Post by Balgin on Nov 14, 2014 19:37:13 GMT
One little project that's recently caught my eye is the relaunch of Fallen Frontiers by Scale Games. Relaunch, I hear you ask? Why yes. Scale Games (the fine folks behind Duel Fighters) are a subsidiary of Scale 75 (a company who specialises in making 75mm figures). After their strangely successful Duel Fighters kickstarter (75mm fantasy 2 figure skirmish) they decided to craft an all resin 35mm sci fi wargame called Fallen Frontiers and ran a kickstarter for it. Unfortunately the campaign did not go as well as they'd hoped. A lot of people quibbled over the scale (despite 3d scenery being included) and they left the project running a long time. As time passed funds diminished as backers drew out, I can't remember all the other details. Suffice it to say that Scale Games decided to cancel the kickstarter, go away, rethink it and come back for a second try.
This second attempt looks pretty nice. Now as far as the figures, the photos, the paintjobs go etc, there's not a lot here we haven't seen before. They do look gorgeous 'though. From what I've seen it looks like the rules may be fairly simple with the focus being on the quality of the figures. There are four factions ready from the get go.
The Ares faction are human freedom fighters who do not like to be oppressed. They wear big chunky powered armour but don't look like they have a load of exposed wiring sticking out the sides of their heads.
The Riffs are big brutal combat types, possibly slightly orcy loking. They like to fight and kill stuff. They're craggy and spiky and carry a few more close combat weapons than the other factions.
The Sayx are a human corporation (they look a teansy bit like Imperial Guard) who believe in domination, control and market manipulation. There's a lot of uniforms with both corporate & military overtones.
The Harvesters are nasty zombie/genestealer looking guys who like to make things out of bits of dead people. And if the people aren't dead they don't mind killing them first, then making stuff out of them.
Feel free to take a look. If it interests you that's great. If it doesn't that's fine too. Feel free to discuss the stuff you see here if you like.
This second attempt looks pretty nice. Now as far as the figures, the photos, the paintjobs go etc, there's not a lot here we haven't seen before. They do look gorgeous 'though. From what I've seen it looks like the rules may be fairly simple with the focus being on the quality of the figures. There are four factions ready from the get go.
The Ares faction are human freedom fighters who do not like to be oppressed. They wear big chunky powered armour but don't look like they have a load of exposed wiring sticking out the sides of their heads.
The Riffs are big brutal combat types, possibly slightly orcy loking. They like to fight and kill stuff. They're craggy and spiky and carry a few more close combat weapons than the other factions.
The Sayx are a human corporation (they look a teansy bit like Imperial Guard) who believe in domination, control and market manipulation. There's a lot of uniforms with both corporate & military overtones.
The Harvesters are nasty zombie/genestealer looking guys who like to make things out of bits of dead people. And if the people aren't dead they don't mind killing them first, then making stuff out of them.
Feel free to take a look. If it interests you that's great. If it doesn't that's fine too. Feel free to discuss the stuff you see here if you like.