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[armydillo978]

A couple of those new pieces would look nice mingled in among the gray and green uniforms.

03250 : Classic Horror: Wolfman
Of course, this is if you import them into the game. :) And I'm sure some of you will.

06135 : Zombies
These look like they'd fit right in from what info we know.

03244: Ghast and Crypt
Heck, even this guy would fit in.

[Nathoruuk]

Sorry I am not looking at numbers.

Well, I know I was thinking the Lupine wolves might look pretty good as experimental night hunter units. Maybe add a special collar or something. Actually just about any of the beastman might make hybrids. The Rhino-man and the big Lion (armored one especially) could be trained killers wandering behind the lines of France. The CLay or Iron Gollem would be awesome with motors and serum tanks strapped to them.

Along non-weird lines, I was also thinking of the normal attack dogs or wolves as patrol dogs for my sentries.

Well, just about any of them could work in an "X-Files" sort of intrigue, denial and cover-up setting. Maybe things appear sort of like werewolves, zombies, even orks or dragons in the fog of war. Upon closer examination the evidence just isn'y there. there could easily be a Chaplin Mulder in the squad of G.I.'s who is knowledgeable kook and believes in everyhting. He has a super skeptical photojournalist Scully tagging along who always finds a plausible explanation for the fireball that just engulfed that Sherman. Or why the new green recruit just disappeared on patrol in what Mulder calls a haunted forest. Heck, maybe a special branch of the uS army always appears and cleans up the aftermath and Scully never gets a good photograph.

Besides, as their commanding officer keeps telling them: "There are no such things as zombies. You are a loon."

[armydillo978]

Along non-weird lines, I was also thinking of the normal attack dogs or wolves as patrol dogs for my sentries.

How about zombie guard dogs. That'd be bad butt.

Well, just about any of them could work in an "X-Files" sort of intrigue, denial and cover-up setting. Maybe things appear sort of like werewolves, zombies, even orks or dragons in the fog of war. Upon closer examination the evidence just isn'y there. there could easily be a Chaplin Mulder in the squad of G.I.'s who is knowledgeable kook and believes in everyhting. He has a super skeptical photojournalist Scully tagging along who always finds a plausible explanation for the fireball that just engulfed that Sherman. Or why the new green recruit just disappeared on patrol in what Mulder calls a haunted forest. Heck, maybe a special branch of the uS army always appears and cleans up the aftermath and Scully never gets a good photograph.

Besides, as their commanding officer keeps telling them: "There are no such things as zombies. You are a loon."

That would work if the kroid/zombie infestation wasn't widespread across the whole European theater. If it's consigned to the are of the Belgian/Germany border where the Battle of the Bulge took place. Or perhaps the Ruhr Pocket wasn't merely to bypass the Army Group B to get to Berlin. Perhaps it was to encircle the zombie/kroid outbreak. To contain it. Hmmmmmmm.

Saving Private Ryan takes an odd twist. Did the zombies get him, or the germans? Can Molder and Skelly (no relation to Mulder or Scully) find him and save him in time? OR, will he find them first? (insert evil laugh).

[Nathoruuk]

Saving Private Ryan takes an odd twist. Did the zombies get him, or the germans? Can Molder and Skelly (no relation to Mulder or Scully) find him and save him in time? OR, will he find them first? (insert evil laugh).

I was thinking of a few other fun twists on popular movies I'd love to try:

Say the shipment of gold bullion discovered by Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Donald Sutherland turns out to be the cursed Aztec treasure chest last seen in PotCaribbean. Heck, maybe in "Highlander" fashion, Barbossa and crew keep reinventing their identities to continue their search for centuries now. Their latest masquerade might be crews of a Tiger squadron so they can roam Europe without arousing too much suspicion. Razig head conversions on tanker crews.

The first 10 minutes of the Stargate movie suggesting an alien artifact dug up in the deserts of north Africa. Bring in any of the Egyptian looking Nefsokar alien baddies now. Capture or destroy the Stargate. Nice fun... Sort of related, the background to the DUST setting has a German U-Boat making an expedition to Antarctica looking for a rumored UFO crash site. Lizardmen painted up as gray-skin aliens, the Gravehorror as a Yeti. The Demonic Ape would make a great "super-ape" soldier/astronaut as seen in the DUST setting. It's not totally spelled out in the story yet, but I guess Germany would be sending a super rocket into space piloted by the super-ape to end the war.

The first ten minutes of that gosh-awful Aliens versus Predator movie suggesting that alien egg caches might be lost here on earth. Hmmm, retell the butt-kicking second "Aliens" movie in 1940 setting. "A last survivor of an American fishing vessel from Alaska washes up on shore on Canadian coast. She is incoherent and babbling about monsters. American fishing company loses contact with one of their Aleutian ports. The Japanese have been expanding over Asia. Have they landed in Alaska? A troop ship complete with landing craft and halftracks and scout jeeps is sent up to investigate." There's at least one Bob Ridolfi scuplt in the Reaper line that looks Alien-like for those who don't already have his first ones.

Brotherhood of the Wolf. Super trained and armored lion hunting the french countryside.

The Big Ape - enough said.

I really like that new big fish/squid Mike Brower sculpted. I am thinking about the training disaster for D-Day where German E-boats find the training convoy and sink a few of the ships. Maybe that's waht the offical report said. In reality there is a Nemo-esque krakken housed in a U-Boat pen in Norway or something. It is controlled from a Dornier bomber Aquaman-like with radio waves driving it to do the Axis bidding. It needs to be found and killed before the landings can begin.

[armydillo978]

Now your just getting crazy. Giant krackens? Atzec treasure? Sheeesh. We were try to be realistic here with zombies and you go off the deep end with that stuff.

;)

I think the most I'll probably go over the line is with werewolves and that's really do to the werewolf figures I've already collected. That and how cool is it to have a pack of Nachtjägers running through the night forests looking for a midnight zombie snack?

That is, unless I can find a scale Junkers Ju 52 and then where hoping to Greenland and on to the the U.S. with zombie Green Devils and panic soon to follow in Canada.

[Nathoruuk]

Our RPG group was once looking into playing the Weird War campaign with the (I think) Pinnacle game. YEah, we knew it might be tough challenge trying to keep a framework of historical accurate timeline and still some crossover for our stubborn DnD players. I figured we would have to vary the monsters if we were to play more than three games. So if our unit followed the footsteps of a real unit (like North Africa to Sicily to Italy to France to Belgium to germany) they would be seeing regional monsters.

But the rpg group is long gone. And we talked a lot.

[matsumoto]

if any of you guys can find appropriately scaled aircraft for less than 30 dollars, please tell the mattster here...

y'know, i'm gonna haveta stick with the wierd science of germany spiel for now...all the other stuff falls into the category of PULP, which may or may not have already received terrific overage in another form, though i'm certain reaper mini's would fit in just fine...

[Nathoruuk]

if any of you guys can find appropriately scaled aircraft for less than 30 dollars, please tell the mattster here...

y'know, i'm gonna haveta stick with the wierd science of germany spiel for now...all the other stuff falls into the category of PULP, which may or may not have already received terrific overage in another form, though i'm certain reaper mini's would fit in just fine...

Yeah, I guess I'm really leaning in the pulp direction myself.

AS for aircraft, fighter planes are pretty easy. Tamiya has just about everything for just under $30. Some of the neater ones are the V-1 and ME-262 for super-science games. I sat in a great game over here locally where someone built a rocket base, a launch rail and put the V-1 on the platform. The heroes had to stop the countdown brfore the buzz-bomb launched. It was carrying a zombie virus and bound for London. Of course zombies and power armor guarded the base.

For common fighters like Mustangs and P-40's that company (21st Century Toys) that does the famous "Walmart $8 Panzers" also does two Mustangs, a P-40 and a ME109. They are painted beautifully andi think they are like $15. I bought one of the Mustangs but will likely get the 109 as a counterpart for the German player to strafe with. The P-40's might be nice for those Sky Captain games.

Dirt cheap I found at my local hobby shop a line called K-Line. They were over in the beginner kit section. They are like 10 pieces, pre-painted and assemble with screws. They were poor models but only $5. I bought a Mustang to use as a wreck counter. I will paint it similiarly to the 21st Century Mustang I bought. they only had like a Corsair, Mustang and Warhawk in that line.

For bigger planes I am not even sure how many multi-engine models are available these days in that scale. In the pulp forums I browse, we noticed there is only one 1/48 Grumman goose available in kit form these days and is $60. We found an Alaska Airlines die-cast bank, but is also $60. A PBY Catalina would be neat too, but I think to scale it would have like a 22" wingspan.