SALE: Post-Apocalyptic minis

Selling three warbands/factions for use in post-apocalytic games.

Two of them are my friends Chris' and one is my own.

Postage within the EU will be £5-10 depending on how many of the warbands are sold.

Kolony Ferals (Pig Iron Miniatures) - SOLD

The first ones are from Pig Iron miniatures' Kolony Feral range with Kolony Militia heads, and have been painted to an excellent tabletop standard by yours truly. They have seen very little use - three games to be precise. They are full of character and have been used as a Tribal warband for This is Not a Test.

There are 14 painted miniatures and another 3 unpainted, so 17 in total.

Price: £40

Scavengers (Copplestone Castings) - SOLD

The second are from Copplestone Castings' Future Wars, more specifically some of the Scavengers.
These are also painted by me and again I would rate them as excellent tabletop standard. Only used a couple of times in games against me.

There are 10 miniatures.

Price: £25

Gangers (Heresy Miniatures)

The final warband/faction are from Heresy Miniatures Sci-Fi range. They are all cool looking sunglass wearing miniatures full of character. They have been painted by our friend Frank and some have been altered slightly so that some of them have riot shields. I think they have been used as a Law Dogs faction for This is Not a Test.

There are 14 miniatures.

Price: £60

This is Not a Test - first game

Yesterday evening my friend Chris came around the flat to try out This is Not a Test (TNT). Neither of us had played it before, so we were interested in finding out how the game played. Chris is a massive fan of the Post Apocalyptic setting and Fallout in particular, and the initial idea of trying out the game was his. I was persuaded to try it out after I had seen some of the great videos of how the game plays that Guerilla Miniature Games have made - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbO4Vs1vlAA9hz7Ad7IMgug

I went for a Tribal warband using my Pig Iron Miniatures that I had bought specifically for this game. Chris played the Caravaneers and used the excellent Copplestone miniatures.

The scenario was Cold Vengeance, which it is pointed out in the book is TNT at it's most simple. Chris loves ranged combat and I should have known that he would go for a sniper placed at a high point on the board. The sniper proved to be more deadly that all the other minis on the board combined.

The game flows very nicely, but my this initial venture into TNT and my experience of it was severely hampered by some atrocious dice rolling from me. We played 7 turns and I lost initiative in all of them. For the Activation Tests I was never able to put more than one or two activations together. This combined with the effectiveness of the sniper and Chris' use of Supressing Fire into melee (not sure if that is within the rules, but we decided afterwards that it can't be done) which got his models out of trouble against my melee focused Tribals made the game less enjoyable for me.

At the end of the game I had lost 6 out of 8 models (4 of them having been shot by the sniper).

As mentioned the game flows and I like the rules, which makes game play fast. Chris' biggest beef with the game is the jamming rules. Having a 10% chance of jamming on each shot is too much in his opinion, and I agree. This is easy to change though.

I will try the game again for sure and hope that the dice will be more fair next time.

Here are some pictures from the game.

Ferals - TNT warband

After weeks of waiting for some bases to arrive as part of my friend Chris' order with Northstar, I have finally been able to base my warband for This is Not a Test.

When Chris and I were talking about which warband we would like to play and which minis to get, I had initially settled on another one. I then came across Pig Iron Miniatures and was blown away by the Kolony Ferals minis. These were exactly what I was looking for.

The concept is that this is a Tribal warband of tunnellers who prefer to live underground in the sewer and and different tunnels. Whenever supplies are low, which is almost all the time, they come to the surface and engage whoever has the supplies they need.

I chose to buy all four packs of the Kolony Feral range a total of 17 minis, a lot more than needed. I wanted to have some options however, so I have painted 14 of them. The one thing I do not like about the minis is their heads, but thankfully Pig Iron Miniatures use a separate head system. I therefore included two packs of Kolony Militia heads, most of them wearing gas masks which fit perfectly with my concept.

The minis themselves are well cast and have been easy to paint. I did however have some images of the painted minis at hand as the different rags they are wearing can be difficult to distinguish from each other.

The colour palette is all earth tones and I have tried to keep to the same group of colours to get a kind of uniformed look without it looking like they are wearing a uniform.