From: Eli Arndt <emu2020@c...>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:01:41 -0800
Subject: Heavy Gear Mammoth Strider
Well, the questions never cease today. Is there anyone out there who has one of the HG Mammoth striders and some 25mm SG minis? The reason I ask is I was wondering, if scaled to 25mm, would it be possible for a single crewman to fit in the cockpit? I know that they are scaled for a twin-seat cockpit and was thinkign they would work well with my PAs for heavy combat walkers. Thanks, Eli
From: Neal Kaplan <NKaplan@S...>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:08:54 -0800
Subject: RE: Heavy Gear Mammoth Strider
I have one of the older Mammoth minis, which I'm guessing is what you're talking about. I haven't put it together and painted it yet, but I plan on using it with my 25mm SG minis. It might be slightly small, but only so that a 25mm-scale pilot would be cramped. Now, if you *really* want to put a figure in the cockpit...well, that will take a heck of a lot of drilling! -Neal > -----Original Message-----
From: Eli Arndt <emu2020@c...>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:49:33 -0800
Subject: RE: Heavy Gear Mammoth Strider
No, not planning on putting a pilot inside, but just wanting it to look believable. Eli
From: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@i...>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:00:53 -0500
Subject: re: Heavy Gear Mammoth Strider
Hi Eli, > Is there anyone out there who has one of the HG Mammoth striders and A couple of guys in our group own the old-scale HG Mammoth and have built them for use in SG. Works just fine, and seems reasonable in scale terms. Other than that, those miniatures are really big and heavy, so don't drop them on your other figures or terrain... ;-) We use the regular size HG figures as size 1 combat walkers. Tom Barclay has a website up with some addional rule suggestions for dealing with the way HG miniatures carry weapons. They seem to violate the capacity rules in Stargrunt, and he and I have some suggestions as to how you can justify having more stuff in better mounts (ie not in turrets but on exposed arms) than the normal SG vehicle rules would allow. Basically, we don't add in the extra capacity cost of turreted weapons, but make the weapons vulnerable to hits because they are exposed, and there are possibilities for damage to the vehicle itself from these sorts of hits. Anyway, if you're interested, check it out at: http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/InfWalkersWpns.htm and a bit more at http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/TechToolbox.htm ********************************************