More robotech

It's been about four months now but i finally got most of the robotech starter box finished, enough to start gaming with anyway. I've also added some 6mm british infantry to the UEDF force, I figure that if they're armed with AT weapons that are contemporary in the show than they could feasibly throw out some damage on a battle pod plus some security is needed against riots and micronized zentraedi infiltrators. Next step is to get some terrain to fight over and actually sling some paint on the things. 

Eclipse and Robotech

There's a guy who comes into the local shop every saturday with eclipse and some extra house rules which add a battleship, hives that constantly make more aliens, and a slight economic boost at the beginning among other things. It was just my luck that my small, two solar system empire would immediately uncover an alien hive but by the end of the game i was dealt with and i ahd carved out quite an empire for myself. 

After our game of Eclipse i busted out the Robotech models i had finished for a game. The forces for the Zentraedi were 6 Regults, a Quel-Regult, a Quel-Gulnau, and a Glaug all vs my 2 Valkyries and my Tomahawk which was disguised as a Mad Dog. 

The ammo Dump in the picture below was the objective of the game so my Valkyries flew around each side of the rock formation while my Tomahawk burned command points to haul ass across the table. Unfortunately this didn't leave enough command points for my Valkyrie on the right side of the rocks to dodge. At least the VF-1J killed the Gluag with two bursts from his GU-11.

Once the Tomahawk was in position the VF-1j went into battleoid mode and threw out covering fire from the rocks while the Tomahawk laid down the hurt with his big guns. All the Zentraedi we're eliminated but they didn't go down without a fight. I lost 1 VF-1A and the VF-1J only had one structure point left while the Tomahawk was down to 5. If the Zentaedi had won the initiative i would have been toast.

From excitement to disappointment

Got this big ol' box of stuff today full of Robotech miniatures. After opening the box and seeing the haul pictured below i was pretty damn excited.

There's quite a few pieces in there so that one could build their models in a variety of poses and armaments except the instructions look like this,

Seriously palladium? You got 1.5 million from your backers but it was to much to detail the instructions a little better? Not only are these instructions woefully inadequate but they didn't bother to label ANY of the parts. It's a total crapshoot putting these together. So after about four frustrating hours here is my progress,

To add on to the above problems the parts still don't fit together well with gaps in notable places and damage from shipping. I'm pretty disappointed in the quality palladium has put out but damnit it's now a test of wills for me to finish these models, I'm not going to let them ruin tomcats in space.