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I got the DBX plague with pretty much that same idea - and then the WP alpha rules hit. Gah. Maybe the beta rules will draw me back in though - I certainly hope so.

I'm hoping Warpath: Firefight will be the ruleset we're looking for.

We'll find out soon...

Im not sure I'm planning to use my anything for dbx... All getting absorbed into other stuff.

Am I the only one who bought DBX stuff to play DBX with?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Am I the only one who bought DBX stuff to play DBX with?

I bought it in the hope that at some point Darling Jack Movement Restriction will be horribly murdered and I'll start playing all forms of DB again, but I suspect I'll be disappointed.

Or: "no, you weren't".

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Am I the only one who bought DBX stuff to play DBX with?

Nah, I'm using everything else for it's intended purpose. My Plague "mutants" are just getting repurposed as they are better figures than the actual 2A figures (imho).

Veermyn and Pathfinder test sprues

(Attachments for now while I'm on my phone I'll direct link later)

Veermyn sprues are a little chaotic but I really like the look of the pathfinders. Only have 10 coming but I could see getting more like that at retail.

Wow I'm glad I didn't get any pathfinders, 3 of them look like they have a major waist problem!

I think they look bloody brilliant.

overtyrant wrote:
Wow I'm glad I didn't get any pathfinders, 3 of them look like they have a major waist problem!

I don't think that is a problem but a side effect of being chicks.

Surely your waist is not going to be that thin in armor, even for a women! Should you even be able to tell by the waist at 28mm if a model is a female or not?

overtyrant wrote:
Surely your waist is not going to be that thin in armor, even for a women! Should you even be able to tell by the waist at 28mm if a model is a female or not?

Depends how thick the armour is, doesn't it? Pathfinders are the lightest in armour, looks more like protective should pads and breast plate attached to a thin polymer weave with small ERA-like inserts where the plate doesn't cover.

ie at the waste it's more or less slightly stiff and segmented lycra

They just don't look right to me, the males are absolutely fine but the females waist looks like the have some sort of torture girdle on.

Looks like Mantic is catching up pretty fast in making good use of sprue space. I am impressed that they managed to cram so much on single-sheet sprues.

Yeah, those sprues are pretty bonkers. Good job.

Here's full front and backs of each.

So... six sets of legs for five Pathfinder bodies? That's pretty cool!

Very happy with these sprues.

Yeah the Pathfnders have extra parts for the sniper but you can build 5 regular Pathfinders as well. The Veermyn also have a 6th torso for the heavy weapon ( name escapes me) but you can build 5 regular Veermyn. There's a good lot of variety on those sprues and it shows they can fit 6 or 7 miniatures on a sprue so maybe a varied Rebs sprue is possible.

Maybe there could be a new alien race built from the spare Pathfinder legs and spare Veermyn torso

I'm really looking forward to the rules. Have god a nice ~40 model Raging Heroes Iron Empire "Army" which I think could be a proxy for the enforcers.

Still hoping for an "Uncharted Worlds" book for using 40k armies like they did with KoW and WFB

Hmm, mix and match Enforcers, Pathfinders, and space zombies?

 dragqueeninspace wrote:

overtyrant wrote:
Wow I'm glad I didn't get any pathfinders, 3 of them look like they have a major waist problem!

I don't think that is a problem but a side effect of being chicks.

The hips should have been the differentiating part then, no? Typically, when I see a woman with the same hip shape and width as a man's, she doesn't have some tiny little waist above it. That's just photoshop fails bad. #bodyhorror

Other than that, though, I'm glad Mantic is at least trying to add some women to their Sci Fi minis roster.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Other than that, though, I'm glad Mantic is at least trying to add some women to their Sci Fi minis roster.

But they don't have shapely bosom armor, high heeled jackboots, electro whips and nip-spikes. How do I know they're women?

 judgedoug wrote:

But they don't have shapely bosom armor, high heeled jackboots, electro whips and nip-spikes. How do I know they're women?

Same problem many guys have in certain parts of west London

And even then it's 50/50...

Remember lads, at 28mm scale things need to be exaggerated a little bit for us wargaming blokes.

Sure it'd be nice if they were more along the lines of Statuesque miniatures. On the contrary if you take a look at Infinity they manage to pack in all sorts of curvy detail into a more 'real' scale 28mm mini.

Can we please not have yet another cheesecake discussion here?

And can we please, please not hold up infinity's depiction of female anatomy as something to aspire to? Ye gods, speaking of ridiculously cartoonish depictions - I'd pick these pathfinders any day.

Very... nineties look to those sprue bits and layouts. Gonna be honest, I have doubts these'll look very natural when built. Serviceable, maybe, but off.

And I like me mah skavens, but cartoonied-up skaven in a gruff, hi-tech sci-fi setting never sat well with me.

BobtheInquisitor wrote:The hips should have been the differentiating part then, no? Typically, when I see a woman with the same hip shape and width as a man's, she doesn't have some tiny little waist above it. That's just photoshop fails bad. #bodyhorror

Yep. On first impressions, this is gonna look like Mantic didn't learn very many lessons from the Basilean sisters.

RedSarge wrote:Remember lads, at 28mm scale things need to be exaggerated a little bit for us wargaming blokes.

You still believe that?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 dragqueeninspace wrote:

overtyrant wrote:
Wow I'm glad I didn't get any pathfinders, 3 of them look like they have a major waist problem!

I don't think that is a problem but a side effect of being chicks.

The hips should have been the differentiating part then, no? Typically, when I see a woman with the same hip shape and width as a man's, she doesn't have some tiny little waist above it. That's just photoshop fails bad. #bodyhorror

Other than that, though, I'm glad Mantic is at least trying to add some women to their Sci Fi minis roster.

Agreed, Dreamforge is a good example of how to differentiate females in a 28mm scale sci fi setting. I'm also glad to see Mantic including women without removing half their clothes first.