Aaron said:
The design of the tank is, ah, "based" off the LkPz-IX (Luki-9, Luki
short for Luftkissen, hovercraft) tank from GDW's 2300AD game, so that's why
it has a German name. That doesn't mean *you* need to call them Rommels,
though!
And just for the record, the Wombat is based off the Kangaroo IV APC from the
same game, Australian in origin. <shrug> The light hover jeep looks
rather like a roofed-over Bridgeport Swift Songbird, but it's generic
enough that it doesn't really matter.
[Tomb] Tell me the Goliath Medium Grav Tank isn't an American M9.... And
the FCT Troops look like American Marines and the KV look a lot
(intentionally, I think Jon said he mentioned them as a model) like the
Kafers. I have firm plans to run some 2300 style battles using these
figures....;)
A great game with a neat starmap and a history made a little dated by real
late 20th century events, but generated by a game! (cool idea) and that is
only marginally less plausible (if at all) than the GZG cannon. Much the same
type of feel. Good game background for GZG conversion.
I've even written some rules for Kafers (start yellow, end up red
quality....).
I've just finished painting up enough Gladiator's (AC-8) and Gauntlet's
(ACVI-3 Bessiere's) to outit an entire French 2300 AD aero cavalry
regiement and I'm now working my way through several packs of FSE infantry for
the dismounts.
To relate this to another series of posts I've been marking the platoon leader
stands by having one Legionaire in the stand wearing a Kepi Noir
(sp)
rather than a Kepi Blanc, i.e. a a black kepi with a red top rather then a
pure white one.
For another related point, I have just finished painting an "Epic" scale
Tyranid hoard which I can remember buying not long before my first daughter
was born, as it will soon be her 6th birthday this means its taken be about 6
years to paint the figures, is this a record?
From: Chris Downes-Ward cdownes-ward@9a.co.uk
> For another related point, I have just finished painting an "Epic"
scale Tyranid hoard which I can remember buying not long before my first
daughter was born, as it will soon be her 6th birthday this means its taken be
about 6 years to paint the figures, is this a record?
If you've painted them, it's not a record. I have some 15mm Crusader knights
which I've had about that long, haven't opened the package yet.
> --- "Barclay, Tom" <tomb@bitheads.com> wrote:
2300AD definitely lends itself well to a DSII conversion. I have a page of
conversion rules on my
site, with some 2300AD-specific "house rules".
heheheheh ALL wargamers have stories like that one. I have Hinton Hunt
napoleonics untouched in the bags I bought them in from the shop in the Angel
Islington in East london..... heheheheh don`t even think of the years..
Bob DeAngelis.
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