Megadev's Repaints/Customs - 11/4/07 - Drevina

[MegadeV]

#19 ) Drevina



the Blood Vamp from the Horrorclix line

#18 ) Charos' Royal Guard



repainted Knights of Weston

#17) Tentacled Horror


a Mimring body modded with green stuff

#16) Dwarven Orc Hunters



#15) Dwarven Battlepriests



#14) Dwarven Bolters



#13) Dwarven Infantry



#12) Throgarth Frostbeard



#11) Tammell Ironblood



#10) Grimthell the Firstborn



#9) Shadow Marro



Repainted Marro Warriors

#8 ) Ranthark



A Dumutef/Mimring combo

#7) Kreela the Kyrie Warrior



a modded and repainted Raelin

#6) Ronin of Kojima



Repainted Izumi

#5) Shimmarrath

This is the original Shimmarrath I posted:


This is the revised version as modified for the Tried and True judges http://www.heroscapers.com/community...ad.php?t=13657
:


A repainted Mimring, silver with black trimming

#4) Long Range Recon Patrol



A squad of Airborne Elite with some black splotches added for camouflage.

updated army card 7-16-07

#3) Hydra



This is Mimring without wings and 3 extra Mimring heads attached. I also removed all the horns and tusks from the heads and used a few of those to give him a multi-spiked tail.

Here is a shot of the entire figure.

updated army card 7-16-07



#2) Charos' Royal Archers

3 Syvarris figures, with the green clothing painted purple and the chain mail, bow and helmet painted gold.

updated army card 7-15-07



Well, here is my first of hopefully many repainted Master Set customs.

Any feedback is appreciated.

#1) Sgt. Troy Jackson
I snipped the end off of Drake's Grapple Gun and his katana and added some black splotches for the camouflage.

updated 9-18-07 - limited the grenade launcher to 3 uses.

[CornPuff]

I like him.

Maybe his grenade launcher ability needs tom be renamed to Mortar. 4 dice is a lot!

I was about to say he was a hair overpriced.... but then I realized his camo works on grass as well! He is a 1 man mortar squad!

very cool. if it was me, and its not, I might consider snipping his katana into a combat knife and dropping his attack by one. I think that would seperate him from Drake a little more, and make him fit his price.

Like drake, he is weak against melee squads... except if they bunch he can blow them a new one.

[Retlaw]

I like seeing the repaints of MS figures (not all of us have easy access to MK or other figures).

The grenade launcher does seem a bit strong - maybe three dice instead of 4.

I agree with CornPuff on the katana - cut it shorter to turn it into a combat knife -- check out my repaints (link in signature at bottom of post)
I also have done a Sgt Drake repaint and turned the katana into a combat knife (I turned the grappling gun into a machine gun).

I did a google search on the name "sgt Troy Jackson" and didn't get any hits -- is the name based on a "real" soldier?

[CornPuff]

I wasn't suggesting a decrease in his special attack... I like it. Moving it down to 3 dice makes it more like a shotgun blast or something. 4 dice is something that really identifies this character, and I think it still works out with the current point total.

[Cavalier]

I think the reworked katana looks like a machete...I like it how it is

[MegadeV]

Sgt Troy Jackson was a character of mine from the RPG Twilight 2000 (post-nuclear warfare). There is no real-life significance to the name.

I want to keep the grenade launcher at 4 dice. I could see making it a limited use like the AE's grenades (2 or 3 grenade markers to use for the battle).

And I was going for the machete look. He's made for jungle warfare, so he needs a machete to hack through that underbrush (and any unsuspecting Utgar-folk in the way)

[Retlaw]

Jungle machette is ok.

The limit on grenade launcher is probably a good idea -- either limit to total number used or maybe limit once per round. Would have to test in game to see which works better -- probably limit the total is easier (similar to Morsbane's negation markers).

[CornPuff]

idunno about the limit. I think limits overcomplicate things, and I don't see the launcher as being a balance issue.

My only beef is that I don't see a machete as a 5 die attack... maybe knock it down to 4 and then he'll be a grenade launching machine, only using the machete as to not explode himself.

Lob 30 makes this guy a mean siege weapon

[MegadeV]

Hydra stats added to initial post for hopeful discussion.

[paloriam]

I agree with lowering the attack from 5 to 4. My main concern comes from the lob of 30. Personally, I think a grenade launcher should be a los weapon. Other than that I like the character and plan on making him. I also like and plan on making the version with the machine gun attack.

[MegadeV]

Originally Posted by paloriam

My main concern comes from the lob of 30. Personally, I think a grenade launcher should be a los weapon.

But that's what grenade launchers are for. If you needed a line of sight weapon, you would probably want to use a more powerful rocket launcher.

Have you seen the movie Predator? When Jessie the Body is looking up at the gunner's nest on the hill and complaining about how they are "dug in like an Alabama tick"? Then Hawkins whips out the grenade launcher, lobs a shot up there and tells Jessie to duck.

[MegadeV]

Hydra card added in first post.