The Prussian VSF army will be 'airboat heavy' (in HotT terms). This required a third airboat (not that all three will necessarily be used in any one game, but certainly in Big Battle HotT it seems that three airboats would give a reasonably different feel to the command challenges of the game.
With the bag of plastic eggs to hand, I felt that I ought to use another egg as the base shape for this third airboat too.
Part the way through construction it looked like this:
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The downward 'thrusters' may look familiar to any gamers from the 70s and 80s .. they are the halves of those fuel tanks that went on the back of the Airfix T34 tank. I never used to use them... they were for road movement rather than being carried in combat. |
So ...
And this is the Prussian air navy' at this stage. There may be additional flyers or aerial heroes, maybe, but given that flyers take an additional movement PIP to move, they can easily become stranded and unable to bring their combat power top bear on the opposing army, so I need to be a little cautious.
The point remains however that I have enjoyed the creative challenge.. not only the challenge of creating a specific aesthetic, but also the creative challenge of re-using scraps and bits and pieces.
tangentially related, in the #1 of comic Strange Combat Tales (1993) the evil Boches have hired a houngan who controls a division of near-unkillable pointy-helmeted zombies from a zeppelin.
ReplyDeleteIn HOTT terms you could have
THE BOCHES
. Airboat General : Éric Charnier in a zeppelin surrounded with German fighter planes
. 1 Magician : Baroness Ursula Lichter, Charnier's liaison cum bodyguard (she lobs fireballs like there's no tomorrow) cum minder
. 8 Spears : zombies
. 1 Lurker : zombie pretending to be dead for good
THE ALLIES
. Horde General : bunch of French generals with guards and machineguns I guess ?
. 9 Hordes : French poilus
. 2 Behemoths : those lovely parallelepipedal English tanks, with French crews
. 1 Flier : French Spad fighter planes, with British pilots
. 1 Hero : Julian Drake whom the Brits freed from an insane asylum so he could win the battle by himself. Notionally ‘the most wicked man in the world’ and with a bloody revenge to take on the Baroness… I hoped for an Aleister Crowley figure but he’s basically a darker shade of a gentleman rogue. With the power of Astroth(sic) within him.
ashimbabbar
Wow... that's an exception list... modelling it in 20mm will be challenging LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting
Robin