For when something heavier is required, and a Hulk is not available, there is the Ripper suit. Another product of the Marauder’s tactical ingenuity, the Ripper is almost a mini-Strider.
A powered exoskeleton of a tungsten-weaved alloy with a role as simple as it is effective – to allow an Orc to carry more and heavier weapons.
Unlike the Ripper marauder, the Rainmaker rains a hail of firepower on the enemy.
Carrying an impressive array of weapons including Rotary Cannon, Rocket Salvo, HEW Beamer, and frag launchers. the “Rainmaker” is a must have if you want fire power that packs a wollop!
This is the last of the Maruaders for a while as I still want to finish off the lizardmen.
These monsters are real goliaths – in fact even larger than their namesake the Goliath frog.
The Goliath frog has a snout-to-vent length of 32cm (12.6 inches) and weighing an impressive 3.3kg (7.3 lbs). This makes the Goliath frog the largest frog in the world! The species is found in streams and the rainforests of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. They are so big that the males can easily move rocks to create huge nests up to three feet wide for the female to lay her eggs in.
According to 5th ed D&D, what makes the Giant Frog really dangerous is its bite which is treated as a Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 11). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the frog can’t bite another target.
Like all frogs these are amphibious and can breathe air and water. The frog’s long jump is up to 20 ft. and its high jump is up to 10 ft., with or without a running start!
The frog can also make one bite attack against a Small or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the frog
The victim takes 5 (2d4) acid damage at the start of each of the frog’s turns. The frog can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the frog dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 ft. of movement, exiting prone.
Don’t know when I will use these but at least they are now finished.
I wanted to try something that looked a little different, but am not really happy with the result, but they can stay as they are! The “smarties” effect doesn’t really work.
October Green thing count:
1 Terraton + 4 Ghouls + 5 Mini Teratons + Gun and 2 crew + 5 Mini Teratons + 1 Ripper Mauler + 6 Ghouls, +1 Marauder Gruntbot +8 Ghouls +1 Marauder Hulk + 5 Giant Frogs = 40 Total!
Hulks are genetically distinct from (though closely related to) the more common Orcs of Gora (Warcraft?). The largest Hulks approach three meters in height and are deployed carrying the largest portable weapons in a warband’s armoury.
In this case the “Hulk” is carrying a huge HEW Cannon with a range of 12 and armour penetration of AP5!
More Marauders tomorrow.
1 Terraton + 4 Ghouls + 5 Mini Teratons + Gun and 2 crew + 5 Mini Teratons + 1 Ripper Mauler + 6 Ghouls, +1 Marauder Gruntbot +8 Ghouls +1 Marauder Hulk = 35 Total!
A little while ago I sent Mark Morin some terrain that I no longer needed. Today I received a surprise box from him. As he knew that I loved books and rules he sent me my very own copy of Wars of Ozz and Wars of Orcs and Dwarves rule sets! Mark is provided a credit in the front-page of both rules as he had helped with play testing and some proofreading.
I like the look of these and realised that I have some Pumpkin Heads from Sally 4th. Although I am not interested in the Wars of Ozz myself, the figures are awesome for games like Dragon Rampant.
These have similar mechanics to the Wars of Ozz set. At first I was daunted by the size of both rulebooks but when you take out the background and army lists, both essential for the games narrative, the rules themselves are not that large and very easy to comprehend.
As Mark could see from my posts that I am getting into Xenos Rampant, he sent me his very own sculpt – a Mark 1 Sphere Tank! Apparently IRO already has one. The magazine (above and below) was the inspiration.
The model is awesome. Here it is based and undercoated, but there was one problem:
It arrived neatly packed in a specimen jar! Now being a good risk manager, on went the gloves and mask while I took it out, assembled it and quickly put some paint on as a precaution.
I then remembered Mark used them all the time, but the question is did he use them in more ways than one?
Photo from Mark’s website! JUST KIDDING!
The model is great fun and will be a prized possession when I paint it up.
I may have to wear safety boots when I play with it, as being a self cast model it is VERY heavy!
The model I have is the Warlord Games Vickers Light Tank Mk IVC. That supplied by the British British to the Greek Army was the Vickers Light Tank IIIB “Dutchman
The Hellenic Army, as far as I have been able to ascertain, only possessed some out of date French FT17’s tanks when Italy attacked in October of 1939. Greece had ordered ordered fourteen British Vickers 6-ton light tanks, however these would not be delivered before the War broke out, but at least some did arrive in Greece just before the fighting in Epirus and Albania.
A surprise for tomorrow which is code for “I am not sure what I will paint next!”.
Here Greek soldiers of the legendary 8th Infantry Division in the Albanian front, 1940 are operating the modified Hotchkiss medium machine gun which was a Greek improvised version of the Hotckiss M1926 MMG.
Prior to World War 2 the Greek State Military factory in Athens were given the responsibility of modernising the existing stocks of Hotchkiss M1926 machine guns.
The current rate of fire was extremely poor at 220 rounds per minute, which was well below the performance of other contemporary machine guns.
The Greek State Military factory engineers were able to increase the rate of fire to 420 rounds/min and improved the guns overall stability.
The factory was also able to produce a large number of auxiliary parts, with minor improvements.
The gun was extensively used by the Greek Army during World War II.
The U.S., Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, Australia, Finland, and the Soviet Union all used flamethrowers during WW2. Greece did not.
Even if a number of the Italian Lanciafiamme Spalleggiato Modello 35, also known as Model 35, were captured in the 1941 Greco-Italian War, the chemicals would have been difficult to source in a timely manner.
You will note that the Italian version pictured above is the flame thrower depicted on the model.
Why paint this one? Well, simply because it was in the batch of figures I purchased!
It was there …………so there!
It may get a run in some “Weird War” games. Drats, I should have painted the figures up as zombies!
