First day of summer leave... Time for some blogging!
Back
when I first started playing with toy soldiers, sci fi armies where
pretty much all (at least for the games I was aware of) following the
"one army, one species" paradigm...
It's
when GW released their Tau and their various alien auxiliaries back in
the early 2000 (Tau have been around for 15 years? I'm not getting any
younger, am I? I guess most GW players those days don't even remember
40K without Tau...) that I first became aware of that paradigm (nature
of the beast: you usually see it only when breaking it).
But
the logical consequences of that realization quickly followed... Why
not, while we're at it, also get rid of "one unit, one species" and have
a truly multi-species army with all echelons down to squads and teams
made of several different aliens?
| Star Trek Elite Force I & II are computer FPS games released in the early 2000s (just like the Tau) and set in the Star Trek (how did you guess?) universe... The aliens involved are a bit too "humans with rubber prosthesis and/or flashy colours make-up" (no Star Trek bashing here, I do understand that TV shows have constraints specific to the medium) and make a smaller fraction of the team that what I had in mind, but it is a multi-species squad... That kind of "rubber masks" aliens unit would be fairly easy to make out of miniatures: just pick a line of humans and paint their skin alien colours... |