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Helsinki

We have recently been painting on a few past sundays and a company of excellent painters and modellers sort of forces those creative juices to run... (Bless that peer-pressure )

So among few other painted models, I also nailed down a nice, quick, simple army-scheme for my Heavy Gear Northern Guard Infantry Fighting Vehicles... Big, bipedal warmachines for you laymen!

Grizzly, heavy firesupport Gear equipped with a heavy autocannon, guided mortar and twin medium rocketpacks:



Heres looking at you, Southie...







Razorback Peacemaker, an older medium support Gear armed with a very heavy autocannon and a heavy rocketpack with a machinegun next to the sensorpod/head:




Cheetah, the fastest, dexiest Gear on Terra Nova, equipped with that most lethal weapon of them all, the target designator, a folding deployable pack-gun and a light rocket pack:



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Biloxi, MS USA

Like the 'Mechs. I've always been interested in Heavy Gear, being a Battletech/Gundam fan. How is the game and how customizable are the models?

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SoCal, USA!

I love the models, but rules-wise, I'm not sold. The rules are much better than pre-Blitz, but if someone would just "Warhammerize" Heavy Gear like Flames did for WW2, I'd be all over this!

   
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North Carolina

I Want to play mech games damnit.

I see cool models like these and I get upset because I haven't played a single mech based game in YEARS.

Great job on the figs, but all you've done is upset me further with my lack of mech-gaming!!!

^_-. More please!

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The rules are fabulous, but they're not necessarily light or "beer and pretzels". At the HG tournaments that do happen, younger players still have no problem with competing, but there's not the same ease that there is with say, 40k. I'd consider it a true wargame, where I'd consider 40k to not be a serious game.
   
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Nice work Henri! and good to see you at dakka



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Dammit! You sneaky git, trying to get your force painted before mine?
Nice sheme, though!

Here's some pics of our last game (with Northen loaning some of our models for a three-way game). All the brown Gears are mine. All the metal Gears are 'bunnys. All the buildings belong to Sickbunny too.













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I absolutely love the various kaito type scale models from Japan. Those are fabulous. Great stuff. Might I suggest getting a thin grey sheet to be pavement between the buildings.
   
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Thornton Colorado

nice use of train set buildings.

I have always wanted to get into heavy gear but have never really had the time or knowledge of other players in my area.

love the painted mech it looks good keep it up.








Twister...;.

Not only do the rules say your wrong but they also say your a DICK!




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Helsinki

Thanks guys for all the commentary!

First of all, yes, Heavy Gear is a great game, in my opinion, and has been throughout its different reincarnations. The game has simply evolved along different gaming concepts along the years and the early (2ed.) rule-set is still the one I would use for, say Dueling and for roleplaying purposes (Still going to run a nifty Merc-game of Gear-pilots one of these days once I have enough variety in models painted) where as for wargaming purposes, the new Heavy Gear Blitz Locked and Loaded is great. The rules are fast, brutal, efficient and still convey the level of detail one would expect from a mech-game. And strangely enough, they have the scale right in that despite using usually only about 15 models per side (those damn Southies naturally cheat with their convicts and other degenerates to boost their numbers), it still feels like a full-fledged -war-game, not a skirmish. Might be that you realize just how enormous areas the weapons savage and destroy when they start unloading salvoes of rockets, massive autocannons and heavy howitzers at each other... Its more like massed tank-battles of the time more than individual soldiers gunning at each other.

I also love the game for its basic concepts, like speed=life and standing in the open is not the beginning assumption but a basic flaw in your plan... the most basic assumption is that you and your target are -always- in cover and usually moving at quite the velocities... makes for a very different gaming experience, I can tell you that much...

On the painting of the models, they are just a quick scheme I worked up while painting other models during our sunday-paintings, a great way to force yourself out of a painting stupor.

Migs: Thanks, mate! Good to be posting some painted stuff for a change!

Hammer: Teeheehee. You just had to post those pictures -and- state that all the metal models are mine... uh huh... one last jab, ehhh? Weeell, not for long... Ohhh, and another interesting tidbit... My Northies have been playing steadily at about a quarter less in points... No idea how I made that error... but that means I need to get more metal built, damnit! Not to mention a complete overhaul of my list...

PS: On the buildings there on Hammers pics, yeah, because the Heavy Gear models are in the 1/144 or N-scale, it allows one to just use any train terrain, civilian models and even vehicles of the same scale immediately... and yes, in the future, I will create a suitable coloured base board -and- running/screaming civilian stands and stuff... for that required collateral damage...

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Auburn, CA

Looks neat, and sounds fun. How much would you say it would cost to get a decent Heavy Gear army going?

I like the idea of a tad "heavier" tabletop miniatures game, as by my standards 40k is leaning on the light side of things. It's not beer and pretzels necessarily, but it's definitely not Advanced Squad Leader (heh) but it's still simpler than a lot of the other tactical games i'm playing. Not that simplicity is a bad thing, I like 40k but i'd agree that while fun, it's still not a very serious game. 40K is a game about the narrative of the battle for me. If one of my Ladz does some amazing things in a game, then i'm cool with that.

I'll have to look in to heavy gear. I really like the models you've posted.

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SickBunny wrote:
Hammer: Teeheehee. You just had to post those pictures -and- state that all the metal models are mine... uh huh... one last jab, ehhh? Weeell, not for long... Ohhh, and another interesting tidbit... My Northies have been playing steadily at about a quarter less in points... No idea how I made that error... but that means I need to get more metal built, damnit! Not to mention a complete overhaul of my list...


I do what I can.

You have been playing 750 pts? No wonder your army seemed a bit on the small side...

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Newcastle, OZ

Love the paint jobs. I used to play this back before they changed the system (V 1.0 waaaay pre-blitz) and the gears were a larger scale.

Also still have the PC game and power it up every so often.

One question? The six-legged gears. What are they? I've not seen their likeness before.

I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

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Helsinki

Col Hammer wrote:
You have been playing 750 pts? No wonder your army seemed a bit on the small side...


Yepyep... Was pretty shocked when I realized that... I just kept taking the same army list I had used ever since we tried the game out the very first time at 750... somehow just thinking to myself that it was a cool thousand. Though the Northies being what the Northies are, its not like I can afford another squad there anyways... Thus the complete overhaul of my list...

chromedog wrote:

One question? The six-legged gears. What are they? I've not seen their likeness before.


The multilegged, gigantic things are known as Striders, usually referring to non-humanoid walking artillery platforms that have been around in the background story from the beginning already. North has two, a Mammoth that walks on two feet but more akin to a beastmen and the enormous Thunderhammer, a four-limbed artillery Strider. South has three main Strider chassis, the Naga, a two-legged close range support Strider, one of the rare Striders with a secondary movement system (wheels) and a Dragon, that six-limbed lumbering Strider with a few versions, both for heavy assault, heavy artillery and an extremely high tech versions and last a Sagittarius, a high tech light assault strider. Paxton has their own four-limbed artillery Strider Red Bull mkII and another, stranger tank-Strider hybrid, the Coyote that can move either on four agile limbs or lower down to a height of a tank and cruise around on its treads and last there is the enormous assault Gear that the polar states are referring to as a Gearstrider, the Cataphract. Hows that for too much information...

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Biloxi, MS USA

Is it true they're in 1/144 scale? If so, I may have to buy some plus some bases to rebase some 1/144 scale Zeon stuff...

What would be the best way to get into the game? I'm interested in the Southern Forces(Mono-eyes and rounded Chassis FTW!).

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Sickbunny - since you haven't done so yet, it is absolutely mandatory you take a look at our Jade Vessel blog and share some comments! I'm sure Hammer and Northen wants some too.



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