Re: Looking for more info about StarGrunt / Here's you chance to lure me away...

In a message dated 8/26/03 12:45:50 PM Central Daylight Time, 
squirmydad@yahoo.com writes:

> www.cygnusx1.info
> 
> Hey, here is a site from a fellow with good info on
> both SGII and on the Tau. It was the article here on
> Tau special ops that sent me from teetering about the
> Tau to purchasing them for SGII.
>   Eric
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> 
> 

The originator of the thread goes into some reasons why Warhammer is too

expensive. It certainly  is in my estimation. Stargrunt has some
advantages since 
nobody is screaming at you that you have to have "offical" minis. I buy
most 
of my Stargrunt stuff of the discount rack at the game store - or even
better 
at the local Dollar store! I have a whole company of armor vehicles
(fourteen 
to bexact) and half of them were $1.oo each. I bought a tank with a
friction 
motor - actually I got six of them at a dollar each and brought out my 
modification scraps. Once the tracks were removed card stock covered the
bottom of the 
vehicle to convert it into a grav tank. The stubby gun looked silly, so
I used 
some soda straw to extend and enlarge the barrel (I used the kind with
the 
bendy middles like hospital straws since the pleats in the middle look
like a 
muzzle brake for the gun.)  I added some more soda straw stubbies to
show a 
vertical launch system for indirect mortar fire. I usaed rubber stoppers
from old 
bottles of intravenous drug bottles (the little ones - my wife is a
nurse and 
we have used these bottle for Christmas crafts in the past - they make
great 
tree decorations when filled with collored sand and decorated with
trinkets) to 
make a pop-up anti-missle defense system. Next step is to get a dremel
tool 
and pop the hatches on some of them to put some mo9re cut-off dollar
store 
miniatures that are the right size. Yeah, I found several packs of four
minis and 
a (usually silly, but sometimes usable) vehicle included. The guys look
to be 
dressed in light battle dress and have nifty sci-fi weapons - so with
pack I 
get four minis and a light combat car for a buck. It all needs
modification and 
re-painting, but heck, I have to paint the lead too, don't I? I acquired
some 
vehicles from a series of military die cut vehicles from Wal-Marty for
about 
89 cents apiece on sale - it gave me four M113's to use for tracked
APC's for 
my power armore troops, two Panhard Armored cars with an electrical
turret 
with a 20mm gun, and a number of Bradley Fighting Vehicles which became
grav 
IFV's for my regular infantry squads. I am modifying some cheap[o toy
store 
helicopters for vectored thrust, anti-grav assist VTOL's and I'm in
business with a 
reinforced company ready for the table. Used a pack of Ral Partha Kurita

Machine Gun Troops for the "Battle Troops" game which I picked up for
$7.00 bucks 
at a game convention auction a couple of years ago for the regular
company 
troopies and I am in business.

I've also got a scad of plastic vehicles and troops from a toy line that
went 
under to portray the lower - tech opposition for my mercenary unit and I
can 
put on	the whole game for less than $50.00 total expenditure.