I recently grabbed a
Star Trek Deep Cuts mini by WizKids: The Enterprise herself--or at least a
Constitution-class Federation heavy cruiser. Of course, this is the refurbished ship from the movies, not the vessel from the original series.
Even though the miniature came primed but unpainted, I gave it a base coat of flat black before drybrushing with medium gray, light gray, and titanium white. While the paint job may not be up to Starfleet specifications, I think it came out great for my gaming purposes.
You see, back in the '70s, there was this awesome vector graphics arcade game called
Space Wars. It was a player-versus-player setup, where each person controlled a spaceship. One was a triangular craft (which I decided was from the Vega system), and the other had a familiar shape, as seen in the lower center.
I decided I can use the
Trek ship to play a tabletop version of
Space Wars. And I already have a suitable black-and-white mini for the Big
E's opponent, one of my Terran stellar destroyers from
Galactic Knights (and before that,
Starfleet Wars).
As you can see, the two ships provide a reasonable approximation of their electronic counterparts on the game mat. Now I just figure out what rules to use for a one-on-one spaceship battle. It needs to use vector movement, to emulate how the ships moved in the arcade game.
Or maybe I will just use it as a special ship in my Galactic Knights scenarios. It might be fun to see this Federation ship boldly go through a battle between the Terrans and Entomalians.
The Enterprise could easily voyage to yet another alternate universe. Perhaps she has valuable technology which might give an advantage to whatever side captures, err, enlists her in an alliance. Perhaps a bit Voyager like in plot, but it would work...
ReplyDeleteDon’t forget, in the video game, you fly off the edge of the map and appear on the opposite edge!
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