This is an opportunity post I started while I had a two month old passed out on my chest. As the twin of this points to, he's six months now, so little progress was made. This means, probably, few links and no pictures. Not sexy, but an opportunity to spitball.
Since I started this, I have failed the Guild challenge. Between work and parenthood, it wasn't happening. but I still have my fleet.
I can't argue that the ships from Bandai are cheap. Running two bucks a pop, they're pretty well detailed, and well the occasional headache occurs putting them together, there's far worse I've encountered with fantasy figures in 28mm.
The problem is that of scale. I originally bought these figures with an eye to mixing them with Silent Death ships. I was inspired by this post and the rest is history. The problem is that some mix, some clearly do not. If you look at the lead figure variants here ships match, but the Bandai plastic Okita and Kodaikan (if you're still following me, bravo) are close to the same size. Or in more sane words, Cruisers and Destroyers are roughly within an inch of each other in a game which huge ships clock in at 6". A possible explination is the size of jump drives....but I will noodle on this.
As a side note for anyone who might care, I am a fan of Silent Death, it was the go to game for college days. It plays fun but two problems arose, periodically. The first is the moment we all remember from every bit of space anime in history, when the ships get to standoff distance, and every torpedo is released, and has to be tracked. The other is the Conga Line of Death, where intiative feeds into ordered distruction. Still, fun and quick. I'm now looking to see if I can convert CY6! to something playable...project 107 on the pile.
So what am I saying. I like these ships. I have now about 30 of them. And I still have no clue what I will rule set I will use.
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