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I thought a thread for brief army descriptions might be nice for anyone wanting to hit the table without writing up a list first. The intent is to put up a general idea of the army's look, feel, or general tactics- nothing too exhaustive.
I'll be posting descriptions of the armies I wrote or adapted, which TNJRP has been kind enough to host here:
http://herosgames.homestead.com/DVG.html
First Up: UNE
As a quick overview, the UNE are like Space Marines only in the real world; the structure, designs, and tactics were deliberately Cold War era NATO and closely modeled off Canadian motorised infantry even though the fiction is spacefaring Humans Vs Others scifi.
UNE are all Powered Infantry, all the time! No softskins in this army.
UNE have a variety of powerful direct-fire, mid-to-long range weaponry and can deal harshly with heavy vehicles. They're a little weak on Indirect Fire and cheap methods of dealing with light vehicles.
UNE have excellent figure variety. They have Covert Ops, Jump capable troops, "normal" PI, light PI, heavy PI, and seriously heavy Size 3 PI with armour and big, big guns.
UNE have no Phase or Field tech, no, none at all.
It's easy to fill out a UNE army if you feel like it, with either the Amazon Miniatures Legions of Steel UNE (the original line, but sadly slightly incomplete) or by mix-and-match using Space marine and Tau plastics from Games Workshop.
Anyone with a lot of Space Marines can probably field a pretty good UNE force, if they want to try less "Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!" and more "guns kill people" without shelling out extra bucks or bothering with a custom list.
Second: Infranite.
Capitalist tribal society. There is gender division, men dominate politics.... but only women can express the genes for a seer or prophet, and so dominate religion and tradition. In their original game terms, these guys are blood and thunder heavy-metal gods of war.
Infranites are all PI in their native game (Legions of Steel) but suffer from an even worse tendency to top-heavy than the UNE does, so I threw in some SI human mercs to loosen up their OB and because mercs fit so perfectly with Infranites.
Infranites get 4 types of infantry: Sprinters, normal PI, heavy PI and the SI I added.
Infranites get a very small range of very effective firearms. They are good at range but get better close-up.
Infranites get superb IF weaponry.
Infranites get the Vocano BAP, a 2-damage capacity Anime Mecha vehicle with a lotta firepower. Yes, it's perverted.
Infranites get the Lightning Jetbike, a 2-kill flyer Light Vehicle. Also perverted.
Infranites get a 75% vehicle cap. Perverted as all hell.
They get no forcefields, phase or field-piercing weapons at all.
Finally, I invented a gunship AFV and a heavy APC for the Infranites. Both fit the concept: fast, flexible, and well-armoured with a small selection of excellent weapons.
This army list is so compact that this summary is only slightly shorter than the actual army list. It was so much easier to write than the UNE, apart from wriggling all the combi-weapons in- but I did prune one of the infantry AV missile types for being functionally identical to all the others.
I'm on some seriously extended work-hours from here til the end of the year. If I remember- which is not guaranteed- I'll continue this when I get back.
Work is a serious deterrent to having fun.
Maybe I should write up something about the lists I've made too. Someday soonish. When I have less work. And Internet runs out of porn. Well, maybe a little sooner than that.
Emergency transmission just in: the internet has run out of porn!
Ha! Just kidding. That could never happen, thanks to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M … ThirtyFour RULE 34! In fact, the posting of this message has caused to come into existence porn whose central theme is messages warning that the internet is running out of porn.
Ahem.
KRYOMEK(TM)
Yes, the list is finished at last! emailed to tnjrp, so hopefully available soon!
The Kryomek(TM) Great Hive Hegemony is a bizarre hive-mind like coalition of previously warring beings, equipped with biologically-incorporated weapons technology. Far from being a pure biotech force, it could be said that the Kryomek(TM) are a weird and perverse kind of cyborg.
They are deadly at close range and in hand-to-hand, with a variety of tricks and a VERY interesting support weapon that amounts to pretty much the best Indirect Fire available. Terror weapons, obscurement devices, and virtually unbreakable troops are all present in abundance, as well as a non-canon suicide bomber. :mrgreen: The devil made me do it. :shock:
In addition, they can field a variety of bloody strange bio-techno-oddity vehicles that are relatively fragile but quite cheap... because the models are quite cheap, and I like them a lot!
This is the best and fairest conversion I could come up with, but it's interpretive because the original ruleset works VERY differently from Defiance.
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