Sierra Foxtrot - Army Ideas

 With the Serpent army finished, the next thing required is opponents to face them. The obvious and lazy solution would be to use my existing Flames of War or Team Yankee armies (and I probably will do this at some point). But it would be much cooler to build some suitable sci-fi armies so the Serpents can face opponents from their own genre. 

Cue much Googling for random 15mm sci-fi models. 

There are actually quite a few small companies that make 15mm sci-fi ranges, and a lot of them are pretty cool. A few random orders were placed, and here are the results; 

The Malroid Swarm

The first OpForce is a simple sci-fi cliche - robot army that wants to Kill All Humans. 

For now this force has just two models, Scorpion Animechs from Rebel Miniatures. To expand this I'd like to add some sort of skimmer drone unit (in large numbers; it is supposed to be a swarm after all) and some Terminator-esque infantry. 

The Wolf-Knights

The second OpForce is inspired by the old 80s Voltron cartoon (and the more recent remake), with some ideas from Stargate: Atlantis thrown in. The Wolf mech is from the same company as the Scorpion, as are the lightcycles. The infantry are Dobermans from Steel Warrior Studios.

The concept here is that an ancient ultra-high tech civilization built and then abandoned a castle, which was later found by humanity. Conveniently this castle has automated manufacturing for things such as giant Wolf mechs and lightcycles. 

The Zhaleed Empire

The last OpForce in progress right now is the Zhaleed Empire - sci-fi Persians with a strong Dune influence. The infantry are the Shadeen range from Rebel Miniatures, with a couple of Battlefront BTR-60s that I had sitting around. These guys don't get any mechs, but instead they get something just as tough - Sandworms (or an equivalent underground desert beast). 

So that's the three opponents lined up for the Serpents. All very much works in progress right now, but they're looking good. I'm hopeful the end results should be three very decent sci-fi armies.