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Trustworthy Shas'vre





Augsburg/Germany

They are more slender, and some minis would be in RL 6-7 foot, maybe this was the reason for your assumption.

André Winter
L'Art Noir - Game Design and Translation Studio 
   
Made in us
Uhlan




AT-43 figs (The Ava-humanoids at least) are not horribly out of scale with ANY heroic 28mm figs. They are on average a little taller than GW's Warhammer 40K stuff and about the same size as Mongoose's Starship Troopers CAP troopers. They look pretty good going against Cadians on the tbale if you ask me.

Wee Toy Soldiers has a lot of scaled photos showing how various popular "28mm-ish" sci-fi figures look standing next to each other.

http://www.weetoysoldiers.com/wp/?page_id=183



The AT-43 books have been fairly inexpensive in the US. I got the At-43 rulebook(128 full color glossy pages full of fluff and art as much as crunch) for $15 and the UNA Army book (64 pages, full color, glossy)for $15. The Therian Book(64 pages, full color, glossy)was $13. THat's street price at my local comic and gaming store, Dragon's Lair. I'm not sure if that's marked down.

So far the game seems a little simplistic, the figures seem a little overpriced in places, and the 4 lines (mecha-apes, borgy AI kill-droids, UN-goofs, Astro-Commies) are a bit sparse and bare bones but overall it is a pretty impressive product! The pre-paints are okay but better than clix paint jobs. The paint on them is thin and so the pre-paint job is almost like primer if you want to repaint. Sometimes they look good with an ink wash.

Most of the "sides" are currently resticted to:
cheap troops, designated (*)
a few types of elite troops (such as jump-pack troops, close combat troops, laser troops for the UNA) (**)
some middle sized powered armor (sort of like 40K terminator stuff) in squads of three each of one variant types with some specialist purpose, (usually **)
then a light mecha with weapon variants, (***)
and a heavier mecha. (***)

There are other vehicles hinted at and some larger still mecha unrealeased at this time. The troops have access to heavy weapons and other skill sets that round out the squads. There are also hero figures and some of them come with "special" mecha that have some unusual weapon load out.

While a Wraith Golgoth seems like an overpriced toy at $32+ dollars it is HUGE compared to a 40K dreadnaught, has exchangeable weapons, is assembled, table-ready painted, and inexplicably packed with a 20th century cargo container with another spacegun inside (either a "sonic cannon" or a "nucleus gun". You automatically start out with a choice between two of something or a mix of two weapons, and a (weirdly chosen) piece of terrain.

UNA firetoads are packed similarly and there is a new one out that comes with two of every weapon (but no cargo container. Some figs coem with low walls or nanogenerators(a technothingy piece of scenery.

Some troops even come with extra heads so you can swap them out with a Splinter-Cell like tri-lens mask on.

The only downside (aside from pricing...they are packaged and presented like typical toys so the prices seem too high to me) is that the troops are made from a soft plastic. It's not quite like clix plastic but it is not like the GW plastics.

The AT-43story is okay though there are a few plot holes. SPOILER
Spoiler:
The therians supposedly need to wait for a race to "weaken" a planet before they break it to bits and use it for construction material because breaking a planet is so energy intensive. Yet they fly around in mini-dyson sphere factory worlds with white dwrfs in them that are 3/4 the mass of Sol. See earth-like planets are mostly molten so a strong application of tidal forces such as a flyby of something 3/4 as massive as the sun ought to EASILY weaken a world more than several hundred years of space faring industrial society could ever hope to. So the Therians NEED to fight in this wargame only because of a rather silly plot hole or a strange ignorance of simple Newtonian physics that seems unusual for so advanced a race. Oh well.


In any case I am positively drooling over the upcoming Dust Tactics game and the new race for AT-43, "the cog", look pretty neat too at least as concept art.
   
Made in us
Foul Dwimmerlaik






Minneapolis, MN

Yeah, that plot hole bugged me too, but stuff like that is easily ignored or forgiven, especially when you consider what they had to go through to rewrite the fluff from "Alternate Timeline 43" (weird war II hijinks) to "After Trauma 43".

It could have been better, but given the pinch Rackham was in to make it, its not too bad really.

I have read far worse widely publicized books, thats for sure.

who knows, maybe Rackham can polish the fluff up a bit in their next edition.

   
Made in sg
Executing Exarch





Let's not forget the absolutely awful fluff WM Prime had. It was so bad it made every BL book look like Crime & Punishment. I can forgive a lot, fluff-wise, for a neat game.

Wehrkind wrote:Sounds like a lot, but with a little practice I can do ~7-8 girls in 2-3 hours. Probably less if the cat and wife didn't want attention in that time.
 
   
Made in us
Foul Dwimmerlaik






Minneapolis, MN

Hopefully the book that is being written for AT-43 will go along way in promoting and immersing the consumer into the world better.


   
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[MOD]
Anti-piracy Officer






Somewhere in south-central England.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I was considering the use of the AT43 figures alongside the Copplestone Neo-Sovs and the Pig Iron Kolony figures -- the AT43 are IMO significantly larger.

I'm writing a load of fiction. My latest story starts here... This is the index of all the stories...

We're not very big on official rules. Rules lead to people looking for loopholes. What's here is about it. 
   
Made in de
Trustworthy Shas'vre





Augsburg/Germany

Spoiler:
Actually there is not a plot hole, they have only a limited amount of Dysons, but want to transform the whole universe.


You mixed up the part about the *. There are Infantry and AFV and every line has *,** and *** troops. The books are that cheap, tehy wanted the gamers to have easy access to the rules.

The rules are simple but not simplistic. The simple rules allow for a rather complex game.

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André Winter
L'Art Noir - Game Design and Translation Studio 
   
 
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