Data Pulse the Hab Dome core of our 15mm Terrain Range

Early on in the initial expansion of Humanity back to the stars within the Prydian Precinct it was noted that although large cities could be built given time in the short term a need was logged for structures which could cope with variable terrain and planetary conditions.  Designing such structures was beyond the abilities of all but the core systems who turned to the pioneers who created the ubiquitous Rubbacrete and Golglass.  These pioneers created materials which revolutionised construction and brought about massive improvement in lives all across the Precinct; The Seorc Compono Guild.

Seorc Compono Guild (SCG) brought their finest minds to focus on the challenge and created one of the miracles of the century the Habitation Dome Riser System (HDRS).  The HDRS would be standardised and shipped aboard vessels heading off world anywhere in the Precinct where they could quickly accommodate a sizeable population.   It would be more than housing though as the HDRS featured additional modules which could expand the living area and turret or assembly mounts for specialised purposes.  These purposes varied but typically they included self defence, fortification, repulsar platform landing pads, spire communications, hurwent shielding and power generation among others.

The HRDS can be found on more than fifty planets and countless vacuum environments (it is a pressurised structure system) and is utilised by everyone from the Prydian Army to the lowest of the Marcher Barons and civilian authorities too.  Single Hab Domes to small groups and hard points right up a city of a hundred thousand people all in HRDS towers.  In some locales they never got around to replacing them before the Civil War began.  Camarthan Prime was one of those places.

Quincy Portent, SGC New Glastonbury, 4330IC

All this month at The Ion Age our big saver deal is on a building in 15mm scale.  It is the core, the centre, the original and first building in our 15mm Terrain Range; the IAF015 Hab Dome upon which all else is placed.  It is a one piece resin structure designed by Sam Croes which can be added to with a variety of top mounts and other structures.  Go HERE or read on for more on our terrain system which you can use in any science fiction setting from the Artic to Mars and further out in space as well of course as with Patrol Angis.

Here is a list of all of our 15mm Terrain codes and you can see them all HERE.  We have grouped the list with pictures by type beginning with the Hab Dome.

IAF015 Hab Dome

IAF015A Sentry Gun Turret

IAF015B Comms Spire Mount

IAF015C Hurwent Shield Generator

IAF015D Tower Module for Hab Dome

IAF015E Landing Pad for Hab Dome

IAF015F Flak Cannon Turret

IAF015G Two Block Missile Pod Turret
IAF015K to IAF015O Top Mounts III (Gun Turrets)

IAF015J Smashed Hab Dome

IAF015I Cratered Hab Dome

IAF040 Block House

IAF070 Command Dome

IAF024 Fabricator Spire

IAF043 Power Spire

IAF044A Straight Connectors

IAF044B Double Length Connectors

IAF044C Corner Connectors

IAF044D Three Way Connectors

IAF044E Four Way Connector

IAF044F T Junction Connectors

IAF044G Pressure Doors

IAF044H Turret Connectors (fits all weapon turret mounts)

IAF044I Hab Dome Wall connectors

IAF064A Habitation Geo Shelter

IAF064B Storage Geo Shelter

IAF064C Laboratory Geo Shelter

IAF064D Defender Geo Shelter

IAF064E Smashed Geo Shelter

IAF034 Skylark Cradle (vehicle repair facility)

We have three Habitation Colony bundles of different sizes which give you a whole settlement in one box with a saving.

IAF044BU01 HABITATION OUTPOST BUNDLE SAVE 20%

IAF044BU02 HABITATION BASE BUNDLE SAVE 20%

IAF044BU03 HABITATION COLONY BUNDLE SAVE 20%

Go HERE for the 15mm Terrain Range which also includes crashed and smashed vehicles and battlesuits.

If you like the look of this month's special then have a gander at Patrol Angis for your skirmish wargaming and in Callsign Taranis you will find rules for all the buildings in the Terrain Range.

Enjoy the special offer and remember that when you order from us you set up an account with the website.  Not for emails but rather that you may get the Reward Points which each order earns that you can trade in later for discounts and free things.  You get 100 Points as a free welcome bonus!  Extra value from The Ion Age.

In other news I want to thank everyone for their support with the Tohlic Early Supporter Offers.  We will be releasing the Armoured Crawler soon as well as the Cold Climes Veterans infantry.  We have other new releases this month for the Shia Khan Empire with a new client race.  We will also have a Black Friday Offer.  Plus we have a returning popular bundle this month which is on the Early Supporter Page....Have a look HERE.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

New Releases! Two Khanate Canno AFVs plus Year Four Collection and total Monthly Collection

“It took only six minutes for the defences at Batarka Ridge to fall to the Khanate when the Styx Legion advanced upon them.  Elements of the 208th Sigil had deployed among the SEORC structures and were manning not only the turrets on those domes and towers but also Amber platforms and Anvil 888 launchers.  We had Two dozen Mullo AFV's with the regiment as well as all our own lighter vehicles.  We had over a hundred Steornede Battlesuits as well as five thousand troopers.  That morning we had chopped up several waves of Maligs as they came up the ridge and detonated their tanks too.  No problem.  When the Legionaries arrived they just waited.  No attack.  Sure they took some shots at us and we at them but they just waited.  They were waiting for their bloody heavy armour.  Back then we had never seen designation Canno before; but we learned fast.  We took out the Pugnus to the fore as they rolled on up and we lost troopers and battlesuits doing it.  But they were just a screen as a line of Canno AFV's sat back and opened up with a bombardment of mortar rounds.  The whole place was torn up real fast and there was nothing we could do.  The Mullo's we sent out to deal with the mortars were slagged by those Atomic Destabilisers on the other Canno in the line.  Bloody scary those Banshees.  The whole Batarka site was levelled and we made it out in what Hazelwurms and other transport had survived.  We left a lot behind for the Legionaries to my shame.  Their advance continues.  How the hell are we going to stop them?”

Private Richard Curtis, 208th Planetary Defence 'Sigil' Regiment, before the Traymar Stones.  4330 IC

Welcome to all of the release for The Ion Age for August through to the middle of September.  We have two new 15mm vehicles for the Shia Khan Empire bringing their total motor pool for the Legions to four.  We have have the Year Four Collection which has the twelve monthly free miniatures from August 2016 to August 2017 which you can have as a pack or singles from it.  Lastly we have the mega Full Monthly Collection which lets you purchase all 48 formerly monthly free 15mm miniatures in one place!  Go HERE or read on for details and pictures on all of these fantastic 15mm models!  Thank you for your support.

We have two new Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV) for the Shia Khan Empire and these Canno are added to the Pugnus Light Tank and the Manus APC all in 15mm scale.  The Canno gives big firepower to your Legionaries as they take the fight to the Prydian Army.  Go HERE for the Shia Khan Vehicle page.

Here is an image of all four of them in a row with a Legionary (IAF006) for scale.

IAF139 Canno AFV Laser Bombard

For long range fire support the standard modular wheeled hull used by the Legions in the Camarthen system is adapted to the Canno AFV variant armed with the mighty Ceres Laser Bombard which can level structures with ease; it also side mounts twin Juno Laser weapon pods.  The Cannon is about 50mm tall and 60mm wide when assembled.  The pack contains the following 15mm scale resin and white metal parts which can be seen in the mono image on the page:  A Central hull in two parts upper and lower with the laser bombard, two left and right large wheel hull pieces, two Wheels and two Juno Laser pods.  This kit is easy to assemble. 8.00GBP.  Go HERE.  

IAF140 Canno AFV Banshee ADS

For long range anti-armour tasks the standard modular wheeled hull used by the Legions in the Camarthen system is adapted to the Canno AFV variant armed with the blistering Banshee 120kw Atomic Destabiliser; it also side mounts twin Juno Laser weapon pods.  The Cannon is about 50mm tall and 60mm wide when assembled.  The pack contains the following 15mm scale resin and white metal parts which can be seen in the mono image on the page:  A Central hull in two parts upper and lower with the Banshee ADS, two left and right large wheel hull pieces, two Wheels and two Juno Laser pods.  This kit is easy to assemble. 8.00GBP.  Go HERE.  

IAF135 Pugnus Light Tank

The primary armoured vehicle of the Camarthen system in service of the Legions is a modular wheeled hull which is adapted to different uses. The most common of these the Pugnus is a light tank which has two side pods, each mounting twin Juno Lasers or Jupiter Plasma Cannons giving it the ability to support infantry and to take on enemy vehicles of light to medium types.  It is deployed in threes alongside Legion Tesserans which lack mobility and heavier firepower. The Pugnus is about 50mm tall and 50mm wide when it is assembled. This pack contains the following 15mm scale resin and white metal parts which can be seen in the mono image on the page: A centre hull, a right hull, a left hull, two Wheels and two Triple Jupiter Plasma Weapon mounts. This kit is easy to assemble. 7.00GBP Go HERE.

IAF136 Manus Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC)

The primary armoured vehicle of the Camarthen system in service of the Legions is a modular wheeled hull which is adapted to different uses. Adapted for use as a personnel carrier the Manus variant can take two entire Tesserans of Legionaries to where they wish to go and support them while there. Carrying them within its central wheels in stabilised comfort. The Manus is about 50mm tall and 65mm wide when it is assembled. This pack contains the following 15mm scale resin and white metal parts which can be seen in the mono image on the page: A centre hull, a right hull, a left hull, two Wheels, a 'rear end' personnel carrier assembly of four pieces and two Twin Juno Laser Weapon mounts. This kit is easy to assemble.  10.00GBP Go HERE.

August 2017 marks the end of the monthly free miniature programme which ran at The Ion Age for four years.  You can read about this and our plan HERE on the blog in deeper detail but in essence it means that the these are the last IMP releases for monthlies.  So you can pick up the whole Year Four Collection or pick from it or if you are new to The Ion Age (as many are) you can get all forty eight of these amazing hand sculpted 15mm figures in one bumper pack.  Go HERE for the Yearly Collection.

YOC4 Year Four Collection

Gathered together as a set are the twelve 15mm scale monthly miniatures from August 2016 to August 2017 which you can get as a pack or select singles from for your collection.  Useful and sometimes odd these personalities fit right into The Ion Age or into any 15mm scale science fiction setting. They are in numerical order:  IMP37 Male Adventurer, IMP38 Prang Ambassador, IMP39 Grim Reaperbot, IMP40 Rudolph Reindeer Bot, IMP41 Baron McCauld, IMP42 Commander Gongji, IMP43 Female Muster Banner Bearer, IMP44 Malig Egg Thief, IMP45 Female Khanate Legionary, IMP46 Female Retained Knight Errant, IMP47 Happy Burger Bin Bot and IMP48 Baroness Julanne of Canlaster. This is the last yearly collection and you can find the other IMP miniatures in the Year One, Year Two and Year Three collections. 7.00GBP.  Go HERE.

YOC5 The Whole Monthly Collection 48

For four years from August 2013 to August 2017 every month The Ion Age created and gave away free a monthly miniature in the IMP series.  All in all there are forty eight different personality 15mm scale miniatures taken from armies, civilian and more in our game world background.  Excellent fun and now you can purchase all of them in one bumper pack in one place.  If you wish to get single miniatures from the 48 please refer to the Year One, Year Two, Year Three and Year Four collections.  If you are new to The Ion Age then get yourself what is likely to have been the most fun experiment done in 15mm space opera science fiction wargaming.  Go HERE.

We hope that you have found these new releases great fun and we will be back later in September with the leading edge of the massive expansion we spoke about.  As always I am so grateful to all of your who allow us to make a living in wargaming.  Enjoy!

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

IMP47 Bin Bot free for all July 2017 and Happy Burger Bot pack

On more Worlds than the Arks ever saw! Its so good you will wear out your jaw! 

Its the taste that gives you the finest feeling! 

Stop on by for a Smile and some good taste meal eating! 

We love to fill you up so...look no further than Happy Burger! 

In the Prydian Precinct there are guilds which span whole worlds and while most of these are governmental and financial as well as military there are others which are devoted to a purely commercial end. As the Ancep Drive began to spread the news of the Code Gallant and the glue that would bind the worlds of the precinct to New Glastonbury and the Tor another idea travelled with these pioneers. From New Glastonbury a cook and former soldier Jedard Eackson took his idea of a take away eating house that would cater to those on a modest income who wanted taste more than the nutrition of a basic diet. Happy Burger was birthed on this notion and on every world, colony, settlement, asteroid any and all meat and other protein based animals of any kind allowable were turned into patties and then blasted with super strong spices. This gave a universal taste. A Happy Burger meal is the same everywhere. By the time of his death Eackson at the ripe old age of one hundred and sixty had introduced robotic staff into his eating houses mainly due to the high turnover of Human staff whose noses could only take so much. Happy Burger Bots are pre-programmed to be cooks, waiters and more. As the Prydian Civil War has spread many outlets of Happy Burger have been abandoned but their bot staff continue with their tasks attempting to serve empty meal boxes to passing League and Prydian Army soldiers. 

Academy Auto-Trainer Series 61, New Glastonbury, 4337IC 

Welcome to June 2017 and to The Ion Age as the journey continues. This month we have a forth bot to add to the awesome Happy Burger franchise as our free monthly miniature! We have updated the Happy Burger figure pack to add in this new bot. We have some alien releases this month which will make fans of Eli Arndt's work very happy indeed. This month our special offer is 25% off the central rifle pack of Xin Trade Fleet soldiers and we will have updated free booklets for the Prang and for the Xin. So releases and new resources and beginning with a trash can with a difference.

IMP47 Happy Burger Bin Bot

Free in every order every time all month. This miniature is automatically put into every order at the rate of one per order regardless of order value. It can also be bought in any amount on the monthly IMP page of the website for this month only too before being withdrawn on the first of next month. You can see the Year Three Collection on the website. The Year Four Collection will be released in August and will mark the end of the monthly free programme at that time; there will be no more monthly miniatures after August 2017. Standing 10mm tall the Bin Bot is a functional robot created for collecting waste from the food stations of Happy Burger. It joins the waiter, vending and entertainment bots. There is a near complete page on the Ion Age website where the current and all former IMP series free miniatures are shown so that you can see what came before. This miniature is worth 0.60GBP. 

This month we have 25% off the great pack IAF113 Xin Trade Fleet Rifles. This offer ends on 1st August. Just add to cart and it is the pack plus single poses from it to which the discount has been applied. Check out all of the Xin Trade Fleet on their page HERE. 

IMPS01 Happy Burger Bots 

Featuring in the fiction of The Ion Age and in the IMP monthly series of miniatures we have now expanded to include all four different bots in this special pack. Get the Happy Burger Bot, the Vending Bot, the Entertainer (creepy...) Bot and the Bin Bot all in one pack. You can purchase the pack or singles from it on the drop down menu of options. Good for any 15mm near future, post apoc or space opera setting. Go HERE. 

Remember we also have poster prints and among them is the lovely promotional A3 poster for the Happy Burger Chain of the far future.  HERE.

We ask you to sign up for a website account with us on your first order. Why? For one reason only. Not to send you emails (we never will. If you want our emails sign up for our Mailchimp list on the right top of the blog home page) or to pester you; but only to keep track of the Reward Points that all orders with us earn. Reward Points through our online partner Sloyalty which can be used once accumulated to get discounts or free stuff at any point in the future. Learn more about this HERE. Every order earns Reward Points! Yes free extra value. Part of our promise to keep the fun in wargaming. Reward Points will remain once the monthly free IMP miniature sequence ends with IMP48 in August. 

Thanks for your support and for enjoying The Ion Age! 

GBS

PIA006 Eat at Happy Burger poster released!

The wargamer reaction to the Happy Burger Bots which feature in our monthly free range has been fantastic.  The miniatures, little snippets of fiction and artwork have led us here at The Ion Age to this new release.  A poster from the latest Robo Cola campaign from the Happy Burger restaurants of the Prydian Precinct.  Excellent!  See our posters HERE or read on for more.

Eat at Happy Burger

More than three hundred million cans of Robo Cola are sold across the Precinct every single day and their taste goes perfectly with the 'Meat-tay-eat' burgers sold alongside them. Taste alone makes this possible with the people of a thousand cities flocking to the booths and eateries for treats. Taste is backed up with billions of posters put up everywhere there is a space.  From the transit lanes to the agri-zones as well as spaceports and hospitals these posters promote Happy Burger.  They can also be bought for your own hab walls for a modest fee from behind the counter. Just as your server.

Digitally drawn by our lead designer Sam Croes this sixth of our poster prints was made locally here in Scotland on high quality 200gsm paper using rich inks.  Its a premium product to grace your wargaming walls with.  Bare or in a frame.  Supplied in a purpose designed postal mailing tube.  The image is exactly A3 size (300mm by 420mm) while the full post it sits on has a white framing border making the total dimensions 320mm by 450mm.

As with all of our other products we offer you several purchase options.  You can purchase one poster print at a great price or three of the same one and automatically save 10% on screen.  You can also get the poster print signed by the artist. Go HERE.

Information Burst! 

This month's free miniature is a superb character robot the Grim Reaperbot.  Standing 16mm to the eye line it is a titanium skeleton with cloak and scythe.  One free in every order. There is a growing page on the Ion Age website where the current and all former IMP series free miniatures are shown so that you can see what came before. Enjoy looking at what came before. Above you can see the now online IMPS02 Spooky Set which has all four Halloween themed miniatures in one code.  November 2016 will see a great new release with the final code from the Patrol Angis army lists the Retained Grav Bike pack! We will also have an article with a fright theme about a Prydian Precinct faction plus the last Friday of November will see us join up with Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk to make our four day Black Friday offer.  This is a super offer and we will tell all one week before it goes live.   

Lastly we have a new monthly special...this time on our great Duxis Battlesuit favoured by Retained Knights. 25% off all variants of this modular battlesuit including five different ranged weapons and three melee versions. Enjoy!

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

IMP39 Grim Reaperbot free for all November 2016!

Welcome to the spooky month at The Ion Age and this is also the month of...shudder...scream...Black Friday Weekend...so it is an epic month to get with us in 15mm space opera wargaming.  November is here and that means a new free monthly special miniature.  Ladies and Ghouls I present to you the Grim Reaperbot!

“Happy Burger does not often put a foot wrong when it comes to marketing their food.  Well, there was that incident with the rocket powered skates on the drive through dinastations but that was a...fairly...isolated incident.  However they did put both feet and indeed their legs in the wrong place with the Grim Reaperbot campaign.  It was a nice idea.  I mean who does not love having a custom bot cut the top from a promotional Happy Burger meat tube held by the customer with the chance to win a prize in the process.  Sadly the titanium scythes the Reaperbots were fitted with were a bit long for the job and often they overshot the tube held up by the customer.  More than fifty thousand dead in one morning across the Precinct.  So many lawsuits and then quickly hiding the bots. After the Gurtan Activation the bots were taken out of mothball and scrapped but some were never put in storage and had simply wandered off into the cities.  Shame...it was a real tasty meat tube that year.”

Each November we release a spooky themed monthly miniature and now the thirty ninth month sees IMP39 Grim Reaperbot come to the series.  It is our forth November monthly and is a 15mm white metal miniature which is free in every order every time all month before being retired. This miniature is automatically put into every order at the rate of one per order regardless of order value. It can also be bought in any amount on the monthly IMP page of the website for this month only too before being withdrawn on the first of next month. We are into Year Four now and if you missed it you can see the Year Three Collection on the website. 

This month's miniature is a superb character robot by Sam Croes.  Standing 16mm to the eye line it is a titanium skeleton with cloak and scythe. There is a growing page on the Ion Age website where the current and all former IMP series free miniatures are shown so that you can see what came before. Enjoy looking at what came before. Above you can see the now online IMPS02 Spooky Set which has all four Halloween themed miniatures in one code.

We ask you to sign up for a website account with us on your first order. Why? For one reason only. Not to send you emails (we never will. If you want our emails sign up for our Mailchimp list on the right top of the blog home page) or to pester you; but only to keep track of the Reward Points that all orders with us earn. Reward Points through our online partner Sloyalty which can be used once accumulated to get discounts or free stuff at any point in the future. Learn more about this HERE. Every order earns Reward Points! Yes free extra value. Part of our promise to keep the fun in wargaming. 

Information Burst! 

This is our first burst for the month and here are the facts to joy you up!  November 2016 will see a great new release with the final code from the Patrol Angis army lists the Retained Grav Bike pack! We will also have a brand new artwork poster which gives you the 'Robo Cola' campaign from Happy Burger!  We will also have an article with a fright theme about a Prydian Precinct faction plus the last Friday of November will see us join up with Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk to make our four day Black Friday offer.  This is a super offer and we will tell all one week before it goes live.   Lastly we have a new monthly special...this time on our great Duxis Battlesuit favoured by Retained Knights.  25% off all variants of this modular battlesuit including five different ranged weapons and three melee versions.  The offer is now live and you can read more about the Duxis on our blog HERE. 

As always if you are reading this bulletin later in the month or further into the future please do have a look at our blog and use it as a time machine to read all the excellent content that is there going right back to our start. Try way back  in November 2013 for instance! 

Thanks for your support and for enjoying The Ion Age! 

GBS