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Author Topic: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement  (Read 5889 times)

Offline Doug ex-em4

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2015, 12:40:16 PM »
......I just thought that as the others have heavy weapons now, the Cybertech lads could do with some heavy firepower too.

Good point....

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2015, 12:54:27 PM »
Good point....

Doug

You know it makes sense…  ;)

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2015, 02:55:28 PM »
And the new release is still a good one, despite my whinging…  :?


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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2015, 06:09:50 PM »
"I understand the reluctance to jump from one race to another"

This is hardly jumping about -- I was nagging Doug for the Yoyodyne heavy weaps some half a decade ago...

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2015, 05:07:39 PM »
"I understand the reluctance to jump from one race to another"

This is hardly jumping about -- I was nagging Doug for the Yoyodyne heavy weaps some half a decade ago...


So it wasn't just me... lol I'll be ordering two sets of these straight out of the gate once one of my deadbeat clients pays up... gotta finish my Yoyodyne platoon for playtesting "It's Them! Blast 'Em!".... 8)
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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2015, 10:23:28 PM »
So let it be written, so let it be done! Order sent! :D

Offline Doug ex-em4

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2015, 11:11:23 PM »
So let it be written, so let it be done! Order sent! :D

And received with thanks. Processed tomorrow. On the downside, it's the one and only for these so far.... :(

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2015, 06:54:44 AM »
And received with thanks. Processed tomorrow. On the downside, it's the one and only for these so far.... :(

Doug





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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2015, 12:30:22 PM »
I intend to make an order but December is not a good time of year for me to be waiting for parcels from abroad in the post so I'll have to leave it for January.
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Offline Doug ex-em4

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2015, 04:16:29 PM »
I intend to make an order but December is not a good time of year for me to be waiting for parcels from abroad in the post so I'll have to leave it for January.

In that case, there's no alternative. I'll have to keep reminding you in an annoying and bothersome way....

Doug

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #25 on: December 08, 2015, 05:20:47 AM »
In that case, there's no alternative. I'll have to keep reminding you in an annoying and bothersome way....

Doug


And I shall help you by posting gratuitous photos of my painted Yoyodyne Shigaru platoon once I finish it to annoy, bother, and shame others into sending you everything in their wallets! :D

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #26 on: December 08, 2015, 02:30:34 PM »

And I shall help you by posting gratuitous photos of my painted Yoyodyne Shigaru platoon once I finish it to annoy, bother, and shame others into sending you everything in their wallets! :D

I'm liking the sound of this more and more.....

Doug

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #27 on: December 08, 2015, 11:18:34 PM »
I'm liking the sound of this more and more.....

Doug

Well, all teasing aside, I am still quite serious about using these figures as the semi-official-photos-in-the-rulebook go-to minis for our sci-fi skirmish system set in the Silent Death universe. They all have uniform equipment and weapons that can be easily written into/justified by the existing Silent Death canon, right down to those techno backpacks all the human troops wear regardless of whether they're Yoyodynes, wartechs, or SECS troopers, and the Phagons and the Battle Clones have a uniformity of non-terrestrial equipment that can be justified by the Prometheans of the SD canon as well (ie., the Phagons are a "martial race"/"sepoys of the Galandars, while the Battle Clones are actual reptiloid soldiers of the Draconians that fit the anthropomorphic lizard description of the Dracs themselves ala the speculative dinosauroid:



As the various human successor states are all building off of the former Terran Empire's technological base, a high degree of at least initial uniformity of equipment and armaments is to be expected, with oft-times only colors and details of insignia differentiating one House's troops from another. 8)

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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2015, 06:59:32 AM »
I do like the Spacelords range...but mostly because of their style. And I mainly hope there will be more civilian-type models. So less guns please. I already have way too many armed sci-fi models, but not enough civvies, workers and other normal people.
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Re: Spacelords - Standby for new release announcement
« Reply #29 on: December 11, 2015, 09:05:39 PM »
I do like the Spacelords range...but mostly because of their style. And I mainly hope there will be more civilian-type models. So less guns please. I already have way too many armed sci-fi models, but not enough civvies, workers and other normal people.


I'm not sure there are all that many more non-combatant poses in this series, which was originally rendered back in the late 80s IIRC. Doug has been bringing them back a bit at a time as a private vanity project of sorts, so I for one encourage anyone to support his efforts in rescuing these splendid models from the mists of gaming history, at least by purchasing a set or two of characters for RPGs or as focal objectives for tactical scenarios (ie., a high value target, etc.).

 

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