Pendraken Plans for 2024!

[Ithoriel]

FSN this is from Ral Partha Europe's website

Critical Mass -The Game

The Critical Mass 15mm rule system is a fast play alternative action company level game. Infantry are based in multiples and form platoons, vehicles are based individually and grouped to form units. Each game round players must manage their units activations with play continually moving back and forth as each unit is activated meaning games a tense and involved. As you would expect from a sci-fi game Walkers, Drop Troops, Grav Tanks, and much more are a plenty, coupled with lots destruction and mission defined battlefield objectives.

[Techno 3]

That artwork looks VERY familiar. 

[Gwydion]

Oes gafr eto?  Oes heb ei godro?
Ar y creigiau geirwon mae'r hen afr yn crwydro.

Gafr ofod, ofod, ofod... 

Psst!
Nid ar y creigiau, i fyny, yn yr awyr.
Gafr enfys!

[fsn]

FSN this is from Ral Partha Europe's website

Oh!

Thank you.


It is heretical though, isn't it?

[Big Insect]

Stuff the ducks, I want the squidlings!

I'm trying to work out a rule for ink spraying.    Bit like a personal smoke generator?

I think that the AFV smoke generation rules in CWC would work well for squid-ink. Or you could go for the Static Smoke Projector rules in The Forgotten War supplement.

[Ithoriel]

It is heretical though, isn't it?

Heretical indeed and yet sanctified by the iconography of the blessed Techno himself. So confusing!

[fsn]

I think that the AFV smoke generation rules in CWC would work well for squid-ink. Or you could go for the Static Smoke Projector rules in The Forgotten War supplement.

  Thank you. I think it's something innate to the squidlings, something they produce in their bodies and can expel from an as yet unspecified orifice. ( ) It would be something they can do rarely, perhaps once per "day"*. It could also be a reaction, perhaps if surprised or frightened.

Squidling section advancing cautiously through the broken ground. Ground-Thumper Squelch scans the terrain ahead but doesn't notice the speckled-mole-fox burrow. As his lower-tentacle enters the burrow Squelch stumbles, and in his surprise and shock, his ink-sac involuntarily empties, covering Squelch and a significant area around him in a blue-black cloud. Ground-Thumper-Thumper Squit hisses angrily at Squelch, but it is too late. Artillery fire blankets the area.    

Perhaps I need rule for the Squidling infantry uniform to be atmosphere tight, but with a valve to allow release of the cloud.     

Having said that, I like the idea of disconcerted Squidlings in full combat armour having a helmet filled with smoke. 

*I hate term "day" in SF games.

[fsn]

Heretical indeed and yet sanctified by the iconography of the blessed Techno himself. So confusing!

the Blessed Techno is a missionary for the One True Scale. He lays the path for those who know no better to find the correct size of their tiny soldiers.

[O Dinas Powys]

  Thank you. I think it's something innate to the squidlings, something they produce in their bodies and can expel from an as yet unspecified orifice. ( ) It would be something they can do rarely, perhaps once per "day"*. It could also be a reaction, perhaps if surprised or frightened.

Squidling section advancing cautiously through the broken ground. Ground-Thumper Squelch scans the terrain ahead but doesn't notice the speckled-mole-fox burrow. As his lower-tentacle enters the burrow Squelch stumbles, and in his surprise and shock, his ink-sac involuntarily empties, covering Squelch and a significant area around him in a blue-black cloud. Ground-Thumper-Thumper Squit hisses angrily at Squelch, but it is too late. Artillery fire blankets the area.  

Perhaps I need rule for the Squidling infantry uniform to be atmosphere tight, but with a valve to allow release of the cloud.   

Having said that, I like the idea of disconcerted Squidlings in full combat armour having a helmet filled with smoke. 

*I hate term "day" in SF games.

The interesting thing about squid is that they swim backwards.  When they eject the ink from under their mantle, they can also release a jet-stream of water to help speed away from danger.  (The ink sacs are located between the gills  )

Maybe the squidlings could have a combined (involuntary?) retreat/smoke-screen effect when they fail a morale check and break...   

Bonus fun fact: the ink may be dark-coloured or luminous depending on the species...

[FierceKitty]

Bigger fun fact: when you're in Venice, ask for squid stewed in its own ink. The result is delicious (as, indeed, is rather a lot of Venetian food if you pick your restaurant carefully).

[fsn]

Bonus fun fact: the ink may be dark-coloured or luminous depending on the species...

Luminous you say!

The more I find out about squid and octopuses, the more intrigued I become. 

That's beautiful.

[Last Hussar]

Heretical indeed and yet sanctified by the iconography of the blessed Techno himself. So confusing!

I do worry about the grasp on reality some members here have...

[O Dinas Powys]

Psst!
Nid ar y creigiau, i fyny, yn yr awyr.
Gafr enfys!

Beth dy honna yn yr awyr?

Aderyn?  Na!
Awyren?  Na!

Y Gafr Enfys... 

[Ithoriel]

I do worry about the grasp on reality some members here have...

Yes, indeed! I mean we have Gwydion and O Dinas Powys typing in Klingon!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Yes, indeed! I mean we have Gwydion and O Dinas Powys typing in Klingon!

Is dat wat er be.