Leitwolf | 05 Mar 2014 4:28 a.m. PST |
Hello Commanders! For five years the Hamburger Tactica was THE show for us, to reveal our latest project for everyone to see. This year we tried a new type of scenario for Full Thrust. And this is what we came up with: Battlestar Galactica Blood & Steel!
Players take control of a Battlestar to face the cylon threat. In numbers: 4 Battlestars in 1:4105 scale, completely painted and lit with custom made LED lighting 4 Basestars in 1:4105 scale, also painted and lit 500 fighters including: Viper, Raider and Raptor 1 completely new designed spacemat in 2,50m x 1,50m size AND 1 fully colored, 60 page scenario booklet with artwork, fan fiction and special rules for Blood & Steel This booklet now comes as free digital download to you. You will find everything to take a dive into the Battlestar Galactica universe and play your own Full Thrust gaming rounds. There is a german and a english PDF-version in our Download-Section on mechworld.de. You can find more photos of our launch event at our Facebook-website: link Our next shows: 12. April 2014 – SALUTE – London ExCel, UK 10. & 11. May 2014 – RPC – Cologne fair, Germany We hope you enjoy reading and playing! So say we all! Your Mechworld.de Team! |
TheBeast | 05 Mar 2014 6:15 a.m. PST |
Greetings, Pack Leader! I shall shortly be putting a link to this thread for the folks on the BSG Yahoo! group. Excellent news! Doug |
auton1 | 05 Mar 2014 6:47 a.m. PST |
Seriously impressive! Out of interest, who makes the fighter group stands you use? |
Leitwolf | 05 Mar 2014 8:13 a.m. PST |
THX :-) The stands are Flightstand from Litko: link We designed & cut the topper/mounts by our own. |
Leitwolf | 05 Mar 2014 8:13 a.m. PST |
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TheBeast | 05 Mar 2014 9:09 a.m. PST |
It's the toppers we wanted to know about; we recognized the Litko immediately. Good stuff, of course! ;->= I guess auton1 and I would like to know if you can share. Have you tried CorSec's Omnis? Pretty kewl, especially as Jonathan's got some perfect-for-FT bases. Doug |
emckinney | 05 Mar 2014 11:11 a.m. PST |
When does the Tisiphone enter the game? One correction: a reticule is a lady's small purse. A reticle is part of a gun sight. |
Leitwolf | 05 Mar 2014 12:59 p.m. PST |
emckinney: :-D THANKS a lot for the correction and the Tisiphone. We will change that immediately! :-) Doug: Our teammember with the Lasercutter is changing his homebase. So it will take a view weeks
We will inform you all, when we release the new designs. Sorry. |
Jaegermeister | 05 Mar 2014 1:49 p.m. PST |
The Tisiphone and shuttles were meant to be alternatives to the freighter to help the GMs balance the scenario if necessary. You can basically swap them for the transport or a wave of Raptors. We'll need to clarify this in the booklet. If you spot any glaring mistakes please do point them out, we did our best but we're a german group so there may be some more mistakes like the reticule
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TheBeast | 05 Mar 2014 2:34 p.m. PST |
;->= I would have missed it, and I spend more time on VSF then I do here. Doug |
Daniel | 05 Mar 2014 3:27 p.m. PST |
Excellent work. The BSG SSDs show both Atlantia and Athena as BSG 01. |
Leitwolf | 05 Mar 2014 3:40 p.m. PST |
Thanks Daniel! I fix it tomorrow! :-) |
Daniel | 05 Mar 2014 4:15 p.m. PST |
Also, do your Heavy Pulse Cannon work like those found here? link |
emckinney | 05 Mar 2014 4:38 p.m. PST |
Daniel, Those are the new-style icons for Pulse Torpedos. (I'm assuming that you're talking about the weapon with the asterisk icon.) If there's some other reference to Heavy Pulse Cannon in the scenario booklet, I apologize for missing it. |
Daniel | 05 Mar 2014 4:42 p.m. PST |
Yes, the Battlestar fluff background mentions the Pulse Cannon (page 21 for example) and I assumed it was the asterisk icon as you say. If it's simply a torpedo that's good. |
jgibbons | 05 Mar 2014 6:24 p.m. PST |
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justBill | 05 Mar 2014 9:21 p.m. PST |
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Cold Steel | 06 Mar 2014 5:14 a.m. PST |
There is one major problem with the whole game: its on the wrong side of the Atlantic! Wonderful stuff. Are you bringing it to Historicon? |
Jaegermeister | 06 Mar 2014 5:26 a.m. PST |
The Pulse cannon is a Pulse Torpedo. We used only Basic weapons to keep the game as simple as possible as the Scenario is intended as demo/participation game. They're just fluffed as cannon because that seemed to fit better into the BSG Canon. @Cold Steel – I'm afraid we're not going to be at Historicon – we're just a wargaming Club and Salute is the only show outside of Germany we can manage. |
Daniel | 06 Mar 2014 11:20 a.m. PST |
Thanks for clearing that up. If you ever need anything confused or misunderstood, I'm your man! :) |
TheBeast | 07 Mar 2014 8:17 a.m. PST |
Now, Daniel, any time at all on TMP, and you know we're really a not-so-secret legion. ;->= Doug |
Daniel | 08 Mar 2014 11:57 a.m. PST |
Well taken, Beast. I was hoping to stand out from the pack by volunteering |
OmniJackal | 08 Mar 2014 9:03 p.m. PST |
I want the toppers. Everyone wants the toppers. It's time to mass produce and sell them. |
MacrossMartin | 08 Mar 2014 10:02 p.m. PST |
This is inspiring stuff! Thank you for the PDF, and for coming up with the idea of doing BSG in this scale in the first place; it just looks so completely right! Also, the quality of the photos adds a lot. Congrats to your camera-jockey! |
Captain Gideon | 10 Mar 2014 9:07 a.m. PST |
Okay here's a question which I've been dying to ask where do you get the Minis? |
Jaegermeister | 10 Mar 2014 10:49 a.m. PST |
You can get the Fighters at shapeways, the Battlestars are Revell/Moebius models. The Cylons are old Revell Kits, long oop. |
TheBeast | 11 Mar 2014 5:11 a.m. PST |
The Cylons are old Revell Kits, long oop. Do get reissued once in a blue moon; I missed last time, to my dismay. I do find these a bit large for tabletop, though I have used an original Galactica as a fixed piece with fighters swooping about. Both in the old FASA game and with an FT variant. (LONG time ago.) Doug |
boy wundyr x | 11 Mar 2014 11:40 a.m. PST |
Looks great, I just introduced my nephew to TOS BSG (the show) over the last week, and have some minis to get ready for when he's old enough – he's only 3 now, but has been wandering around saying "By Your Command" in a robot voice ever since, so I know he'll be ready to game shortly. |
Daniel | 11 Mar 2014 11:42 a.m. PST |
Leitwolf, Has your group done any stats for the Berserk class? Very interested to know your take on her since several are found in the 1st War Ghost Fleet. Edit: the data will go with this 8 inches of goodness: link |
Jaegermeister | 11 Mar 2014 11:55 a.m. PST |
You're right, the ships are a bit large to really maneuver. We chose the scale for visual effect, really, and to do something a bit different. |
sean68333 | 13 Mar 2014 10:34 a.m. PST |
WOW!!! I've downloaded these and am going to check into ordering some of these models. Yippee!!! Another project. My wife will love it. No really, she might actual like it since she likes BSG so much. |