Check Out A NuHu Concord Character For Gates Of Antares!
October 24, 2014 by brennon
Warlord Games have shown off more from Beyond The Gates of Antares and this time its the NuHu Concord getting a look in. They recently put up a neat 3D spin of the character below which is looking very cool indeed...
A really nice looking miniature with plenty of cool detail. It's certainly one of the most dynamic looking pieces they've done for the range but that tends to be the case with a lot of the 'caster' looking characters in games. It would be really cool to see how someone paints up the digital pattern on the inside of the cloak. Also, a nice bit of source lighting at the end of the staff would be epic.
What do you think of the sculpt?
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That is a rather well thought out design to make him look like he has some sort of mind powers.
Oh yes. A sci-fi game written by Rik Priestly using Bolt-Action style mechanics and played with models such as the above?….Oops…I’m drooling…..
I reckon this is the first sign of a truly spectacular mini in this range.
I think they’ve gone off the rails with this one. If it’s going to be a Bolt Action style game we don’t need wizards and the like. We already have a game like that. Concentrate on cool infantry, armour, and artillery. We need a game like that.
Strictly speaking, NuHu aren’t ‘space wizards’ at all – their ‘powers’ are purely technological in nature, and flow from the fact that their subspecies of Panhuman was specifically engineered to have the closest possible link with the IMTel machine intelligence that runs the advanced civilisations of the setting, such as the Concord. They can influence technology, incuding the microscopic components of the near omnipresent nanocloud, to achieve all manner of effects, but none of it is psychic or otherwise supernatural in nature, but more akin to having a supremely high speed wireless internet connection paired with a high end supercomputer… Read more »
Not to me. All he needs now is a sword lol.
Fair enough. Different strokes for different folks.
Yeah- I was surprised to see this as part of the range. I thought it had a more science fictiony look (like Sedition Wars). This guy reminds me of the space elves I’ve seen in other places.
I’m glad that he’s not just an eldar, but the implication of a space magic system makes me feel like it is going to be more like that one game that Rick Priestly made for GW back in the day…
Yeah, the miniature and the horrific, all too familiar, fluff sample above has definitely got me searching for a different system. I may go back to my old Striker rules after all!
That is actually my attempt to convey a foreshortened version of the fluff. I probably haven’t gotten it quite right.
Out of curiosity, what exactly about the NuHu from GoA is ‘all too familiar’ – what does the fluff of a technological savant human subspecies connected to a vast, civilisation running machine intelligence remind you of? It doesn’t sound much like the techno-mystic, AI demonising cults of the Mechanicum, for example.
Everything you just said has me running for the exit :-). It’s all the same. I like near future combat, with plausible extrapolation of existing weapons and systems: AFV’s, infantry, support weapons, and of course a heavier reliance on drones, something we were investing a lot of treasure in when I left the army. And I want a rules set that reflects the increased lethality and range of those systems. I taught tactics for roughly 20 years to slack jawed young officers, and still enjoy games that can draw on real world tactics, be they medieval or sci-fi. I don’t… Read more »
Fluff: every time someone feels the need to explain to me I think of Rick Moranus with a popcorn bowl on his head: “During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!”
I see your point. Given how very far into the future GoA is set (the Seventh Age is decribed as being the seventh iteration of human interstellar civilisation to have arisen, which places it hundreds of thousands of years into the future at least, possibly even millions of years from now – a legitimately evolutionary timescale, which explains how some of the Panhuman species came to be), it just isn’t a good fit for your tastes. I hope you find a gaming system that gives you what you are looking for. I do think that a near future wargame set… Read more »
I do love Ghostbusters (the first movie is better than the second, in my opinion).
Of course, the jury is still out on the rumoured reboot of the series, but Hollywood will probably continue its unbroken string of comprehensively screwing up classic properties with uninspired remakes that fail to understand what the original was all about.
Maybe you and I will have to have a go at designing that game @vetruviangeek :-). I’m all for rail guns, energy weapons, and drone swarms. Glad you can appreciate the ‘vision.’ Striker was like that, but complicated. Didn’t stop the Brigade HQ from playing it when we weren’t otherwise engaged lol.
And of course I have my friend’s insatiable RPG needs to consider, so it would have to plug into something like the old Traveler or GURPs. Yikes, dating myself.
… hmmm. you might have to make it pen and paper first though dude 😛
… I think you’ve already insulted every miniature sculptor currently working 😛 ha ha
… even me … but I still like ya 😉 lol
You’re making me all misty eyed @motioninpoetry :-). BTW, pen and paper was the old school way! Criticism makes sculptors better, so don’t take it personally. And having said that, there’s lots of sci-fi mini’s out there I like, and even some GW figures, believe it or not. The Imperial infantry works for near future warfare, and I’m fond of the tyrannids for a buggy swarm aka Heinlein (not the movie version). I also like the Tau for an alien sort of antagonist…. the infantry anyway. Most GW vehicles are silly IMO, and my contempt for the rules and fluff… Read more »
ha ha, it’s alright, you’ve said some nice things about my minis too 😉
so it all balances out in the end 😉 ha ha
… now to get back to work making this sword that’s 2x bigger than the person holding it 😛
… I know you like them the best that way 😉 ha ha
Careful there – I can be a world class bore when it comes to this kind of thing, having a layman’s interest in technology both military and civilian. That said, I know nothing about military tactics past the most basic enfilade and refused flank stuff, so I fall into the category of enthusiastic novice in that area.
Trying to create a games sytem would be a fascinating challenge, but both of us would definitely need to bone up on game design first.
Just kidding, @vetruviangeek, but it would be fun, and @motioninpoetry could design our mini’s. Since I’ve already pissed him off, we’re well on our way :-).
😉 no problem 😀
I’ll make sure they’re nice and cartoony for you 😛
Gasp… Can you compromise at 1.5x bigger on the weapons at least?
hmmmm (O ,o) ? … I’m sure I could push myself 😛 ha ha
… I can even make things look … shock horror … REALISTIC (@ , @)
… I’m even currently working on a certain “weird” world war game right now,
that you might have heard of 😉 but that’s a secret 😛
Well, then you’re very talented in a ‘weird’ sort of way… not consistently so, so don’t get your head swelling, but I like the cut of your jib :-).
You should go for it. It sounds like you have pretty specific and strong ideas on what you’d like a SF wargame to be like, and I can’t think of any exactly like that – MERCS is the closest thing i can think of, which does have a lot of that realism you want but it’s more smaller scale and doesn’t use drones. Personally speaking, the type of wargame I really want doesn’t exist either,there is nothing remotely like it, so i have had to make it myself. I’ve found it a lot of hard work and it has taken… Read more »
Thanks @abstractalien . So drop me an e-mail, and tell me about your game, in a vague non-invasive IP stealing sort of way lol. I’m curious. As for @vetruviangeek and @motioninpoetry, I’d like to hear from you as well.
I’m a writer by trade these days, so I may have that end partially covered lol.
yeah, sure why not, always willing to have a listen if someones got some ideas 😉
One of the people you should definitely talk to is Oriskany – his articles on adapting an entire wargaming systems form the old starwars papercraft products indicates that he has all kinds of creativity and skills that you would find invaluable, and his first love is historical wargaming, so he has a very strong understanding of both unit scale tactics and larger grand startegy from real world military engagments. Definitely the sort of chap you would want on board for the kind of project we are discussing.
We’ve been corresponding for a while :-). Thanks!
Good afternoon, all . . . and thanks for the mention, @vetruviangeek. Indeed I have designed more than my fair share of wargames. @cpauls1 and I have talked about some of the “harder-history” aspects of gaming, tactics, operations, and military technology. Any fellow sufferer who has the patience for PanzerBlitz/Panzer Leader is a true fellow gamer in my book. I’ve done some design work in WW2, modern, and near-future sci-fi. I won’t bore everyone with my “résumé,” cpauls1 knows me and what I’m about. 🙂 Anyway, if you guys have an idea about what you want to build, let me… Read more »
@oriskany Thanks for the offer. Give me a few days to collect my thoughts and jot a few things down. We can all chat offline early next week.
Have you seen the Afterlife Kickstarter, currently be advertised at the top of the page @cpauls1 ? Given your forthright opinions and your clear vision of what you’d like to see, it’d be interesting to know if Afterlife does it for you. And if not, why not?
Frankly, I don’t know much about Afterlife. Is there a beta rules set out there? I like the mini’s, although some of them strike me as being a bit squat. Minor quibble. I’d be happy to have a look at it, though.
Weel, the BoW team previewed the ‘breach and clear’ rules on the weekender last week, but beta rules are available to download on the homepage of the KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1637892615/afterlife-the-shards-of-liberty
There’s also a 5 minute demo video of the rules.
I’m not overly familiar with them myself, so I’m more going by what others have said about them. They look interesting, but as I like the miniatures and the setting, I’m not worried about houseruling rules if need be!
Honestly, while I can appreciate trying to do something different than the run of the mill “Cowadoody with lasers” that Infinity and the like do, this in turn does not go far enough. For all intents, it’s just fantasy tropes with buzzwords like “transhuman” and “nanotech” slapped on it. I’d love to see a wargame set in Eclipse Phase setting, or maybe Culture. If you make post-humanity the theme, then by gosh and golly, give it all you’ve got, not “thin, levitating human with a mage’s wand”.
Yeah, the Culture books are great! Stapledons Last and First Men would make a great source for post-human stuff as well, hell most of the ideas go back to that book anyhow.
I’m really, really looking forward to Warlord’s Antares rules… As I’ve tried other historical and fantasy/SF games over the last few years, I’ve got to breaking point with GW rules, and what I’ve seen of Bolt Action and Gates of Antares makes me think I’ll love it. But I’m not very inspired by the miniatures. I quite like the Boromites; in fact I quite like the others too, but not at the price Warlord are charging. I like the old school, Rogue Trader-ish but more hard SF look. And at half the price I’d be thinking ‘cool, I like the… Read more »
Well, the good thing is, you can use any mini’s you want. It’s not like you’re constrained by having to use the company’s mini’s at their store. Sci-fi mini ranges are poppng up all the time, and there are some truly breathtaking figures available. The hunt is half the fun.
Oh exactly! I fully intend to convert my 40K troops to the Antares rules system, and possibly other figure collections I have which currently don’t have any rules to go with them at all.
I’ll keep an open mind about the Antares figures. If they do some good deals on them, that might make me more inclined to support them. Otherwise, if I like the setting, I may look at other ranges with the specific intention of finding things to use as proxies.