Re: OT: Gears

Thanks for the input adrian.  For anyone interested, I'm not looking to
turn 
a profit on this, it's just a favor I'm willing to do for listers.

2B^2

>From: adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@scotch.csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: OT: Gears
>Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:34:11 -0500
>
> >From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
> >Subject: OT: Gears
>
> >1314 Southern Light Artillery $7.00
> >
>
>FWIW, The Southern light artillery make really nice towed light arty /
>anti-tank guns in scale with Stargrunt 25mm figs.  And many of the
Southern
>gears (and the arty pieces) are done in a style that looks quite
similar to
>NAC Power Armour.
>
>I have a battery of three of the guns done up to use as mission
>objectives/scenery.  I run a scenario at conventions where one side
gets
>the guns (not used in play) and crews for them, with two light vehicles
>(jeeps) in support - about 12 figs.  The other side gets several squads
of
>troops who are sent in a "deep recon" mission to find and kill the
guns.
>The battle is between the gun crews and the raiders.  The gun crews get
to
>call reinforcements after they first make contact with the raiders
(spot
>them, or get shot at), and the raiders have to get in, blast the guns,
and
>get out again before they are cut off.
>
>Fun scenario, and the artillery pieces make great "set dressing" for a 
>table.
>
>Of course, if you were playing a lower-tech force (colonial militia, or
>something) you could use them as *actual* anti-tank guns (like the
towed
>guns used in WWII), and build them into a scenario.  I don't think that
the
>more "advanced" powers would be fielding towed guns...   Again, though,
>they're nice pieces.
>
>I don't, unfortunately, have pics of them done yet...
>
>Sometime soon, and they'll appear on stargrunt.ca
>
>
>
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>
>Adrian Johnson
>adrian@stargrunt.ca
>http://www.stargrunt.ca
>
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