MustEatBrains
Mongoose
I liked the "aged metal" look of the Liandra in LotR quite a lot, although it was a bit too bright for my tastes - so I wanted a darker version of it for my Nolo´Tars. Here´s what I´ve come up with:
Now, while painting the ships, I´ve been thinking about the miniature itself, and the ISA in general.
I like the Nolo´Tar miniature quite a lot, but it is definitely too big! Also, it has those funny little gun turrets which haven´t been there in the movie - but I´ll come back to that in a second.
First some thoughts about the ISA: As it stands, the fleet has two different ways of playing. There are the White Stars (WS 1+2; Gunship, Carrier, WS Fighter, Blue Star) which are extremely fast an agile. And then there are those ships that aren´t - the Victory, the Nolo´Tar and an upcoming Sharlin variant. So, an ISA player can basically choose whether he wants to use many "fast and fragile" ships, or the slower heavy hitters (or mix those two styles, of course). Again, I will come back to that.
Back to the Nolo´Tar again: It is HUGE. Too big. Out of scale. Freakingly so.
But:
It is a nice miniature, and it could be used an altogether other ship. Some upgraded version of the Nolo´Tar - with the gun turrets, some differences in the plates when compared to the Liandra, and the obvious size difference, it is just different enough to get away as another class of vessel within the same design concepts as the original Nolo´Tar (a bit like the different WS-classes). So, it could still be sold, while a new miniature could be comissioned for the Nolo´Tar itself (even more similar to the Liandra, with about the same size as a Halik - that should be about right).
Now, that could come in handy with the different playing styles of the ISA fleet:
The fast and fragile faction has a good selection of ships - Patrol,2 upcoming Raid choices, battle, War. It can be played on it´s own, without having to take the slower ships.
Now, there are only 3 choices for the slow faction (including the upcoming Sharlin), two of those towards the upper levels. So, at lower levels, the current Nolo´Tar stands pretty much alone (personally, I think there´s little actual tactical use in combining it with White Stars).
Finishing my thoughts above, the current Nolo´Tar figure could be upgraded to a raid-level ship, a new and more to scale miniature could still be used in the skirmish level (maybe with a small dodge of 5+ or so), and ISA players would have enough choices for a different playing style (at the moment, every ISA fleet somehow feels/looks/plays more or less the same). All for the price of one little additional miniature and a half-page of rules for another ship.
Any opinions?
Now, while painting the ships, I´ve been thinking about the miniature itself, and the ISA in general.
I like the Nolo´Tar miniature quite a lot, but it is definitely too big! Also, it has those funny little gun turrets which haven´t been there in the movie - but I´ll come back to that in a second.
First some thoughts about the ISA: As it stands, the fleet has two different ways of playing. There are the White Stars (WS 1+2; Gunship, Carrier, WS Fighter, Blue Star) which are extremely fast an agile. And then there are those ships that aren´t - the Victory, the Nolo´Tar and an upcoming Sharlin variant. So, an ISA player can basically choose whether he wants to use many "fast and fragile" ships, or the slower heavy hitters (or mix those two styles, of course). Again, I will come back to that.
Back to the Nolo´Tar again: It is HUGE. Too big. Out of scale. Freakingly so.
But:
It is a nice miniature, and it could be used an altogether other ship. Some upgraded version of the Nolo´Tar - with the gun turrets, some differences in the plates when compared to the Liandra, and the obvious size difference, it is just different enough to get away as another class of vessel within the same design concepts as the original Nolo´Tar (a bit like the different WS-classes). So, it could still be sold, while a new miniature could be comissioned for the Nolo´Tar itself (even more similar to the Liandra, with about the same size as a Halik - that should be about right).
Now, that could come in handy with the different playing styles of the ISA fleet:
The fast and fragile faction has a good selection of ships - Patrol,2 upcoming Raid choices, battle, War. It can be played on it´s own, without having to take the slower ships.
Now, there are only 3 choices for the slow faction (including the upcoming Sharlin), two of those towards the upper levels. So, at lower levels, the current Nolo´Tar stands pretty much alone (personally, I think there´s little actual tactical use in combining it with White Stars).
Finishing my thoughts above, the current Nolo´Tar figure could be upgraded to a raid-level ship, a new and more to scale miniature could still be used in the skirmish level (maybe with a small dodge of 5+ or so), and ISA players would have enough choices for a different playing style (at the moment, every ISA fleet somehow feels/looks/plays more or less the same). All for the price of one little additional miniature and a half-page of rules for another ship.
Any opinions?
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