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Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Something I Forgot - Wings of Glory, Tripods and Triplanes - Classic Martian Machines


Tom Cruise, you are okay and your War of the Worlds was a very cool movie, but I grew up watching the 1953 George Pal version and when I discovered the Monsters In Motion website and that a 1/144 scale diorama kit was available I got rather Giddy.😍 Quite a few months ago I cobbled together the kit along with some scratch building in order to incorporate the machines into the Tripods and Triplanes game.  I made the following slides for the Wings of Glory Aerodrome website.














That was the extent of my slide show, but will it work on the game board?  LitteBro and I gave it a test run and it seems to work along with some logical (to us) rule adaptation.


The machines have risen from their craters levitating on their tri-energy "legs"


Formerly enemies now united against this other-worldly threat....


A weakness is inadvertently discovered - levitation over water is difficult but.....


.....the machine rights itself.  Fortunately the defending earth flying machines can maneuver fast enough to avoid the machines deadly heat ray - for NOW.


The slow MK IVs the previously night were not so lucky!

Our little scenario worked out pretty well.  I think there will be more out of this World battles in the future.

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