Halo: A 28mm wargaming project: covenant troops cast finally.

[Onemanworkshop]

Fantastic project. With the rerelease of the halo clix stuff, I keep edging closer to doing something like this. I know I have a couple buddies who play the vid game who would play a miniatures version any time. The challenge is to do all modded figures or go with the clix stuff, and maybe try to improve them?
1 Man Workshop

[Commander Vyper]

No clix here my friend,not into bendy plastic.   But thanks for the comments.

[gamer Mac]

Not looked in on this thread for a while. My god what have I missed
Great board

[Commander Vyper]

Cheers,

Haven't got round to uploading the pics from the weekend away yet, will do over the next few. Been having a little Halo break this weekend and have been painting up some of my Starwars stuff again so that thread i'll burst into life again this week.

The Commander

[Commander Vyper]

As promised a few shots for the weekend's gaming.

As we were playtesting we kept the rules basic, no armour loadouts, team wipe out victory conditions, (ie no respawns), no grenades, just battle rifles, magnum pistol, (precision shots) and one sniper rifle per team, (long distance precision). We switched sides after each game.



As the playing area was quite compact, it made for good use of cover, overwatch and sniping, with some very cinematic and true to the xbox game headshot kills . Assassinations were messy too and close combat is brutal (str 4 with a 1d6 +/- modifiers with a save on 4+) and final. In the game the spartans soak up a lot of damage with their shield points and armour saves, when they get into close range though it's over very quickly.



The magnums came into their own too with a good few headshots totted up with pistols, imagine using your BR then swinging it round, drawing your pistol and finishing the job.



Ultimate winners:

Red Team with four wins to two over the two nights.



That's it for now, will start work on the rest of the board soon but no rush, need to tweak the rules, which I haven't done yet from the weekend, once I do I'll post up again.

The Commander

[Blackwolf]

Cracking pics Commander They really set the mood. An excellent board,love it!

[Mr.J]

They look terrific! This project just keeps getting better and better.

[Onemanworkshop]

 ::)I have re-read this whole thing a couple times and I cannot find where you mentioned where the mounted gun bases came from?

[Commander Vyper]

I have I swear! I think I did it as a separate thread as well:



Anyway the bases are from pencil sharpeners that themselves are perfect scaled chinese rip off's of an old action force/ GI Joe support weapon. Somehow they'd die mould scaled it down to perfect 28mm. The model was great in it's own rights, I was going to add a gunner's chair and paint it up in Z force colours, but I needed the bases; so the guns were removed and will probably see live as 15mm defence lasers/game objectives.

I paid £2.00 each for them, and you should be able to find them on ebay

[Sangennaru]

Wow! And you can even sharpen your pencils with that

[Silent Invader]

Impressive 

[Onemanworkshop]

Thanks bunches! I ordered 2 off ebay. I figure I like very small games so two weapon emplacements should suit any scenario. I'll be adapting Ganesha Games' Flying Lead for the rules. I do plan to use the crap-tastic plastic figs, what can I say, I'm a miniatures whole, I'll slap my paint on anything. 
JIM

[Geudens]

I paid £2.00 each for them, and you should be able to find them on ebay

I bought those from this seller years ago:

http://sharpenking.com/contents/nl/d8.html

along with some other cannons, lamp posts etc.  He is usually well stocked.

Rudi

[Sangennaru]

I bought those from this seller years ago:

http://sharpenking.com/contents/nl/d8.html

along with some other cannons, lamp posts etc.  He is usually well stocked.

Rudi

i'm sorry for the OT, but... the cannons look great, what about the scale? should they be used for 28mm minis?

[Dentatus]

Nice project and good pix. Thanks.