We are very pleased to release the
Cult of Andromeda, an all-new 15mm Sci Fi range representing a galactic doomsday cult as well as the alien Brunt mercenaries who bulk out its numbers.
The cult itself is led by the mysterious psyker
Andromeda, who rides on a demon skimmer, commanding her forces and employing vastly destructive psionic and other psychic abilities:
Andromeda has collected a regular army of hooded and robed cultists around her, many of these wicked aliens. All of the cultists are available armed with blasters or with power axes, and have separate heads which are very easily and sturdily attached.
The cultists include the mysterious
Naga:
... the cunning and wicked
Vilg:
... those extradimensional horrors, the
Thuloids:
... and of course
Human Renegades wearing gas masks:
Available also is a separate cultist body with a plasma gun, sold individually -- he doesn't come with a head but the packs of cultists come with more heads than one needs for the figures, so you can simply pop the noggin of your choice on him and he's ready to kill tanks:
For mobile fire support, some cultists soar above the field on
Demon Skimmers, crewing powerful deck guns:
These cultists number in their thousands, but what
really bulks out the Cult of Andromeda are huge herds of massive alien
Brunt Mercenaries, short tempered and warlike creatures that love to charge straight at the enemy and chop him to bits:
As can be seen here, the Brunts are massive warriors (and so they have potential to be used in 20mm gaming as well):
Commanding the Brunts (or attempting to) are herd leaders, who try to get their rudimentary orders across over the deafening fray of a herd stampede using a bullhorn. Attempting to provide fire support are Brunt veterans who can control their charging instinct long enough to fire off heavy infantry weapons. Finally in the ranks of Brunt forces serving the Cult is a Brunt selected by Andromeda to be her champion, the utterly insane
Brunt Chosen, turned white as a ghost by the terrifying secrets of the universe disclosed by Andromeda to its tiny mind! Wielding a double-bladed power sword, the Chosen inevitably dies in battle, only to be replaced by another -- and with almost two million Brunt serving the Cult, there's plenty more where he came from!
Several of the packs of Cultists are not illustrated but you can get a sense of what they look like because the heads and bodies are shown in other photos (for instance, the Vilg blaster pack has the same bodies as the Naga blaster pack and the same heads as the Vilg power axe pack). This was to prevent overburdening Spacejacker, who did the painting gratis! And a lovely job he did, too.
The one true mystery pack is
Andromeda's Sparks -- flaming salamander plasma entities. For one reason or another they never got painted, but we'll try to get that sorted soon. In the meantime, more adventuresome gamers may want to pick up a pack to see what they look like!
All available now, at the link below. By the way, the extradimensional horrors that Andromeda seeks to unleash on settled worlds are perfectly represented using the monsters from our popular
Little Carinthia range. There's a lot more information about the Cult of Andromeda on the webstore.
http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/15mmscifi.html
12 July 2012, 03:45:28 PM