Starting this thread for Mantic's Firefight. I've ordered some kits and the starter. A group from our
local LGS is interested. I intend to do some demos, and I already know my son wants to give it a go.

Let's discuss our experiences, thoughts, and share pics about this game here.

Really think this should be in the Mantic Sub Forum.

 Theophony wrote:
Really think this should be in the Mantic Sub Forum.

Totally forgot about that -- a MOD moved it already, thanks.

my Starter Set is still "on the way" and I just hope the store I ordered from did not mess his stocks up (the stand alone rulebook is already listed as sold out there)

My plan for now is to use some old, still on sprue resin minis from Raging Heroes from their 2nd Kickstarter for the first army (along with the Marauders from the Starter as opponent), simply to show what is possible with the game/force lists and that people don't have to think narrowly when they try to get into it or want to use existing armies

 kodos wrote:
my Starter Set is still "on the way" and I just hope the store I ordered from did not mess his stocks up (the stand alone rulebook is already listed as sold out there)

My plan for now is to use some old, still on sprue resin minis from Raging Heroes from their 2nd Kickstarter for the first army (along with the Marauders from the Starter as opponent), simply to show what is possible with the game/force lists and that people don't have to think narrowly when they try to get into it or want to use existing armies

That's a cool idea about the demonstration of system flexibility.
I'm nervous about my starter too --- it is still in pre-order status.

I recently got my 2 player starter set. Already have assembled the Enforcers side and now in the middle of the Marauder's side. I'm really excited about this edition. I have 1st edition just never got a chance to play.

got the shipping confirmation, so everything should arrive end of next week

the hype is real

Painted up a couple of boxes of Stargrave troopers as a GCPS force, and my Dreamforge Eisenkern will do as Enforcers (although I have enough Cadians to proxy my proxies...) plus enough vehicles and walkers to fill out both armies. Can do something similar with Asterians and Eldar, and my Space Marines can do double duty as Forge Fathers. Looking forward to this, as I'm trying the game out with friends, along with Grimdark Future.

Been reading through the rulebook, everything seems clearly explained. One thing for you @kodos or anyone else who participated in the beta:

The terrain placement guidelines on page 48 of the rules say you should use 1 piece of 6" by 6" terrain in each 12" square of the gameboard, plus 1 extra. Same for linear obstacles.

On a 4ft by 4 ft board, that's 17 pieces of terrain and the same for obstacles. Which is a lot. The example in the next paragraph the example given is 5 pieces of terrain and 5 linear obstacles on a 4ft by 4ft board. Should the rules say one terrain piece in each 24" square?

Got my starter set, rules seem pretty clear, but yes, same question as above.

I miss having a little bit of fluff for each different unit, but I realize these are more gaming books than fluff books, which is fine.

 Momotaro wrote:
Been reading through the rulebook, everything seems clearly explained. One thing for you @kodos or anyone else who participated in the beta:

The terrain placement guidelines on page 48 of the rules say you should use 1 piece of 6" by 6" terrain in each 12" square of the gameboard, plus 1 extra. Same for linear obstacles.

On a 4ft by 4 ft board, that's 17 pieces of terrain and the same for obstacles. Which is a lot. The example in the next paragraph the example given is 5 pieces of terrain and 5 linear obstacles on a 4ft by 4ft board. Should the rules say one terrain piece in each 24" square?

Sounds like what they mean is that 25% of the board should be covered in terrain. I'd guess most pieces of terrain are bigger than 6x6 inches.

 Momotaro wrote:

The terrain placement guidelines on page 48 of the rules say you should use 1 piece of 6" by 6" terrain in each 12" square of the gameboard, plus 1 extra. Same for linear obstacles.

On a 4ft by 4 ft board, that's 17 pieces of terrain and the same for obstacles. Which is a lot. The example in the next paragraph the example given is 5 pieces of terrain and 5 linear obstacles on a 4ft by 4ft board. Should the rules say one terrain piece in each 24" square?

Terrain rules are the one thing that changed most from the beta, (and I am a metric guy)
but I think it should be one large terrain piece per 24"/60cm (or one Deadzone board) as this is also what they used in the promo videos
also it was said that you can use the terrain from Deadzone for Firefight, not just the same model line but the amount you would use on 60x60 for Deadzone spread out on 120x120 for Firefight



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PS:
My plan for the Raging Heroes models:

Faction: Asterians, 1000 points

Overseer [Command] Points: 100
1 x Overseer
1 x Drone (Shuuvatar)

Kalyshi Deathstrike [Command] Points: 40
1 x Kalyshi Deathstrike

Black Talons [Specialist] Points: 180 (360)
5 x Black Talons

2x Kalyshi [Troop] Points: 90 (180)
5 x Kalyshi

2x Cyphers [Troop] Points: 160 (320)
4 x Cyphers
1 x Cyphers (Fission Beamer)


elite/low model force, everything non-living gets helmets as remote controlled drones, which fits the skinny armoured design of the models

Gotcha. Makes sense too, with more vehicles and the like to manoeuvre around the table.

Thanks for that kodos!

Received my Enforcer army box, and some separate Marauder kits, with their army box arriving soon. Disappointed to see they these large box sets still do not contain assembly instructions.

Yeah, that's a ongoing issue for mantic. The instructions in the starter set are basic but still quite helpful. Extending that to the whole range would be really worthwhile.

 krijthebold wrote:
Yeah, that's a ongoing issue for mantic. The instructions in the starter set are basic but still quite helpful. Extending that to the whole range would be really worthwhile.

That is good news -- I have a starter on its way as well. I'll take any help I can get. Cheers and thanks.

Mantic has uploaded videos for building the vehicles
Enforcer Pathfindern and Forge Fathers Steel Warriors are around the web, the other Enforcer units and Marauders are in the 2 Player Set.

need to scan those when my box arrives and make a collection of available instructions, the only ones really missing are Veer-Myn and Plague

 kodos wrote:
Mantic has uploaded videos for building the vehicles
Enforcer Pathfindern and Forge Fathers Steel Warriors are around the web, the other Enforcer units and Marauders are in the 2 Player Set.

need to scan those when my box arrives and make a collection of available instructions, the only ones really missing are Veer-Myn and Plague

That would be helpful for a lot of people Kudos.

Getting my army box assembled; this is a Maccrage blue over black primer.

It will be the foundation for my Enforcer color scheme, mixed with gold or grey additional details and metallic weaponry.

Yes to more instructions!

That sounds like a nifty color scheme too.

I'll share my purple enforcers on here at some point.

 krijthebold wrote:
Yes to more instructions!

That sounds like a nifty color scheme too.

I'll share my purple enforcers on here at some point.

Purple is my fav color, would absolutely love to see a few pics of them when time permits.

I'm really enjoying Firefight, along with my spawn who's playing Asterians. I have a fair sized Veer-myn Deadzone force, but mixed up the starter Enforcers with some stuff lying around the house:

More in me P&m

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I'm really enjoying Firefight, along with my spawn who's playing Asterians. I have a fair sized Veer-myn Deadzone force, but mixed up the starter Enforcers with some stuff lying around the house:

More in me P&m

Nice work! I'm going to be trying Firefight with my spawn as well.

I love the red effect on those blades -- may I ask how you did them?

Many thanks, super easy: prime white, yellow ink, drybrush Vallejo flame orange, drybrush edges Vallejo scarlet red. Glow on armour is just the orange and red. Easy as pie!

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:

 krijthebold wrote:
Yes to more instructions!

That sounds like a nifty color scheme too.

I'll share my purple enforcers on here at some point.

Purple is my fav color, would absolutely love to see a few pics of them when time permits.

I'm not very good but here are some of my purple guys:

^Ace!
Pathfinders (and some DZ scatter) done:

Very happy with the Pathfinder squads. I suspect I'll run them as two teams of 5 with DOGGs and assign the Snipers to the Forward Observer to make a truly lethal sniper team.

Really like how those dogs turned out.

Robo puppies are the best, especially with some lasers involved.

Very excited for the game, but will be pressing many GW minis into service as the thought of starting a new army fills me with existential dread.

But the thought of buying a stupid amount of minis for my old armies?

Now yer talkin!

here is a collection of the current available assembly instructions

https://www.reddit.com/r/warpath/wiki/instructions

 kodos wrote:
here is a collection of the current available assembly instructions

https://www.reddit.com/r/warpath/wiki/instructions

Very excellent! Especially the weapon pictures for people who don't have access to those. Figuring out which weapon is which can be a bit tricky in some of those kits.

I’m still assembling the models. Hope to play a learning game sometime this weekend. Anyone else playing any games recently? Any other thoughts about the rules overall?

Been following the FB group and it seems like mostly positive impressions of the gameplay (though it’s obviously a bit biased).

Also, is anyone in a gaming group that is planning on spending their money for the new 30K box instead of Firefight? It seems the timing of this release was a bit unfortunate (though Firefight looks much more fun to play than 30K).

cpugeek13 wrote:
I’m still assembling the models. Hope to play a learning game sometime this weekend. Anyone else playing any games recently? Any other thoughts about the rules overall?

Been following the FB group and it seems like mostly positive impressions of the gameplay (though it’s obviously a bit biased).

Also, is anyone in a gaming group that is planning on spending their money for the new 30K box instead of Firefight? It seems the timing of this release was a bit unfortunate (though Firefight looks much more fun to play than 30K).

I'm in a similar place -- thankfully my Enforcers have hit the painting stage! I have a game lined up after I get back in town.

A Facebook group helped me locate another player neraby, who has three Firefight armies in progress and is experienced with the system.
Facebook is excellent for finding opponents. As for the "Firefight Fanatics" Group, they may be biased, but the members seems to have a lot of positive experiences
to back up their enthusiasm.

One could say the timing with 30K is not ideal, but GW is pumping out a lot of product, so I'm not sure what other time to launch would be any better.
Had they waited until right after Horus Heresy, that could of been unfortunate.

I was very conflicted about Firefight vs. Horus. It is easy to get swept up in the enthusiasm, but I've decided to play Firefight and give it a real go before buying anything for 30K. I get the impression I will not be picking up Heresy at all -- although the lore is excellent and the models absolutely amazing.
game-play really needs to take precedence for me this time.
I want a new Sci Fi game table-top experience my life, and I simply love what I am seeing about Firefight's rules. I was never a fan of 7th Edition 40K, and it is not easy to
put lipstick on a pig.




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 inmygravenimage wrote:
^Ace!
Pathfinders (and some DZ scatter) done:

Very happy with the Pathfinder squads. I suspect I'll run them as two teams of 5 with DOGGs and assign the Snipers to the Forward Observer to make a truly lethal sniper team.

These looks good man! I dig the gritty urban feel. I'm not sure how all the rules for these specialist units for Enforcers work just yet, but I'm looking
forward to experimenting with them.


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These paint up fairly well.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1142154-Firefight%2C%20Mantic%2C%20Enforcer%20Peacekeepers%20.ht

I'm with Shrapnelsmile, and a bit over putting all that lipstick on the various pigs of the past few years. I got pretty excited about GW models 10+ years ago (I was a grenadier kid, and never much got into GW as a youngster), but game after game has just been... crappy.

So now I shamelessly play Mantic games with my beautiful GW models. And increasingly, the models have become a nice mix of GW, Mantic, and the odd figure from some other model range.

I play with a bunch of friends, and we also can't be bothered to play crappy rules. Still haven't gotten my copy of Firefight rules, but am looking forward to trying it out someday.

started experimenting with the Marauders



and for the bases, 15x1,2mm M5 (for 5mm magnets) metal washer fits perfect

Very nice!

Link to a Batrep on my plog with my boy, Asterians vs Enforcers, 1000 pts, Corner Deployment. Good fun.

Enforcers done, except I'm waiting for some suitable tufts to liven up the base a bit.
These models, with far less bling than other ranges, paint up very fast.

Nice chunky boys!

Yeah, I've been finding the enforcers to be just fun and relaxing and quick to paint.

Great work on yours, Shrapnelsmile!

 krijthebold wrote:
Yeah, I've been finding the enforcers to be just fun and relaxing and quick to paint.

Great work on yours, Shrapnelsmile!

Thank you both so much. Yes these are much more pleasant to paint.
I'm not stressing about making "mistakes" when a unit of five doesn't cost $49.

I need to add something to the bases, may even switch to a different recipe I found, and modify these to match as best as I can.
Stay tuned for the update in a few weeks.

Cheers

Had a blast playing my first match. We ran 1K, Forge Fathers (my kind and patient opponent), and my Enforcers.

The game board prior to conflict:






Infantry take cover from Peacekeeper fire.


and my recently finished Peacekeeprs (re-worked with Turbo Dork orange metallic)

We are playing again this Sunday. I'll take better / more pics. Enforcers vs. Marauders for this one, along with possibly another game at the same time -- unsure of the factions.

Ordered the two players starter, mainly for use in grim dark future. Later when I was comparing that box to the $100 army deals, I noticed the two players option doesn’t include any leaders.

Is FF playable without a leader?

2 player starter as in the Firefight Boxset? Absolutely comes with leaders. It's just in the build/loadout. I built 2 different Enforcer leaders, and iirc you can build a Marauder Ripper commander also.

1) Yes it is. You get 3 black command dice even without a leader. There are 2 generic commands, and 3 faction-specific commands.

You'll miss out on the extra dice from leaders (fewer command points, more likely to lose the first-round initiative roll) and each leader's unique command. It's not huge.

I think technically your force org needs one leader, but to start off you can ignore that.

2) The Rippers and Peacekeepers deploy in units of 2+ models, so it's easy to make one of the figures a commander.

The Commandos and Enforcers are in units of 5+, so it's also easy to name one figure as a commander and give them a bodyguard or two and field the rest in stronger units, or specialist units such as engineers (3 figures).

Thanks for the replies. I meant that the force boxes (one faction of guys usually with a vehicle and a special often resin leader type) have a dedicated leader figure included. The two players box with orcs and enforcers doesn’t have dedicated leaders included

Fortunately, as you pointed out, you can build one from a regular squad and redistribute the remaining guys as either bodyguards or extra bodies in the other squads

800 points demo game for a friend today (he's a wargamer, handled it well). We had such a good time.

Ace! Love the board too.

Looks fantastic! My FLGS reported my Firefight dice are in, so hopefully we'll get this to the table soon

Looks like a great game!

In answer to my question about leaders and the two players starter, there’s a couple sample force lists. They tell you to use an included model as the leaders.

On another note:
-Absolutely love the enforcer accuser aircraft. Excellent model that went together so easily. Built and painted it the day after receiving.
-Enforcer infantry are fiddly as hell. Holy moly, their peacekeepers are a royal pain to assemble.

I agree with all the above on building lol.
On the subject of Force building, came across this excellent builder:
https://tacticalwargames.world/firefight-list-builder/

Nice! Free is always good.

I like easyarmy.com, and they're free for most stuff, but you can pay a wee bit to get extra features.

Enforcers completed. Orcs are next.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Ace! Love the board too.

Thanks everyone, we had fun on that ice table.

I told a buddy how much of a breeze and a pleasure these are to paint. One reason, I assured him, was that the stress is fully removed when
five infantry models don't cost $40.

He's army box shopping as we speak :-)

Finally decided on a paint Scheme. Marauders are my first project that I intend to complete 1K for Firefight.

Ooh nice. Very warmahordes.

Bloody game today, 1K of Marauders vs. GCPS.
Here's after initial deployment.
In retrospect, probably not enough cover on the board. My orcs got shot to hell. But I was advancing fast and
we wanted to see how the different GCPS orders would work when paired with certain units. I got educated!
It was a blast to play again.

So i got the 2 player starter, read the rule book and build my first 10 marauders. I can't deny that the ruleset really excites me, I hope some friends came be convinced to check it out. Until then the minis will feature in my Five parsec campaigns

Brickfix wrote:
So i got the 2 player starter, read the rule book and build my first 10 marauders. I can't deny that the ruleset really excites me, I hope some friends came be convinced to check it out. Until then the minis will feature in my Five parsec campaigns

I hope so too -- the gameplay is so good it is kind of an "easy sell" to get others into the system as opponents.
With a good start on two armies, you can provide the fun for now. Cheers.

A belated note to say I'm loving the game reports and the Marauders, @shrapnelsmile!

 Momotaro wrote:
A belated note to say I'm loving the game reports and the Marauders, @shrapnelsmile!

Thank you so much -- glad to hear it!

Just finished a few more. The original pic was a bit dark, so this is the auto-adjusted image. Captures it well enough, thanks for viewing this thread. Are you working on anything Mantic?

That pic looks top. Love your bluerauders.

I love those orange and blue marauders

Yeah they really pop! Maybe I have to incorporate more flashy colors

Brickfix wrote:
Yeah they really pop! Maybe I have to incorporate more flashy colors

Thank you so much everyone. I'm enjoying them.

Up next is a rather lovely model, a Warlord from a Mantic direct order.


I'll be sure and post when completed.

Cheers, and let's see your Firefight / Deadzone hobby progress!

I painted up this Jotunn for this month's Dakka Painting Challenge:


I mostly play Deadzone, so it won't be seeing a lot of time on the table, but it's one more finished model, and that's what counts.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I painted up this Jotunn for this month's Dakka Painting Challenge:


I mostly play Deadzone, so it won't be seeing a lot of time on the table, but it's one more finished model, and that's what counts.

really nice work and a rad model. I haven't faced any of those before.

Finished this cumbersome lad tonight.
Feedback for improvements welcomed.

He's too sexy for his goggles

 pancakeonions wrote:
He's too sexy for his goggles

You called it.
Is anyone working on Veer-Myn?

My son is doing Veer-Myn (slowly but steady)

 kodos wrote:
My son is doing Veer-Myn (slowly but steady)

I would enjoy seeing his color scheme! Aj tempting third army for me...

he hasn't settled on one yet, we do more building and playing by now (also try to get some of the model cross fit with KoW)

Hola! More Enforcer jetbikes, because rocket launchers are monstrously good.

The one on the left has the replacement fin that I built from plasticard. Very pleased.

And indeed, more Enforcer, more glow.

Resin direct order Captain with claws. Only way to get this cc tank. I've got some Tartarus termie claws so I can build a full unit, as there's no other official sculpt for them.

Wee group shot.
I've got 2 pathfinder monocycles left to do and then onto kitbash the clawed Peacekeeper team, plus I'm partway through a Tunnel Runnel (monowheel of death) for my Veer-Myn - that, at least, should be finished this month, though I'm not going to stress.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Hola! More Enforcer jetbikes, because rocket launchers are monstrously good.

The one on the left has the replacement fin that I built from plasticard. Very pleased.

And indeed, more Enforcer, more glow.

Resin direct order Captain with claws. Only way to get this cc tank. I've got some Tartarus termie claws so I can build a full unit, as there's no other official sculpt for them.

Wee group shot.
I've got 2 pathfinder monocycles left to do and then onto kitbash the clawed Peacekeeper team, plus I'm partway through a Tunnel Runnel (monowheel of death) for my Veer-Myn - that, at least, should be finished this month, though I'm not going to stress.

Those look fantastic! and that direct order captain is a nice model, he may go on my wish list. Cheers and let's see what comes later.

Ok just now finding this after getting back into my Mantic models and starting to get a bit of paint on.

I’m contemplating getting the Firefight book, and Deadzone, as both have changed editions since I last had the rules etc.

Is there an army builder app/website that has current points totals etc if I am to plug in what I currently have to see what I’m working with?

I’m not sure whether the sizes I have would really work.

Secondly, tactically, how would any factions play without really having vehicles? I’ve got lots of troops from the warpath KS. But I sold off or repurposed the vehicles.
Most I have are a couple of weapons platforms for Veermyn and Forge Fathers.
Plenty of big hitters for Plague models wise though potentially.

 McDougall Designs wrote:
I love those orange and blue marauders

Thanks so much! I'm checking out your FB page now. cheers.

Vehicles are far from essential. THere is a new army builder app from Mantic, and iirc it's still free. Both games are excellent.

I thought they did a free one way back but when I went to the Mantic army builder site yesterday I could only see all this subscription stuff. Maybe I missed the free portion.

I used to use Quartermaster and Battlescribe for stuff. If they’re still on the go and still used for Mantic I could look at those if not.


Yeah vehicles I’d rather not delve back in with, at least until I know whether I want to really go all out or not.
See where the points take me first etc.

the Mantic Army Builder is still free, you just need an account which is independent from the subscription

As for vehicles: we have a couple of the big flyers (I play Enforcers, my spawn Asterians) though they're far from necessary, particularly in 1k-1.5 games.

Ok. Shall jump back on the website after I get the kids to bed.
Point up everything I have.

I notice that the Digital Rulebook lists itself as having seven factions-but there are eight factions, now.

A few of mine I’m slowly building and have a little over 1000 pts now

those look great
really like the red-skinned Orks

PS: Mantic has released changes to some units and the Mazon Lab list, via the companion site
https://www.manticgames.com/news/firefight-deadzone-rules-updates/

Seconded on the skin tones. Brilliant basing there too.

 kodos wrote:
those look great
really like the red-skinned Orks

PS: Mantic has released changes to some units and the Mazon Lab list, via the companion site
https://www.manticgames.com/news/firefight-deadzone-rules-updates/

It seems like it requires a subscription to view the Mazon stuff.
Not sure how I feel about that.

you can access the Beta rules via the free list builder
it will show all the rules for Mazon Labs there without subscription (unlike for the other armies)

 kodos wrote:
you can access the Beta rules via the free list builder
it will show all the rules for Mazon Labs there without subscription (unlike for the other armies)

Ah, it will?
Excellent. Thanks for the knowledge.

Edit: It references rules not available without the main book or subscription.
The main book is only $35 digital, so I might snag that.

Edit II: Command Dice. Is there a chart or lookup in the main rulebook or somewhere that'd let me use normal d8s in place of them, for now?

 JNAProductions wrote:

 kodos wrote:
you can access the Beta rules via the free list builder
it will show all the rules for Mazon Labs there without subscription (unlike for the other armies)

Ah, it will?
Excellent. Thanks for the knowledge.

Edit: It references rules not available without the main book or subscription.
The main book is only $35 digital, so I might snag that.

Edit II: Command Dice. Is there a chart or lookup in the main rulebook or somewhere that'd let me use normal d8s in place of them, for now?

I don't believe so, but you could take a pen and paper and design one. Sounds like a hassle -- are dice out of stock?

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:

 JNAProductions wrote:

 kodos wrote:
you can access the Beta rules via the free list builder
it will show all the rules for Mazon Labs there without subscription (unlike for the other armies)

Ah, it will?
Excellent. Thanks for the knowledge.

Edit: It references rules not available without the main book or subscription.
The main book is only $35 digital, so I might snag that.

Edit II: Command Dice. Is there a chart or lookup in the main rulebook or somewhere that'd let me use normal d8s in place of them, for now?

I don't believe so, but you could take a pen and paper and design one. Sounds like a hassle -- are dice out of stock?

No, but I'm not a patient person, and shipping times are blech.
Someone else actually provided the info I needed, though.

Command dice are D6 and there is a chart as those are the same as the Vanguard Power Dice or Hellboy dice (Red=Black, White=Orange and Blue=Green)
https://www.kowforum.com/uploads/db3647/original/2X/0/03d5940314eabb44da2576b4f6a7dd3df615f1d5.jpeg

(I made some out of blank D6 and different coloured markers)

Got a bunch of deadzone terrain painted. I've done them without gluing anything to maintain modularity, and it was annoying to get together as when painted, but I'm happy enough with the outcome! Might do a bit of touching up here and there where the wash dried unevenly is all.

I've gotten this not only to play Deadzone but also to use as terrain to go with my Battle For Cabot set, which I am going to tackle next. The box gave me real 2e 40K vibes and I chose it based on nostalgia, but the thing it's missing that that 2e box had was scenery. So I got a terrain crate of ruins and the Deadzone box to populate at least a small board with a battlefield 12 year old me would have been blown away by.

Making good progress with my Orks, they make excellent Blood Axe boyz. Have knocked together some 1000 and 1500 point lists for Marauders, Forge Fathers and GCPS and I'll do one for Plague as well.

I've been big on making cards for my games of Grimdark Future to help total newbies process their units, it's cool that mantic's app outputs a nice summary of every unit onto a list so I can print it out for my opponent. I might do a laminated sheet of the relevant special rules as well. Probably be a while before I can play any games but I plan on doing some solo games to teach myself the rules anyway.

Just a couple of shots of my finished marauders. Not winning any prizes for sure but I'm happy with them. The scheme is very similar to my Imperial Guard scheme because they're Blood Axes so they might have allied with the Guard and gotten surplus from them, or traded perhaps. I like the Marauder models but the background isn't as good as 40K's space Ork background imo.

Group shot of all of my Demiurg Infantry. I've since finished a tank and a couple of walkers and their little self propelled gun thingy.



Close up of my infantry. I converted some of the steel warriors into jump infantry using bitz from the Hammerfall Exo Suit unit. I dislike how chunky that upgrade makes the exo suits, but the backpacks fit really well on my Steel Warriors. Mantic accidentally sent me both of these units so I felt fine taking risks with them. In Firefight I might use these guys as Thoragrim but more likely I just won't use them, saving them for Grimdark Future and Xenos Rampant.



A close up on my Exo-Suits. I ended up with 18 of these despite only ordering 6, but no worries about that! You might notice one of them has a squid head - there's a couple of these scattered amongst my Steel Warriors too. I got them from I think the North Star Mercenaries sprue. I don't like how human-like the Forge Fathers are and I'm planning to also use them as Demiurg for 40K, so I decided the beard motifs might just as easily be stylised tentacles and decided my Demiurg would have chin tentacles. I imagine them living on gas giants on floating earthbergs, and having to mine for speciifc minerals to expand their territory as densities and material properties are very important for maintaining their cloud cities.

I have a bunch of Brokkrs and some militia that I got sent by accident or in a Crazy Box. I'm going to paint them up as well, so that I can use them in Firefight and Deadzone. I'll just leave out the squid headed lads in those games and use them as by the book Forge Fathers. I suppose it also means I can field a fairly large traditional Squat army, though I prefer my space dwarves as proper aliens these days.

Veer-myn (for 40K themed games, Hrudd) are up next. I still have some Matsudan (Slann) to assemble (and I could do with a Mech for that force as well, maybe a grav tank) and I want to do a bit of work on my Plague to make them look a bit nicer with some greenstuff before I assemble them. I'll be keeping my eye out for any hard plastic Rebs that Mantic might release but otherwise I think I'm happy with what I have.

These are fab! Looking forward to you getting some mecha space dragons on.

Cheers! The matsudan are actually what I'm the most excited about (barring the Forge Fathers).

I wanted a cool looking reptilian sci fi race and they really fit the bill. I was delighted to find out they'd been fleshed out into full faction status, with cool looking mechs and jetbikes.

Unfortunately the Jetbikes are only available in a box with the ronin in Germany which is annoying because I'd like 3 jetbikes but only 1 ronin! But I'll order a mech or two before the end of the year.