tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43053058066223758002024-03-13T22:42:25.123-04:00Cyclopean DreamsBeing a log of the varied meanderings of a wargaming life.Cyclopeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02820371456654359069noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305305806622375800.post-56191351803163284572016-11-28T22:08:00.000-05:002019-04-15T16:46:23.519-04:00A Bit of Scatter TerrainTerrain Concepts, I’ve been playing with ideas for terrain rules.<br />
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Initially I conceived of a dichotomy with hard terrain, such as ruined buildings and concrete rubble, versus soft terrain, such as bushes and grass. Hard terrain would have better protection over the softer variety against such things as incoming small arms fire.<br />
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Concepts evolve, though, and I gradually struck on the idea of scrapping the relative cover density for a more fundamental terrain dichotomy: area vs linear.<br />
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Esentially this: If your troops are in a piece of area terrain, such as bushes, they get a moderate level of cover. If they are behind a bit of linear terrain, like a rock or wall, they get a more substantial cover bonus.<br />
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Area terrain is easier to accomplish. It is easier to get a squad into area terrain. If half or more models in a squad are in the area terrain, then they get the area cover bonus.<br />
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Linear cover depends on the position of the firing squad. Linear can be flanked, where area cannot. The linear cover bonus can make the target rather difficult to hit, which promotes flanking moves and a more dynamic game.<br />
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A linear position can degrade, once flanked, to area or open, depending on how the terrain is modeled and where the models are positioned. Which is to say that a bit of area terrain can be modeled with a stretch of linear terrain within it, but not all linear terrain is within area.<br />
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The infantry man is <a href="http://clearhorizonminiatures.com/shop/" target="_blank">Clearhorizon Miniatures</a>, for scale. Some of the boxes and crates are from a mold I picked up from Jason Moore over at <a href="http://www.micropanzer.com/" target="_blank">Micropanzer</a>. All the air bubbles in the crates are my own miscasts. Jason will hook you up with some serious high quality crates for a small, small fee. The barrels are electronic bits I have been evangelizing about for a while now, and the tanks... can you guess?<br />
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Cyclopeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02820371456654359069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305305806622375800.post-37680788397652203122016-11-22T23:08:00.000-05:002019-04-15T16:51:55.686-04:00HADES Reapers and Spec-Ops K-9'sThis is the first blog post since I moved to Ohio. I finally got settled in enough to work on some miniatures. So far I'm loving it here, very cool people.<br />
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First up we have some of the kit from Clearhorizon's Kickstarter. This is the HADES Recon Light Walker escorted by a HADES Reaper Team. We are about half way through the Kickstarter event as I post this, and they have bugs too, so <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027302274/sigma-event-2177-relaunch?ref=nav_search" target="_blank">Get Some!</a> For those of you living in the future, you can get yours on the <a href="http://clearhorizonminiatures.com/shop/" target="_blank">Clearhorizon</a> website.<br />
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The marvelous Mr. Harold was kind enough to send me a squad of the new HADES Reapers from the Sigma Event 2177 box set. They're sculpted by Anton Ducrot, of <a href="http://www.flytrapfactory.com/home.html" target="_blank">Flytrap Factory</a> fame; very crisp, clean sculpts making them relatively easy to paint. They are big troopers, power-armored and cyber-augmented. The ground cars in the back are some conversions I posted earlier.<br />
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Next is the Covert Ops Cyber-K9 and Handler Operative, also by <a href="http://clearhorizonminiatures.com/shop/shop/15mm/infantryandcombatrobots/covert-ops-cyber-k9-and-handler-operative/" target="_blank">Clearhorizon Miniatures</a>, and also well sculpted. What can I say, you had me at teched-up AK-47.<br />
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I really love the styling on the Operative, super clean. The jury is still out, but this may be my favorite trooper from Clearhorizon. Yeah, but those Hell Divers, I don't know... tough call.<br />
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I'm still warming up to my Hell Diver army. I think I ended up with over two platoons when I finally stopped spending. I need to work on some terrain before I get stuck-in on a big project, and then there's all the other things.<br />
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I don’t usually ink infantry, but the detail on these models is so fine that I couldn’t show it all off by just painting in the usual highlights. They are made for ink. It settles right down into those details just right.<br />
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I’d like to try this project again with airbrushing the basecoats, dark from the bottom and light from the top then hit it with ink and done. I think that would be just about all it would take. Maybe pick out the guns and edges with a brush before the ink.<br />
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I was excited to try out Clearhorizon’s new hex tile sci-fi bases. They are a very nice product, though a bit tricky. You cut through the cast on, metal base right around the model’s feet, straight down like you’re taking their shoe size. At this point they look like they have on platform shoes. Then drill out holes in the sci-fi base to match where the feet go and just super glue the platforms into the holes; Bob’s your uncle. They fit right over a US penny, which is what I did here to maintain my magnet base system, and I like the added weight, such as it is. The acrylic is very sturdy and the hex pattern can really posh up a model nicely.<br />
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The 7<sup>th</sup> hour came and went on the rumbly, dusty track that passed for a road out in the Inhab. Kilometer after kilometer of deserted, rocky waste rolled by. Sure it was <i>going </i>to be an Eden, god's new promised land, a fertile, bountiful paradise where citizens could idle their time away pondering the greater questions of life and what it means to be alive; but now is <i>our </i>time. I mean, someone has to tend to the vast terraformation apparatus of this world; and for what, some future generation, able to walk free among the trees and vales? <br />
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For now, though, there is kilometer after kilometer of lifeless, rocky wasteland. You could call it the badlands, or as we say the Inhab; Inhabitable Zone. The mind does tend to wander out here, with nothing new to see. Blue sky is a blessing, at least we have that in common with Old Earth, but otherwise brown and tan is the whole landscape before us.<br />
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The thrumming of the engine and the occasional whoosh of wind outside the truck; the tinny stream of country-western coming from the radio, we're not completely hopeless after all. The atmo out here is, of course, barely breathable. That's why we wear the sup-ox respirators outside. We are still in the microbial genus of the terraformation process, after all. Which is to say, you could last a few hours at most outside, at which point you'd begin to dream. If you're lucky, you might be able to shake it off, get up and locate some supplementary oxygen, but that's only if you're lucky.<br />
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In the Inhab, you have to bring your sup-ox. The familiar band of habitable atmo that surrounds the equator, the Habzo, is where civilization, such as it is, can flourish. The climate around the planet's midriff, if you will, is breathable. That's the stage of T-formation we live in; barring the occasional storm passing though, bringing CO<sub>2</sub> in its wake, like a plague, only less biological and more fundamental.<br />
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Maintenance supplies are routed regularly to the <i>HVAT-25 Atmospheric Scrubbers</i>; it’s our job to get it there; lucky us! But at least it’s better than the alternative. It's totally stupid, but if we let our contract slip, then the republicans will be able to claim our hold as territory of the Republic, god forbid! Those loonies would have us all hup-tooing their progressive line before the day grew long!<br />
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No, we had a contract, a contract with the original colonial authority, not whatever passes for a CA these days. <br />
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We were here long before they ever showed up, and we'll be here long after they’ve sucked their last molecule of CO<sub>2</sub> in the street, or I'm not a free-holder by the grace of god the almighty!<br />
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Without any weapons mounted, they will carry fighters around, deploy weapon and comm systems in the field, and even provide medevac, when necessary. They will also make excellent mission targets.<br />
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They are kit bashed from WWII British artillery tractors, but as you can see, they make much better Sci-Fi trucks. <br />
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I glued three pins on each side to hold some tie-down string, which I'll add later after the base coating is done.<br />
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No matter how strictly he had trained, though, or how many missions he had completed, as he padded silently along the clean, white corridor of the installation, a tremor of electric adrenaline spiked down through his core, through his guts and ran out to his finger tips and his toes. A carefully memorized, three dimensional schematic of the target complex revealed itself in his mind and rotated around until it locked into position, oriented with the sterile structure around him. The server room lay directly ahead, a short walk, a few layers of automated security, and direct access to the data‑net would be his; it was almost too easy.<br />
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So, of course, it was. It wasn’t so much a direct perception as it was a feeling in the back of his neck, instinct, intuition; the culmination of a whole lifetime spent in drill after drill after drill, until the skill, the perception, the attention to detail merged into him. It became him, and he became it, and when the foreign operative entered Sub‑Level 5, he knew it instantly.<br />
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His fingers worked quickly at the access panel to the server room, eyes scanning the corridor for any company. Biomimetic film, sequenced nano‑injection and a few other bits of tradecraft had the door sliding open in a moment, but he felt the presence watching him. Too quiet to be station security, and why hadn’t they tripped the alarm, surely they knew about him just as he knew about them? Inside the doorway now and with his back pressed against the wall, taught and alert, he slowly drew the long, high‑density ceramic blade, eyed the banks of data‑net servers before him, and waited for the server room door to slide closed, maybe with his mystery companion locked on the other side, he might have the chance he needed to upload the raid‑ware.<br />
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The door did slide closed, and the automated locking mechanisms snapped‑to with absolute confidence, but the comforting solitude he expected was not there. Suddenly, though, she was there, right in front of him, just out of blade reach, but there. He was familiar, of course, with the concept of chameleon skin, a nanite matrix that refracts light around its subject, rendering it effectively invisible. A brilliant, technological impossibility, or so he thought.<br />
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From the top of her head to the tips of her toes she was decked out in a skintight bodysuit that covered everything, but hid nothing. The nanite matrix disengaged, he supposed, to punctuate her entrance, she stood in the aisle between the server banks, covering him with a sleek little carbine that was just made for action.<br />
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Everything about her said <i>Syndicate</i>, and things were about to get messy.Cyclopeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02820371456654359069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305305806622375800.post-80132932114123763162014-08-08T23:43:00.000-04:002019-04-15T17:08:29.215-04:00Mercenaries / Colonial SecurityWell, here we are at post number three, and this time, we have a squad of Security Personnel / Mercenaries, courtesy of <a href="http://clearhorizonminiatures.com/shop/" target="_blank">ClearHorizon Miniatures</a>, Mr. Harold’s fine miniatures establishment, famous for their Orbital Drop Pods and the completely insane Hell Divers that ride them.<br />
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This model set’s versatility is quite appealing, a nice blend of regular and irregular. They can play the mining company’s security team, or the miner union’s enforcers; heartless mercenary bastards sent to oppress colony villages or resilient colonial citizens, ready to fight off all comers in defense of their little piece of space. And if you use them as I plan to, their role can switch around from game to game, depending on which faction needs reinforcements.<br />
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These guys are finely detailed and well proportioned. The faces are symmetrical and convincing. The clothing and equipment is a nice mixture of uniform and mismatched. I chose to paint them in a uniform, but you could paint them in different colored gear just as easily. And I love the authentic sculpt of the AK-47; that guy’s my favorite.<br />
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To be honest, I wasn’t really sure about these guys initially, but having gone through the process with them I can say that the Merc’s are definitely worth the effort. They are excellent candidates for wash methods. I don’t usually use washes, but I did on these guys. Their coats are very finely detailed, the kind of fine that screams ‘Wash Me!’ So I brushed in some highlights, then hit them with a thinned out brown ink, and I’m completely satisfied with the results; and the visors, I love the visors, what a great opportunity to explode the gem technique, very nice.<br />
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These are some colonial militia scout cars I finished up
a little while ago. They represent a two‑seater field car, basically the same
as the colony civilians drive; unarmored, ultra‑compact, and, in typical
colonist fashion, loaded down with all kinds of gear. They are atmo‑sealed and
have air reserves, so if a storm comes along they can provide a safe haven, but
they have no air‑lock, so you better have your respo gear, if you plan on
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In keeping with the militia’s emphasis on technical
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facilities, over offensive military capability, the cars don’t have any weapons
mounted to fire directly from the vehicle. They can carry deployable equipment
that they drop off around the table, remote missile packs, comm transmitters,
or even ammo reloads for the battle mechs. And of course, they are tied in to
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They are kit‑bashed from a toy called ‘nano-speed’, the
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The stowage consists of capacitors, resistors and diodes
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as it solves all my sci‑fi barrel and box requirements, and which you will be
seeing a lot more of in the future. I spent about a month of hobby time taking
apart every circuit board I could get my hands on, and now I have what I’m
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I had a problem with some wash that I tried out on these
guys. I’m always looking for an easier faster way to paint, but this one didn’t
turn out too well. I probably didn’t use it right, but for the life of me I
couldn’t find any guides online that show how it should be done. I basically
drenched the model in the wash and let it go. I put it on over a dull coat, as
opposed to gloss, which may have contributed to the trouble. But as you can see
the dark tones of the wash migrated up to the raised areas, where you want your
highlights, rather than settle into the crevices like a good dog –er wash, a
good wash. If you have any advice regarding this product please share it,
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Here's a Colonial Militia task force
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And just for fun, Here's my full Colonial Militia Force so far. They have some kit bashed blower tanks in the pipeline, but otherwise they are done for the foreseeable future.<br />
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Tom KelleyCyclopeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02820371456654359069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305305806622375800.post-30104832764721641732014-06-15T17:12:00.001-04:002019-02-16T17:52:05.923-05:00Radical ReinforcementsI just finished a batch of 15mm Sci‑Fi radicals, armed to the teeth with RPG’s, SAW’s, and assault rifles. These <a href="http://picoarmor.com/pico-products.cfm?id=210&p=Sci-Fi%20%2815%20mm%29">Oddzial Osmy</a> (O8) miniatures are awesome and I love each and every sculpt. I’ll be using them to represent a variety of factions; anarchists, eco‑terrorists, and union heavies to name a few.<br />
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As you can see, the sculpts are really imaginative, a solid line of low‑tech sci‑fi. They have a ton of variety, and this batch represents only about half of the sculpts available now. Each model has a lot of character, and the group as a whole comes off as a little bit punk, a little bit rock‑n‑roll. They would fit right in in Mega‑City 1, duking it out with the law.<br />
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The pewter that they are cast with is a very hard, brittle material; more so than the usual white metal. I made the mistake of trying to bend one of my colonial militia (NVL) guys at the legs. Well he now slogs into battle on a pair of prosthetics. But having learned that lesson, I now really like the properties of the metal. I have confidence these guys will be very robust on the table top, no bent gun barrels and the like.<br />
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