Bot War - Mercenaries

Today I get to paint of the oldest bots in my backlog, Slyder.

Slyder was one of the original Snake Corps bots and as the Bot War rages on so does the time line. For a while Slyder was thought to have been destroyed. But there are snippets of lore that exist in the Facebook group for Bot War which tells the tale of how Slyder became a Mercenary…..

“Slyder steadied himself. How long had he been in that storm drain?

Snake Corp was gone and his chassis was obsolete. It was obvious that he had been thought destroyed. By now Dr Mindtwist must has accessed his back up code.  

It could even be that two of him now exist. This would be a dangerous predicament. Especially if he came within close proximity of the doppleganger. He needed to think, to plan. Moving into his alt mode, an obsolete version one ABT, Slyder speed off down the dirt road not really knowing where he was going, only that he wasn’t going south. …….”

This was also then expanded into

“After the attack of Destroyer on the COILS facility, both Slyther and Slyder were thought destroyed. So Dr Mindtwist essentially cloned and modified their code from the back up to make Darkstate and Deepstate.  

However Slyther and Slyder still existed. This created a strange situation where slyther and slyder were no longer connected to COILS and potentially have awakened suppressed memory banks.

Buried in the lore of COILS is the event where human mercenaries were sent through a dimensional gate into the abyss. These mercenaries never returned.  

However from the abyss the code for all COILS bots were found. The speculation is that maybe the COILS bots are not Deceivers at all. Instead being the consciousness of disembodied COILS mercs.”

It’s these snippet of background that I love about Bot War. Whilst the game is not on the same scale as say Warhammer 40000, Infinity, or Battletech, with tomes filled with source and narrative, Bot War has plot progression and underlying stories that are always being dropped by Anthony, the creator of Bot War.

With Slyder and Slyther now being part of the Mercenaries faction I thought it right to paint Slyder up in the same P3 green triad that the rest of the main force is in. Slyther will also get the same treatment to really help distinguish themselves from the COILS faction. I haven’t quite decided about Stormbreak yet, who was a blue Snake Corp jet originally, but I suspect I will go with green as well.

For now though I will leave you with my Mercenaries Slyder