Felid Invasion

   What ho, chums?

   I've been a bit busy painting away, slopping on a bit of paint with a tiny patch of squirrel hair on a stick. The victims of my intentions this time around are a batch of Khurasan Miniatures' 15mm Felids.

Mortar and Operator/FO

I am trying to figure out how to do an F/O for Gruntz. Any ideas?

Light infantry. Squad leader (left) and Squad Support Weapon (right)

Heavy Infantry. Laser rifles (regular troops)

I'm giving them Active Camo as a Perk. (well, all the Felids)

Heavy A/T Gunner. Medium Plasma Gun.

Felid Baron.

And a sample Gruntz card, made using Gruntz Barracks:

Sci Fi Civvie Vehicles

   Dirty civilians, leaving their stuff all over the place... well, at least they provide some cover, right?

In the center of frame, the blue grav car.

Khurasan

The Auger, an industrial vehicle.

Matchbox.

Also, some of my old Car Wars cars. Need to get back to that...

A grav taxi, from CheckerGrav

Khurasan

Front end loader and forklift, more industrials.

Matchbox

The mad chaos of the tray table that is my painting surface these days.

People's Liberation Army Vehicles

   The main human adversary for FedArms Corporation is the People's Liberation Army of the Greater Asian Hegemony. This is essentially quasi-Communist China after they've conquered the rest of east Asia except for Japan (a member of the Corporate Federation).

   You've seen their elite troops already, the Redcaps. Here is a selection of their vehicles.

Two Patrol Vehicles and Heavy Weapons Drones

Drones from Khurasan; Trucks are Hot Wheels

Another shot of the Patrol Vehicles

An aerial asset, a laser-armed helicopter. The laser is in a housing under the chopper.

Repainted Matchbox with a turret from the bits box.

The World According to Gruntz

   This is not the Official Gruntz Helioscape Map.

   No, this is a map I did up last night to illustrate the major power blocs of Earth in the wake of several future history events:

• The Jihad - established the Caliphate State
• The Incorporation - established the Corporate Federation
• The Tsarist Restoration - established the New Russian Empire
• The Paris-Berlin Agreement - reorganized the European Union into Paneuropa
• The Great Asian War - expanded China, created the Great East Asia Hegemony and the South Asian Alliance
• The Grande Guerra da Unificacao (Great Unification War) - created the South American Confederation
• The African Wildfire - created the Pan African Union

So, the key:

• Gold/Yellow: Corporate Federation
• Pink: Paneuropa
• Purple: Kingdom of Greater Colombia
• Light Green: South American Confederation
• Dark Green: Islamic Caliphate State
• Brown: Pan African Union
• Red: Great East Asia Hegemony
• Orange: South Asian Alliance
• Light Blue: New Russian Empire
• Gray: Switzerland

FedArms Corporate Troops

FedArms Security Solutions...

...when you absolutely, positively, have to kill every dirty grokking chi-wua-ne on the planet, accept no substitutes.

   Here's the corporate state troop force that I am building for Gruntz. I'm calling them FedArms, a megacorporation that contracts out military services to the Corporate Federation. Not all of them are dirty, ruthless mercenaries. Some are quite reliable and restrained mercenaries who would never violate rules of war or a contract's stipulations. After all, that's bad for business.

The MBT. Khurasan, the Thrainite one whose name I can never remember. Goanna?

The first painted infantry squad.

Khurasan Federal Army troops. Yeah, my name isn't very imaginative.

The armored battlesuit in the background also belongs to this faction.

It's an Ion Age Havelock Suit with railgun.