IAF007 Canthus Monocycle Set Released!

With what we know now the loss of the Brightening Star should not have happened but then we were only beginning once more to face an enemy that our long dead forefathers had through banished forever.  The Fleet did not arrive in Camarthen space for many months after the loss of the Belkus Labyrinth.  It took time to gather the knights and their musters while thinking always of the threat posed by the Marcher Barons.  But we did not stand idle.  Perhaps we should have.  Lectus Bowar led his retinue of a hundred Starvaulters and fifty thousand of Prydia on a rapid strike again the fledgling Khanate. The Brightening Star was one of forty Cassillis class Portable Castles that landed in the vicinity of the ruins of Pelcan city.   She was not the only one lost but she was prime in the failure of the containment campaign.

The few survivors of Bower's task force tell of the Brightening Star being taken by surprise by elements of the Styx Legion.   Several Tesserans of Canthus pattern monocycles powered straight up the Star's foremost sallying ramp and into her belly soon after landing.  Most were obliterated by Angis fire but one must have reached the fore Hurwent generator and detonated against it.  Cowardly but it worked.  The Brightening Star became her very name for an instant as the generator went critical.  Only those outside scouting survived the blast.  Bowar vanished along with his flagship and it set the campaign back badly.  The Canthus should not be underestimated and it will not be again.

As of Lectus Bowar no one has seen him in the last two years but like all of Princess Cyon's closest he is no mere man.  He will have survived.  He will rise once more in flame and rage.

Knight General Obermann.  Fleet Command.  4331IC

IAF007 Front View

IAF007 Rear View

IAF007 Canthus Monocycle Pack

Within the Legions of the Shia Khan Empire there are many troops but few move as quickly as those who ride upon the Cathus Monocycle.  Used for rapid strikes into the heart of human forces the Canthus riders are taken from the most reactive of the Legionaries.  Able to operate on foot as well as on their mounts the Cathus is armed with a modified Juno laser rifle mount and the rider carries a Cupid pistol.  A Tesseran of Canthus cycles is often deployed alongside Pioneers to scout ahead of them.  With this set you can depict the Canthus in action or idle or the rider on foot for maximum flexibility.

We are delighted to release the second Ion Age code for the 15mm scale Khanate Legions; the Canthus Monocycle.  Code IAF007 contains three white metal miniatures which are the Canthus with Legionary Rider, the Legionary Rider on Foot and the Monocycle with no rider.  This means you can field your Canthus with great flexibility and three different modes.   As always this code can be bought as a pack or as single miniatures or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page.  Price 5.00GBP per pack.

IAF006 Front View

IAF006 Rear View

IAF006 Legionary 1st Tesseran 

The Khanate have returned and they are doing it in a whole new scale of white metal miniatures.  We are proud to announce the release of the first of many 15mm scale Shia Khan Legion packs with IAF006.  Eight different brand new miniatures dressed in reactive glimmer suits and self contained breather systems with auto aid ability.  Seven legion Discens (privates) armed with the typical Juno 2kw laser rifle and an Ordo (officer) armed with a Cupid 0.5kw laser pistol.  As always this code can be bought as a pack or as single miniatures or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page.  Price 4.00GBP per pack.

Information Burst!

Thanks for your attention in this Ion Age notice.  On top of this week's awesome new release bringing the Khanate some speed on the ground we would like to remind you that every order placed automatically gets the current free unique miniature (IMP01 15mm Kneeling Retained Knight to be retired on 30th September 2013) included and that in signing up with the website you will earn Reward Points on all purchases.  Reward Points can be redeemed once accumulated for discounts on orders or special miniatures. 

GBS

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May 2019 and The Ion Age has been taken back into Alternative Armies.  It continues with new releases into the future!  Go to Alternative Armies for Ion Age pages of the 15mm Range the 15mm Terrain Range the 28mm Range the Publications range and the Free Downloads collection too for the latest.  All links to the ion age site are now defunct sorry!  If you wish to see something or ask a question email me on sales@alternative-armies.com.  GBS

The Ion Age on Wargames Buzz with Gary Mitchell

Gary Mitchell the Voice of Wargaming

When the Ion Age launched (only a week or so ago but it seems like an age already!) my good friend Gary Mitchell dropped me a line and wished us all luck with this new space opera adventure.  He also said he would put us in print in his regular Wargames Buzz column on his website.  And he has!

Those of you in the UK and perhaps abroad will remember that Gary used to be the writer of the excellent Darker Horizons column that ran in Miniature Wargames magazine.  Sadly the changing of hands for the magazine meant no more employment in this regard for Gary or the then editor Andrew Hubback (top bloke) and the removal of almost all of the science fiction from its pages.

Gary has an excellent online place which is well worth bookmarking and visiting.  It concerns wargaming but also his whole life, writings, musings and more.  He also does a monthly wargaming PDF blog from there called 'Shiela Tacku' which is hosted on his site.  Its a fine read much like the Darker Horizon's column of old.  Issue Seven feauring The Ion Age can be opened in Acrobat Reader by clicking the link. 

Keep up the good work mate!

GBS

Wargames News and Terrain welcomes The Ion Age

The Khanate Return on Wargame News and Terrain

Earlier this week I came across an excellent news blog being operated in Europe so I sent its owner an email and told him about The Ion Age.  He was delighted to hear from me and suggested that we begin sending news articles to him so that his readers could learn more about the awesome that is The Ion Age.

Wargames News and Terrain blog is updated regularly with interesting news and also more such as product reviews and tutorials for wargaming.  They even offer a custom terrain making service.  Busy indeed.

It is well worth following this blog and browsing its back catalogue of postings and articles.  I did and there is a lot to see.

GBS

Is this your Flit Car sir?

Trading in illegal goods is common....The Muster stop a driver who might be guilty?

An impounded Hover Van sits next to the driver's Flit Car.  Its owner already detained.

A couple of jolly pictures for you to look at in celebration of our resin plant up and operational.  The plan is to get every classic Laserburn vehicle out of white metal and into resin production.  They began this releasing the vehicles in the above images with the V101 Flit Car (in red) and the V103 Hover Van (in white). Although near thirty years old these designs still hold up and still look awesome.

The Muster are from IAF003 1st Squad over on the Ion Age website.

Let's hope he has his drivers licence in his pocket!

GBS

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May 2019 and The Ion Age has been taken back into Alternative Armies.  It continues with new releases into the future!  Go to Alternative Armies for Ion Age pages of the 15mm Range the 15mm Terrain Range the 28mm Range the Publications range and the Free Downloads collection too for the latest.  All links to the ion age site are now defunct sorry!  If you wish to see something or ask a question email me on sales@alternative-armies.com.  GBS

IAF005 Balthazar and Jerome

Hi IonFans!

The Ion Age is now live and launched and in that launch message mention was made of IAF005 Balthazar and Jerome sculpted by Sam Croes.  You might have missed it among all the awesomeness that was afoot in the moment.  But fear not as this post will give you something more about these two excellent miniatures.

Below you can see images of this pack and as normal for IonFans they can be had as a pack or as singles or in multiples for a saving.

Angis Pistol in hand Baron Balthazar Fulcrum advances to meet the foe while his trusted aide and companion David Jerome keeps him up to speed with all of the latest campaign events.  Senior in the command structure of the 43rd Knightly Regiment of Prydia the pair have seen action recently at the Zanzibar Breakers Rebellion and now are stationed aboard the Tumult Grave portable castle with the rest of the 43rd KRP.  The Tumult Grave is heading in system for Carmarthen IV part of the fleet sent as a result of this transmission:

"A matter gateway is active on Camarthen IV. Losses are mounting, send everything; everyone.  Send them now.  The Khanate have returned."     

They are among the bravest that Prydia can offer...will it be enough though against an ancient and unknowable enemy?

GBS

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May 2019 and The Ion Age has been taken back into Alternative Armies.  It continues with new releases into the future!  Go to Alternative Armies for Ion Age pages of the 15mm Range the 15mm Terrain Range the 28mm Range the Publications range and the Free Downloads collection too for the latest.  All links to the ion age site are now defunct sorry!  If you wish to see something or ask a question email me on sales@alternative-armies.com.  GBS

IAF006 Legionary 1st Tesseran released! The Khanate Return!

Hi Ion Fans!

Here is the news for this week for The Ion Age.  See below.  Also click on the link to join our mailing list for more news and note that from now on ALL 15mm releases will be brand new miniatures.  The Ion Age is set to grow and those of you who already have big collections of Retained Knights and Muster...well you will get some sizable reenforcements real soon and for now the brand new 15mm Khanate Legion first pack is here!  The Khanate have Returned!

GBS

A thousand years ago the Ban of Prejudice was lifted when in the climactic battle for Aldan IV the accursed Templars detonated the Aldan Crucible and in doing so created a both a dark age and the end of the Great Khanate War. Their matter gateway in the Aldan system destroyed the Shia Khan Empire had no easy way to reach the worlds that became the Prydian Precinct as their empire lay so far away that no Dragon Ship could navigate to that region of space without immense difficulty. Gradually the Shia Khan became a memory and then a legend held by folk as a tale and nothing more. Had it not been for the occasional wreak and discovery of artefacts they would have remained that way. Had it not been for Hugo Sevaris the Khanate would have faded away. But Sevaris became the most notorious traitor in human history when he used arcane knowledge to activate the matter gateway in the Camarthen star system.

Despite a desperate action in the deep Belkus Labyrinth the Camarthen Planetary Militia with the aid of the few hundred Retained Knights of Prydia on the planet could not stem a tide of Shia Khan troops which emerged from the purple light of the matter gateway. A civilian fusion reactor taken from a nearby city was detonated and the Belkus Labyrinth destroyed burying the gateway and those coming from it under hundreds of feet of stone and earth. A message was sent to New Glastonbury at the fastest possible speed.

"A matter gateway is active on Camarthen IV. Losses are mounting, send everything; everyone. Send them now. The Khanate have returned." 

It did not take long for the Legions of the Shia Khan Empire to dig their way to the surface and begin once more their determined drive to conquer mankind.

Knight General Obermann. Fleet Command. 4329IC

IAF006 Legionary 1st Tesseran

The Khanate have returned and they are doing it in a whole new scale of white metal miniatures. We are proud to announce the release of the first of many 15mm scale Shia Khan Legion packs with IAF006. Eight different brand new miniatures dressed in reactive glimmer suits and self contained breather systems with auto aid ability. Seven legion Discens (privates) armed with the typical Juno 2kw laser rifle and an Ordo (officer) armed with a Cupid 0.5kw laser pistol. As always this code can be bought as a pack or as single miniatures or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page.  Price 4.00GBP per pack.

AIAF01 The Nox

Re-molded from the original HOF range comes four white metal 15mm miniatures for the Nox, elite power armoured troops of the Shia Khan Empire. Four different miniatures dressed in powered Segmentan armour with self contained breather systems and auto aid ability. An Ordo (officer) armed with Flora 30mm grenade gun and three Discens (privates) armed with Janus Blast Gun or Flora grenade guns. As always this code can be bought as a pack or as single miniatures or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page. Price 2.00GBP per pack.

AIAF02 The Maligs

Re-molded from the original HOF range comes six white metal 15mm miniatures for the Maligs verminous and expendable Goblin slave troops of the Shia Khan Empire. Six different miniatures dressed in quilted metallic weave armour and steel helmets. All are armed with various marks of long arm Maia 9.6mm Mpi a not often issued variant of the standard Legion Maia. As always this code can be bought as a pack or as single miniatures or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page. Price 3.00GBP per pack.

Information Burst!

Thanks for your attention in this Ion Age notice. On top of this week's awesome new release and archive codes bringing the Khanate back to Prydian Space we would like to remind you that every order placed automatically gets the current free unique miniature (IMP01 15mm Kneeling Retained Knight to be retired on 30^th September 2013) included and that in signing up with the website you will earn Reward Points on all purchases. Reward Points can be redeemed once accumulated for discounts on orders or special miniatures.

PLEASE READ THIS

May 2019 and The Ion Age has been taken back into Alternative Armies.  It continues with new releases into the future!  Go to Alternative Armies for Ion Age pages of the 15mm Range the 15mm Terrain Range the 28mm Range the Publications range and the Free Downloads collection too for the latest.  All links to the ion age site are now defunct sorry!  If you wish to see something or ask a question email me on sales@alternative-armies.com.  GBS

Customer Questions about the Ion Age

A Musterman in the sights. Artwork by Edward Jackson

Hi IonFans!

Wow!  What a start to the new journey of The Ion Age it has been over the last three days.  First off I would like to thank all of you who have visited the site and this blog, who have placed orders, who have blogged and tweeted and so on about it plus of course Sam, Chris, Eli, Bob, Bob (again), Chuck, Robbie, Dave, Sid, Jim B, Paul, Vandal and the rest for the personal touches online.

I have been answering email though our domain since Hour 0 and in the course of this several questions have popped up again and again so I thought a posting here would help wargamers out and inform you all before you have to ask.  Don't get me wrong I love answering email but my fingers are sore from typing!  Here we go:

The Cart and Checkout Process

Some customers have been asking about the checkout process.  Why, when they put items in their cart they then checkout and no postage / shipping is shown against the order?  The answer is that this is the way our cart software functions.  Place items in your cart as normal and then when ready proceed to checkout, enter your paypal password and then once your account connects with our website you will be promoted to return to the Ion Age cart screen where you select your postage option (which is either a flat 5.00GBP worldwide per order charge or free worldwide if 75.00GBP or more of product value) once this selection is made the screen will show you the final order, all products including the shipping.  Click pay and there you go!

Buying Three Packs and Saving 10%

A couple of customers have asked 'how do I get my 10% when selecting to buy three of the same pack from the drop down menu attached to the product?'.  The answer is that you do!  All products on our website offer the choice of single pack purchase or single pose from the pack or three packs saving 10%.  Selecting the three packs option from the list of choices will automatically show you the price of three packs with ten percent deducted right there on the screen.  You need do nothing but select it and add to cart.  The saving is already applied.

The Free Unique Miniature
This is a common question.  Perhaps its cynical of me but a lot of customers have followed their order with an email asking 'will I get the free miniature, do I qualify, don't forget me' as if free does not always mean just that.  Well in answer.  Free means free for The Ion Age.  Any order placed will get one casting of the current free unique miniature added to it automatically.  In fact we have a box of them sitting ready to pop into packages going out.  Place an order and get the limited time offer free unique miniature...every single order, every single time.

Do I need an Account to place an Order?
Yes.  You do.  I know its a wee pain in the rear to create an account but it only takes a minute and once you have not only do you not need to manually enter your address again you also more importantly start earning Reward Points.  Every 1.00GBP spent with us gets you 10 Points and those points can be used against discounts and free miniatures once you have enough accumulated.   You must have an account to order and you have to sign in when on the website.

Should I click the Mailchimp subscribe box on the website footer and or here on the blog?
Either!  I do suggest you join our mailing list.  Each week we will be sending out an email through it with the latest news which, while elements will appear here on the blog or on the website only in the email will the full details and any offers be included.  So sign up and we promise that every email you get will be 100% Ion Age goodness in 15mm and 28mm scale with no filler!

If you have any question about the Ion Age website or this blog make a comment on this post or email us directly and I will reply to you.

GBS

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May 2019 and The Ion Age has been taken back into Alternative Armies.  It continues with new releases into the future!  Go to Alternative Armies for Ion Age pages of the 15mm Range the 15mm Terrain Range the 28mm Range the Publications range and the Free Downloads collection too for the latest.  All links to the ion age site are now defunct sorry!  If you wish to see something or ask a question email me on sales@alternative-armies.com.  GBS