"Ever Used NON-SF Figures As Primitive Natives For 15mm SF?" Topic

I know that many VSF gamers have done things like this already.

With that aside . . . what about the rest of you SF gamers?

Have you ever used 15mm Ancients, Fantasy or other non-SF figures, as part of a native force in your SF games?

If so . . .

1) Which figures did you use?; and

2) In what SF context or scenarios?

Thanks.

CC

Have considered it, but not had a chance. Most of my plans usually involve repaints or slight conversions to make them seem less human.

-Eli

You can easily use 15mm lizard men or Orcs. The books on the 5th Foereign Legion had some pretty cool scenarios of columns of troops moving and having to deal with primitive types.

Thanks,

John

No, but one of the rules sets I purchased eons ago did, e.g. modern US forces pitted against alien grav tanks.

I think the rules were called Sabot and Laser, or something like that. A small, thin booklet, with a brown cover, and profile views of some nice alien vehicles, which sadly never made it into miniatures production. Too bad, since many looked to be quite good, and excellent for 6mm gaming.

Hopefully, someone will remember them, and put them into production one day.

Actually the game Alien Squad Leader has a couple of armies that use Primitives as a troop type, including the Alien Imperial. That's one of the reasons I had my Reptilians sculpted without any of the classic "fantasy savages" affectations, so they would fit in. You could even give them sci fi hand weapons if you wanted as a simple weapons swap.

Hi!

Ive used WW1 figures as my villains minions for Stainless Steel Rat games and am planning on using some ancient Germans or Native Americans as primitive human types.

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Armoured Vehicles from WW2 have also been useful to represent armoured cars on backwards planets:

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All the best!

Similar idea, I am planning on either using some modern Islamic/ Arab troops or African Militia against my Pig Iron minis in Near Future games at some point. Still painting up the PI troops at the moment and waiting for Wargames Factory armed civilians, rebels, insurgents etc… to get further along in the production que.

I love the idea of using Islamic/Arab troops for desert planet resistance fighters.

Almost like using Men of Harad to play fighters on Abydos:

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CC

I was looking at Native Americans like from SYW for post apocolyptic types. I love the mohawk look, add a few bits to the flintlocks and play with the hand weapons.

I REALLY like the idea of the GW Moria Goblins as primitive aliens, because their general posture, their armor and everything else about them is so alien-looking (not your typical fantasy Orc types):

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Plus, they are taller than my 15-17mm figures, which makes them all the more threatening, don't you think?

For example, check out what the Outpost Gamma aliens (Irdans) are supposed to look like:

Images of the Irdans:

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But, what do YOU guys think?

Dan
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I did a game once at a show using the Laserburn rules.

The scenario was an Imperial outpost on a primitive planet under assault from the locals. The outpost was depicted by a couple of SF buildings and a pen tidy as a reactor cooling tower.

Aztec Knights were used for the local forces. They are bright, colourful and a bit weird looking in their animal suits. Having them based for WRG Ancients meant we could move lots of figures quickly in groups.

To give the natives a chance against modern forces I equipped them with sling launched grenades supplied by Red Redemptionist guerillas.

A good time was had by all.

I use Peter Pig US Marines in my urban sci fi games. I have various mongols, samurai and Eastern European medieval minis but they're based for Shattered Lances and DBA and I find they look odd against my 'one figure one base' sci-fi minis.

It's a good idea though. Historical minis generally look less cheesy to me than fantasy-type primitives.

Though I like the way they look, I think these might be a bit too big:

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Dan

I'm thinking of Peter Pig African militia for my District 9 game, not sure about what to use for the MNU guys though. I think guys with AK47s will make good proxies for any colony… AK47s will probably be the weapon of choice for early factories to produce.

Guys,

Check out what GEM has in the works:

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Yes, but only in 28mm and 6mm… it won't work very well in 15mm.

For 1:72 / 20mm gaming Italeri / ESCI Arab Warriors are almost perfect. I can envision a dry dusty planet [Arrakis ?!] with predominantly muslim / arabic low tech settlers civilisation. You can easily change / add some high tech weapons to several minis cheap…

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There are photos in the original Rogue Trader (oh… the passage of years…) that show Space Marines attacking a medieval fortification defended by medieval defenders. It was a bit too much like a bad Star Trek OS episode for me.

Good thing for the defenders that those halbards have a -1 save modifier! ;)

- Rod

I've bought a bag of Peter Pig 10mm scale Fantasy Lizard Men to use as 4 ft tall, lizard type primitive aliens in a 15mm Slammers scenario.

So fantasy AND a different scale… really pushing my envelope!

John T

These guys decided to upgrade:

Dan