Friday 26 February 2016

From DavidB - FCC to Heat Things Up (30 points)

Snowmagedon has come again, and I was lucky enough to be driving home in it. I was wearing basketball shorts and t-shirts last Friday so the foot plus of white stuff is appreciated. I am snowed in now till tertiary roads can be plowed! ;)

Since my kids can't go to school and my wife is also unable to drive to work, we get forced family time! 

We will be playing MERCS today now that I have two teams finished.

As an aside, both Counter Threat and Assassination Protocol are available for $40 each at Megacon Games. Assassination Protocol is exclusive to the store and features Kemvar vs Karzai Wazi which is a Pacific Megacorp that controls Japan, New Zealand and Australia.  They bring mini nukes with their Assault Leader.


The FCC fills the void between the Megacorps and are terrorist, nationalists, anarchist,  and a lot of other -ists. The FCC is recognized as a Megacorp on the whole just to keep negotiations and extreme violence down. Although they lack the training, armor, and equipment of the other Merc teams, they are very fast and elusive. The FCC is working to destroy all the Megacorps and has already destroyed several and weakened Texaco, East India Corp, and EU. They have also absconded with the tech and money from the failed Megacorps and regularly pilfer from the active ones.

I painted them in various camouflage patterns and unified them with the Rebel color orange ( favored color of rebel graffiti artists)



From left a packrat- he carries med packs and armor repair kits, a household member- provides boosts and covering fire. The kneeling figure is a chemical engineer who makes explosives and gasses. The chemical engineer isn't much use against kemvar as all kemvar Mercs have gasmasks.

FCC also has the houseleader- squadleader, a boomer- grenade launcher, and a Liason. The liason is a hard unit to hit as he has a special force field. The presence of the liason allows the FCC player to bring in another Megacorp Merc as a Black Ops. The black ops Merc gives the Boomer his/her Megacorp trademark grenade. 

Small and underequiped in comparison to the others, but they do have a lot of tactical options. I like the sculpts a lot as they are not uniform in appearance and a lot of the clothing is torn. Even the Liason above next to the Boomer has a torn hole in his trousers. The  models have a lot of personality too. My favorites are the Boomer with the artificial leg and potbelly and the House Leader with that great action pose.

Just six Sci Fi extremists today...unless I can clear off a few more from the desk before supper! ;) 
For now, I'm going to defend the secret KemVar facility from some intrusive Malcontents led by my kids...I'm hoping the fresher paint on the FCC will counter fighting against 4 kids! ;)
Very nice! Cool to see more of these MERC figures.  When I first saw "FCC", I assumed you had painted a group of bureaucrats with no actual tabletop capabilities, but still win every game thanks to their unfunded defined benefit pension plans that everyone else has to pay for :)  And as I read about the background of these charming fellows in the FCC, I had to stop and wonder if they have issued a David Suzuki figure to serve as an overall commander-in-chief for the faction on the tabletop?

I shouldn't read the paper here in Canada between postings *cough*.  Anyway, great painting David - this faction fits well in the dark megacorporate setting this game looks to portray.  I would hate to see the lawyers in this setting...

Only six figures this week Dave - is this the alleged break you've been hinting at for some time now?  Another 30 points for you sir - enjoy the snow and the forced family time!

24 comments:

  1. Thank you, Greg! They may have been office and bureaucrats at some point, I know I am dealing with the FCC as a household loan company. There is a saboteur mini with moltov cocktail, but I haven't gotten him yet. He still has shirt and tie on with the tie as a bandanna! ;)
    Unfortunately these will be it for the night as I just can't get the NMM right on the next batch closest to being complete. I may spend the rest of the night blocking in colors on other stuff....and for the record my kids curb-stomped the KemVar. I only eliminated one of their squad with a loss of 4 of my own. The kids are STILL gloating! ;)

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  2. These guys look really cool, Dave - the paint job is well up to the standard of these excellent sculpts!

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  3. Nicely done David! Enjoy your forced family time and if the weather gets too bad, DO NOT eat the children!

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    1. Do not eat the children first

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    2. Thank you, Anne!
      I couldn't eat the kids as raising them right gives me the reward of grandchildren! ;)
      But if they keep plowing through the food, their choices will be MREs or fresh fried squirrel! ;)

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    3. @ Martin-
      My kids are pretty tough, if it gets to that, I better watch MY back! ;)

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  4. The figures are great and you've done them up lovely!

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    1. Thank you, Sander! They took a moment due to the mix of colors, but it was worth it! ;)

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  5. Nice work, like the orange flashes

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    1. Thank you, Martin! I was a little unsure, but I decided I had to give them the odd spot of unified color. The excess of bandanas and scarves helped.

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  6. Very nice, enjoy the family time

    Ian

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    1. Thank you, Ian! It has been nice enjoYing family time without the work and sport schedules rushing us around. The best part of snowdays! ;)

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  7. I really like the Orange "accent " colour it does lift the figures and now I want to see rebel graffiti as well. But if you stick to the figures I will not be disappointed either.

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    1. Thanks, Clint!
      In the rulebook flavor text their was pictures of Megacorp motivational posters graffitied by orange spray paint. Although the game plays very well on mats ( part of the simplicity I like) I know it will only be a matter of time before I make 3d terrain. I plan on lots of posters and a fair amount of them will be decorated with orange! I belive a few short years ago Ukraine and Georgia had the same art. ;)

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  8. Lovely stuff, they really capture the feel of the group and are great fun. It's another one of those games that I'm just managing to avoid getting into and this doesn't help!

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    1. Thanks Jamie! I resisted for a long time, but I kept going back to the Internet and looking at the MERCS range. Just a FYI, looking at the same models on the Internet for a few years DOES NOT diminish the desire to get them! ;)

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    1. Thank you, Gilles! Sooo much fun playing with painted minis with the kids too! ;)

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    1. Thank you, Fran!
      I'm thinking of a new gauntlet to throw next challenge time...irregular forces of all eras and who paints the most! After the tribesmen and the FCC, it is daunting to paint so many non uniform troops! ;)

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  11. Wow, these are awesome! You're really tempting me into that Merc stuff.

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