technology they soon found their old partners vanishing into the cracks of a society that was looking to anything to blame for the growing danger which presented itself in the form of Climate change.
Indeed, although the 'Space' community had little to do with the science of climate change, none the less, when a hurricane half the size of Katrina decimated southern France and Middle Italy, they too along with other sections became the targets of a strange Terrorist styled Cult.
However that is not to say that the entire community vanished, many governments quickly implemented defence schemes, and soon isolated towns whose very objective was to continue developing new energy or space technology were formed, but for the most part, these were funded, if not completely influenced by big businesses. The sole idea being technology for money, whether this be robotics, weapons, space technology to GM crops and renewables.
This though in some places made things worse, the U.K in the grip of civil unrest by the year 2014 had its Central Government in London, caught between a terrific mess of groups, from English Nationalists, to Scottish separatist socialists or nationalists, to British Nationalists or Unionists and Irish Republicans, Armed gangs of criminals and religious fanatics, droves of angry unemployed Welshmen, but none were so deadly and perhaps as stubborn as a wave of Socialist youngsters, mislead by a gang of overly-violent 'communists'. And by no means did these people take any kind consideration to anyone who was employed by big corporations and businesses, even if it was the only way to survive a radically changing world. Those British scientists born and bred on their home island had no choice to flee, but it became clear that they were prisoners, not men and women working for a living and for a passion. Their corporate masters had no desire to see them leave. On mainland Europe things were far more calmer politically, but a mild layer of distrust was still building up, to many people, ignorant of what warnings had been given before, the terrible Hurricane Europe proved in their minds proof that scientists were just as corrupt as politicians.
When a number of devastating attacks on scientists across Europe shattered any hopes of salvaging that historically peaceful existence, plans were quickly devised to escape. The escape was limited in what it achieved, for only a handful of top scientists escaped the mayhem, others were captured, some killed. The end result was a Europe more than willing to press gang any form of talent into Prison labs, for the sake of advancement in a coming storm.



Armed branch of the Sphere, a private army devoted to defending the Sphere, a collection of exiled scientists and supporters from external and internal threats, as well as threats that are above ordinary.















No one knew what happened to these escapees, a number of Governments claimed that many had defected to China, which was showing signs of increased military aggression, others claimed they had fled to the U.S (which the American authorities constantly denied, but never helped by refusing to pursue arrest warrants of such individuals on U.S soil) MI6 tracked down some links to Fiji and the Falklands, whilst a French Government agency reported it had captured a minor escapee who was apparently doing 'business' in Dubai. None of these links produced fruit though, and by 2016, the world was more concerned with fighting the Caliphate and Chinese Military and economic attacks. The Scientific community had been forcefully torn asunder, and would be more so by the war, but in the years leading up to 2021, two distinct groups would form, that would forever change the world.

S.A.T.D

Science and Aerospace Technology Development Unit was set up in the mid-late 2020s. During the escape, many had fled to the U.S, meeting up with sympathetic and some extremely wealthy beings from North and South America and even other self-exiled Europeans. Others had escaped to Japan, to quickly form deals with the Japanese government, deals which for the most part never came to be for various reasons. After a few months of debates and planning, the Escapees formed a Coalition with their sympathisers known as the 'Sphere of Creation', disguised as a minor branch of a large company, the Sphere members soon fled to Greenland, setting up base on an isolated fjord. Although at first rather poor and under funded, the Sphere managed to create an advanced base, with the outbreak of 2021, many of their sympathisers soon came to reside with them, increasing funding, and more importantly:Protection.
By 2024 a port was built to ensure an easy income of supplies, a year later, a small private army was formed, a unit of highly skilled troops from around the world, top equipment was bought or developed. Soon in the summer months of 2026 the Sphere made a discover that quickly prompted it to create S.A.T.D, a unit primarily designed to handle Space technology and advanced weaponry. The discovery was none other than S.A.T.Y.R.

S.A.T.Y.R

What S.A.T.Y.R stands for is unknown, but what it is, is well known to many a secret agency across the globe, including the Sphere of Creation. S.A.T.Y.R is an alliance of Corporations set up in 2013, big businesses and large tech industries, who before the war, arguably had more influence and more control over what went on in the world than any Government. What makes S.A.T.Y.R stand out though in comparison to other minor corporation alliances or big industries like Microsoft was what it did. Becoming one of the major investors and suppliers of fossil fuels, and the biggest group of funders for space and weapons tech, S.A.T.Y.R devised a plan to expand upon a Russian project to attempt to discover and extract natural elements such as Iron or nuclear materials from other outside objects: for the most part, asteroids, or natural floating space debris. Having developed a competitor to the 2011 space ship prototype 'Skylon' a vessel capable of taking of and landing like a plane with little trouble entering space, S.A.T.Y.R poured money into the development of even more advanced space faring vessels. When it was devised that it would be cheaper and easier to use robots to extract minerals, they soon began a rapid project into the creation of EN-4 which would become the second humanoid styled robot to enter space (the first having had worked on the ISS in 2010) the development was so rapid, and so unique in comparison to the slow nature of such complicated projects, S.A.T.Y.R did all within its power to keep the project secret, for fear that if word got out, it would spark competition that could ruin markets and perhaps potentially outrun S.A.T.Y.Rs own progress. By 2020, despite the persecution of scientists in Europe, S.A.T.Y.R had kept its personal out of harms way, moved to the U.S, and had already formed links with Nasa and the U.S military, who came to blindly fund S.A.T.Y.Rs project with little clue as to what was going on. In 2021, S.A.T.Y.R had completed and combined both its primary projects, the mission was quickly put into action, and despite increased space rubbish caused by the destruction of various satellites in the opening shots of the war, S.A.T.Y.R launched the vessel 'New Dawn' into space, a ship many claimed was far ahead of its time.
For three years 'New Dawn' floated about the solar system, landing on various chunks of rock, careful as not to later their route towards Earth, with its crew of en-4s it would mine what it could find, and move on. It was when New Dawn was to return home with its cargo that something happened. In the official report, it was claimed a malfunction was caused when 'New Dawn' passed through a high radiation zone around Jupiter and probably sucked into the orbit of numerous floating objects and destroyed. The truth was discovered much later, when the Spheres first probe upon nearing Jupiter's Moon Europa in 2026, took images of a strange square like shadow on the smooth surface of the small globe. After a lot of work on the fuzzy photos, followed by a difficult period of re-arranging the probes route, they discovered that S.A.T.Y.Rs creation had not been destroyed, but it had definitely undergone some form of malfunction, and had to the Spheres members perhaps reverted back to previous orders and made more advanced steps in extracting resources. The shadowed square was none other than an unusually large liquid pump, the 'New Dawn' vessel pictured nearby in some icy crater.
It was assumed that the EN-4s were stranded, perhaps frozen over if they exposed themselves to the immense freeze of space. All in all they couldn't have survived long.
That assumption however was short lived when the probe took more photographs of similar structures, only to lose contact and vanish upon nearing an orbit overlooking a very large building. It was to great a surprise for Nasa back in the U.S on night shift at a new Space Radiation Research and Measurement centre recorded a sudden surge of radioactivity over above normal levels in space at a similar location to where the probe was lost, levels that could only be explained in the case of a detonation of a nuclear bomb.

« Last Edit: July 21, 2011, 07:31:22 AM by Brummie »

Offline commissarmoody

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2011, 05:15:40 AM »
we are not alone. o_o

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #35 on: July 22, 2011, 03:13:51 AM »
Great background and minis. It's nice to see such an effort put into a game. Keep up the good work!

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« Reply #36 on: July 23, 2011, 09:22:19 AM »
Thank you very much, its much appreciated!

Oh, as a note, will be going on holiday for a week, so this thread probably won't be getting anymore updates for a bit! Thanks to all who have had a look! Fuel for the project!

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #37 on: July 23, 2011, 06:54:09 PM »
Oh cool were are you going on holiday? If you dont mind me asking that is  :D

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« Reply #38 on: July 31, 2011, 05:17:36 PM »
Camping trip with family down Devon and Cornwall way! Back now so will be promptly posting more pics when time permits!

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #39 on: July 31, 2011, 06:06:58 PM »
Welcome back, I hope if was a great one.

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« Reply #40 on: August 01, 2011, 07:53:21 PM »
It was very good thankyou! And now for a batch of Photos! Caliphate Reinforcements!












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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #41 on: August 02, 2011, 11:01:51 AM »
they seem to have the low flying Anti-air down dont they.

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Re: The Last War Chronicles. 20-28mm Near future project.
« Reply #42 on: August 05, 2011, 07:28:01 AM »
Great Work. The background is brilliant, I am currently doing something very similar in 6mm and this as given me loads of new ideas and inspiration. Can't wait for the next installment  ;) ;) ;) ;)

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« Reply #43 on: August 05, 2011, 05:14:08 PM »
Many thanks!

I have been working away for the past two days to create a blog with the stuff I have put here and more I will be updating it will all the stuff I have so far, of course, most of what will be on there the majority of you will have already seen, but on Workbench page you should find some stuff that has yet to find an army to enlist in yet or a purpose! Been slightly slowed down a bit by some virus or a hacker getting inside my comp, so been cleaning that up, but will be adding more as I go. Of course I am not abandoning the forum, when armies have been put together and have their background story I will be sticking them up here first!

Here is the link...

http://lastwarchronicles.wordpress.com/

Enjoy everyone!

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« Reply #44 on: August 06, 2011, 12:59:39 AM »
Sweet, I will start fallowing your account now

 

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