New Firestorm releases for February.

[Andrewchristlieb]

Alright big pictures of the new stuff! First off, shout out to Firebase Delta for posting these on Facebook so I could conveniently link them up here. Throw them a like if it pleases ya.

I think everyone has clued in that I have a love for the Oroshan so ya, Awesome stuff here! Also some RSN which I've never been a fan of, but them seem to be super popular. The Oroshan battlecarrier... Ya I'm not a big fan of the render... it's awfully... flat. Hopefully the 3D versions look much better! As for the escorts I love them! I really hope they're not to scale in the picture though (it doesn't look like they are seeing as the SRS tokens are pretty fraking big in the pic too). I know that the scales have swelled a bit recently, but with the cruisers and presumably the frigates remaining the same size it wouldn't do too well to have escorts that are too big. Really cool doughnut look going on though and I love how the whole fleet is tying back together with each other now that there are a few more designs coming out.

RSN are pretty much more of the same, but they are all resin now! It looks like they tried to keep them as close to the current models as they could which is nice for those that have them already, but I don't really know enough about them to say too much more then that.

[Stephan]

I'm hoping they release the Oroshan carrier on its own.  I've already got everything else!

[Ulric the Grey]

Yeah stuff looks good. Though if What i remember is true from the old B5 days Stephan, you dont need another Fleet to bring the pain to everyone. I still remember when you let me use those Shadows.

[Dakkar]

I'll be doing a direct Spartan store order after Genghis, so if you need to order just the Carrier, let me know.

[Landlubber]

I'm pretty excited about the new RSN ships. Although if I had known back in October that Spartan would be releasing all-resin updates of the ships in February 2015, I might have waited on my purchase.

From the renders, it looks like heavy and standard cruisers (Cerberus and Spook, respectively) got updated looks for their 2.0 counterparts (Hellhound and Shrike), along with the escorts. I like the updated cruiser looks--they are beefier than the version 1 sculpts, especially in the middle. The battleship, dreadnought, frigates, and carrier all look the same to me as their version 1 counterparts--may have some minor tweaks that aren't visible in the renders.

But the big news is that they are indeed all resin, and I believe they are all one piece. With the current sculpts, the resin ship bodies (destroyers and up) look fine, but the metal add-ons--bridge, engines, and the fin on the underside--all have issues. The windows on each side of the bridge don't line up, some of the fins are crooked, and I have yet to find an engine piece that didn't have some aesthetic flaw: some nozzles shorter than others, poor fit against the ship's hull, bad mold lines/flash, obscured detail. The frigates and escorts are all metal; while the escorts are OK (at least, the blister I got is OK), the frigates leave alot to be desired. I guess you can get better detail molding in resin than in metal, and the frigates really suffered from being molded in metal.

I do like that they haven't radically changed the RSN ship designs, like Spartan did with the Terrans and some other races. This means that my destroyers, which apparently didn't get a 2.0 upgrade, will still look like they belong to the same fleet as the rest of the 2.0 ships (unlike the Terran destroyers, and I can't figure out why Spartan hasn't updated that model, when all the other Terran 2.0 ships look outstanding!).

[markymark1970]

Can anyone discern the difference between the RSN Revenant DN and the Banshee?  Looks pretty much exactly the same to me.  I picked out several details on my mini and in this pic (http://www.spartangames.co.uk/the-homeworld-ships) and the render, and I don't see anything different.  Did not look close at the cruisers.

[Ulric the Grey]

Who knows, could be something in the middle of the arms is different or (and this  is my hope) its just a placeholder as they didn't have the render ready. I mean one could only hope.

[Landlubber]

@Mark, the only difference that jumps out at me is the panel lines look deeper--but that could just be the graphic. One of the complaints I've heard about the Banshee is that the panel lines aren't very deep, especially on the hull near the bridge. It is *possible* they've done something different between the forward "arms", but I can't tell from the render. The cruisers do have a different look to them. I'd ask why you need two RSN dreadnoughts, but I forgot you are on a quest to own All The Resin.

@Ulric, I doubt that's a placeholder image--I've never known Spartan to do that before.

[Ruckdog]

I have to say, I've always been drawn to the RSN. I will probably be picking up these new box sets at some point! I'm having a hard time spotting the differences between the old and new dreads myself.

[markymark1970]

Yeah stuff looks good. Though if What i remember is true from the old B5 days Stephan, you dont need another Fleet to bring the pain to everyone. I still remember when you let me use those Shadows.

You let Stephan use Shadows (and his dice) against you?  You're a very very brave man.

[Ulric the Grey]

No he let me use the Shadoes in a B5 game against the alliance folks. Fun times. Shadow 5 confirmed kills.

[Stephan]

The Abbai were the REALLY scary ones.

[Dakkar]

Do I really need to remind everyone of the Glorious Centauri Republic?

[Ulric the Grey]

You mean the broken Centerai Republic Dale. Ho ho ho... Look at all my hunting packs that can drop a carrier turn one at 48" away. Yeah dale still remember! Still feeling the hate.

[Stephan]

And who can forget Earth Force, who's most successful strategy was to run away while firing big lasers out their Aft.