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Ooh, shiny.
You should also "spam" Beast of War or at the very least Miniatures Page with this BTW.
Woot!
All rounding is always up and it doesn't always happen at the end of the calculation, IIRC. Can't be bothered to check the math on the frames you mention right now, but there's been one or two cases of mispointed frames in the army lists. I do believe that the force creation tool, aside of the known errors/modifications listed in the Errata, should be assumed correct in case there is a discrepancy.
I can't post links right now, but have a look at http://ravenstarstudios.blogspot.com/
if you're interested.
FIFY. I don't think you can actually buy any of the mecha models as yet tho :?:
I've found that I prefer the Ultimate Warzone version of "no scatter, but worse change to damage on a miss" for a ranged AOE mechanic. It's much more difficult to retrofit than a scatter system of course.
Black Hat Miniatures is re-releasing the much missed Cobalt minis line by Bob Naismith! Woot!
http://www.blackhat.co.uk/online_shop/index.php?cPath=121_182
The line currently includes four alien types and a number of pretty spiffy human models. They are planning to release some never before seen stuff next and Naismith even promised to sculpt yet more Cobalt stuff at one point... Maybe now that the minis are on sale again he actually will*.
Anyhow it looks like it's high time for making more Cobalt lists for D:VG to accompany my old Ar-Men list:
http://heros.netai.net/files/Ar-Men.pdf
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*) ETA: Mike from Black Hat informed us in a TMP thread that there are indeed some plans towards doing more Cobalt minis, including the much-missed Ar-Men Leadbiters. Yay!
Not really an alien miniature as of itself, but Zombie Smith's Quar get an aesthetically compatible light tank/armoured tractor:
http://www.zombiesmith.com/products/crusader-light-tractor
It looks easy to convert too so it's at least somewhat ubiquitous as well.
Scotia Grendel's Dwarf steam colossi are indeed quite good for, well Colossi :mrgreen:
Not sure if Irregular Miniatures' oldies but goldies -- Spice Lice and Raymen -- have been mentioned yet but if not, they should be:
http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/25mmRanges/25mmSciFi.htm
Nominally they are 25mm but since they're aliens they should work with anything from 15mm (as SZ3 infantry, well maybe the Spice Lice only) to ca. 32mm.
I think you should try to get in contact with Demian and possibly Dan also before publishing it. I'm pretty sure they'd be willing to officially allow for public release as long as the sheet functions properly. Not sure if Demian comes around much any more tho, maybe Dan knowns his contact info?
D:VG army builder is complex enought to allow not-immediately-apparent interplay of different rules... Perhaps this fact is not advertised enough. But if all the possible options were explicitly written down I suppose the book would indeed be "something like 1.000 pages" :mrgreen:
The exclusive rule has been seen as problem by many apparently (it's on the card to be replaced by a different system in the D:VG supplement that's been stuck in the "post production" phase for something like two years now -- not sure if it's in fact been shelved completely or not), tho I don't personally really think it's massively limiting. While vehicle units are exclusive, as are SZ3 infantry units, you can still take additional choices towards your ad hoc units count, which is percentile of the force size.
Indeed D:VG has been hampered by the things as mentioned above, plus also the fact that it's a "complex, but not complicated" game. If you want market penetration for a game without the aforementioned resources you'll have a much better chance going with with "simple, but not simplistic" instead. Many people don't seem to know the difference between complex and complicated. The sheer size of the rulebook alone has garnered snide remarks from the potential audience.
If you pick up and actually play Defiance you probably won't get to be in the secret new world goverment but you'll most certainly be one of the select few -- very few :mrgreen:
Anyway. There are a bunch of conversions basically from that "popular big name game" + a few others on the official Defiance page. See the "Resources" panel on the right hand side.
http://mj12games.com/defiance/
I've got a few more listed on my (still rather temporary-looking) D:VG resources page:
http://heros.netai.net/html/DVG.html
Tho D:VG isn't the best suited mechanic for running "Aliens as in the movie Aliens vs. Marines as in the movie Aliens" type of game, this comparison of "Alien as in the movie Alien" type of alien miniatures might still be of passing interest to some:
http://dawnofthelead.com/2010/10/19/alien-miniatures-a-review/
Hot in the heels of the news about DemonBlade acquisition, MegaMinis has announced it has bought the former Alpha Forge property Star Mogul. This apparently includes the rights to all miniatures (tho not molds if I understood Mr. Lauck's comments) so I would think those nice lizardine aliens the Hydrissians are going to become available again sometime in the future, as well as the other alien race the name of which escapes me ATM.
Full news item here:
http://theminiaturespage.com/news/586869/
MegaMinis has announced
the acquisition and pending re-release of DemonBlade Games' Shock Force miniatures line. This collection includes over 140 highly detailed metal figures and vehicles, plus associated artwork, designed by top industry sculptors Chaz Elliot, Dave Summers, Bobby Jackson, Drew Williams, Dave Perry and Jeff Valent.
Mega Miniatures will be re-releasing figures from this range every month for the next 16 to 24 months
Suitably for the thread (main) subject, they start off with the GothRat series so now you can have the pesky rat aliens (originally they were mutans IIRC but who can tell these days...) for your felines to eradicate. Some of them are plenty big tho so they might make your cat miniatures look like kittens 
http://www.megaminis.com/
Sure they seem nice enough scuplts and are affordable, but I'm not personally too fond of the aesthetic. Done to death and all that. Plus they aren't aliens* :mrgreen:
*) Yoda says: OP you should read, not just the thread title.
In some cases it looks like the assumed bigger size of the troopers has been factored in by allowing them higher (inherent) Movement. But this is really something only Demian can address so I won't speculate further.
Defiance should work for most Khurasan alien minis I've seen so far, apart from the Vespulid autonomous mortar thingy which needs to be changed a bit from what the fluff says. I'm not a 15mm gamer tho so I must say I've not looked at them very closely or given the idea much thought.
I think I'll let somebody else to do the honours on this one :mrgreen:
Yet more "space cats"! It's a freakin' furball in 'ere, I tell you!
Anyway, Regiment Games is offering their 28mm scale (yes, contrary to popular belief, some companies still do make scifi miniatures in that ) cat people, the Rar, for preorder at a fair discount. The product ships in August, one gathers. More info here:
http://theminiaturespage.com/news/527420/
MegaMinis brings more pulp scifi style aliens in 25mm scale: the feline humanoid Pumaceans. Available in 4 distinct subspecies and poses only tho:
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http://freeboardgamesnow.com/futurealiens.aspx
Too bad it appears to be a one-shot:
http://mccomseycomix.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/my-last-fag/
Can't recall any detailed battle reports per se but there's some dissertation on games in the Fightening II thread at least:
http://mj12games.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2092
Khurasan does a lot interesting stuff. This upcoming one for example:
http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/ogre-beetle.jpg
Too bad for us ca. 30mm gronards is that it's solely in the du jour 15mm scale. Like the Vespulids for example. The stating of which shouldn't provide insurmountable obstacles, of course.
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