"Anyone ever do a big Scifi beachhead scenario?" Topic

Watching Edge of Tomorrow has created an urge to do a
Sci-fi beachhead type scenario, probably in 15mm, though I might consider 6mm. 25mm is of course madness!
So anyone done it?
Have a scenario?
Or even better a few pics?
Thanks
Mike

We'we done a beachhead game using FUBAR , I wish we had taken pictures but allot of vehicles were unpainted at the time . We used GW Rhinos as tracked landing craft with Imperial Guard storming the beach held by "other " Imperial Guard . It was a pretty good game and we kept allot of the heavy weapons to a minimum with satchel charges and engineers clearing the way through for an armoured landing to follow which never happened , It can loo really cool in 28mm if kept to a small section of the overall battle .
cheers Tom

Hey Tom, how many figs? How big was the table? I remember GW doing a Show Table once with Dark Eldar attacking an Imperial Guard beach.

There was a large 40K landing battle at RECON last spring:

I only have the one photo.

No pics. Back around 1995 did a 6mm striker II beachhead with grav tanks plus waterborne craft. Both sides had high tech levels assisting planetary lower tech forces. Had a beach coastline on one edge of table and a large urban center on other with some high rise buildings.

No, I have always wanted to do a large drop zone landing with drop pods as an assault on a large defensive position.

My table at home is 6' x 12' , only about 10 inches or so wac actualy water surface , the rest being sand dunes then lowland hills leading to forest and we had about a platoon for each side of infantry. The invaders had armoured vehicle support while the defenders tried to hold them off with AT weapons . The FUBAR rules worked well for it.
cheers Tom

I was at RECON and I can tell you a picture doesn't do the table justice. I was an Awesome table and boys were running it hard. Very nice looking table. It was the Guard vs Orks.

8)

I've always intended to do one in 10mm with models from the Mechwarrior clix range. When they were going cheap I bought up about 50 of the Bishop landing craft. But still haven't gotten around to putting it together.

One of the legendary 40K games we had was called Orkinawa.

I THINK there were some inlets, so the water edge wasn't too deep, but still room for craft 'going upstream.'

Lot of jungles, and I think there was a few islands as well.

I also think it had the beach on the short width, so fighting required moving forward the length of table, but will ask others if they remember better.

Here's another 'ancient' Orkinawa in Nebraska; I don't recognize any of the participants, though… link

Doug

Not yet, but there are plans, in 15mm scale.

The Planetary Defense Forces are not going to be happy, I suspect, as the Grav Armor drops in from orbit at high speed to do battle.

Here's a link to a pic of a Superheavy Grav Tank, cruising at Tree Top Level to annihilate enemy forces:

TMP link

[scroll down to see pic]

Still need to paint the forces, and make a few city skyscrapers, just for fun.

that pic looks like a typical 40k game to me, everything lined up like musket period troops and vehicles lines up like a parking lot lol looks impressive though.