Investigating the UAMC Infantry for Alien War

June 27, 2012 by darrell

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Darrell takes a look at the latest release for Alien War, the UAMC Infantry box from Defiance Games.

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mecha82

14 years ago

There are some nice options in this kit.

celestialdragonking

14 years ago

Not bad. I’m interested in the German guys we have seen art of. Seems weird they have American, though it sounds like All of the Americas, Germans, and Bugs. Nothing else?

ozzyuk

Reply to celestialdragonking

14 years ago

The UAMC consists of America and Mexico in the fluff. There will be all the major forces you’d expect – Germans, Commonwealth (Brits, Ausies etc.), China are the first sets. Then there will be what they’re calling edge forces, basically nice little units that won’t initially have as big a range but could expand if they prove popular. Including Vatican armed forces! Check out their website, there’s lots of info there.

chadamusprime

14 years ago

That would be “Starship Troopers” Darrell, either that or “Aliens”.

jaerin

14 years ago

These are fantastic miniatures at a very good value pricetag.
I look forward to seeing how the Germans and also the power armours are going to look when produced.

raggbur

14 years ago

Alien wars seems like a nice rulesset to me…

Perhaps mix it with some corporation models ?

netdiver

14 years ago

I bought a box of these on launch and I think they’re pretty good. Good altenatives to Imperial Guard, Urban War Viridians, certain Infinity factions (namely Adriana) or Starship Troopers. These guys were inspired quite a lot by the colonial marines from the movie “Aliens” which isn’t bad thing. There are things Defiance Games could have made better, like more pounces for the models, more arm options, loose weapons and more weapon variety. But as a first set it’s quite good.

As I understand it, Defiance Games is switching to akin resin plastic used by Mantic for their future releases and to different sprue layout. So UAMC Marines might actually be the only “traditional” plastic sprue to come put of the company. Not that I really care if it’s plastic or resin plastic, as I really like where the company if heading.

abstractalien

Reply to netdiver

14 years ago

It isn’t resin-plastic they are changing too, just a different sort of plastic – but it is a very good plastic that is tougher and more resilient. It is Trollcast, I believe (correct me if wrong people).

netdiver

Reply to abstractalien

13 years ago

Thanks for clearing that up 🙂

garganto1

14 years ago

Sounds like an interesting game. I’m hoping that it includes possibilities like running out of ammo as I don’t like how most games, or at least many of them just assume that you have an endless amount of ammo.

netdiver

Reply to garganto1

14 years ago

The now discontinued Starship Troopers miniatures game had an out ammo status as a core mechanic which added a level of tension to the game when there was horde of bugs closing in to your MI’s position. Nice set of rules which still can be downloaded in PDF format from DrivethruRPG for less than 15€. In many ways Alien War feels like a spiritual successor to Mongoose’s SST legacy.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/2863/Starship-Troopers%3A-Miniatures-Game-%28Hardback-Edition%29?it=1

abstractalien

14 years ago

I am not particularly interested in the starship troopers derivative thing going (just personal taste) on but objectively they are an excellent deal for a very fair price, and they don’t look bad at all either.

Personally I’d like to wish Defiance good luck with their game and hope it does well.

defiancegames

Reply to abstractalien

14 years ago

Hi abstractalien – I think we probably are causing a little confusion with the Bug release in that the Bugs are part of the Alien War universe and are a Force in the game – but the real focus of Alien War is actually ground combat between the human nations, corporations, and mercenary groups of 2260. Think of a future version of 19th century colonialism. And of course we’ll have some aliens entering the fray over the next few months!