28mm Aliens vs Predator (+Colonial Marines)

[manatic]

OK I would consider the Khurasan APC but can't seem to find where to get one.

Here: http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/28mmscifi.html

Although it is sold out at the moment!

[Sgt. Scream]

more Alien eggs, some still enclosed, some semi-open with the hugger ready to spring its ambush, some already open with the Facehugger out and two, shot up with a dead hugger.


Alien goo - I know Michi is going to like that :-)

[Commander Vyper]

Nicey nicey. 

[rwwin]

Maxed out bandwidth, can't see them.   

[Sgt. Scream]

Maxed out bandwidth, can't see them.   

Check my blog.  I won't upgrade anything to "plus" on freaking photobucket.

[naitsirk]

Check my blog.  I won't upgrade anything to "plus" on freaking photobucket.

Cant see the pictures what is you blog??
I have an alien boargame project too . This is my blog  http://avpboardgame.blogspot.com.es/?m=1
Sorry for my english

[zizi666]

Cant see the pictures what is you blog??

click the icon under his name. it'll take you straight to his blog.

[rwwin]

Thanks!

[Sgt. Scream]

http://smallscaleoperations.blogspot.de/search/label/Alien%20VS%20Predator


will show only AVP related stuff on my blog. I will make a new account on flickr shortly, but not until new stuff has been finished. In the meantime checking my blog will at least show you the pics that are now missing thanks to '!"§ing bandwidth. 

[Sgt. Scream]

I started to paint up some scatter terrain pieces to block lines of sight and give some cover. There is more of these to come.


GW base with biohazard containers from Fenris Games


Size comparison


Biohazard containers? What is Weyland-Yutani up to??

Since my photobucket account still is at its bandwidth limit, check the other pics at
http://smallscaleoperations.blogspot.de/search/label/Alien%20VS%20Predator

[Michka]

Those look really great. I have a bunch of those GW pallets around here too. I end up keeping them separate from the loads so I can use them for different settings. Then I forget to use them at all, because they look so uninteresting. You've just convinced me I need to make some specific scatter terrain with the pallets and barrels and other such goodies.

[Michi]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, the black goo! I bet there´s some of that Prometheus stuff in there!!!

[Sgt. Scream]

Thanks, guys. 


Cardboard counters on original gaming board from Aliens ("Operations" scenario). The squares they are in are roughly 15mm by 15mm.


Well, I like my miniatures better than those counters but obviously that ain't going to work, right?


And yet, size matters. Now, this isn't showing what I am talking about...


...but this does: can you spot the difference?


The marvels of modern printing media: scaling up a 17" by 34" original Aliens game board to 6' by 4' in order to use 28mm miniatures works just fine, don't you agree? A total of six tiles will occupy my entire game table (180cm by 120cm)  :-p


But don't you worry, I will of course continue to test around with making this board game a real tabletop experiencev(to include the Yautja faction). But since I own the 1989 classic Leading Edge Games rules, it would have been a shame not to be able to use miniatures with it.

[Sgt. Scream]

I took the enlarged board game version to a friend's house yesterday since we had planned to have an evening of board gaming after dinner. After playing several rounds of another game, the girls decided they wanted to try Aliens. They already knew about my tabletop game related projects, so they were eager to find out why I am so excited about this game in particular. I had brought my larger tiles and my miniatures, gave the girls a short briefing about weapons, goals of the "Reactor Room" scenario and then had them decide who is going to control which character.
The two had split their forces into one of them controlling Dietrich, Apone, Hudson and Drake and the other Wierzbowski, Frost, Crowe, Hicks and Vasquez. They also set up the Marines in that order to take actions.

We played the basic scenario without ammo restrictions, without third-Alien- per-round spawns, but with the bonus bug rules. I have to say the two girls are die-hard Sci-Fi fans and have a lot of knowledge about the Alien universe - which is a rare thing to begin with (girls that know what's a Pulse Rifle?!). It turned out they were adopting to Aliens spawns immediately, knew when to put what weapon into use to kill which Alien to minimize Acid Spray casualties etc after two or three rounds!! Guess what these two managed: they rescued ALL (!!!) Marines in their first game of Aliens ever. Drake kicked three Xenomorph butts in Melee during that game, Dietrich got wounded in Close Combat by an Alien but  Apone kicked it off her and engulfed it in flames with his last action. Hicks had to rescue the incapacitated Wierzbowski and ran back to grab him, carried him back towards the exit, with Vasquez ripping everything apart that the Hive was sending at them.

The girls loved that game. I was told I need to bring back the board on Wednesday - they want to continue the campaign. I am a happy man. I have a gaming group of girls only that share men's hobbies. :-) :-) Now, they had Dietrich wounded and Wierzbowski Incapacitated - shouldn't be much of a hassle since their status turns better by one before the next mission.

This is where the latest project kicks in: in between "Reactor Room" and "Operations" the expanded director's cut of Aliens had the sentry guns shredding Alien waves in the hallways. Thanks to a guy I met in another forum (hi, Michael!), I got a map for exactly this scenario. You can see it below:


The sentry gun scenario map.

Furthermore, I also have the Expansion Pack map pack now. Enlarged version looks like this:

The enlarged Expansion Pack map.

[d phipps]

Wonderful project! Classic!