December 16, 2011 by dracs
Defiance Games have previewed their new Alien bug faction. It will take far more than a swat and some fly spray to get rid of these guys.
These are some rather nice miniatures which look like they have just stepped out of a Starship Troopers film.
So will any of these be swarming over your table top?
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Ew that is gribbly! Lots of detail and looks very poseable.
I’m really more interested in the German Panzer Grenadiers in early 2012 however.
But surely your Panzer Grenadiers need something to fight!
USMC! OORAH!
The Germans get to fight a LOT of things in the coming months – Bugs, USMC, Vralk, Chinese…the list is really almost endless!
Just a quick thing – we don’t have “factions” in Combat: Alien War. We have “Forces”.
Factions are political organizations in Ancient Judea. 😉
See here:
http://defiancegames.com/index.php/about-dfg/the-plan
Thanks,
Tony
DFG
Splitters! (Also please lump Scotland back into the commonwealth were we should be.)
Oh no – Scotland is OUT. OUT OUT OUT. 😉
And the Canadians are bad MF’ers too.
We’re used to being out to be honest, the furthest we ever get is the group stages…
Wow, fluff must be interesting indeed to have a commonwealth that includes India and NOT Scotland. India’s current active enlistment numbers put them at #3, just below the US. If you add them to the UK and Commonwealth nations, they would outnumber the US, but still wouldn’t be anywhere near China’s active enlistment numbers.
And while were at it, how about China’s new super carrier? Someone wants to get in on the super power game…
Only if you consider a never-that-great-to-begin with Russian hand-me-down as cutting edge. China is still a paper tiger like the old Soviet Union used to be. And given that manufacturing is leaving there in droves now, it will be interesting to see what happens to their economy over the next few years.
That said, I think we’ve made them pretty interesting in Alien War – in 2259! But you guys can judge that when the first Chinese Imperial Army sets hit next year!
Is the term faction not from the Latin factio? Which is how they divided their charioteers? Or was my Latin teacher wrong all those years ago….
First, the models look really posable. Also this is what I think killer big bugs should be. It’s limbs are more like snow crabs than bug. I like, I like it a lot.
As for what Tony of DFG said about the canadians, what role do they play now? Are we (I’m Canadian) the rulers of the known universe or just a bunch of hoser’s in space?
The Canadians are part of the British Commonwealth still, but you’re a nation who doesn’t take sh*t from anyone. As you right deserve, aye?
Instant vote for Scotland even if they are fairly far behind on the vote.
Saor Alba Gu Brath!
That said you could always form a “Celtic Alliance” with Scotland, Ireland, maybe Wales, Cornwall too…
Yeah, I really want to know why Scotland is out and India is in…
Its probably a cricket thing… that or they mentioned 1966 once to often and Alex “nickname with held as kiddies might read this” Salmond declared war, regardless of whether he has the power to do so or not…
I still think Essex should cede from the Commonwealth…..wonder how a vajazzle conversion on a model would work out…
Good to see the commonwealth is doing well on the voting.
Are these available over here in Blighty yet? Is there a distributor?
Hi Tor – first sets are out in January. Javis, Simple Miniatures, and North Star will have them as true distribution (i.e. to retail stores) and there are a load of retailers who have told us they want them! I expect they’ll be easy to find – and we’re working on having a fulfillment parter in the UK for local delivery of direct orders at our online shop.
Thanks,
Tony
DFG
Sweet, will keep eyes peeled for them. Sounds like they will be easy to get hold of.
Any idea on timeline for the rules?
Cheers!
We’re in final edits now of the free PDF version – once edits are done we just have to format and get them into their various PDFs for download. They will definitely be available before the figure release but possibly fairly soon if all of it comes together nicely.
Being available from Javis is good news for my local store. Ill let him know
I think Scotland should be a stand alone force TBH.
‘FREEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!!’
Hey that could be a whole other force, Aussies with fake accents, you could have William Wallace, Wolverine and Megatron all on the same side!
YES I vote for the Scotland, Canadian and Decepticon force. It will be called Canscoticons! For the WIN!!!!
If you look at the link he provided, it is!
If you read it in context….It was a reflective statement after the other posts suggesting Scotland be part of the commonwealth.
Those bugs look quite cool. Obviously lots of posability. Nice that is.
I do worry about one thing with this game: so many human forces and only one alien force. Most games are set up with a backstory that lets everyone fight everyone else. This game seems to be, so far at any rate, set up so that its humans against bugs, with a ton of variation on the human forces, and pretty much the single alien variant. I know its early in the development of the game, but this does seem like a pretty challenging limitation… It would be like 40k with only Space Marines (lots of chapters / variety but… Read more »
As I see it from an admittedly quick read through of the stuff on the forums it’s more humans against humans and the aliens are getting interested in the loud noises and flashy lights the guns make.
The Alien War universe is one in which humanity has been exploring and colonizing space for about 125 years. They’ve found many habitable planets and a few of those have intelligent life – but none at a technological level on par with or more advanced than humanity.
As we launch – the timeline is rolling daily in realtime – i.e. today as I type it’s Sunday, December 18, 2259 – in universe. 2260 looks to be a VERY interesting year.
I may pick up the bugs as I can always use some nice insectiod aliens, Ill take a closer look at the humans as well
Glad to hear you’ll be using Simple Miniatures, I’ll be able to get my boxes nice and quick! 😀
Somebody call Johnny Rico and Rough Necks.
Some real excitement about this company and its ideas / plans amongst my gaming circle after i made it known to them. The USM are very cool and i like the Bugs too, though they arent amazingly original. We are all REALLY looking forward to the German Grenadiers tho. ALIEN WAR is shaping up to be very interesting….
Thanks willy!