Cyberpunk by Evilstu

Let’s see, where to begin…

OK, I have read Neuromancer, watched Altered Carbon, yelled at the live action version of Ghost in the Shell (which, just quietly, I did actually enjoy once I stopped comparing it to the anime…) and have even sort of convinced myself I know what’s going on in Blade Runner. So combining all of that, here is a list of everything I know for sure about our dystopian near-future:

• Everyone will live in claustrophobic, crowded, tightly compressed cities. This is apparently because all the land will begin to disappear in the next 20 years. The more vertical nature of cities will mean cars will not have to travel as far, so flying cars will be invented to assist commuters in vertical relocation.
• Everybody’s favourite colour is all the neon. All billboards will be animated, some may be holograms (and may or may not stalk you).
• The entire economy is based on ramen, sleazy strip clubs, cybernetic enhancements and industrial espionage. Despite this, corporations will grow to industrial behemoths, and the chairs of such corporations will wield almost godlike power. Which I guess they deserve for apparently getting in at ground level and locking in a slice of the lucrative ramen cart franchise market before anybody else saw that business opportunity opening up…
• It is perpetually raining. It is also perpetually 10pm on a Saturday night. I’m still trying to work through that bit mentally, and I’ll admit, it’s taking some doing…
• Music gets cooler.
• Should-be-prohibited narcotics and high calibre firearms are apparently readily available, perhaps from vending machines?

So with all that in mind, I’m going to set out to build a cyberpunk gaming table. I’ll admit that while I have a few ideas I have no real fixed plan at present. I do have a couple of buildings form Knights of Dice’s Neo Sentry range which I have had for a few years, so they should form a nice starting point to work from. I backed the Afterlife kickstarter game from Anvil Industries a few years ago and have only painted up one squad of the minis, so this should be a nice way of encouraging me to move forward with that project too.

Knights of Dice Neo Sentry range

Afterlife from Anvil Industries