Spartan Preview The Swarm Heading For Planetfall
September 17, 2013 by brennon
Spartan Games have previewed another of the forces coming to Planetfall. This time they are looking at the arachnid Relthoza and their strange and wonderful weapons of war...
As you can see they have a style that is very different from the rest of the tanks we have already seen. The Relthoza in the background are meant to be huge aliens so their vehicles were always going to be crazy. Some of them are just huge mech suits for them to walk into battle in.
As well as the big walkers there are also their army of smaller drones ready to do their bidding across the battlefield. This looks like a neat original army with some great design choices too.
They seem to just be adding to the awesome!
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Again some VERY nice concept art!! Just when I plan to not invest in any more games and to just pad out what I have, someone goes and colours something shiny! When is the Kickstarter going live? As I think it is illigel to avoid this process in a games development these days. LOL. Not sure why the larger companies cant create their own KS type function on their own sites by now in order to create even more cash for their projects. For gaming I dont feel that KS advertises as muchnas the big forums and gamers word of… Read more »
The owner of the company did an interview recently, where he essentially said “If I don’t have faith in the product to release it, why should the customers?” when asked about KS. So no, they’re releasing it the old way.
Anyway, I really like those, a pretty unique take on “evil bugs” theme unlike just another boring xenomorph-wannabe force.
Very cool ! Not sure about Spartan Games anymore, though…
3D concepts are cheap to make, and it’s like they release another game every two or three years when the last one is “used up”.
It’s nice, but I find that i have already forgotten some of their older releases that I thought were brilliant at the time.
I’ll have to see the miniatures “in the resin”, of course, but at least these ones seem like something you can use in other games.
Have to agree with you there Romain regarding Dystopian Legions, almost nothing for such a long time…. 🙁
Didn’t they get a boxed release almost every month? With blisters in between?
I was more referring to Uncharted seas, and their first games, whose success has somewhat plateaued… So far, the Dystopian releases have been fairly regular.
Last things that I saw released were the bikes but that seems a while ago now. Or am I missing some nfo from somewhere? Hope I was wrong though as the Legion models are sweet!
They released some tanks, artillery I think, plus a bunch of different infantry? I admit I’m not a fan of DL (last thing I need is another 30mm skirmish), but they seem fairly stable. Heck, they even picked up the slack with Firestorm Armada with 2nd edition in the works and ton of new releases in the last half year. So apart from the poor Uncharted Seas they seem to be picking the steam up with their major lines again.
They’ve actually been releasing many things. The bikes you refer to were their second release back in November/December of last year. Since then they are on their 8th wave release. They have released second style of mainstay infantry for everyone, heavy machine guns, field artillery, APC’s, tanks, and fleshed out veteran sections. The new jump troops are going to be coming out in October, and especially the FSA Air Cav look amazing. The game is great fun, with a lot of tactical and strategic options and the forces are finally getting diverse enough to give a grand feeling for the… Read more »
I really like the look of the medium walker guy, but I’m not so sure about the largest of them. It seems like it needs something different to make it seem both more sleek, and more alien. I just haven’t been able to make the leap to get into Spartan games yet. Some guys at my LGS have recently started up Firestorm Armada, but I didn’t go with them. Too many cool things out there to try I guess. Also, I think Spartan keeps getting better at sculpting. Their newer ships seem way better to me than some of the… Read more »
I LOVE Spartan and thier games, but I’ll say it again. It feel like they leave to many lose ends on thier other games and jump right into another system. Spartan!?!?!?! I hope your reading this. I love love love your games and your models are in the top 3 or 4 in the world!! But please please, could you finish one project at a time? Liegions feels “half baked” like your we’re getting ready to tie it all up in a nice pretty package and then like a kid with A.D.D., all your attention jumped to Dystopian Wars, and… Read more »
How do you “finish” a project when it’s a wargame? Release all possible models at the same time? Close together? Where is your source of income later? It’s not a historical game (though goodness knows Battlefront are refusing to believe there’s only a finite amount of historical units either…) with finite amount of models to release.
That being said, I wish they focused more too-more Firestorm, less Dystopian, and we’ll all be happy.
I like these. They look like they work. Not a gothic reference anywhere on them either :p