Final Battle Of The God Machine
Today Mat and I again played the God machine game. This time I commanded the priestess's army. I was apprehensive with my flintlock and close combat armed army against percussion muskets. I tried a tactic not yet employed in the earlier two battles; the priestess's army played very defensively on its left flank but went on the offensive on the right flank before turning on the center. It worked
The Warlord's Guard unit approaches the God machine
The Warlord frantically directs his increasingly threatened forces.
The God machine was activated late in the battle and added to the carnage among the elite enemy infantry.
The skirmish formation adopted by the Warlord's men was, in the end, a disadvantage (unlike in the last game) as they were assaulted by the Priestesses forces. The Warlord's forces suffered over a third more casualties and failed to capture the machine.
Once I get my fantasy forces painted up I’ll think I’ll run a sci fi project using your WW2 forces repainted in retro colours style. Paint some terrain up Martian red and dot around with lurid coloured aquarium plants.
ReplyDeleteI painted mine in unusual colors with an eye for using them either as retro SF or as alternate time line Earth troops. So I didn't go big on SF looking figures, However, if you wanted SF armor on them I heard of someone cutting straw sections for this.
ReplyDeleteMy inspirations are all the alternate timeline SF novels, Flash Gordon, Trigan Empire and Edgar rice Burroughs.
I like how Burroghs has forest and swamps on Venus and canals etc on Mars. it was easier to have that in Sf before probes and landings showed just how inhospitable these planets are. Ironically, though, modern science has more recently shown that these planets were once more like Earth, even having liquid seas and probably breathable atmospheres, although long before humans on Earth. They may even have seed life on Earth. Future terra forming might even make them more like earth in the future, Human colonists descendants might even morph, by evolution or genetic engineering into other humanoid species.