#Cybertanks

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

[siryl]

Art by Harvey Kidder.

Illustration for Keith Laumer’s “The Last Command”

[oldschoolfrp]

Went to a con, played a bunch of games, and bought a lot of new miniatures this year, mostly historicals including a lot of plastics. But the Sunday flea market is the most anticipated moment of the weekend's shopping. After sorting through my haul some of the highlights include

A 1979 Ral Partha Evil Lord on Litter; I've already sourced his missing throne back.

A bag full of Rogue Trader era Citadel metal vehicles, including 4 complete dreadnoughts from 1987 and an assortment of marine and ork speeders, bikes, trax and buggies.

One metal Sister of Battle from the first 1997 release, ready to purge heretics with fire.

A bunch of 6mm sci-fi battlesuit infantry made for Ogre Miniatures in 1993, to (briefly) hold urban terrain areas against advancing cybertanks.

And a bag of Babylon 5 Wars/ACTA ships, including a shadow omega -- I believe that kit was from the early 2000s by Mongoose, using parts from Agents of Gaming's original 1990s omega and shadow vessel models.

Because no game is "dead" as long as you play it again, and because the recent flood of miniature-agnostic indie games shows no signs of slowing down.

[softgrungeprophet]

more and more the batmobile looks like a cybertank and i do not like those designs. i appreciate The Batman for leaning into "baby's first batmobile" with a tricked out muscle car, even if it's still very angular lmao

[castiron-lich]

Paneuropean 'Huscarl' cybertank (two heavy tanks for scale).

[lastoneout]

call that thing a cybertank the way it's pulling aggro

the thing about the cybertruck being marketed towards people who are afraid theyll get shot driving through a city is that no other vehicle on the market psychologically invites violence and bullets as strongly as the cybertruck does. you see a cybertruck and you wanna empty an m16 into it

[misternizz]

Running #ogreminiatures from @stevejacksongames at #coldwars2023 #coldwars “the Sword of Damocles and Cybertanks”. (at Valley Forge Casino Resort) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpoUDsat2Xh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[retrocgads]

USA 1987

[bryanharryrombough]

More Ogre Miniatures Set 1 review sculpts, painted by Ben Williams.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847271320/ogre-miniatures-set-1/posts/1889012

[tenderlysharpmidain]

Prompt: Close up portrait, A cybertank Engineer with a cybernetic eye, tools and workshop growing out of his head, rain, dripping oil, in the style of Gediminas Pranckevicius, Tim Razumovsky, Moebius, Russ Mills, Carne Griffiths, torn paper collage, splattered oil paint, cyberpunk, atompunk, engineerpunk, volumetric dust, pulp illustration, photorealism, raking sunlight, cinematic lighting --ar 2:3 --test

BrandonMc

midjourney

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[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Belated Anniversary: Mecha Press 13

Jun/Jul 1994

Here (very late) is a look at issue 13 of Mecha Press magazine.

The main focus of this issue is Armored Trooper VOTOMS, one of my favourite mecha anime series.  Primarily looking at the OVA, with background information on the VOTOMS setting, a partial synopsis of the series and profiles of characters and mecha.  But there is also a page dedicated to the Blue Knight novels, only available in Japanese at the time (and to this day, IIRC).

Much of this issues' mecha modeling section is devoted to the second of a two-part article on the 1:35 scale vinyl Mad Cat model from Horizon Hobbies & Toys.  An impressively detailed kit made for the serious model builder.  With the rest of the space devoted to capsule reviews of models from the Victory Gundam series, and article on “The Basics of Mecha Modeling”.

The mecha gaming section has the continuation of the material for the upcoming Heavy Gear, with a teaser on the Silhouette system, which would be the basis for both the Heavy Gear RPG and wargame.  There is also a follow-up to the previous issue’s Ogre Mecha article: Ogre Cyberwalkers, fan-made rules for multi-legged counterparts to Ogre’s cybertanks.  The gaming section actually begins with a review of OHMU War Machine, a sci-fi wargame featuring an “Oversized Heavy Mechanized Unit” on the cover.  A few pages are also devoted to Dream Pod 9’s own Jovian Chronicles, with some fluff about uniforms and stats for a new Exo-armour design.  Fan rules for BattleTech end out the mecha gaming section with rules and stats for a transforming Hover-tank BattleMech! Between the wealth of VOTOMS material and mecha gaming articles, this was (for me at least) a stand-out issue of Mecha Press.

[periodically80s]

[oldschoolfrp]

I found a decades-old print catalog from American Science & Surplus and remembered that they used to sell bagged components from TSR’s 1988 boardgame Buck Rogers: Battle for the 25th Century.  I checked their website at sciplus.com and found that they still have these in stock, 100s of pieces per lot for a few dollars, useful for making your own games or playing beer-and-pretzels starship battles.  I think the “gun pods” were orbital satellites in the original game, but they might work in other scales as cybertank-killing howitzers, anti-battlemech emplacements, or as man-sized remote sentry guns to protect your squad from alien xenomorphs.

AS&S has been in business since the 1930s as a discount dealer of surplus science supplies and other random tools, models, and toys that they happen to acquire.  They seem to have purchased an enormous wholesale quantity of these unused game pieces shortly after TSR went bankrupt.

[nelc]

Lego OGRE Mk V

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