Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

24 posts ยท Apr 26 2002 to Apr 29 2002

From: David Reeves <davidar@n...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 04:16:04 -0400

Subject: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:01:04 -0400
From: "Warren Shultzaberger" <carol.warren@prodigy.net>
Subject: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

Hi Folks.

I was wondering if anyone has translated the bugs from Starship Troopers
(movie or book) into Stargrunt2 terms.

I'm collecting critters to throw at players when I referee the games. I've
already got the Predator and Aliens (both per the movies) that they haven't
seen yet.

Including the Bugs, does anyone know of some other little tid-bit
creatures I can surprise them with?

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hi Warren,

I seem to recall someone ginning up some numbers, but I believe it was for
Dirtside2. check out the DS2 sites adn you should run across some stuff to
adapt. BTW, GZG has 6mm bugs that I prefer for the Workers and Pendraken has
10mm bugs that are excellent detail. I believe the 10mm come in Warrior,
Tanker and one more I believe. check out these websites:

http://valley.150m.com/Valley.html
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cowell/min/ds2/
http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/ds2/
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~seidl/pendraken/

Dave

From: David Reeves <davidar@n...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 04:22:51 -0400

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Including the Bugs, does anyone know of some other little tid-bit
check out this page under Sci-Fi for bugs.

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/

From: Brian Bell <bkb@b...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:06:33 -0400

Subject: RE: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

I have Peter Crump's conversion on my web site at:
http://www.cygnusx1.info/sg2/sg2toSST.asp

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From: Warren Shultzaberger <carol.warren@p...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:17:18 -0400

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Nortel Wrote:

I've got miniatures for the bugs from a local married couple who make molds,
pour the lead, and sell the miniatures for a business.

What I'm looking for are the stats of the bugs converted into Stargrunt2.

I'm also looking for any other type of alien critters that list members have
come up with.

From: Katie Lauren Lucas <katie@f...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:19:42 +0100 (BST)

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

Quoting Warren Shultzaberger <carol.warren@prodigy.net>:

> Nortel Wrote:

And you're not going to give them free advertising here? Good grief...

From: Warren Shultzaberger <carol.warren@p...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:33:36 -0400

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Katie Lauren Lucas Wrote:

LOL! Sorry Katie... They don't have a web page and I can't post the
information from their business card because I can't seem to find it

From: Richard Kirke <richardkirke@h...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:30:43 +0000

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> I've got miniatures for the bugs from a local married couple who make

OOh local to who (in the UK?) Please contact me off list about these!

> What I'm looking for are the stats of the bugs converted into

Contact Eureka, they do some really nice aliens

From: Warren Shultzaberger <carol.warren@p...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:43:56 -0400

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Richard Kirke Wrote:

Sorry... USA... South Carolina/Georgia area.

> Contact Eureka, they do some really nice aliens

What's their URL?

From: Ray Forsythe <erf2@g...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:14:43 -0400

Subject: Re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Warren Shultzaberger wrote:

> Richard Kirke Wrote:

http://www.eurekamin.com.au/

From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:26:39 -0400

Subject: Re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Ray Forsythe wrote:

Unfortunately, this does not work for everyone (okay, it does not
work for me :-/ )  Anyone else have problems getting to this page?
Or am I all alone in this? Just curious.

From: Robert Minadeo <raminad@e...>

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:53:59 -0400

Subject: Re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> >

The problem (such as it is) lies in Eureka's page set up.

If I've got Web Washer running the page will be blank. Disable Web Washer and
it will show.

Perhaps your difficulty arises from a similar situation.

Regards, Bob

From: DAWGFACE47@w...

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:21:10 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

as i type this i am looking at a EUREKA BUG WARRIOR without weapons and it is
huge, scary, beautiful, and very cinematic.

i was given one recently, and i plan on buying some more as soon as i get
things sorted out at my end!

em-4 makes a "predator" s well as several other "aliens", i am told
COPPLESTONE is making some " assorted aliens", and if you can find one, the
OOP LEGION OF STEEL line featured an alien soldier that looked like a better
armed and armored predator.

i cannot  remember  what the LOS alien soldier is   called, but it was
not a machine, and it might be in production again from EXCELSIOR PRODUCTIONS
in the USA.

DAWGIE, who does like the EUREKA BUG WARRIOR!

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:47:09 +1000

Subject: RE: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

G'day,

> Including the Bugs, does anyone know of some other little tid-bit

Do you mean figs or rules/ideas?

Cheers

From: Warren Shultzaberger <carol.warren@p...>

Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:00:24 -0400

Subject: RE: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Beth Fulton Wrote:

Figs.

Beth, you posted some links for me at one time... United States Colonial
Marine Corps
        Aliens
        and Predator
For Stargrunt2.

If you have them handy could you re-post them? I lost them ;-(
Also What the address for your GZG URL?

Thanks,

From: Derek Fulton <derekfulton@b...>

Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:09:31 +1000

Subject: RE: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

G'day,

> Figs.

Well off the top of my head (not necessarily with urls - not all handy
sorry - but I've seen all these on the web) there's
- the transparent resin aliens (aintsy?? not sure can't find them at a
quick glance)
- "preds" (Eureka's, Futurewars' Hunter aliens for example)
- bugs, bugs and more bugs of all sizes (I surprised Derek the other day

when he thought he was 25mm bug hunting and a zillion 6mm bugs flowed out of
the nooks and attacked instead)... from Pendraken, GZG....
- Kra'vak
- Phalons
- aliens (as in xenomorphs... from Pendraken at least)
- kryomek
- "greys"
- starcraft aliens (kits, but adaptable as far as I know)
- araknids or koralon or something (from void?)
- the shard crystal guys (ex-FASA I think) if you can still find them
- Daleks (of course!!!) and the many other doctor who aliens
- various alien races from GW (Tyranids being the most obvious, but I
reckon you could do some neat stuff with the Eldar figs if you didn't have to
take out a second mortgage to afford it!!!!)
- confrontation wolfen have potential
- robots (necrons, terminators.... the later are on the New Wave site)
- K'hiff
- the aliens from the company that have the kangaroo aliens
- bablyon 5 aliens if you don't mind character figs only (i.e. more for
an rpg or FMA then SG I would've thought)
- War Gods of Aegyptus figs have potential too
- cthuhlu figs (from rafm)

Urls I do have handy are:

http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/
http://www.crocodilegames.com/
http://www.ainsty.co.uk/
http://www.eurekamin.com.au/
http://www.geocities.com/gisby.geo/fw.htm
http://www.newwave.org/
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/
http://www.rafm.com/newpage.html
www.thelaziestdragon.com
http://www.gtns.net/gzgstore/
http://www.harlequin-miniatures.com/
http://www.wargameswarehouse.com.au/companies/grendle/grendle.html

Lastly, try plastic animals galore (octopus through to sabre-tooths or
dinosaurs) and aquarium plants with attitude (triffids etc).

> Beth, you posted some links for me at one time...

They're at:

http://www.geocities.com/nobjobs/aliens/avprules.html

Hope that helps

Beth

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:28:53 -0400

Subject: Re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Beth, you posted some links for me at one time...

Stuart Murray posted some suggestions for USCMC including Smart Weapons, you
might try searching Google with "Stuart Murray" and

From: Warren Shultzaberger <carol.warren@p...>

Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:59:17 -0400

Subject: RE: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> Derek Fulton Wrote:
http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/
http://www.crocodilegames.com/
http://www.ainsty.co.uk/
http://www.eurekamin.com.au/ http://www.geocities.com/gisby.geo/fw.htm
http://www.newwave.org/
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/
http://www.rafm.com/newpage.html
www.thelaziestdragon.com
http://www.gtns.net/gzgstore/ http://www.harlequin-miniatures.com/
http://www.wargameswarehouse.com.au/companies/grendle/grendle.html

Beth, you just more than doubled the size of my Miniatures Favorite URL
file!!!!

> They're at:

This too went into the Favorites folder!!!

Thank you so very much!!!!!!!

From: Richard Kirke <richardkirke@h...>

Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:50:30 +0000

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> > OOh local to who (in the UK?) Please contact me off list about

New they would be! Would they ship to the UK, if so How much including postage
for about... 10 (they are 25mm ish right?)
> What's their URL?
http://www.eurekamin.com.au/

But you need to e-mail him about "Chaos Weasles", a slightly sureal
picture attached.

Please don't say I passed you onto him (they are all a bit secret...).

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:53:11 +0100

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> as i type this i am looking at a EUREKA BUG WARRIOR without weapons and

[Commercial ON]
We can also supply the Eureka bug (our code EM-BUG, price 3.50 UKP) and
the
"not-Pred" Bounty Hunters (our codes EBH-1, 2, 3, price 1.00 UKP each),
from the online store at <www.gzg.com>.
Remember that US customers (well, any non-EU customers actually) get to
save almost 15% off the listed prices automatically due to tax (VAT)
deduction....)
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From: Richard Kirke <richardkirke@h...>

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 17:13:29 +0000

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

My profuse apologies. I didn't realise I was still sending to the list, I hope
the piccie didn't cause anyone any trouble. Once again, my apologies (oh and
for the TERRIBLE spelling!)

Richard (the apologetic)
> > OOh local to who (in the UK?) Please contact me off list about

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:58:03 +1000

Subject: RE: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

G'day Warren,

From: DAWGFACE47@w...

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:59:04 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

JON, HOW MUCH IS THAT IN USA MONEY, FOR THE BUG WARRIOR?

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:19:19 +0100

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

> JON, HOW MUCH IS THAT IN USA MONEY, FOR THE BUG WARRIOR?

Current conversion rate is, I think, VERY APPROXIMATELY 1.4 USD = 1 UKP, so
an EM-Bug would be 3.50 UKP minus VAT deduction = 2.98, x 1.4 = just
over 4 USD (4.17 actually). Please remember these conversions are rough idea
only, and will depend on your card issuer's exact conversion rate at the time
of the transaction, but if you work on "about 4 dollars each" plus a little
for p&p, that will serve as a guide.

From: DAWGFACE47@w...

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:17:21 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: RE: re: Bugs, Mr. Ricco! Bugs!!!

THANK YOU JON!