6mm Sci Fi on the Horizon (Wars)

Well, its been a while since I last managed to get anything more than half started but my enthusiasm has been re-ignited by a bored, late night Amazonian suggestion. Before the mind boggles too hard I shall reveal that Amazon suggested that I might like a copy of Horizon Wars by Robey Jenkins and being the dutiful consumer that I am, I dared not disobey the mighty bringer of shiny stuff. When it arrived I took a quick shufty at the guts of the game and decided to give it a go, especially as I had some 6mm sci-fi miniatures that had originally been bought for a Future War Commander project that had never got off the starting blocks.

That was about twelve days ago, I now have the basis of a pretty useful army painted and a few options still waiting to be cleaned up and primed.

The first units are two Battletech Mechs from Ral Partha Europe, a Madcat and an Urbanmech. The Urby is going to be my CHQ, basically a command centre build in the head of a large stompy robot - hence the all round windows. I will have two Madcats but I only found the other one this morning so it is still being assembled at the moment.

Next up is the infantry. I have based one lot as Light Infantry and another as Mobile Infantry with their APC. The Light Infantry has optional air transport provided by the VTOL. The infantry is by Ground Zero Games, from their NAC range, beautiful little figures that paint up so easily. The VTOL is also by GZG and the APC is from Brigade Models' British range.

Two units of Heavy Artillery next, also Brigade British. I have a third somewhere but it is eluding me at the moment. Brigade have some interesting and plausible designs in their ranges but my favourites have to be the British and the Neo-Soviets, hover tanks versus tracked behemoths with a slight steampunk vibe.

And finally also from Brigade's British range, three elements of hover equipped MBTs which count as Heavy Cavalry in Horizon Wars.

And here it is all together. This is about a 25P army, about average size, depending on how you want to class the mechs and the VTOL. I have a couple more units to add, some more infantry and the remaining Madcat along with another Heavy Artillery unit and some air support but that is a playable force right there, painted in just under a fortnight. Now all I need to do is to paint up some opponents and come up with some fluff for a world to fight over.