Thanks for all of the offers to help so far! We have about 12 people signed up and I appreciate the response. I'll try to have test copies available in the next few weeks.
A common question has been about using the rules with specific miniatures lines. So, I thought it might be helpful to explain some background here.
BACKGROUND
Over the summer my boys and I developed a background for the game tying together the most popular miniatures lines available (eg 40K, AT-43, Infinity, etc.) Besides, we own lots of troops from these!!! :-)
But instead of only translating the rules from other systems we looked at the miniatures themselves and thought about how they would perform in the context of our homegrown rules (eg that weapon looks like a missile launcher and that one looks like an energy weapon). We also considered the miniatures themselves (that looks like a robot, that a cyborg, and that a basic human trooper) and assigned stats and special abilities accordingly.
So, in our universe AT-43's Therians (and other Cyborg miniatures) are now the remnants of Earth's centralized government called TerraNet. Like the Borg they want to assimilate the rest of humanity into their technological Utopia and don't understand why everyone is resisting! (Resistance is futile after all!)
Orks (and similar alien barbarian miniatures) represent early attempts by Terra at creating bio-engineered warriors (the experiment went awry and their creations proved uncontrollably violent…). Necrons/Terminators (and similar robotic miniatures) were the earliest attempts at creating truly independent AI robot warriors. Like SkyNet that didn't work out too well. :-)
Space Marines and similar power-armor SF figures represent Terra's attempt to combine genetic engineering with advanced robotics for something approaching cyborg technology (the Therians/Cyborgs/TerraNet represent the culmination of that research.)
Imperial Guard, Red Blok, UNA, Stormtroopers, Star Wars Rebels, Near-future/Ultra-modern/modern and similar "generic Human soldiers" represent various troops deployed around the former Terran colonies (eg the IG represent the local planetary defense troops called Colonial Guard).
STATE OF THE UNIVERSE
TerraNet's research into Dark Matter/Dark Energy-based technologies has unleashed unforeseen chaos throughout human space and most of humanity isn't fond of the idea of becoming Cyborgs! Combined with pressure by alien races (Cog, Tau, etc.) fleeing before the Massive Space Bug Invasion (Alien, Tyranids, etc.) war has engulfed all of human space (think post-Roman Europe and Middle East…pockets/areas of civilization…some quite large…standing against the darkness…)
So factions within TerraNet seek to subject the others and the rest of humanity while exterminating all aliens; isolated Star Marine Expeditionary Forces and individual Star Marine Battalions are trying to survive the chaos and sometimes function like independent warlords; colonies fight with one another over resources and against the alien invasions; and of course you have rogue Necron/Robotic/Berserker/Terminator forces roaming human space as well as alien invaders such as Space Bugs, Cog/Tau, etc.
Bottom line: you get to use any miniatures and play against any miniatures! (Having little boys can liberate your thinking…and then drive you to have it all make sense!) :-)
MB
