Official - GZG news: UNSC/H Hardsuit Marines NOW AVAILABLE!

GZG News, Weds 6th Feb 2013:

  The long-awaited new sculpt UNSC Hardsuit Marines (UNSC/H) are NOW
AVAILABLE! They are all up on the webstore and fully available.

OUT NOW:
(Inc. VAT prices apply to all customers in UK and other EU countries,
ex VAT prices apply to all customers outside the EU.)

SG15-U10  UNSC/H Marines in Hardsuits - Plasma Rifles pack A (8 figs)
			3.00 inc VAT, 2.50 ex VAT.
SG15-U11  UNSC/H Marines in Hardsuits - Plasma Rifles pack B (8 figs)
			3.00 inc VAT, 2.50 ex VAT.
SG15-U12  UNSC/H Marines in Hardsuits - Plasma SAW gunners (8 figs)
			3.00 inc VAT, 2.50 ex VAT.
SG15-U13  UNSC/H Marines in Hardsuits - Micromissile Launchers and
Laser Snipers (8 figs)	3.00 inc VAT, 2.50 ex VAT.

SG15-UX 	  UNSC/H Grav Jump Packs to fit Marine Hardsuits - 24
backpacks			3.00 inc VAT, 2.50 ex VAT.

The SG15-UX pack contains 24 individual grav-packs, designed to fit
any of the Marine Hardsuit figures in packs U10-U13; each UX pack
will therefore be enough to equip 3 packs of Hardsuit figures. In
MOST cases the Grav-pack will simply glue on over the small cast-on
backpack of the hardsuit - it has been designed to be a very quick
and simple fit with a drop of superglue, and most figure poses will
require no cutting, filing or other work to fit the grav-packs. There
may be just a few cases where a little filing and fitting of the pack
or the suit is required to make it sit correctly on the figure,
depending on the pose of the arms and shoulders and the weapon that
the figure is carrying, but we have tried to keep this to an absolute
minimum. PLEASE NOTE that the picture shows examples of the grav
packs fitted to several UNSC/H figures - the UX pack does NOT contain
the figures themselves!
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We also have a little special offer intro deal, for a limited time
only - by buying the deal you get enough grav packs for all the
figures FREE!

UNSC/H "mini intro" deal pack: 2 x SG15-U10, 2 x SG15- U11, 1 x SG15-
U12, 1 x SG15- U13  (total of 48 figures) plus two FREE packets of
SG15- UX grav packs!
Deal price 18.00 inc VAT, 15.00 ex VAT.

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Since the first sample figure of the new UNSC/H got previewed a few
weeks ago, several people have commented on the major differences in
weapons and equipment between the new UNSC/H and the UNSC/L Light
Infantry - well, here's why....

The UNSC/L (Light) Infantry are the regular ground troops of the UNSC
forces, under Army Ground Forces command; they are equipped to a
fairly high tech level, using full-body light armour combat suits and
carrying rapid-fire gauss weaponry (the IGW-68 infantry rifle and
SGW-75 support weapon). The flexible combat suit gives the wearer
reasonable protection against shrapnel and some small-arms fire; it
is also fully sealed and has sufficient life-support for short term
operation in hostile atmospheres, though for hard vacuum operations
it is more common to deploy the Hardsuited Marines where available.
The large overhead-curving faceplate of the combat helmet allows
excellent optical vision, supplemented by head-up displays projected
on the inner faceplate by the suit's sensors and comms links.

The UNSC/H (Hardsuit) Marines are a separate organisation completely,
under UNSC Fleet command and used as a primary strike force, often
dropping from orbit in individual ablative capsules or deploying via
high altitude grav-pack drop from atmosphere-skimming transports. The
UNSC Marines are equipped to the highest tech level available to any
human infantry, each Marine wearing an advanced power- assisted
combat hardsuit sealed against vacuum and most hostile environments,
and carrying High Energy Weapons tech in the form of the IPW-80
Plasma Rifle and the SPW-82 Rapid-Fire Plasma SAW. The very
distinctive bulbous helmet of the Marine hardsuit contains extensive
sensor, comms and AI support for the wearer, with panoramic head-up
displays for full situational awareness at all times - the narrow
"visor" slit in the faceplate is normally protected by an internal
armoured shield when the Marine is in combat conditions, and is
usually opened for direct optical vision only when out of combat, or
in emergency circumstances such as sensor equipment damage.

The Marines are considered the elite of the UNSC forces, highly
trained in all combat situations including vacuum and microgravity
environments, and there is certainly a strong inter-service rivalry
between them and the regular UNSC light infantry - somewhat
exacerbated by the fact that they are organised under completely
separate command structures.
As throughout history, this rivalry has lead to many a bar-fight when
troops are off duty;  to the Marines, the Light Infantry are "just a
bunch of dirt-grunts", best suited to the jobs of garrison duties,
peacekeeping forces and the like; the Light Infantry, in their turn,
see the Marines as "cocky glory-hogs with all the best toys", who
"drop in, kill everything then bugger off to space again". In action,
of course, all this is forgotten - it is not uncommon for Infantry
and Marines units to be found fighting shoulder-to-shoulder, and even
to be cross-attached to each others' units right down to platoon
level when the situation warrants.

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So, there we go - lots of you have asked for these, so we've done them! 
 :-)

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