UNIT vs the Space Robots

[revford]

I'm planning to inflict some UNIT games on people soon, so I thought I'd share a few characters I've painted up so far.

UNIT Heroes:


The Space Robots:



The idea is that the Space Robots are going to be a 'warm up' game before the UNIT vs The Daleks main event.

[Lordblackwing]

Nicely done. I love those robots.

[Big Guy]

What make are the UNIT figures?

[dusser]

Awesome!  Which ruleset are you planning on using?

[twrchtrwyth]

Good stuff.

[Plynkes]

I can't get used to UNIT in red hats. That's one Russell T Davies 're-imagine' I do not approve of. I'm fine with almost everything else he's done, but I have a particular fondness for the old beige hats.

Back in the days when belligerent aliens attacked South East England almost every week, those beige berets (and a Belgian rifle with a bayonet, and some guts behind it) are what kept us free! Bring back the beige!

[revford]

What make are the UNIT figures?

They are Mo-Fo Falklands War characters from Gripping Beast.

http://www.grippingbeast.com/product.php?ItemID=575

Awesome!  Which ruleset are you planning on using?

The current plan is to try this with 5150, from Two Hour Wargames.  But we'll give it a go with Legends of the Old West from Warhammer Historical too.

If they OGL it as they are talking about, Battlefield Evolution with the modern and Starship Troopers add-ons from Mongoose.

For more adventure-y less battle-y games, it's going to be .45 Adventure.

I can't get used to UNIT in red hats. That's one Russell T Davies 're-imagine' I do not approve of. I'm fine with almost everything else he's done, but I have a particular fondness for the old beige hats.

I think he made the change as a personal favour to me, so I could borrow support weapons and crew from my WWII British Paratroopers and the hats would match.

Russell T Davies does score 1,500 bonus points for making Dr Martha Jones a member of UNIT.  Hopefully this means some monsters invading the coast of South Wales in the new series coming this April.

I'd love to find some minis of women in British Army uniforms for UNIT, but there don't seem to be any out there.

[Chairface]

Nice, although still stubornly painting my UNIT figs in the old style.  :wink:

[revford]

The Daleks are just about finished now.  Just Davros to go.

More Dalek pics here:

http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gaming-doctor-daleks.html

[Malamute]

Excellent Daleks  

[Westfalia Chris]

Darn swell, those Daleks! Now, I know nothing about the Dr. Who fluff apart from being able to tell Daleks from Cybermen and who Davros and what TARDIS is (I think I saw it last Sunday parked on a drivers training course between Golders Green and Brent Cross tube stations ::), but I´d assume gold Daleks would be "bosses", not "´leks of the line"? :

Looks lovely, nonetheless, and being an avid brasstek fan, won´t complain!

[revford]

Gold looking ones are the Renegade/Cult of Skaro Daleks.  A Common Dalek.

Black for the Dalek Supreme/Supreme Dalek or Dalek Sek.  A Boss Dalek.

Daleks are from the planet Skaro, they are mutant meat lumps in an armoured case.  Cyborgs from space.

The Cult of Skaro are a group of Dalek scientists working to preserve and restore the Dalek Empire, after they were almost wiped out in the Time War.

The Time War was between the Daleks and the Time Lords where they used time travel to try and wipe the others out before they existed.  It didn't go well for either side.

You are now a Dalek expert.  

[Westfalia Chris]

Gold looking ones are the Renegade/Cult of Skaro Daleks.  A Common Dalek.

Black for the Dalek Supreme/Supreme Dalek or Dalek Sek.  A Boss Dalek.

Daleks are from the planet Skaro, they are mutant meat lumps in an armoured case.  Cyborgs from space.

The Cult of Skaro are a group of Dalek scientists working to preserve and restore the Dalek Empire, after they were almost wiped out in the Time War.

The Time War was between the Daleks and the Time Lords where they used time travel to try and wipe the others out before they existed.  It didn't go well for either side.

You are now a Dalek expert.  

Ahhh... yes. Daleks mi doch am Popocatepetl! :: (pun for the German-speakers only, sorry)

Thanks a bunch... I had somewhere read about that "shrivelled aliens" thing, but all the finer details are completely alien to me, and I´m afraid I´m too old for diving into yet another SciFi universe... not that it would stop me.

But that doesn´t detract from the nice, oldskool SciFi designs. And who else but the BBC would come up with a time-traveling telephone booth? ::

By the way, a recent Dr. Who serial is currently being shown on German TV - recently watched an episode featuring ethereal spirits and Charles Dickens, and while rather fun, didn´t watch more due to absence and time constraints. Is it good as a "Who primer" or should I rather pick another series?

[Rhoderic]

By the way, a recent Dr. Who serial is currently being shown on German TV - recently watched an episode featuring ethereal spirits and Charles Dickens, and while rather fun, didn´t watch more due to absence and time constraints. Is it good as a "Who primer" or should I rather pick another series?

Speaking as one who's seen very, very little of the old Doctor Who (and that was ages ago), I still LOVE the new series. Never mind learning the background, just start watching it and enjoy. That's what I did. From what I can tell, it doesn't rely hugely on the old Doctor Who anyway. It breaks away from it, to some extent.

[revford]

By the way, a recent Dr. Who serial is currently being shown on German TV - recently watched an episode featuring ethereal spirits and Charles Dickens, and while rather fun, didn´t watch more due to absence and time constraints. Is it good as a "Who primer" or should I rather pick another series?

That's the best place to start and quite near the beginning of the 'New Who'.

The new series, which started over here in, I think 2005, was written in a way that you didn't have to know the whole 45 years of back story.