.. in that I think I want to make a couple of Armies. I have some sculpting software, 3d Coat, and I think I want to make some stand alone total conversions as it were as practice.

What I'm trying to say is that after school is done for the summer, I may try to make either a Nightsisters army (don't really fit with the CIS, as Grievous wiped them out) or a GI Joe, well, actually COBRA replacements for my Empire.

We can have Vipers as stormtroopers, Crimson Guard as Imperial Guards, the occupier Tank as a HISS tank, speeders become the Trouble Bubble. Lots of good analogs.

We aren't likely to get a GI Joe tabletop game, and it would be great practice for me.

Thoughts?

I like the idea of GI Joe and (especially) Cobra minis. But they would have to have white dice with the hits and surges counting as misses. And any defeated vehicle would spawn a mini parachuting out.

And the TO would end every tournament with a thirty second explanation of why drugs are bad or about stranger danger.

Good news if you play a GI joe army, you win half the battles just knowing the rules.

When I was inventing my 2D6 rules, I was working on it with GI Joe in mind. I actually started with a game called "Tier 1" that was a bit like Space Hulk where one player would play 4 members of a Tier 1 Special Ops team like Delta, or DEVGRU, or SAS, who would conduct raids on various maps against an opponent playing the insurgents. The old quality vs quantity game.

9 hours ago, Gridloc said:

Good news if you play a GI joe army, you win half the battles just knowing the rules.

You're almost there;

You're awarded half the maximum victory points (rounding up) as a GI Joe player if you can best your opponent in a series of questions designed to test your knowledge of the rules.

If not in a mirror match, at the start of the tournament round, a judge will give you a tricky rules scenario. If you correctly rule on it (showing your work, of course), you get your points.

In a JOE vs JOE match, it's a sudden death pedantic test of knowledge.

This will of course create a special Strength of Schedule tie-breaker so that the knowingest of JOE's advances to the cut.

Naturally, this will lead to excessively long tournament days, but that's the game we all signed up for...

If you do this, I must make Masters of the Universe armies, and I don't have time for that.

1 hour ago, TauntaunScout said:

If you do this, I must make Masters of the Universe armies, and I don't have time for that.

The good news is, if you were to sculpt them, you only have to do one body type, well two for the female characters.

You known folks, there IS more to G.I. Joe to than the cartoon.. Resolute and the original comic run are quite good.

I think the best way to create theh Joe team was each sculpt For the characters has multiple versions of the cards. Take 4 joes and they can be your corps unit, but, you can select a character and make them an operative by choosing a different unit card.

Other options are to make the mail away steel brigade figure the Corps unit, and just do the named characters as operatives, but that isn't as fun.

I could put similar themes characters into analogs, such as Stalker, Recondo, Spirit, etc. as being chosen for pathfinders.

Honestly, while I do intend to make my own unit cards eventually, I'm just going to do a basic reskin initially for the Empire/Cobra.

So...

Stormtrooper

DLT trooper

Coms tech

Imperial Officer

Veers gets demoted

He will now write Poetry

Call him Major Bludd

2 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

If you do this, I must make Masters of the Universe armies, and I don't have time for that.

1 hour ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

The good news is, if you were to sculpt them, you only have to do one body type, well two for the female characters.

Here's even better news, you don't even have to sculpt them, just look for Quest miniatures on etsy

Assume you’ve seen the excellent work done by Sopay, a uk figure sculptor? If not, google action force, soapy and models, and you’ll see them. A thing of beauty.