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Akkon Sek
11-08-2009, 12:16 PM
I wish my cleverness at the post title actually made me somewhat cooler.

For a time, I was very involved in the marginally popular tabletop mech game CAV (Combat Assault Vehicle) published by Reaper Miniatures. For a number of reasons, all of which I have detailed at http://ceramite.blogspot.com/ and none of which I will bore you with here, the game fell out of favor with me and the many models I had purchased commenced collecting dust. Couple pix below... several more @ Rust.

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4477/dscn5614.th.jpg (http://img213.imageshack.us/i/dscn5614.jpg/)

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7347/dscn5648.th.jpg (http://img52.imageshack.us/i/dscn5648.jpg/)

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5823/dscn5632.th.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/dscn5632.jpg/)

I dug the carry case out for the first time in five years yesterday to give the models a once-over as possible Ebay fodder. It dawned on me that with the resurgence of Epic, some of the CAV stuff might be passable as titan counts-as, and the infantry models similarly could pass as IG or Astartes. At a minimum, the grav tanks and aircraft might be used with Aeronautica Imperialis. This being said, I'm looking for input on a couple of counts from the Epic veterans:

1) The CAV models are N-Scale. Does this mesh somewhat with Epic/Aeronautica Imperialis?

2) Admittedly the pix are not especially clear. Anything in there which could respectably pass for one flavor of titan or another?

3) I'm not entirely certain I want to delve into yet another miniatures system, from both a time and monetary investment standpoint. For a decent-sized army, what sort of cash can I expect to shell out?

Thanks in advance for your input.

-A

EDIT: So... after posting (and getting jerked around my Imageshack) I realized there is an entire forum section dedicated to Epic. Not the sharpest spoon in the drawer, this guy.

Aldramelech
11-08-2009, 12:18 PM
No Photos mate......

Akkon Sek
11-08-2009, 12:25 PM
No Photos mate......

Yeah... fixed. Thanks bud.

Gotthammer
11-09-2009, 08:44 AM
N scale, or 1/300th is roughly the same as Epic/AI. However the CAVs are a bit too small to be titans (I'm basing this of the assumption they're a similar scale to Battletech Mechs).
Some of the big ones could pass as Warhounds, and most as Knights, but they need to be around 50% taller to be near a Warlord/Reaver Titan's height - if you want I can post some comparison pics of Battletech to Epic/AI stuff.