Nailing Dirtside/Stargrunt Chamber Pots (was Re: [GZG] More re: [OFFICIAL] Salute releases....!)

[Samuel Penn <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 22 April 2007 16:02, Ground Zero Games wrote:

> I'd actually be quite interested to hear other peoples' opinions on
> this - unlike the Starships, for the ground stuff (whether it be in
> 15mm, 25mm or 6mm) I've tended to keep away from saying "this mini is
> a UNSC (or NAC, NSL, whatever) tank", because I think it tends to
> railroad SOME people into the "I don't do that army, so I can't use
> that mini" mindset. I'd rather that folks felt free to use just
> whatever they like when they build their armies up. What do you think
> about it? Would you rather have everything tied down to "official"
> stuff?

Given the choice between as it is now, and going down the FullThrust
route of official models for each nation, I'd vote for the latter.

I don't mind making it up myself, but it was very difficult to
put together an army for Dirtside simply because there doesn't
seem to be any easy way to classify the models beyond the
tracked/grav/hover/wheeled technology.

It would be nice to at least have a number of distinct ranges with
their own styles - maybe a Sleek range, a Bulky range, Big Guns range
etc, with a mixture of Grav/Wheeled/Tracked in each. Possibly
different ranges would have different proportions of each type of
technology.

An entirely Grav bulky range would of course be needed, so that I
could keep my NSL design doctrine (medium to high tech, small
numbers (compared to the other main nations), but ALL Grav) :-)

I'll be the first to admit to knowing nothing about modern militaries,
so don't know how similar/disimilar modern tank designs are between
nations. Do the practicalities of modern warfare force all tank
designs towards some ideal shape?

The *big* problem I can see is that you'd have to do each range 3 times
(6mm, 15mm, 25mm).

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