Miners’ Union Enforcers

January 25, 2009 in Building
Tags: lego, mecha, simon

The Miners’ Union has long been a force in planetary politics, but recent political changes have demanded a more active role for the union, to safeguard the livelihoods of the planet’s citizens, and to enure a living wage for all miners. To that end, Union officials have authorised an enforcement wing of the Union, to [...]

Mechaton Flickr Group

January 11, 2009 in Building
Tags: flickr, lego

The Flickr Group for Mechaton sadly languishes, unloved and underpopulated. Let’s do something about that, shall we? Cheers Malc

MgN-302/303 Series Mechs

January 5, 2009 in Building, Uncategorized
Tags: campaign, mecha

These little fellas are designed for the upcoming campaign. They all form part of the army battlegroup that will form my forces. The little bit of fiction that I’ve come up with involves a military coup against a weak coalition government. Now the army finds out how hard it is to run the nation. My [...]

Dunesquery

January 5, 2009 in Playing
Tags: anyway, campaigns, dune, joshua, robert, vincent

Vincent Baker, Robert Bohl and Joshua Newman are kicking off an interesting new Mechaton campaign by adding some colour to their various factions. Their campaign background is (as the title of this post might give away) influenced by the Dune novels. Check out what’s going on over at anyway. Cheers Malc

Mobile Biological Armour

January 4, 2009 in Playing
Tags: campaign, rules

We’re gearing up for the Mechaton campaign. Exciting. In some of the games, as well as testing out the campaign rules written by Vincent, we’ll be slotting in a couple of new ideas of our own. When it comes to hiding behind cover (such as trees, buildings and so forth) we’ve decided that cover only [...]