[DS] daleks (was Re: over sized walkers)

G'day Scott,

>Ouch! I would love to read that after action report!

Have'nt written one as such yet, but the following may give you some
feel
for the situation ;)

</tinny voice mode on>
"Take objective XYJ and EXTERMINATE them"
"We will obey"
"Objectives held, EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, we are Daleks you must
obey!!"
<tinny voice mode off/>

"Sod that for a joke! Hoi! Jones, get platoons 4 5 and 6 to put a few
rounds into them tin cans and shut 'em up!"

BOOM
BOOM
BOOM

</tinny voice mode on>
"We have been extermin...."
"The Supreme Dalek survives, we will return, WE WILL RETURN!!!!!!"
<tinny voice mode off/>

>I wasn't trying to field a force that would win, just one that looked
cool, 
>and would be fun to play :)

My thoughts exactly!

>By the way, what did you use for the Daleks?

The Daleks are the Irreg (?) 6mm (? whatever scale DS is) ones which
look
very good (you have to paint on their 'spots' though, otherwise grill,
gun,
eye-stalk, 'hand' etc are all there). 
For the heavy weapons ones I chopped off the eye-stalk, hand, gun and
put
on a very short (4mm or less long) piece of thin brass rod (think it was
3
or 4mm in diameter) and ran a line of gel superglue around the dome to
make
it look like it had the edge to it - worked very well!
I also did a bit of kit bashing to a few of them to produce pyroflame
Daleks (Cotton wool whisp painted as flame works marvellously), some
sensor
Daleks (thin slice off the end of a plastic chop-stick looks very much
like
a sensor dish at that scale), suicide Daleks (5 sections of 3mm long
pieces
of 'modelling hose' stuck around 'the neck'), engineers (spliced the
'hand'
into a claw), an emperor (took off the hand/gun and put on a series of
short 'modelling hose' to get the grate effect around the head).
Built the hoverbouts out of ear-ring shafts (base/stand of
thehoverbout),
the outer-rings of push studs (the railing) and half a tiny bead
(headlight).
The walkers are actually War-of-the-world tripods (stand 4cm and 8cm
tall
depending on which size you but, I got both), with the 'hull' painted
like
the Dalek saucers. 
The tanks (few in number) are actually NSL Slammers (the little turret
on
the big turret looks surprising like a Dalek's head by the way).
The marine Daleks where 8mm-1cm wood ellipitical beads chooped down the
middle longways, VERY fine brass rod for the eyestalk, gel superglue for
the ridge across the neck and mounted lying flat onto the base and then
'flocked' (put blue ink through some water base woodglue and it came up
REAL well as water) so appears as if seen from above in the water - at
5c a
figure these are the cheapesr troops I've ever got and they actually
look
good (no one was more suprised than me!)

As for the rules I used, they were pretty much like the ones I posted a
while balck, but to summarise:
Dalek troops - like PA excpet have 4 chits when fire, 2 when close
combat
Weaponary on board walkers - PGNs (power guns) ranges as for "Slammin
the
dirt"

		CLOSE	MEDIUM	LONG
PGN/1	12"		24"		36"
PGN/2	18"		36"		54"
PGN/3	36"	      60"		-
PGN/4	48"		60"	-
PGN/5	60"	-		-

However I've modified the chit damage a bit so people wouldn't scream
too
loudly when it was applied ;)
Went something along the lines of double - regular - half depending on
the
conditions, but I'll have to go home and check what there where exactly.

Psychology wise they have only 3 classes confident/shaken/broken and
need
the equivalent of a roll which would drop you two levels as a human to
drop
you one level as a Dalek. If the Emperor is taken out then everything
goes
pear-shaped.

I'll try and remember to bring the full set of rules and post them (as
played, rather than as mused).

It's not an army I expect to win with alot, but its fun ;)

Cheers

Beth

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