Following up on
my All Quiet on the Martian Front vehicles post... Some thoughts about
what to use for infantry for 15mm not-Imperial Guard.
When talking about 15mm not-Imperial Guard, one usually thinks one of three options...
1. You have
maddening modelling/sculpting/converting skills and/or will settle for
nothing but a perfect homothety of the GW models! I haven't anything
like those skills and actually prefer more approximate proxies.
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| 15mm Death Korps of Krieg by Dan from Gunners Wargaming... Along the same lines, have a look at his Titanium Dropship 2014 entry or at his current 15mm not-40K project... |
2. The Imperial Guard has often been called the 40K army for historical wargaming enthousiasts[citation needed]... And 15mm sci fi wargaming has (before the current golden age) been stigmatized as playing with WW2 minis painted funny[citation needed, again].
But frankly why not? An army made of historical infantry (the more original and obscure the better) equipped with sci-fi vehicles, an original paint job and a non-standard organisation is a perfectly fine sci-fi army by my book... I was going to list some of the classic Imperial Guard Regiments and possible sources of miniatures but quickly realized I started making a very boring list of pretty much every post-1900 miniatures manufacturer in the book!
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| Not-Valhallan Ice Warriors AKA Flames of War Strelkovy Company (Winter). Picture from manufacturer website. |
3. Embrace the
Gothic side of the Force and choose one of the few sci-fi but gothic
ranges available. To name a few (in no particular order): Black Hat's VSF Prussians, Eureka's Sci-Fi Germans, Ion Age's Prydian Muster or Rebel Minis' Titan Marines.
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| Another Titanium Dropship 2014 entry: Eureka Sci-Fi Germans by painted Barks from Wargaming with Barks |
None of those
options wasn't really exciting me. And all of a sudden I thought of
another range of minis I had filed under "nice but not quite sure what
I'd do with them'... ZombieSmith's Quars!
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| Cute little not-WW1 guys... I NEEDED an excuse to buy some! Picture from manufacturer website. |
Original and
characterful minis, relatively extensive ranges with riflemen
("rhyflers", some armed with "Bogens" and other with "Ryshi"?), LMG and
mortar teams, officers, snipers, tankers, cavalry and even a pack beast.
Everything one need for a solid infantry force. As long as you're only looking
at building a single
faction (or are content to use the same models with different paintjobs
for different faction, a perfectly valid approach in 15mm): the 15mm
range (Quars are also available in 6 and 28mm) currently has only two
factions, one of which
only has a single infantry pack. Edit: fair enough, that
single infantry pack is in fact a 45-quars strong "Rhyfle" company; not
sure how many poses that is nor if it includes support weapons or
anything, the website only mentions the officers.
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| Not a bad model... Just not my thing. Picture from manufacturer website. |
The only weak
point in this line are the vehicles: three "war tractors" are available
and none of them are (in my subjective opinion of course) as inspiring
as the Quar themselves... And so back to this post introduction: I
ordered a bunch of Quar and can't wait for the AQotMF vehicles to be
available!
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Didn't know about the Black hat Prussians, they have potential, and the Prydians look like the would make a good IG army, but you Quar will have that extra bit of interesting factor, they will look great with Martian front armour.
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