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  • LiveWire and larger Comanche preview

    Jim Bailey of Grindhouse Games has sent along a larger version of the Comanche preview image we posted yesterday as well as a painted preview of the German character LiveWire as well as some details of the miniature. Both of these miniatures are for use with West Wind Productions Secrets of the Third Reich game.

    US Comanche Light Mech LiveWire
    Click to enlarge

    From their announcement:

    Area 51 in the United States is a tightly controlled facility. Few imagine the secrets it contains. Fewer still imagine that their government does not have the situation under control. In Germany, SWD has given the “visitors” a name. They are the Nihl. Frau Elli Anselm leads her expedition to Antarctica in 1942. What she finds there is unknown to any but the highest ranking of the SWD. What is known is that the u-boat sent to rendezvous with her party finds her standing alone and naked on an ice shelf with bale fire flickering in her eyes, totally unharmed despite the minus 40 degree Celsius temperature and the biting wind…or so the awe-stricken sailors believe.

    None makes it back to Germany “alive” so it is no matter. Cattle mutilations and strange lights above the skies of Europe become a common occurrence upon her return. She is called Elli the doppelganger by some. Others call her The Fleshwire because of the punishing whips that sprout from her voluptuous form and flay her enemies. She challenges the Junker elite and even those mighty vampires fear her unearthly infection. What she has become is unspeakable. Elli Anselm: herald of the Nihl

    Live Wire is Elite and is unarmed. She is a Loner.

    Special Rules
    Tough, Fast, Combat Monster, Horror, Utterly Fearless, Deep Insertion
    Whipsaw- organic steel barbed flails sprout from Live Wire and whip about her, dicing her quarry into chunks of quivering flesh. Place a 5” diameter template under Live Wire for the course of the game. Any model friend or foe that comes in contact with this template suffers an automatic hit of Heavy Infantry Penetration Class on the hit results table. This happens during Live Wire’s move action. No model may suffer more than one hit per turn in this manner. All close combat attacks made by Live Wire are Heavy Infantry Penetration Class.

    12 Responses to “LiveWire and larger Comanche preview”


    LarkinVain (Joel) says:

    Nice. Man weird war is so going to bankrupt me.


    KitFox says:

    Is it just me or is Live Wire a rather bad rip off of GW’s Arco-Flagellants?


    gavroche says:

    Sure, but that’s ok for me, this industry thrives on reworking succesful designs from other sources. GW itself is hardly innocent. Anyway, I wouldn’t say it’s a “bad” miniature, merely an average one.


    stormwolf says:

    Cheers Zac,

    Thanks for the larger picture.

    Looks as though my orks are going to get a proper orky dreadnought at last.

    SW


    Jim Bailey says:

    The arco-flagelant thing is pure coincidence as I highly doubt Andy has ever seen one! The red kink suit and iron cross are my additions so you can blame me I suppose. This model has a great story. About a year ago when we were kicking around ideas for the game in one of our conference calls, Andy starts going on about giant lice and barbed wire monsters. John and I looked at each other like “huh?” Anyway, Andy seemed pretty fixated on the idea so finally I said, okay, we can do a barbed wire monster but it has to be a really hot Frau in leather. The barbed wire became organic steel and it ended up sprouting out of her hands and head instead of everywhere. We had tons of fun with this one. The demo game at Salute put on by Paul Grace and Al Osborne with the giant sub locked in ice was based on the Live Wire storyline.

    Jim


    Zac says:

    Is it just me or is Live Wire a rather bad rip off of GW’s Arco-Flagellants?

    It has similar arms but that really seems to be about it,

    Common visual elements don’t mean that people are ripping GW off. Unless a mini is a direct reproduction of something then its not a “rip-off”.


    evernevermore (John) says:

    Reminds me of some concept art from John Blanche in the art book for Inquisitor.

    Wierd little mini all said though


    Zac says:

    Reminds me of some concept art from John Blanche in the art book for Inquisitor

    That would be the Acro-flagellants :-)


    evernevermore (John) says:

    No I mean I think there was a female body suited arco in the book - I mean this figure is very much Blanches style


    Zac says:

    Most likely. I seem to recall a lot of similar design elements.

    Sure it wasn’t a tentacle? I remember quite a few “women with tentacle” sketches he did as well. :-)


    gavroche says:

    I think it was a metal tentacle, sort of. Anyway, rest of the figure is different, and who cares anyway? I’m totally cool with all the mutual influences flying around, at least it helps ensuring figures from different companies can be used together.


    keltheos says:

    There’s a picture of a bald Arbitrator woman in the book, she’s dressed in leather. That + the Arco-Flagellant in the book are probably blending in peoples’ heads when they see this image.


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