Wierd World War 2 British

[Bullshott]

How do these 1/48 scale minis compare with SOTR and other 28mm ranges? Do they fit in or is there a noticeable difference?

I've just done a check against a SoTR figure:

Normal 1/48 troops are too tall.

The British armoured suits are tall, but not so much that they will not fit in with 28mm

The German suits are taller and broader - too big for 28mm 'normals. However, they would make nice armoured uber soldats.

I don't have a US suit to compare.

[mysteriousbill]

I'd get some of those Warzone plastics that come on sale so cheap every now and then. Use the Imperials as special anti-monster soldiers. The Gasmask lenses reduce the ability of Vampires and other Supernatural things to mind-control them. The gun is semi-auto firing regular ammo, while the launcher fires special rounds containing "Holy Water, Silver Shavings, White Oak... the works" but have a very limited range (Pistol?).
Against the supernatural these rounds wound like the targets are normal people. Armor is heavy (includes a layer of silver under the paint) and slows the movement of the soldiers (no charging). And of course it is blessed, providing limited protection against the supernatural.

[Bullshott]

I already have some of the warzone plastics from a previous project where I used some for VSF Prussians, so I still have a full set of the trenchers left.

Now that I have SoTR I will probably use that rules system. There are a couple of bits of the fluff and troop options that I don't agree with but, on the whole, it is a good set of rules and probably the most commonly used set amongst gamers at the moment, so I'll stick with SoTR for the time being.

At the moment I'm in two minds as to how I make up my commandos:

Option 1 - a standard SoTR British platoon using SoTR figures (since they include almost all troop options I need)

Option 2 - base my commandos on the the para platoon in the Doomsday supplement using a core of plastics plus some metal specialists, the core plastic figures being made from either Warzone trenchers or Warlord Games commandos with home made/converted assault rifles.

Decisions, decisions .....

Must have a look at my Warzone plastics ......