I’m not sure what happened here…
This past week I’ve been obsessing a little over the Warhammer 40K
universe...!? Ever since
Fantasy
Flight Games published
Rogue
Trader a few years back I’ve been having moments of nostalgia –
thinking back to those teenage days of playing the original Rogue Trader…
Playing games set in a universe a little darker than that of Star Wars or
Traveller… Anyway, I’ve been wanting to pick the book up for a while, but $65-70 is a bit
steep for a book that I only want to read the fluff from (I have no desire to
use the system – percentile systems just don’t do it for me…). The game also
looks a bit limiting in that I think you only play the “Rogue Trader and his
most trusted counselors”… The original Rogue trader just gave you a simple
skirmish game (including a system whereby you could make your own damn troops
and aliens and vehicles) and some cool fluff and you were basically let loose
in this universe to wreak havoc!
Then when
Only
War came out last fall… well… That fired up my imagination as well.
I’ve always had a soft spot for military role-playing games (probably because of
the potential to mix role-playing and tabletop skirmish…). I’ve played
Revised
Recon,
Behind
Enemy Lines,
Twilight:
2000, and have played no shortage of military campaigns in Traveller,
Traveller: 2300, Space:1889, Savage Worlds, etc, etc…
Now I don’t know what got me on
it again, but I’ve been thinking about trying out running an Only War adventure
(or maybe campaign?) for the kids… I downloaded a pdf of their free sample
adventure (
Eleventh
Hour), but I’ll probably use a mix of Savage Worlds for character
gerneration and skills and such and
Tomorrow’s
War for combat resolution…
Now I also just happen to have a
few Imperial Guard and other 40k figures… some I have from
waaaaaaay
back, others I picked up a few years back while running a Savage
Worlds
Sci-fi campaign - so I have some stuff I can use,
though a few things need to get painted up… and so here, today, are a few of
those things…
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
These are Catachan Jungle
fighters from
Games
Workshop. I think they’re supposed to be sporting red bandanas… but I
think that’s silly…
These are some support teams for the Catachan Jungle fighters - also from
Games Workshop.
Here they are with the rest of
the force so far. Lots of these are I-Kore Void Vasa commandos. I have another
25 or so of these I can paint up. I’ll have about a platoon of three or four squads of 10
troopers… plus some support weapons (2 rocket launchers, the autocannon, a light
mortar and a heavy mortar) and a platoon HQ and Snipers and stuff.
Imperial Guard Tank crew – also
from
Games
Workshop - that I picked up off ebay a while back. As part of this
recent obsession I’ve started reading
Hammer
of the Emperor. I also have a Leman Russ I picked up off of ebay
years back that I may get around to assembling and painting. I also picked up
three 1/48 scale KV-2 tanks that I thought I might try to convert into
something like an Imperial Guard tank… I can’t remember what they’re called…
(Oh, I also tracked down and
watched the
Ultramarines
movie…).
An Astropath - also from
Games Workshop
- this is a more recent purchase… like, this week… I figures he could be handy
in either an Only War scenario/campaign as perhaps an object to be
protected/rescued, or as a major player in a Rogue Trader campaign.
The kids have also been fired up
about painting more miniatures (well, at least the girl is… the boy would
rather play with them… he could care less if they’re painted or not – but we’ll
fix that!!) so I picked up a few squads of plastic Cadian Imperial Guardsmen
off of ebay for them to mess around with when they arrive.
An old Imperial Guard medic from
waaaaaaay
back, that I’ve finally got around to repainting. I was torn between
the “old school” grey uniform and the newer khaki and green of the standard
Cadian uniform…
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Oh, who knows at this point.
Could be more 1914 French, could be more 40k Catachans… or something altogether
completely different!
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