Star Trek Attack Wing - Boldly Going Where No Paintbrush Has Gone Before
Star Trek Attack Wing: Repaints
I was a relatively recent convert to the Star Wars Xwing/Star Trek Attack Wing system. I will delve into Xwing in another post at a later date, but here I want to talk "Attack Wing".
I picked up a job lot of ship sets from a Facebook "Trader" page to compliment the starter set that was part of my booty from Salute 2014. To be honest I don't think I really needed another game that is so similar to Xwing, but I just couldn't help myself…
I enjoy the hopeful nature of this fictional universe, but most of all I loved the grittier Deep Space Nine, the Voyager Series, and the First Contact Films. I am a bit of a Utopian at heart but I'll burn all my principles for the love of the star ship combat. I will still rewatch the episodes from DS9 especially the Dominion War towards the end. That was some of the best telly I'd seen in my teens.
So to first impressions- I'll be honest, I was a little dissapointed. Ships and tokens are of lesser quality than the Xwing versions. But this has been well documented online. I want to talk about scaling. The attack wing ships (certainly the initial ships) are inherited from the heroclix game by wizzkids, they for the most part lack any scale relevant to each other, now why is this an issue? Ofcourse it doesn't need to be, but as a narrative led gamer I want to see my Romulan Warbird two to three times the size of the Enterprise D. This is achieved, and indeed is fundamental to the related Xwing game. The prepainting quality is also lesser than the Xwing game, I'm very sure that some of the minis just came with a poorly applied basecoat, this was unacceptable to me, so I decided on a reprinting strategy
So to the minis..
Federation
Chances are if your reading this you know the first few factions so il just describe the fleet. Two galaxy class starships, USS Enterprise D and USS Odyssey, a Reliant class and a Nova class, the USS Reliant and the USS Equinox.
These are the first models I've painted from a white undercoat since the mid ninetys. Not convinced by them if I am honest, I still think they should be darker. but they are better then they came.
Romulan
The Romulan Warbird features in each of the 3 'next gen' series and was one of my favourite ships, here supported by a small scout vessel
Klingon
Probably the most iconic of the star trek races. Here we have a bird of prey and a vor'cha class attack cruiser, again both feature heavily in the next gen universe, and here are supported by a couple of old D7 cruisers.
Painting Klingons is a bit of a change, rather than a cohesive painting strategy the ships are all very different, from grey brown to dark green so I tried to unify the fleet as best as I could with the propulsion and some heavy weathering.
Borg
My fleet consists of two spheres and a tactical cube, The impact of the Borg on the Next Gen universe was radical, visual effects at the time perhaps over shadowed the raw element of their threat- the removal of your individuality.
Just given a black basecoat and dry brushed up a few greys these came out very well. The addition of a couple of Borg-green spots of colour help the minis to pop in the tabletop.
Cardassians
The cardys fall under the dominion banner in this game, which is a bit of a shame and relegates them to a bit part empire, which they certainly are not in the narrative.
My fleet consists of a squad of Hideki fighters, kraxon and galor class cruisers. This fleet took the longest time to paint, it was very fiddly with lots of little details.
Breen
The Breen enter the dominion war as a small empire on the verge of federation space, they play little part in the narrative until this point.
The Breen warship was probably the hardest to paint in this set, lots going on and different colours. For different areas. But I'm happy with it in the end.
Thanks for looking, I'll be following this up with an attack wing/Xwing terrain post at a later date and then possibly some reinforcements too, perhaps a few dominion ships, a Defiant, Prometheus, Enterprise E and a Voyager. So keep your eyes peeled.
Thanks For Reading
The Fat Dwarf.
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