Monday, January 12, 2015

My Favorite Martians: Tripods, Part 1

EUREKA! Literally. After a long search for just the right mini to represent a Martian Tripod for use on a conversion of a fan generated special scenario for LnL's World at War Board game series, "To Save a Life", I found these super cool tripods from EUREKA Games.


As I've mentioned in my past blog posts, I've been a loyal fan of LNL Publishing (which has just changed ownership) and Mark L. Walker's game systems: World at War (WaW) and Nations at War (NaW) series and the Lock n Load system for infantry platoons. 

I've been dying to try out this Mars vs Earth (circa mid-1980s) using my micro armor on a Hexon terrain table. Imagine period Warsaw Pact and NATO armor and armament duking it out with the aliens from the Red planet. Earth forces, check. Civilians, check. Civilian cars, check. All that I was lacking were the tripods. And here they be, by golly!

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Straight out of the box, these non-painted and
assembled Tripods look great


"Get away from her, you bitch!"

Thunderbolt coming to support



Poor Bloody Infantry gets into the mix

4 comments:

  1. Nice work matey!
    I did some of these a few years ago too - they are on my VSF blog here:

    http://pauljamesog.blogspot.com/2006/03/martian-invasion.html

    http://pauljamesog.blogspot.com/2006/02/right-then-chaps-what-wonders-have-i.html

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    1. thanks, paul! we're having fun with these babies in my group.

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  2. Where are the tripods from? The scale looks 15mm, is that right?

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    1. hey phil! i updated my blog b/c of your question. i mistakenly typed in brigade games. i got them from Eureka Games (australia) and they are 6mm.

      here's a link:

      https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/eureka/148f682a798f6443?projector=1

      good luck!

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