| dwartist | 27 Nov 2014 2:17 p.m. PST |
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| khurasanminiatures | 27 Nov 2014 2:51 p.m. PST |
Thanks David -- this is the combat support droid of the GOTA Clans. Armed with two heavy fusion guns, it can also mount a pistol-sized plasma gun on a boom, which can come in very handy to defend the droid when it is in a constricted environment and cannot swivel its turret to bring fire on a threat to its rear. (The boom is sometimes detached in open-field operations to save the strain on the droid's CPU, but a Prowler in Urban Ops is never seen without one.) Here's an image showing it next to a 15mm infantryman from another of our ranges:
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| jpattern2 | 27 Nov 2014 5:48 p.m. PST |
That's a cool little unit. |
| Chatticus Finch | 27 Nov 2014 6:23 p.m. PST |
Ah, so is it available yet? (This is the old MDMS Drone, right?) |
| khurasanminiatures | 27 Nov 2014 9:22 p.m. PST |
The store's closed, so no.  |
| Weasel | 27 Nov 2014 9:25 p.m. PST |
I love the idea of getting more little robot-things like this. Seems they can serve a ton of purposes in all manner of scifi games. |
| Chatticus Finch | 28 Nov 2014 4:55 a.m. PST |
Ha fair enough… either way, I may have to start a trade mission with the GOTA clans then, I have a dire need for these bad boys! :) |
| Fritadas | 28 Nov 2014 10:53 a.m. PST |
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| No Such Agency | 28 Nov 2014 7:47 p.m. PST |
I love it. Kind of cute, is an lethal sort of way. The wide-set chunky treads are great. "The boom is sometimes detached in open-field operations to save the strain on the droid's CPU" Is CPU still limiting in the future? I thought it was just my crappy laptop. Don't GOTA have positronic matrices or bioengineered head cheeses or something? |
| War Monkey | 28 Nov 2014 7:48 p.m. PST |
Those are great!! I can see using them for a lot of things. :D |
| khurasanminiatures | 29 Nov 2014 7:20 a.m. PST |
They have bioengineered head cheeses but those are in their MREs…. |
| tuscaloosa | 29 Nov 2014 9:35 a.m. PST |
"Seems they can serve a ton of purposes in all manner of scifi games." You need a variety of versions:
- Battery/power source for infantry.
- Mule to carry bags, gear, ammunition.
- Commo relay for satellite uplink for individual comms.
- GPS jammer for point defense.
- Laser dazzler for point defense.
- Navigation beacon.
- Anti-sniper system with electro-optics. |
| khurasanminiatures | 29 Nov 2014 5:48 p.m. PST |
Actually tuscaloosa we have a light droid that's a bit bigger than this one that fulfills many of those functions -- available in legged, wheeled, tracked and grav versions. For instance, the mule, wheeled version:
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| tuscaloosa | 30 Nov 2014 6:55 p.m. PST |
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| Heinz Good Aryan | 01 Dec 2014 9:50 a.m. PST |
i like that little guy but i think i'll leave the tail off, makes the model too busy. without it that's one tight little drone….. |
