Looking for more info about StarGrunt / Here's you chance to lure me away...

In a message dated 8/26/03 12:45:50 PM Central Daylight Time,
> squirmydad@yahoo.com writes:

> www.cygnusx1.info

The originator of the thread goes into some reasons why Warhammer is too

expensive. It certainly is in my estimation. Stargrunt has some advantages
since nobody is screaming at you that you have to have "offical" minis. I buy
most
of my Stargrunt stuff of the discount rack at the game store - or even
better at the local Dollar store! I have a whole company of armor vehicles
(fourteen to bexact) and half of them were $1.oo each. I bought a tank with a
friction
motor - actually I got six of them at a dollar each and brought out my
modification scraps. Once the tracks were removed card stock covered the
bottom of the vehicle to convert it into a grav tank. The stubby gun looked
silly, so I used some soda straw to extend and enlarge the barrel (I used the
kind with the bendy middles like hospital straws since the pleats in the
middle look like a muzzle brake for the gun.) I added some more soda straw
stubbies to show a vertical launch system for indirect mortar fire. I usaed
rubber stoppers from old
bottles of intravenous drug bottles (the little ones - my wife is a
nurse and
we have used these bottle for Christmas crafts in the past - they make
great tree decorations when filled with collored sand and decorated with
trinkets) to
make a pop-up anti-missle defense system. Next step is to get a dremel
tool
and pop the hatches on some of them to put some mo9re cut-off dollar
store miniatures that are the right size. Yeah, I found several packs of four
minis and a (usually silly, but sometimes usable) vehicle included. The guys
look to be
dressed in light battle dress and have nifty sci-fi weapons - so with
pack I get four minis and a light combat car for a buck. It all needs
modification and
re-painting, but heck, I have to paint the lead too, don't I? I acquired
some
vehicles from a series of military die cut vehicles from Wal-Marty for
about
89 cents apiece on sale - it gave me four M113's to use for tracked
APC's for my power armore troops, two Panhard Armored cars with an electrical
turret with a 20mm gun, and a number of Bradley Fighting Vehicles which became
grav IFV's for my regular infantry squads. I am modifying some cheap[o toy
store
helicopters for vectored thrust, anti-grav assist VTOL's and I'm in
business with a reinforced company ready for the table. Used a pack of Ral
Partha Kurita

Machine Gun Troops for the "Battle Troops" game which I picked up for $7.00
bucks at a game convention auction a couple of years ago for the regular
company troopies and I am in business.

I've also got a scad of plastic vehicles and troops from a toy line that went
under to portray the lower - tech opposition for my mercenary unit and I
can put on the whole game for less than $50.00 total expenditure.