"What If WE Invaded An Insectoid Planet? (A 15mm Scenario)" Topic

Imagine a planet inhabited by sentient insectoids at various levels of technological development . . .

Spugs – the only sentient insectoids on the planet with advanced native weaponry
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Crusties – received weapons from humans to help them break away from their Spug overlords. Now they live at the edge of our camps and settlements, grateful for every little scrap we give them.
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Mantis Stalkers – the more technologically primitive of the three sentient species on the planet. The least understood. And the most feared.
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QUESTION:

So, does that sound like the makings of a cool game, one that would incorporate some of the coolest 15mm insectoids made these days (by Spriggan, GZG and Khurasan)?

What do you guys think?

Thanks.

Dan
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Casus belli?

Why involve Humans at all? why not let the Bugs fight it out for supremecy?

'cause the Spugs excrete what we eat? Seriously, there must be a resource worth fighting for on this bug world.

It's an ugly planet; a Bug planet. A planet hostile to life as we know it.

Would you like to know more?

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A bug planet…pretty much like Earth but that moment when mammals made the bump up the chain the insects beat us to it.

A planet with lots of bugs would be fun…perhaps a slightly lighter gravity which would help with the size issues.

Peleset,

Well, the Crusties seem to have very human-looking weaponry, which would have to be explained by having some sort of human source.

Then I wondered why would an alien species buy weapons from us in the first place. Then it dawned on me. They want freedom from the Spugs.

Plus, it affords plenty of opportunity to throw in all sorts of human troops and vehicles (kinda like Avatar).

Dan

Could be amusing.

Fried bugs are supposed to be quite healthy and nourishing…

"Seriously, there must be a resource worth fighting for on this bug world."

Give Impala a cigar!

Dan

It they are only 15mm tall why can't we just step on them?

"The hive is everything, and the hive must eat."

Now, don't wander too far off the clearly marked paths and electrified fences . . .

. . . the other wildlife on this here planet is not any happier to see us:

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The ultimate bug killing machine.
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Oooh! I haven't had a cigar in ages! Thank you!

"A bug planet…pretty much like Earth but that moment when mammals made the bump up the chain the insects beat us to it.
A planet with lots of bugs would be fun…perhaps a slightly lighter gravity which would help with the size issues."

Or, perhaps, just a lot more oxygen in the air, like Earth during the Carboniferous . . .

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Now, who makes a Nigel Marven in 15mm . . .

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Or just bugs that evolved proper lungs. There's no reason you couldn't look like a bug on the oustide and have internal organs that let you achieve greater size. All in the evolution, you know.

You'd want something stronger and lighter than Terran chitin for that exoskeleton, but you were planning on making them all kinds of resistant to weapons anyway, right? No reason not to let them evolve better shells while we're at it.

True true. More O2 would help quite a bit.

The other thought is to introduce other ways to interact and socialize.

Colonies, hives, parasitic, symbiotic, cluster, and other.

I remember a great book, forgot name…I will work on it, that dealt with a new world being looked at for colony efforts only to find an extensive chain of life existing already.

This chain of life was bonded together by a fungus…a world wide linked fungus. All encompassing mushroom with fingers in all the flora and fauna…the ultimate communistic situation.

This way with a common link the Earth could look entirely different as far as we are concerned, it would indeed be a bug planet.

"Or just bugs that evolved proper lungs."

Hmm. Sounds like what was done to the Judas Breed in Mimic.

Dan
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Some justifications revealed on CSPAN54

"The bugs hate us for our freedom."

"If we don't attack the bugs on their home planet, the next thing you know they'll eat all the wood in Peoria."

"To make sure that female bugs have equal access to education, employment, and health care."

The weak opposition says the real reason is:

"Because the interplanetary military industrial complex has to justify its R&D buget and the imperium can finance the invasion without raising taxes by borrowing the money from the Felids"

Hmm. I guess that these guys are going to need really BIG lungs if they're to be my Crusties' riding beasts . . .

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Nuke them from orbit! It's the only way to be sure!

The Spugs are dominant. The Crusties are slave drones as per the movie. We are interested in helping the Crusties since the Spug Queen jelly is an EXTREMELY valuable item for the Corporations back on Terra.

John,

LOL. Is she the one that makes Royal Slurm?

Dan

Wait Queen Jelly, wasnt that an episode of Futurama? Actually there were two episodes like that. The giant space bees with royal jelly and the space slugs that produced the Universes number one soda from the queens' rear end.

Lol, that would be extremely funny. A war over control of the Universes best selling soda.

The Slurm Wars. Has a nice sound to it too!
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I would want this guy in my bug force picture

The idea is from the ALIENS book series. The Royal Jelly was developed into a designer drug that enhanced Human abilities to an incredible level. It was very expensive.

Dang 28mmMan…That fig makes me want to drag out my original copy of Gamma World!

Spice ! Spice !--the queen poops Spice ! Now, what's it good for ? <chuckle>

Slurm Wars actually the more I think about it the more sense it makes.

You have the Spuds who produce Slurm and distrubution is handled by either another species or a large mega corporation. This would give you another armed power in the game allied with the Spuds.

You have a rival mega corporation that produces the second best selling soda, say something like Spurm-cola or whatever you want to call it. This rival corp. wants to be number one and is out to stop Slurm anyway it can. So it supplies arms to the Crusties, which are a service caste genetically engineered by the Spuds in the past. They also send in hired mercenary companies as advisors to the Crusties.

The Cola War of 3012

Slurm vs Royal J

The whole thing just bugs me.

And more bugs keep coming out to give the humans a welcome party:

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Wow CC. Some of those conversions are real art.

I know. I'm going to have to order those Khurasan Arachnids too.

They are listed with their 28mm figures:

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Well, I couldn't contain myself any longer and placed an order with Khurasan, for a few of their Mantis Stalkers.

They just look too cool to pass up:

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Ditto, CC. ordered some of the Mystri island bugs, too.

What about GZG IXX as assault troopers, I'm looking to use most of these as an Insectoid alliance against the Humans in a SGII setting

Spriggan Spugs as Drones (light troopers)

GZG Crusties as Main troopers (or possibly veterans)

GZG IXX as Heavy troopers (or maybe the overall leaders)

Khurasan Mantis Stalkers as Close assault recon/infiltrators (not decided yet)

Khurasan Arachnids as shock assault squads led by Crusties

The other two that might be added are the GZG phalons and Kravak

Still sorting out stats but should be fun.

I forgot about GZG's Ixx!

Thanks.

Dan
PS. So the Phalon and Kravak don't want the humans to be the only ones to "help out" the natives?

Hi Dan,

The idea is that the Phalons are invading some of the outer colonies using their genetically engineered troopers, The 1st game will be an farming village attacked by zombies (humans reanimated/implanted with biotech) the women and children are holed up in the village as the farmers race back to save the lot of them, after they themselves were attacked in the outer plantations.

Then there will be more scenarios where the NI troops encounter the Phalons and there troops (Crusties, IXX, spugs, mantis, Arachnids) in hit & run, defending power plants and attacking Phalon ground bases.

The idea being that the planet might be an old gene-pool that the Phalons use to create bioships etc and they have come back to discover these new creatures inhabiting/polluting/farming their planet.

The Kravak might make an appearance as they always love a good scrap.

Regards

Pablo '66'

Does anyone know . . .

How big are Khurasan's Arachnians?

This is all I get from the description:
"Thorax (front body part) is approximately 15mm front-to-back."
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However, how long are they overall? And how wide?

Thanks.

Dan
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Rodrick's bug troops could be the sentient and high tech rivals to the Spugs, right?

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NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!

The insectoid planet is really building up for its very first world war!!!

From Rodrick:

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Now, from Khurasan:

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LIFE IS GOOD:

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DAN

DRENOI LOOK INTERESTING:

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What if Selenites really existed, on our Moon?

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Highlander Studio announces their ant bugs:

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Spugs above ground race, forest regions build their hives above ground, buildings concrete mud kind of stuff

Phalons underground race, Mantis Stalkers slave race for the Phalon, as tunnel diggers.

Crusties found in mountain regions, hives found in cave like communities

Highlanders Ant Bugs desert regions, surface and subsurface, hives look like very large ant mounds.

Vespulids swaps, build their hives in trees that can covering large areas.

All of them use different species of Kar'vaks as servants, workers and soldiers, Kar'vaks can be identified as to what region they are from base on their color.

All are at war with each other and the humans land right in the middle, an area that none of them live in why the IXX, the IXX love to hunt them all and to eat them. The IXX is the largest of all the races. the IXX might think humans may taste better, no human captured by them has never returned, this is based on humans have return from the other races after escaping their captors. Due to where the humans landed none of the other races want to be friends with humans, for they believe the humans have alliance with the IXX. It is thought that the Kar'vaks could be the link to break the tie and swing the fight in the humans favor.

Lots more bug options:

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link Aphids from Zombiesmith

I wonder if these heads might work:

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Khurasan's "Vespulid" are now available:

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