Big range expansion for Governance of Technology

I've been a huge fan of Antenociti's Workshop; Jed Norton's terrain and lately miniature website, for a long time. It introduced me to Infinity and really upped the stakes in my terrain scratch building. Although slightly off-topic, this is one of my creations using some of his terrain elements.

gothic corbels and window frames

window frames, ivy and dead leaves

barrels and kegs

His newest project is a joint miniature and terrain line, called "Governance of Technology" (GoT) which has been going for about a year now. It is set in a dystopian future where an all powerful technology board strictly controls each planet's access to technology, thus keeping each civilisation in stagnation.

It's a bit of a strange beast, in that there is a website with loads of background, quite well defined factions and whatnot, but its not actually a miniature game in its own right, so ostensibly it is just for figure collection. I know Jed is a regular on the Infinity forums and plays the game, so to me it is surprising that there are not proxy rules for GoT figures using Infinity rules, but maybe he is playing the long game and there are developments in the pipeline to turn it into a full-blown skirmish game?

I have seen today on the South London Warlords site the GoT range will expanded quite a bit at Salute with:
* 7 new GOT Figures
* GOT-Trooper Suad-packs x3
* Nova-Rus Light Tank 28mm
* Nova Rus APC 28mm
* UK Firefly Light-Gunship 28mm
* Terminus Police Dodge-Tata MATV 28mm
* GOTA - APC 28mm

The vehicles are really something to look forward to as his Nova-Rus "Bear" is a great looking kit and has been selling faster than he can cast it.

Nova-Rus "Bear" 4x4 Jeep

 There are currently 37 figure types (some packs of two poses of same model) and 1 squad pack in the range, along with 8 vehicles, so an expansion of 7 figures and 5 vehicles is relatively a pretty big one.

I'm looking forward to seeing these new models a lot and hopefully in the next month or so I'll post up my first building tile for GoT/Infinity which I've been working on.

Meanwhile, back in the land of 10mm Ancients there is another Salute announcement on the website that is of interest from Magister Militum:
"We have three new 10mm buildings which will be out for Salute, a Roman villa/farm, slave/workers quarters and barn."
Quality 10mm ancients building are in short supply, with only Kerr & King's Jerusalem and Total Battle Miniatures' Dark Age settlement springing to mind, so this is very exciting news as well.

TB Line Carthegians

Tridente Bologna have really delivered again with their latest 10mm Ancients. They have Carthage infantry, cavalry, command and war elephants up on their site.

As regular blog readers will know I had problems finding convincing elephants for my own Carthage force, but these new ones have blown me away. As an army centre-piece they are going to be fantastic.

I think these might be the final push I need to send a substantial order the way of TB Line and get some of their fantastic Republican Romans and Gaul as well.

Grand Scale Gaming show

There's been a few bits of news on Table Top Gaming news about a new show coming the South West this year for grand scale gaming.

Called "SMS" and run by Angel Barracks it appears to be catering primarily to 6mm at the moment, but in their spiel they talk about 10mm and sub-3mm, however as yet there are no traders or games confirmed for these scales. Also so far it all appears to be Ancients and Napoleonics with one Alt-WW2 demo-game.

It's being held over in Bristol on August 14th and if they can get a few more traders and interesting looking games I may well give it a look. I'll keep an eye on their pages and add an update if it looks like really taking off.