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I hope not, the game is an absolute blast! It's dice mechanic is unique, games are fast and bloody. It is one of my top skirmish games. I initially thought the minis looked off, but in person, they are awesome.

Awesome minis, unique rules (easy, fast, innovative), nice minis, = win.

I picked up a couple of sets because of the Black Friday price, the positive rules buzz on here, and misunderstanding that the boxes did not actually come with neoprene play mats for the 20 quid. (oops!)

So anyway, I now have 30 Termi Endos on foot to paint - all apparently armed identically. Any advice on simple/recommended weapon mods from those who have put time in and played the game?

If you got / get the multipart resistance fighter set are plenty of extra weapons in there you can use for weapon swaps. A mini-gun swap is on my to do list.

In other news riverhorse currently have a sale on, the big spider hunter killers for £28. A bunch of stuff is sold out already but still some good stuff to pick up. And don't panic I understand they will all be re-cast and come back into stock again next year, just not in time for this sale.

I've got whatever the default minis are in the starter sets - as the box blurb puts it:
* 16 Resistance Soldiers (with a selection of weapons from missile launchers to plasma rifles!)

Anything else will have to come from my 40k, etc bits boxes.

Any recommendations? Plasma Rifles? Dual Plasma Rifles? Flamers? Miniguns? (and any suggestions on what to use for things like flamers?)
I'm more keen to paint them up right now than to pore over the rules to optimise the options, and some not-silly/broken variety would be best.

The original price for the models wasn't good, which is what I think realy hurt it on release.

Additionally, even though it has great mechanics, it's a game with only 2 factions. That really hurts replay value.

Two factions can work (just ask the Blue & the Gray), but moreover, the limited model options for this game doesn't really do much to help. I think the boxed set would have been helped a lot if one Skynet unit had been a non-terminator; say a mini-flying drone, spider drone or such.

Agreed. The lack of weapon options for the Skynet faction is a downer.

Yeah, Skynet is extremely limited in variety in the starting box unless you start proxying.

I agree on the starter, at £70 it was far to expensive for a mediocre offering. But at the £27 I paid it was fantastic.

I then picked up some metal endo's with heavy / special weapons, which to be honest have issues, some parts are just too small / thin and bend way too easily.

The resin offering on the other hand are great. The resistance command pack of 6 models is great, and has loads of extra options. including head options to make some of them infiltrators for Skynet.

It's such a same the game didn't do better, as I would have loved hunter killers etc. Luckily there are some options available from other companies for these (if a little of scale). Biggest disappointment is the resistance truck that was previewed at the start of the year, which doesn't look like seeing the light of day now.