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
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.