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Walker Tanks Make No Sense!

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 A few years ago I had a conversation with an engineer about using walkers as tanks and he hated the idea.  Over the course of a hour we talked through all the issues related to walkers as tanks and I had to agree with him. It is at that point I got rid of all of the walkers I had in my 28mm sci-fi collection. But now I have entered a new era using "Lego Style" troops.  Most of the figures and vehicles are either Star Wars or 40K so I have started to build a world where those two universes collide.  One of the problems is that I want to be faithful to the ideas used in those worlds and both use walkers. Thus I made the choice to build some walkers.  But to buy walker kits were to expensive so the choice was to make some.  Because "Lego Style"  is a building system it is easy to dig through the pile of building parts and make legs for the walker.  It was then a simple task to take some unused vehicles and change them from wheeled to legged.  A...
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More Sci-fi

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Some Sci-fi work

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I have been experimenting with some sci-fi troops.  At this point I want to us Chain of Command rules but that is still up in the air. Basically 40K vs Star Wars The 40k Human Defense Force is made up of 3 squads. 2 squads have team of 6 laseguns and a missile team of 1 grenadier and 3 riflemen pluses a Command team of a Sargent with a Bolt pistol and a radioman with a lasegun The third squad is the assult squad and has 3 teams made up of a Meltagun and two rifles with a forth command team like to other squads but also with a grenadier equipped with hand grenades. The support is a unit of heavy power armor that is set up for close assaults. The platoon commander has a chainsaw sword and a Bolt pistol    The Star Wars force has 2 squads each squad made up of one team with a belt fed light mg and 5 rifles carrying blasters. The second team had 2 SMG blasters and a missile man There are two laser turrets. The platoon Command is a Force user with a light Saber and and R2 uni...
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