{"id":7805,"date":"2018-06-21T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2018-06-21T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:30:22","slug":"beware-the-drantakhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=7805","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Drantakhs!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A full Drantakh squad divided into three fire teams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the weekend and this week I finished my Drantakh force. \u00a0The Drantakhs are figures manufactured by Badger Games<\/a>. \u00a0They are science fiction figures with dinosaur-like heads. \u00a0The sculpting is nice, and the molding is almost without any flash.<\/p>\n

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A close up of one of the three fire teams that make up a Drantakh squad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a previous post I showed the headquarters personnel and the heavy weapons. \u00a0This weekend I completed the rifle squads. \u00a0Most of my science fiction figures are organized like the US Army in squads of two fire teams. \u00a0I decided that the Drantakhs would be organized more on the US Marines model of a squad leader and three fire teams. \u00a0Without grenade launchers and light machine-guns in each team, this really doesn’t have much effect except that in Combat Patrol the squad will have four command dice instead of three, which should provide more flexibility and guard against those turns when no cards are drawn for any part of the squad. \u00a0It is subtle and doesn’t show up very well in these pictures, but the small arms on each of the three teams is a slightly different color to make it possible to tell the three teams apart on the table.<\/p>\n

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The two Drantakh tanks I finished last night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lat night I completed two hover tanks to round out the Drantakh force. \u00a0These required no filing or sanding; they were very clean. \u00a0Some of the parts were on sprues and had to be cut off and trimmed a bit. \u00a0The figures and machine-guns are separate purchases. The hatches can be glued open or closed.<\/p>\n

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A close up of one of the two tanks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The the Drantakh infantry wear’s sliver, Lost-in-Space-style suits, I decided that the tanks needed some sort of camouflage pattern. \u00a0(I came ver close to painting them silver too.) \u00a0I like the swoopy, almost Naboo look to the tanks. \u00a0While I’m not sure how you would manufacture such a vehicle, the shape of the hull would probably be very effective on the battlefield. \u00a0The pronounced turret ring means they probably lose a lot of turrets and tank commanders, but maybe they have a lot of turrets stockpiled to get the serviceable hulls back into the fight.<\/p>\n

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A close up of the other Drantakh tank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As suggested earlier, I’ll be using these with Combat Patrol(TM): WWII. \u00a0The rules work just fine for science fiction skirmish games.<\/p>\n