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BattleTech,Mech Ammo Stacks."Set" (Inspired by theCrowe's Battletech Markers)
Each Base,Grants an extra 2Points of potential damage at all usable ranges,to the mech that has claimed an ammo marker,and can be destroyed,having 2structure points,
if destroyed explodes with a damage of 5 +1 critical,and a radius of 4"inches.



(Any thoughts,Comments,Ideas for markers,Votes good or bad,all welcome)

@theCrowe: Sounds cool,i should do more ork/goblin markers myself,still not got many bits for it,maybe an old gretchin guarding a pile-ov-gunz or somesuch.

Next Battletech Marker Set 16th September.

Liking these ones! came out very well I think

Howiya lads, lurked on this for a while and gotta say there's some great objective markers here, a lot of inspiration. So I played my first objective based game the other day and we didn't have proper markers so it finally gave me the buzz to go make an idea I had for the 4 chaos gods markers, very similar to your own ones u971 which inspired me as well, but I wanted to go a bit further with each.

So first one, here she is:

 u971 wrote:
BattleTech,Mech Ammo Stacks."Set" (Inspired by theCrowe's Battletech Markers)

This thread is an inspiration super highway!
those Battletech objectives here and originally a lot of my inspiration for these came from the Battletech forums

Are those electrical components? Diodes and such? Looking good whatever they are.

@ Boundless08 - Skulls for the Skull Throne!

@theCrowe,Yep there Capacitors & Diodes,seems they make good ammo cans,figured why not use some actual electronics/robot parts for battletech markers.
@boundless08, Nice Icon,Interesting skull totem in place of the usual pole.

Will post another battletech marker set tomorrow,its a bigone so stay tuned!

Battletech,Civilians&Scientists.
Can be destroyed both types having 2structure points,can be captured in certain missions,Capture enemy scientists,Protect science department staff,Rescue&evacuate civilian population,Destroy civilian population,etc.If playing in a campaign,Both have warchest point/credit values,10k-C/1k-WP Per Civilians,100K-C/5k-WP Per Scientists.

Did you use H0 models for the markers here? Looks very good!

@Viktor von Domm. Yep there for use with railway models,And thanks.

I kept at it and knocked out the nurgle objective marker last night. Needs some more detailing after the greenstuff cures but you get the gist of it:



I don't know what to do for a Slaanesh one at all. If anyone has ideas, let me know

Oooo I like that one,very nurgle,no shame in saying that's better than my icon.
As for Slaanesh,Draping's of Green Stuff Flesh,Sonic Sirens/Rams Horns,And or a ground dwelling Boob,It is Slaanesh after all.

Next Marker from me on the 26th..

That's an awesome idea! Shame I used my last nurgle standard on this guy...

These are some Orky objective markers I made. Made from cereal box cardboard, with some added Imperial transfers. They also work pretty well as ammo crates / scatter terrain.


These are old Warhammer Fantasy square bases with dice from the Dark Vengeance box. A little bit of Martian earth texture paint. The hazard stripes took me a while, but I think they really help the base stand out on the tabletop.


Nothing fancy, but I think they turned out pretty good all things considered.

 Cleatus wrote:

Nothing fancy, but I think they turned out pretty good all things considered.

Definitely! How did you make the boxes?

BattleTech,Coolant Tanks.
Each Base,Grants 1/2/4Points of Heat Level Loss per end phase to the claimed side,for a single mech,and can be destroyed,having 2structure points per tank.



@Cleatus.
Cereal box card huh,nice choice in materials used it myself in the past,Nice color on the boxes and riveting.

torblind wrote:

 Cleatus wrote:

Nothing fancy, but I think they turned out pretty good all things considered.

Definitely! How did you make the boxes?

Thanks! I don't want to flood this thread with WIP shots, so I made a tutorial over on my P&M blog. Here's a link:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/330/630880.page#9632955

u971 wrote:BattleTech,Coolant Tanks.
Each Base,Grants 1/2/4Points of Heat Level Loss per end phase to the claimed side,for a single mech,and can be destroyed,having 2structure points per tank.



@Cleatus.
Cereal box card huh,nice choice in materials used it myself in the past,Nice color on the boxes and riveting.

Thanks!
u971, love the capacitors. Very clever. Those turned out really well.

Battletech,Tech Bunkers.
Can only be opened&captured by infantry/civilian/scientist units,whom can hide inside said bunkers,that have 3armor and 2structure defense,CF-15 if used as a building,or as the main objective several bunkers being fought over for the supplies/tech inside,winner being the side with the most claimed bunkers,or more than double the opposing sides claimed bunkers.



Back to Warhammer 40k Markers next,On The 16th October.

@Cleatus.
Very cool Tutorial,Especially handy for those who have a limited budget,And or no bits or bases.

Final Necron Spy Scarab Group (4)
Posed in Sneaky looking positions for effect,Used to gather information and operational or structural weakness's in enemy forces,once retrieved by a necron unit,
that unit alters its programming with new tactical information Upgrading weapon damage/power,Strength+1 to Gauss weaponry,now being able to target critical weakness's.
Can also be used as the main mission objective,a necron kill team tasked with gathering several such Spy Scarabs and leave there side of the battlefield,gaining much needed information on the enemy.



Necron Spy Scarab Swarm.
A full Size Swarm of x12 Spy Scarabs,Function in the same way as normal spy scarabs,but while acting as one unit,gains a special attack,Eldritch burst,a low power but short ranged attack "6/S3/AP-1 Small Blast.



That's one big carpet of crawly's,i guess this tomb world awakened with undamaged alternate scarab functions,
There won't be any more necron markers now,unless i make another one sometime in the future that is,will have to wait and see as always.

Thought i would throw some idea's out there of stuff i was and still might make at some point,at the same time would be interesting to see someone else claim one or more of the marker ideas below,
Complete with parts guide,what i was planning to use as materials base themes etc.

Ork Hunter Killer Missile Platform.
(Placed on a cavalry base industrial theme with garlic mesh or plant/gardening drainage mesh,using sprue to make a launch rig,adding ribbon cable wiring and other embellishments wheels with hubcaps feet for the launcher,the missile itself made from a superglue top,
with half a bb added as the control dome or small Ariels,adding wings with straws as extra engines,with additional 25mm base with a unloaded vertical standing rocket on a small rack made from sprue with card feet)
Can be used by human or ork forces to launch multiple missiles of questionable effect,it might melt a tank in one hit,kill a whole squad with frag,fly backwards or do nothing at all.

The Bolter of Ages.
(A concrete pedestal made from thin card balsa etc on a 40mm concrete themed base with two eagles guarding the sidewalks,on said platform a rogue trader era bolter is placed representing a master crafted weapon)
In order to gain the use of this special equipment item,a master crafted dark age of technology,boltgun,a trial of combat must first be passed,
Alternatively The item is worth a large credit amount Necromunda&Shadow War use,and can be fought over and captured or hoarded for later use or resale etc.

Necromunda Pearl Eyed Spiders.
(Based on 40mm industrial or sump/sewer bases,cheapo plastic spiders the kind used on Halloween or for pranks,with added green stuff eyes)
Monsters from the sump the lowest part of a hive city,rare and hard to kill in there native enviroment,but once killed fetch a handsome bounty,as the pearls are much valued in the high courts of hive tops.

Pressure Plate Trap.
(40mm Base woodland themed with broken & fallen trees etc,using a ork hubcap the flat ones and a jerrycan with a grenade pack attached to it,linked to the hubcap pressure plate with some PC ribbon cable)
When within 3" Of a Pressure plate trap roll a D6 on a 4+ the explosives are triggered and detonate,with frag profile and small base radius

Spikepit Trap.
(40mm Base woodland themed,with a square indentation filled with cocktail stick/toothpick tips painted up as bloody wooden spikes,the pit around the spikes will have liquid mud in the form of glossy mud using water effects)
Simple environmental trap,sharp sticks dipped in something gross will become more than capable of wounding or killing,can be avoided however on a 3+ as it is not as well camouflaged as other such traps

Necron Salvage.
(2to6 40mm Bases granite/ash themed,several necron body limb and head bits partially covered in ash/dirt etc,alternatively on open concrete with extensive battle-damages using spare bits missing critical parts,
adding some broken translucent green BB's to represent the gauss crystal)
Used to boast squad numbers with extra warriors by means of repair,moving into close range with resurrection abilitys and reviving the unliving once more.

Next Marker 26th October.

 u971 wrote:

Thought i would throw some idea's out there of stuff i was and still might make at some point,at the same time would be interesting to see someone else claim one or more of the marker ideas below,
Complete with parts guide,what i was planning to use as materials base themes etc.

Ork Hunter Killer Missile Platform.
(Placed on a cavalry base industrial theme with garlic mesh or plant/gardening drainage mesh,using sprue to make a launch rig,adding ribbon cable wiring and other embellishments wheels with hubcaps feet for the launcher,the missile itself made from a superglue top,
with half a bb added as the control dome or small Ariels,adding wings with straws as extra engines,with additional 25mm base with a unloaded vertical standing rocket on a small rack made from sprue with card feet)
Can be used by human or ork forces to launch multiple missiles of questionable effect,it might melt a tank in one hit,kill a whole squad with frag,fly backwards or do nothing at all.

You know I'm going to have to do this now, don't you! Gorkdarnit, I just bought a new (1988 mk1 Golf GTI Cabriolet) old car, I don't have time for this! But I want to so bad. Love the whole crazy idea of the thing.

Though Halloween is a good time to suggest good uses for joke-spiders.

It's yours although got a feeling several others will eventually make there own,since the idea's so easy and simple plus easy to aquire parts.
Also a few variants could be made,Cruise missiles (similar to the V-1 with a nice pulse-engine),Copperhead Anti Tank Missile (a nice domed greenstuff warhead),Archeotech Hybrid Missile lots of alien bits added to said rocket (could open a blackhole,summon a webway,or turn a squad inside out)

As for the others same for them a few variants could be made,etc mechaspiders! lol,necron repair pad a different kinda necron salvage thingy,the woodland traps could be fixed functions aka frag/krak/melta charges,poison/spring loaded spikes.

Meant to post these here a while ago, but forgot about it until this thread popped back into my mind!

Anyway, I built these around the time Shadow War: Armageddon was released, inspired by the detail on the Sector Mechanicus bases.

First up is an ammo cache:



Next, an Imperial shrine/monument, commemorating a victory on some far-off world:



A fuel pump:



And a set of construction tools:



Keep up the good work, everyone!

@Ezra Tyrius.
Them sector mechanicus bases look surprisingly good for objective marker use,That's one nice set of construction tools that chainsaw conversion is well cool,and simple too,
Call me inspired,would like to make a few of them now,looks proper badass,different looking ammo cache too,nice use of the leman russ engine box,that boltgun fits suspiciously well.

Finally got some paint on some of my recent batch of objectives. Nothing super exciting really.


I had a lid from an old Mordheim treasure chest (Not sure what happened to the rest) so I chopped it in half and made these two buried treasure pieces.
A player can move anyone into contact with the buried treasure counter but they may do nothing else that turn as they dig it out. Once dug up it can be moved around with the unit who is carrying it. Thought I'd give them a candy stripe base to make them stand out on the table top.


Then there's this one. Nothing very clever going on here. I took the Bag of Pickled Onion flavour Halflings from the Giant kit and slapped it on a base. Handy enough for playing some kind of "Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" game.

Also, I've gone and started a set of six plastic Halloween spiders. Ork ballistic missiles are too much work.

@theCrowe.
Buried Goodys huh always good to stock up on some extra treasure markers,if my 25mm bases ever decide to dispatch i intended to make a few more of my own,a few piles of sprue silver ingots to go with my gold ones,Skipping the ork missile launcher is fair enough it would take a degree of scratch building and several bits not everyone will have,whereas the pearl eye spiders are almost ready out of the box or bag or whatever them Halloween spiders come in,As for the sack of halflings probably make for a good ratling hunt marker also.

They started out in a bag of plastic Halloween spiders, and some static grass.


... and ended up like this.

Happy Halloween objective lovers!

I did the bases in a classic SOYOM! (Show Off Your Objective Markers!) garlic net metal so they'd be good for Necromunda but you know, spiders get everywhere.

I actually played a little game with these one evening with my 6 year old son. Bunch of goblins hunting for spiders in the woods. just a bit of fun. I've done a wee write up over on my Goblins thread if you want to know how that went.

Lho-Leaf Herbs & Cigars.
Grants guardsmen improved accuracy,+1 Ballistic skill,at a drawback of -1 Initiative skill to a unit of no more than 10men,also worth alot at market,and can be traded for a whole fuel cache "shadow war".



Pallet of Hotshot Ammo Packs.
Acts as a Hotshot upgrade for basic troops wielding standard las weapons,Gains AP- (Armour Piercing) +S (Strength),a single squad is upgraded free with hotshot ammo for 1 battle only,the palletful of power packs are burned out from overcharging after that timeframe.



I have many more idea's for markers and will share another 10,but beware i have already made a good few of them,and likely the rest in time,either way they look nothing like you imagine they would.
Also today happens to be my 28th birthday,marking a literal age milestone for me hosting this thread,which is why today gets a double posting of some of my more interesting markers.
The new markers made so far are,x1 Necron Salvage,x2 Unprogrammed Servo Skulls,x1 Demon Slayer Sword,x2 Pressure Plate Traps,x3 WHFB Weapon Drops/Stashs,x1 Apothecary's Storefront,x1 Lho-Leaf Herbs & Cigars,x3 Assorted Ammo Drops,All the markers will be added to the massive marker queue,and will all eventually be seen.

@theCrowe,Awe they look cute in a sorta fluffy cartoon way,and look strangely good with paint on,nice little battle report with the spiders bet goblins ride them things lol goblin spider riders,
Want a bunch for myself now,gonna order me a bag after some of my other orders arrive.

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Necron Repair Glyph.
(40mm or 60mm base with a glowing card glyph as the base theme itself,along with resurection orb,tranulcent green bb on a pedastal and a scarab below it)
Restores the eldritch energys which the necrontyr use for repair,fixing damage/wounds suffered in battle with the living,only works when in close proximity and can be destoryed having T-6 and several wounds to destory.

Necromunda RC Bomb Tanks,or Robots.
(Placed on 2 Credit card or 60mm bases in 2's or 40mm is 1's industrial themed using the usual ways,4 small cardcraft tanks based around a balsa chassis box with one single track and body piece,with half a bb or ariels for control,and a jerry can at the rear with a grenade pack or detonater flat ork bike hubcaps,linked to said dome/ariels with pc ribbon cable,
Alternativly Substuting tanks for robots,made with sprue,card,toothpicks,bits from the box etc)
When in need an mechanically minded hive dweller can knock up some mini rc bomb tanks for there use in both sabotage and direct attack,can be sold or bought credits or fuel caches,or captured in warehouses,ammo dumps,archeotech hoards so on,
can only be controlled by the gang specialist/s and act as either frag/krak/melta bombs with the same effects and strength.

Quest Notice Board.
(A rectangle Stone Made from thin card and thick balsa wood,placed on a 25mm concrete themed base,attaching small paper quest notices on the front,and an purity seal at the back)
The classic quest notice board,Used to activated missions/quests during the rearm phase in a home territory.

Demon Slayer Sword.
(Simple to make using a section of Slate stone,and a trimmed sword glued in place,with a granite/winter theme,40mm base,Alternativly placed on said stone not in)
Deep in the Depths of the void at the highest peek of the endless mountaintops there lies a sword the demon slayer,Capable of wounding any demon on a 2+ regardless of saves,and grants a 3+ invulnerable save to the user.

Apothecary's Store.
(A mini Balsa wood Shelf,placed on a wooden decking base using scored balsa strips,the shelf filled with suitible items,potion bottles,skulls,small pouches,books,herb piles,crystals,jars)
Grants double strength and 6+ invulnerable save to a unit that has captured the Apothecary's Store.

Lho-Leaf Herbs & Cigars.
(40mm Base wooden deck theme,a 4legged balsa wood table,with herb piles,small tubes made with tiny pieces of paper twisted,and an ashtray made from some pewter gate/sprue)
Grants guardsmen improved accuracy,+1 Balistic skill,at the cost of -1 Initiative skill to a unit of no more than 10men,also worth alot at market,and can be traded for a fuel cache "shadow war".

Unprogramed Servo Skulls.
(Two cavalry/rectangular Industrial bases,with a large wooden crate containing a single servo skull in a dormant state,laying flat in said crate with some extra,gears,springs and scatter below and or in the crates,
Alternativly placed on metal tables/workbenchs made with card and sprue)
Valuble for there parts in credits or fuel caches,and uses if reprogramed by imperial or traitor forces,can be armed with a varity of equipment and weapons.

Barrage Balloons.
(Using Clear hex Flight bases 5 in all,balloons made from paper pen bits etc until a more suitable material is sourced)
For use with 6mm World War 2 Models or Small scale Hex based games,Used as aerial area denial systems,making strafing runs difficult and exploding artillary in the air on impact sparing the area below the balloon cluster.

Warp Storms.
(A cluster of three 40mm bases industrial or granite theme,with cotton wool suspended in the air by metal wire,painted in many assorted colors as a warp cloud)
Dangerous in the extreme to all mortal life,when mortals come into contact with a drifting warp annomaly they are gone just gone "somewhere" or "somewhen" while to demons allows instant transport between storms.

Battletech Toxic Waste Dump.
(Similar to the Ammo Stacks in look however the containers&building shell would all be damaged and leaking green and yellow goo's using capacitors and diodes dented and scratched up painted in hazard theme,leading to small puddles of waste,placed on 3 hex bases as a set)
Used as fuel for Chemical Flamethrowers and Lasers,Increasing the power/weapon damage of both flame&laser by 1 at all usable ranges to any unit in base to base contact with the waste dumps.

Next Marker 5th November.

Since I am planning to dive head over heal into necromunda once it's out, I am realizing with almost a double take, how much win this thread really is. I think shortly I will rebuild quite a lot of the here shown markers...
On an open battlefield many of the lot of them might be oddly out of place, but in an urban setting all of them have their justification!

Speaking of, how did you do the amo packages...pressmoulded or how else? The people need to know!!!

@Viktor von Domm.
Sounds good,But you should keep checking back i'am far from done with markers,As for how did i make the ammo packs,it was for this thread months back,and is all well documented in my blog/lab link at the bottom of my posts,they were all individually molded and painted using green stuff molds i had to also make,along with many many other things needed for several other markers like the pallet of hotshot,i have yet to post! If you truly are planning to make a good number of the markers here beware its massive cost in both time and effort.

I am currently on my phone, so no sigs and thus no links...but when I'm home again then I'll be all over it
A friend here from Dakkadakka provided me with that reusable mold making stuff...(I keep forgetting that name always...) and even another friend here used got glue was as a means to duplicate stuff...both put together might reduce time and affordable financial measures a bit. .but in the end...what needs to be done will be done...

@Viktor von Domm.
Fair enough,And as for duplication with hot glue,it can be done but the quality is low most of the time,unsure if it would even hold the shape of the buttons on something as small as a 2mmx2mm pouch for example,although i have seen some alright barrels made from hot glue here on dakka as you said,so a fuel dump,water stash,and some booby traps could likely be made.

.Anyone have any "good" idea's for objective markers,and you think i can pull it off,post away! be detailed on construction if possible,see how i presented the ideas above.

A few loot counters for Necromunda:



Went crate crazy a while back and painted up all my crates. Will probably put sequential numbers on the undersides for various nefarious gaming purposes.