MERCS Refit the ISS Faction Ready for Corporate Warfare
June 26, 2012 by brennon
So we've seen the Texico as a new faction for MERCS but what's next? Well here are the ISS ready to enter the world of corporate warfare and stake their claim in the company name...
I'm loving the style of the armour on these soldiers, sleek but heavy duty. This faction likes to change things up with the addition of combat weapons like tridents and lightning throwers. Yes, you read right. Not flame throwers...lightning throwers.
You can check out some more of their weapons below...
As well as all those handheld weapons they even have deployable turrets too. I reckon this could be a pretty popular faction for the MERCS world but I still love the idea of my USCR squad.
What do you make of the ISS?
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A couple of variations from what’s come before can be seen here – firstly the female armour variant which is odd as the CCC Incinerator is actually female underneath that armour but there’s no outward indication of that. Possibly there was a demand for more clearly female figures, I don’t know. The other thing is the use of digital sculpting when all the other models were hand-sculpted. It’ll be interesting to compare the advantages of each method, but these are still sweet looking concepts and the lightning thrower is a very innovative idea – Tesla would be proud.
I cant wait to see some how to play videos. My FCC is on the painting desk as we speak.
Look good in general not sure about the spear style weapon always liked the way mercs was hard Sci-Fi
There’s already a sefadu model with a spear, not to mention the USCR have the Behemoth’s hammer. Close combat may happen with nothing more than rifle butts in reality, but in model form you need something to add variety and make it come alive in the imagination.
Besides, how else are they going to punch through all that powered armour most MegaCons have? 😉
Lovely! They will be second only to the Keizai Waza in coolnessfactor in my book… Only the nukes tips it into Keizai favour. (Thou auto-turrets and lightning-throwers is amoust a counterweight to that… Almost… )