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Star Trek - GF9 Away Missions
Each completed mission earns you points. Score the most points to win the game. Each member of your away team is represented by a figure that will move about the board to complete missions with an associated card that describes that character’s strengths, skills, and other important characteristics including which away team they belong to!” from gf9games
I will try the game soon, but as usual I will paint the minis first. The Borg minis are cartoony in style and VERY big (around 46 mm tall), they look rather good on the table but unfortunately are not fitting to any other range. Just see the comparison picture below with some Modiphiüs Borg!
The minis are more like pure gaming pieces, the names on the back of the base are a niece touch to identify the mini, but as said more like boardgame pieces (which they are). Personally I would have liked them more in style and scale as the Modiphiüs minis.
The Federation arrives to save the day! Commanders Riker and Shelby. Every body knows Riker, but Elizabeth Shelby was a Human female who served as a Starfleet officer from the mid-24th through the early 25th centuries. During the 2360s, she was noted to be a highly ambitious officer, on the fast track to promotion to the captaincy of a starship. Although her manner was abrasive, she earned considerable respect when she proved to be a valuable asset while serving temporarily on the USS Enterprise-D when the ship faced the Borg. And that was IMO the reason to include her in the Wolf 359 core box!
Star Trek - Modiphiüs
The new Modiphius Entertainment STNG minis arrived. I can’t says enough how good these minis are. Yes they have some very minor casting flaws, like mold lines and maybe one or two minor air bubbles, but the overall quality is as good as it gets in modern minis.
Since I had a female Vulcan head to spare I mounted her on an Infinity Mobile Brigade body. She is now Commander T'Proll of the Task Force Omega. “Assembled jointly by the Federation and the Klingon Empire to counter the Borg threat, Battle Group Omega (also known Task Force Omega) is a fleet stationed in the Noro Sector. The fleet is home to Omega Force. It serves as a deep space staging ground for incursions into Borg space. A nearby asteroid belt provides raw materials and supplies for the fleet, while a nearby rogue moon emits low-level delta radiation, which hides the fleet's energy signature from the Borg.” from sto.gamepedia (https://sto.gamepedia.com/Battle_Group_Omega) Commander T'Proll is wearing her custom Omega Force Armour, the Energy Harness Armour provides basic protection and increases energy attack damage. As a side arm she is equipped with an Antiproton wide beam pistol. The Omega Force Antiproton weapons deal additional damage to Borg, and has a chance to immobilise any target hit. Modiphius Borg
Modiphius Klingons
Modiphius Romulans
The scale shot below shows that the mini you can now buy are indeed even better that the already good promotion mini!
My interest in Star Trek was recently re-ignited; Beyond was OK, a new TV Series is announced and Modiphius Entertainment announced the development of Star Trek Adventures!
I absolutely enjoyed painting Kirk. To enhance the clean look of Trek I did not highlight the mini to much, I went for a more muted and -hopefully- realistic look, that is also the reason why the eyes are just painted dark.
Highly recommended I can only hope for a lot of releases from this range!
Time to dig out ST Attack Wing and give the ships the same repaints as my X-Wing minis.
The D7 was the standard cruiser of the Klingon Deep Space Fleet. It was designed as a tough warship with a good turn mode and lots of Marines and transporters for boarding actions and hit-and-run raids. In many ways it is THE iconic Klingon ship. It is also one of the most often showed ship models in Star Trek with a lot of continuity problems (see: The Everlasting Klingon Battlecruiser).
The model is reasonable good but the cast is not as good some other models of the line, I presume since everybody interested in the miniature line wants an Enterprise, the mold is very well used. Consequently the model was a challenge to build. Warped disk, flash, rough surfaces etc. But all in all I like the ship! And the smaller ships from the line are in much better shape.
One of the bad things about the box is that you have no clue how the minis look until you opened the box. The minis are OK, a bit small but enough detail.
Star Trek: Astrocrew Recently I discovered a real “gem”. Very generic SF miniatures that can be used for 15mm Trek - Astro Miniatures! Highly recommended.
Star Trek: Enterprise I recently re-watched the whole 4 seasons and liked it more than the 1st time. Time to do a small T’Pol conversion and a “Proto” Suliban.
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I always liked Star Trek ship designs. One of my all time favourites are the Jem’Hadar attack fighters from the Dominion. So you can imagine that I was very happy to notice that Starcraft (
Ahh - and finally a not too bad model of a female Klingon warrior. The model is 1/32 from 
F r o m t he time when Last Unicorn Games had the rights for the Star Trek RPG is the boxed set “Away Team”.
