Ogres marsch!

Thanks to the gentlemanly acts of Mr. Tim Porter, I've received my Plasmablast 1/300 Marhaf Legion miniatures months before I could've normally expected them!

Yesterday evening, I finally got a chance to paint some of them up and here they are, Masquerading as Ogres, or what Mathieu Moyen of Six Commando fame calls "Rumblers" - ridiculously large cybertanks, in any case) for my ever-growing Grey Army.

Here we see three Ogres - a big one and two littler ones (let's call them a Mark V and two Mark IIIBs) advancing past a mining village in the bleak outback of Smade´s World. They are escorted by a company of Oddzial Osmy Caesarion MBTs, reinforced by a platoon of Matabele-mounted panzergrenadiers.

Yes, those are Doms Decals 1/600 Beglian roundels on those figs. I use them exclusively because I like the color scheme. They mean nothing as of yet because, as readers of this blog know, I have still not decided on a background for the Grey Army. All I know at this point is that they are fighting The New Vistula Legion Neo-Pole Mercenaries and their employers, the Revolutionary Army of Salvation, for control over Smade's World's unobtanium fields and hand wavium processing facilities.

Future War Commander in 1/600: Grey Army

Here's the Grey Army (as yet nameless, though Lukas sent in some good ideas), finally completed for Future War Commander in 1/600 (or 3mm) scale.

This is the 3rd Combined Arms Combat Team, built around a titan regiment of five squadrons. Each squadron has two troops and there are four light squadrons and one heavy. The grey heavy titans are heavily armored and mount a uniqued area point-defence system which is designed to shoot down missiles and artillery rounds. Their main weapon is a starship-grade particle accelerator. The heavy titans are also HQ units and have an electronic warfare capacity. The light titans are built for speed and are the smallest vehicles in the Human Sphere to mount shield generators. The shield geometries available due to this unique design decision require that the rail gun be slung under the titan's belly rather than mounted on top, where it would be more effective.

The greys have spent a lot of money upgrading their titan forces in recent years and their mecha arm has suffered. Here, we see a small mecha battalion (two HQs, nine line mecha troops, three light mecha troops and a mecha artillery support battery), equipped with Hünds, a solid but now somewhat obsolete mecha design.

Two conventional combined arms battalions are also part of the team. These are composed of two HQs, six MBTs, 6 IFVs and 6 heavy conventional infantry platoons. A large mobile artillery battery is attached to each battalion and a rocket artillery battery serves as the Team's heavy long-range fire support. Also attached directly to Brigade Headquarters is a armored car recon squadron. Fast recon mechs are on the Grey's "to buy" list. In the meantime, the Grey's command staff is debating attaching a heavy scout squadron to this unit, which would include 3 missile-armed APCs and 3 scout platoons.

The Team's fourth and final main unit is an air cavalry regiment, made up of six attack helicopter troops.

Brigade support includes a squadron of light attack craft and an obsolete (but still very tough) cybertank named "Fred".

First Shots: Future War Commander Grey Army in 3mm

My 1/600 scale Grey Army for Future War Commander is almost completed. By "Grey", of course, I mean the color and not the little anal-probing aliens. I still need a decent off-color name for this force, so all creative suggestions are welcome!

The figures are a DP9 Recon Armiger for the titan in the middle (the one with the Angry Marines graffiti on it) flanked by Trooper Drones from the same manufacture. In front of the titans, we have a line of Ground Zero Games Hound Dog mecha and in front of them, O8 Leopard IIs, Marders and Israeli infantry.

Still to go on this project: touching up another Armiger and 4 more Trooper drones, basing 6 Luchs armored cars for recon and applying some final color details to the infantry (I think they need a red shoulder patch so that they jump out a little more).