| tsofian | 16 May 2013 5:24 p.m. PST |
So what would a steampunk ogre look like? |
| CorSecEng | 16 May 2013 5:38 p.m. PST |
Most of the land tanks from Dystopian kinda fit the bill. Large hulking beasts with massive turrets. I think Valkyria (sp?) Chronicles had a massive land tank in it. The final battle was against it. I think it crashed into the city in the anime |
| Chris Palmer | 16 May 2013 6:17 p.m. PST |
The Wild Wild West Derailer tank is what I use:
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 John the OFM  | 16 May 2013 7:18 p.m. PST |
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 JammerMan | 16 May 2013 9:00 p.m. PST |
I noticed the steampunk super tank topic. The guys over at Alien Dungeon have the kickstarter All Quiet on the Martian Front. And from reading on the site, there are going to be a number of huge machines. They already have some pretty big tanks, but will have land iron clads for several nationals over the next couple of years, (US, UK, German, French) to name a few. The first machines won't be ready til December, and they are very responsive to input and ideas. You might check them out. I think the US Ironclad will be 12" long (15mm game). |
| Lion in the Stars | 16 May 2013 10:41 p.m. PST |
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| Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 17 May 2013 2:12 a.m. PST |
What are those figures??? |
| Lion in the Stars | 17 May 2013 3:05 a.m. PST |
Mine? That's the Akuyaku 1-go (Bad Guy #1), sketched by Miyazaki. You can buy one from Hobbylink Japan: hlj.com/product/TACTG-2 Exchange rates from yen to dollars is really nice right now, but it's still a $40 USD kit with another ~$15-25 for shipping (no real cheap way for reliable, accountable, timely shipping across the Pacific). It comes with 20 of those little pig-crewmen, and another sprue of the characters (Commander, cook, mascot pig). |
| Steve | 17 May 2013 5:15 a.m. PST |
I use a Mage Knight Dwarven Steam Behemoth (with some modifications). I cut off the blunderbuss looking part of the cannon and did some touch up painting. We had a great game in GASLIGHT where one of the heroes was running around doing a lot of damage until he eventually got ran over and impaled on the spiky roller. link Steve |
 etotheipi  | 17 May 2013 6:19 a.m. PST |
I think one of the defining characteristics of steampunk is having the mechanisms visible from the outside (no, not random cogs that don't connect to anything … hate that). Also, steampunk is supposed to be (IMHO) people on the bleeding edge of their technology. Anything that makes it look finished instead of raw and under constand experimentation/development should be avoided. Lots of different sized wheels on the treads would be good. Open housings. You could probably pick up a couple cheap pocket- or wrist- watches to get some gear mechanisms for exploitation… |
| Ron W DuBray | 17 May 2013 5:23 p.m. PST |
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| tsofian | 18 May 2013 4:53 p.m. PST |
The Land Ironclad does seem very much like an Ogre MK III. One Main Gun and four secondaries and a bunch of AP weapons Terry |
| Lion in the Stars | 18 May 2013 8:18 p.m. PST |
I'd argue that the other direction, Terry. OGREs are more akin to land ironclads than to tanks. They have a main battery, some lighter secondaries, and then some 'anti-torpedo-boat' guns. |
| tsofian | 19 May 2013 7:02 a.m. PST |
Lion
I think that is splitting a hair fairly fine. The Soviet T-35 had a main gun, two AT guns and a pair of machine guns all mounted in turrets Terry |
| J Womack 94 | 20 May 2013 11:57 a.m. PST |
Yeah, i am sold. I will have to buy one of those Land Ironclads. |
| tsofian | 20 May 2013 2:59 p.m. PST |
J
you know this is a 15mm right? You are coming over to the dark side. Terry |
