At Salute we sold an awful lot of copies of the Legionnaire Games rulebooks – the Strike Legion set for 1/300th ground combat, and the Task Force Zeta spaceship rules. We’ve just had a restock order come through on these, which also includes volume 2 of TFZ – Fleet Auxiliaries. This is now available on the website, and includes lots of new rules, new weapons, pre-defined ships etc. Click on the photo below for more.
As promised, the new releases keeping coming. Today it’s new spaceships; the AmRep Phoenix strikeship (a fast attack craft with an FTL drive, designed for rapid strike missions), the German Spatz missile boat (a similar sized craft but with a missile armament), plus the German Galland class attack fighter (to give some anti-shipping capability to German carriers).
As promised we still have one or two last minute new items … so last minute we don’t even have photos !
There are three Aeronef models; the Heyworth Bomber (as previewed a couple of weeks back), British Victoria class Heavy Battleship, which is a magnificient beast and threatens to spark a new battleship-building arms race in the Aeronef world, and the Stirling Castle class Passenger Liner.
There are two small spaceships, the AmRep Phoenix class strikeship and the German Spatz class missile boat. Finally, and the first of our new revamped, 3D sculpted 15mm SF range, the AmRep Curtiss heavy hover tank. If I get a chance to take photos at any time this evening I will, but I’m still frantically painting the final bits for the Pegasus bridge game !
And last but not least, a customer advance ordered some of our Shapeways items for collection at Salute, and now it appears that he doesn’t want them (after we’d paid for and ordered them in before the show … grrr !). So we’ll have a few of our assorted Water Towers for sale, along with several sets of Power Pylons (all in 6mm). So why not take the chance to pick these up post free ?
We are referring here to literal missing links, not the Brigadiers’ gene pool.
It has come to my attention that the new South African spaceships are missing from the website (thanks, Gavin !) – no wonder we haven’t had any orders for them since the New Year !
The pages are still on the website, but they’re missing from the SAC list for some reason. I’ll have to investigate and fix when I get home, but in the meantime if you want to order you can use these direct links:
Assegai battlecruiser
Drakenberg carrier
Oshana cruiser
Kashana destroyer
Frontier fleet pack
UPDATE – all fixed, the South Africans are back to full strength
We have two new rulebooks releases on the website, along with the return of an old favourite. First we have The War That Never Was, an add-on module for Legionnaire Game’s Planetary Ops operational level rules. Secondly, again from Legionnaire, we have the first volume in their foray in starship rules, Task Force Zeta. Finally, the return of a stalwart in Majestic 12 Game’s Starmada X:Brigade, which also means that the starter packs are back too.
The first project we attempted when experimented with computer design and 3D printing was one of our favourite (and most popular) spaceships, the Pommerania dreadnought. The beautifully detailed 3D model came back from the printers before Xmas, and after thorough cleaning in an ultrasonic bath Phil popped it into a mould. As the two halves shut in the vulcaniser, he reported hearing a loud crack, which isn’t normal !
We feared the worst, and when the mould opened our fears were confirmed:
The broken Pommerania hull
The hull had split completely under the pressure of the closing mould, leaving us completely deflated – we’d been looking forward to getting the Pom back into production.
It wasn’t the only casualty – a prototype British destroyer also met a sticky end, snapping clean in two:
Broken British Destroyer
It’s not exactly back to square one – we’re going to experiment with beefing up the hulls slightly and using a different, stronger material. This material doesn’t take quite as much detail but we’re hopeful it will still look good.