Re: Phalons, Kravak and Savasku was Alien Infantry

G'day Glenn,

 >Thanks Beth for the data about figures
 >for the most common Tuffleyverse
 >Aliens in DS2 scale.

No worries.

 >Anybody know if the original conception
 >of Phalons was 'Ft only'

I'd say as one of the newer races to Jon's stable he just hasn't had
time 
as yet to get them in all scales ;)

 >I know the ships have been described
 >as 'Snails' but are the ships built to
 >imitate their users in form?

Well the 25mm ones Derek's got are clothed so I wouldn't know......<I'm
so 
so sorry I really shouldn't encourage that Phalon thread ;)>

Seriously I was going to offer to give them a wash and scan some in. 
Unfortunately Derek's off a Hobby Expo (being asked repeatedly if its
hard 
to paint things that small and "do you REALLY play games with them?" ;)
) 
so I can't ask which of his various boxes of unpainted lead these little

guys are sitting in. I did a quick run of his "half painted, I only need
a 
few hours spare" shelf, his "at least I've done the flesh bits" shelf,
his 
"I loved it so much I had to undercoat it immediately shelf" and a
number 
of boxes which should be indexed under "stands a good chance of being 
painted before the next millenium" to "will only ever see a paintbrush
if 
they really streamline extension of the human lifespan"...but zip...he's

either taken them with him to paint today (doubtful) or I've forgotten
the 
location of another of his metal deposits. I'll ask tonight and IF he
can 
locate them I'll see if I can get a pic done tomorrow or something.

 From what I can remember though, they looked OK, head sort of a floppy 
triangular shape, limbs which bend in unexpected places. Not my cup of
tea, 
but pretty good - I like the P'taah more, but that's just personal
preference.

 >AH, the bugs on the webpage of your and Derek's armies?

Yep.

 >HTH specialists only?...<rearrange a bit>....Or are
 >there weapons I missed on the figures (I guess you
 >could always arm them if your conception was that firepower was
 >necessary...)

Nope. Some of the 25mm scale have "SAW" or "plasma gun" arms, wouldn't
be 
too hard to convert some 6mm likewise. When my thesis is in and my
paying 
job starts up Derek's also going to ask Nic about producing other 6mm
bug 
types (tanker-like bugs to start with, but I wouldn't mind seeing flying

ones etc too)....much the same way he did with the "skirted Deimos".

 >Hmm, are they heavily armored
 >enough to be able to advance into
 >HTH range?

Yep, we treat them as fast PA for movement and armour/hits etc...plus 
there's the "overwhelming numbers" aspect ;)

Cheers

Beth