Alright those of you that know me know that I'm a huge fan of huges. And as weird thematically as it is to have Snowspeeders flying around the Jedi Temple, I love to have the large pieces duke it out on the tabletop. It looks awesome on a battlefield to have massive intricate huges filling the landscape and you know you're making the sounds of rapid stuttering blaster fire in your head as they exchange fire.

A problem I have is that its often hard to recreate this setting. Huges are always so costly, whether WOTC or VSETs they have always been large chunks of your squad. And with so many counters to the large behemoths it makes it hard to invest the points into having a piece that normally gets stuck/blocked in a corridor somewhere.

So how do we fix this? How can we include huges in our squads as a cheaper more mobile flanking support piece? One needs to only look at the majestic Snowspeeder to see one of the best examples of how a "spaceship" was made to fit the game and actually be relatively playable, and at an affordable price.

So this weeks challenge is to break the mold, or go back to the mold (in reference to the Snowspeeder) and create a spaceship/atmospheric aerial craft/thing in the sky (look it has to have Flight ok?) that costs <40 points. Go to town and make the skies rain down fire and destruction on the foolish planet-walkers.



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3. Voting works as follows, pick your three favorite customs based on accuracy to the character, design, balance or whatever you decide makes the best incarnation of the challenge character. First place receives 3 points, 2nd place receives 2 points, and 3rd place receives 1 point.

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Voting will start at 8pm on Saturday evening and end at 11pm EST on Monday, Feb 5th, 2018..
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Leviathan sized .... hmmmm. Back in the WOTC Forum days (Koba and GG are the only ones around that I still remember from those day) we used to talk about 3D landscapes, and what vehicles we could actually use. Now lets be honest; I've seen pics/artists reditions etc that make a Falcon look like its half the size of a standard gaming map. That's unrealistic, but an old friend and I used to put 4-8 maps together and use plastic models of things as actual ships .... and yes, I made cards for those ships ....

Examples











Most of these are Transports of various types; so my real question is, do you want a Transport or a "Fighter" type aircraft (Which means we'll see a dozen variations of B/X/Y and Tie fighters .....

Only requirements huge size, Flight, Cost <40. Anything else is fine, transport, pod-racer, fighter. And regarding size if you want to go bigger you can surf but gameplay wise a lot if not all of the Huges were shrunk down to make them playable on a 3x3 base. So either way is fine by me. Cool pictures though and woot the old WOTC forum days. Secret 61st mini anyone? Haha

Back in the WOTC days, My friends and I tried 3D maps & games. My smuggler's ship was Destiny's Call; the astute of you may notice it's a Revell Maquis Fighter without the wings extended. It's Almost close enough in size that you Could use it (sorta.) The Revell Enterprise's Shuttle was often used as a drop ship for troops (think I have three or four somewhere in the garage. I always liked this one.







But honestly, I also liked this one


Cloud City Security Pod-Car I think it would've gone nicely on the Bespin map.








Not sure which .... decision by Friday.


Cheers,

surf

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30707/vader-in-tie-fighter

I used to do this on 40k terrain, hoping to do it again soon. Those are some nice ST models btw!

Im all over this weeks CCC. I havent been participating much cause ive been a bit under the weather. But im all over t his one!

Does this qualify for the CCC? lol

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30712/basiliskan

heres the wiki

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Basiliskan

@surf, I like both. I'm kinda conflicted. Cool stuff.

Surf just curious was the lack of Mounted Weapon intentional or an oversight? Also Destiny's Call does not have Rigid, was that intentional?

It's a spaceship. Never ment to have Mounted Weapon and I seriously doubt Rigid would be part of the Falcon's description; if you're Not rigid you couldn't be in vacuum.





Nope, it was "My" smuggler's ship back in the day, 10-15 years ago when we did 3D games.