Basing Epic miniatures

 After a pair of weeks reading  a lot of posts about epic, I have decided to dust off my 6mm miniatures, I have a bunch of Eldars, and DRM miniatures.

 Some Eldar's photos are here, as you can see, in the other side, there are some DRM miniatures with Small stands from FOW. I love those bases, they are small, but with sufficient space to put 6mm, 10mm or 15mm.

 I was thinking about what stands use for the new miniatures that I wanted to base, they are Kraytonians Light Infantry, that probably I will use as Space Marines. I tried basing them on the standard 2x2 Epic stand, here is the photo

 If you take a look on them, you can see that the miniatures are bulky, and looks like a little squashed, even though, if we based them in a small FOW stands, there are space to put some terrain scenery like rocks, or fences, so on...  Here is the photo

 We have the other Epic possibility 4x1.5 narrow stands, that you can see in BlackSmith blog, I dislike them a lot, they take a lot of space in the battlefield, and I have not much of it, and you can't put any terrain on them, moreover, paying attention to the low variety of posses the five miniatures there looks like more a group of mannequin than a squad of brave warriors in the middle of a battlefield.

 In conclusion, I think that the 2x2 stands, and 4x1'5 stands make your troops look like a bunch of markers instead of mobile and semi alive troops, with these other stands FOW small bases, you can give some variety and battlefield look like to your armies.

 Let's take the paintbrushes and give them live

[USE ME] Space Elves vs Goaulds

While I find the way for continue playing the "Weird Euskadi Campaign", I have taken out my 6mm miniatures to give a try the mechs that I bought during the summer.

 I played a pitched battle between a group of Eldars, and some DRM miniatures. Both armies were quite similar  with heavy vehicles and mechs.  The Goualds had better weaponry and the Space elves were more.

 Here are the stats:

Space Elves

10x Eldar troops: Infantry Elan 3, Standard Rifle Move 4

9x Exarch troops; Infantry Elan 4 Superior Rifles Move 6

4x Jetbikes: Light Vehicle Elan 4 Automatic Weapons Move 12

2x Vypers: Light Vehicle Elan 4 Cannon Move 12 Armoured

1 Mech: Super Heavy Vehicle Elan 4 Move 8 Cannon Weapons Armoured

Goaulds

11x Jaffa troops: Infantry Elan 4 Standar Rifle Move 4

6x Scout Jaffa Troops: Infantry Elan 4 Superior Rifle Snipers Light Troops

4x Light Tanks: Light Vehicle Elan 4 Move 8 Automatic Weapons

1 Heavy Tank: Heavy Vehicle Elan 4 Move 8 Cannon Weapons Armoured

1 Mech: Super Heavy Vehicle Elan 4 Move 8 Cannon Weapons Armoured

And now the photos

The troops star to advance, the bikes take advantage of their high speed 

The Mechs arrive to the battlefield (Random deployment)

The bikes destroy the light vehicles

Another Light Vehicle blowed up

With their left flank uncovered, the Goaulds are in difficults

The Goauld tank resist the mechs attacks bravely, meanwhile,
the Exarchs try to destroy the mech, bad idea!

The Scouts blow up a jetbike, will they defeat the  enemies....?

End of the last turn, the Goaulds have been defeat
the Systems Lords must flee from the Space elves colony

Some comments
Interesting battle, with a high superiority of the Eldars vehicles over the Goaulds. The dices scores were determiner.
The battle was too much slow because I forgot to write down the range of each weapon.... On next time I must use troops cards like Noel.