Ars Victor - 15mm Miniatures for the Empire of Man

I recently wrote a small review of the Ars Victor boardgame with an eye of using the rule with miniatures before being interupted by supper... I've been thinking a bit more about it and here are the minis I'm leaning toward for the Empire of Man faction.

Ars Victot Empire of Man unit tokens. Picture from editor website.

The faction units can be split in three thematical categories...

Not-Space Marines 

They come in several variants (read in 3 columns: name of the Ars Victor unit, 40K equivalent and signature attribute):

• "Medium" = "tactical" Space Marines = baseline unit
• "Jump" = "assault" Space Marines = jump packs
• "Heavy" = "devastator" Space Marines = missile launchers
• "Cavalry" = bikes = bikes
• "Light" = scouts = sniper rifle & camo cloak
• "Assault" = "terminator" Space Marines = power armour

Altough they are a bit more lightly kitted than you old Space Marine, I'll go with 15mm.co.uk SFA troopers: a few other ranges provide the variety of roles I'm looking for but it's one of the only one with jump pack troops...

Picture from manufacturer website.

• "Medium" = 15mm.co.uk SFA SMG Troopers
• "Jump" = 15mm.co.uk SFA Jump Packs Troopers
• "Heavy" = 15mm.co.uk SFA Support Troopers

Ars Victor - Command & Colors 40K

If you read this blog, you probably know Memoir' 44 scratch quite a few of my itches... Friction (the card activation), unambiguous movement/line of sight system (large hexes), simple rules yet deep tactics... Only I'm not too found of historical games. I've already considered Quar infantry + All Quiet on the Martian Front steam tanks + Memoir'44 rules...

Picture from editor website.

Monday, while procrastinating on the internet, I came across Ars Victor... The rules are free to download (in fact the entire game material - except for the dices you have to kitbash and two deck of regular playing cards - can be downloaded if you sign in on the website) but here are some details (I'm assuming you're somewhat familiar with the C&C system)...