Monday 1 October 2012

Goons, Cops, Resistance Fighters, and Furious Furballs...

15mm.Co.Uk has added yet another entertaining product to HOF Humanity range: Hired Goons. Wearing boiler suits and armed with submachine guns, hese figures would be great in James Bond (or even Austin Powers) settings. Use them to guard your evil lair, mount laser beams onto sharks, or to push around the boiler-suit wearing alien goons from CP Models! They are available in a 10-pack or as separate poses.

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On the other side of the law, Khurasan Minis has expanded the Federal Police range. The Security Force Troopers pack offers ten heavily armed and armored law enforcement professionals (I really like the futuristic pistols!) as well as a casualty figure. The Federal Cyborg Supercop... um... doesn't need much explanation. :) But the pack that caught my eye is the Police Bots (pictured). I've been a fan of the unarmed robot in the DPLS Spaceship Crew pack since it's release, and have long wondered if we'd see more figures based on that robot design. They're intended for use as police automatons, but it wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing complete armies based around this pack.

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Khurasan Minis has also expanded the Sepulvedan Resistance Fighters range. Those of you who have been fighting against the villainous Jellina Jo-el I and her fearsome Control Battalions will welcome the new Sepulvedan Provisional Army Regulars and Sepulvedan Provisional Army Jungle Fighters. Each division has four new packs, differentiated by futuristic combat helmets or berets respectively. The packs for each division include Regulars (armed with  the same pulse rifles as the Control Battalions), Command/Heavy Weapons, Mortars, and a pack of Truck-Borne fighters (pictured). The latter are intended to be used with the excellent Rockjumper tracked pickup, but could also be useful in similar vehicles from Old Crow, GZG, and Ravenstar Studios

One additional pack is available - Sepulvedan Resistance Scouts on Horses. Jon might find a sleeper hit with these figures, even outside of their obvious use as low-tech space colony forces. Many of us have long been inspired by post-apocalyptic movies like The Postman and Book of Eli, along with the new TV series Revolution. These Scouts would be perfect in those settings. And they would be great opponents for the Post Apoc Riders from Rebel Minis.


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In the same vein but on the opposite side of the technology spectrum, Black Hat Miniatures brings us some long-overdue reinforcements for the Tolero. Two cavalry packs are now available - one armed with bows, the other armed with spears, both mounted on Terror Birds. This is one of 15mm Sci Fi's greatest strengths. A sculptor or manufacturer takes an idea from existing media (the Tolero certainly never tried to hide their inspiration!), and produces a base pack or two. But eventually their own creative nature takes hold, and that force is able to find its own identity. I certainly don't remember seeing terror bird cavalry at the end of  that 1983 movie, but now we can use them in our own universes. These are especially useful in games like Alien Squad Leader, where stands of primitive infantry and cavalry fight alongside their high-tech masters.

Cheers,
Chris

6 comments:

  1. Excellent and varied releases in to the vibrant world of 15mm gaming. Thanks Chris!

    GBS

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  2. An awesome lot of goodies.

    Those mounted resistance may find service in my Alcovia project as mounted Eastern Euro militia.

    The Tolero are so awesome and the mounted ones just improve that. If you wanted more "accurate" ones, mount them on 15mm ponies with long tails.

    -Eli

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  3. Those police bots ARE great! I think they'd look good mixed in with human soldiers or police as sort of humanoid drones or assistants. For those who enjoy Mass Effect, with a little modification they'd make reasonable proxies for Geth. LOL at the cyborg super cop... didn't even give him a different gun.

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  4. I'm going to be putting the "police" bots in with my regular squads as the support weapon.

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  6. The output from Khurasan this last 2 years has been extra-ordinary. Not content with 10 figures of 2 poses (mostly), he creates individual figures (mostly) who are not stood stock-still with arms akimbo in ridiculous poses with a stupidly overlarge weapon, but actually look like combat troops who happen to be imagined in a future setting. There is a theme, and continuity about the force structure and many of the figures are so dam good, you would think they were 28mm. Shame I'm such a rubbish painter! I am a HUGE fan, and constantly have to stop myself just buying a heap that would just sit there for ages waiting to be painted. Figure designers like Khurasan deserve our support - go buy some stuff! The service is good too. He's in the US, I'm in the UK but his orders often arrive inside two weeks and often quicker than a UK supplier! Goodness, I sound like a PR front for Khurasan - I'm not but the figures are that good, I get all unnecessary!

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