SEORC Geo Shelters Early Supporter Offers!

The Geo Shelter Bundle of Five!

As the Prydian civil war rumbled and then began to roar its way across the Prydian Precinct there started to emerge a need for more structures. While the Seorc Compono Guild (SCG) revolutionised rapid settlement construction with the Habitation Dome Riser System (HDRS) the hugely successful 'Hab Domes' were still time consuming to ship across the core systems and beyond and also to assemble once at their destination. Added to that the twin arising demands for structures suitable for friendly atmospheres (non lethal) at a lower cost and the increasing numbers of war disposed and the pioneers of SEORC put their minds to the challenge. Ubiquitous Rubbacrete and Golglass were too heavy and expensive (titanium alloy being at a premium) and there was no need for towers and landing pads this time.

The solution lay in the Kabeatan research station on New Glastonbury. At the northern pole this station sat atop a deep dig into the ice. The workers, fabricators and seekers who resided there did so in a little used SEORC design; the Geo Shelter. The Geo Shelters were made of a thin titanium alloy skeleton with a dense carbon weave fabric stretched over it. Resistant to cold but simple and durable these structures were used as Accommodation and as Storage was well as for Laboratories with purpose made components added to them to suit their functions. There was even a Defender version armed with a Moth 88 Rotary cannon in a turret mount a defence against roving packs of Darga which ranged across the tundra. These SEORC Geo Shelters fitted the bill and a massive fabrication plant was founded.

While lacking the more permanent facilities of Hab Domes the SEORC Geo Shelters were shipped out in their millions all across the Precinct and used by patrolling troops of all sides in the conflict as well as by researchers. But the biggest beneficiaries of the SEORC Geo Shelters were the normal people who had lost everything in a war that was seemingly ever lasting. Anywhere you travel in space you will see these structures in all their variety.

Quincy Portent, SGC New Glastonbury, 4330IC

Its our birthday month, one year old and as such its time for our Early Supporter Offers and this time we are going for an expansion on the most excellent Ion Age terrain range with the SEORC Geo Shelters. We had a sneak peek posting a week ago on these structures. We have a series of offers for you. Single purchase or small or bigger bundles as these are terrain items. Choose what you want from our website by consulting the information below and you can get free items saving 5.00GBP or 15% off release price. A chance to assemble a settlement and save before release. Here are the details of the offers which run from 7^th August 2014 to 21^st August 2014.  Remember you also get freebies in all orders since its our birthday month.

The SEORC Geo Shelters are brand new 15mm scale resin buildings. Useful in many different settings from our own space opera to near future, post apocalypse, arctic survival, refugee camps and temporary command stations during zombie outbreaks plus many more. Go HERE.

IAF064A Habitation Geo Shelter

This is the standard habitation structure. A one piece high quality resin model which is approx 50mm wide and 30mm tall with a lot of external detailing.You can purchase one at 10% off or three at 15% off or even six at 25% off and get the Smashed Geo-Shelter free worth 5.00GBP with your six. 

IAF064B Storage Geo Shelter

A structure used for food or medical or ammo storage. A one piece high quality resin model which is approx 50mm wide and 30mm tall with a lot of external detailing.You can purchase one at 10% off or three at 15% off or even six at 25% off and get the Smashed Geo-Shelter free worth 5.00GBP with your six

IAF064C Laboratory Geo Shelter

Carrying out tests or other research or special tasks. A one piece high quality resin model which is approx 50mm wide and 30mm tall with a lot of external detailing.You can purchase one at 10% off or three at 15% off or even six at 25% off and get the Smashed Geo-Shelter free worth 5.00GBP with your six.

IAF064D Defender Geo Shelter

If someone wants your settlement protect it! A three piece high quality resin and white metal model approx 50mm wide and 30mm tall with a lot of external detailing.You can purchase one at 10% off or three at 15% off or even six at 25% off and get the Smashed Geo-Shelter free worth 5.00GBP with your six.

IAF064E Smashed Geo Shelter

Sometimes bad things happen. A one piece high quality resin model which is approx 60mm wide and 30mm tall with a lot of external detailing.You can purchase one at 10% off or three at 15% off or even six at 25% off and get one other Geo Shelter (not Smashed) randomly free worth 5.00GBP with your six.

IAF064 Geo Shelter Settlement

This unique code gives you one of each Geo Shelter (IAF064A,B,C,D,E) for a total of five with a 20% saving off the release price. An ideal starter set for your 15mm wargame terrain collection.

Every order placed gets the IMP12 Starvaulter Instructor (worth 0.60GBP) included free automatically. Go HERE.

 

At the end of the promotional period we will ship out all orders that contain these ESO Offer codes alone or with any other items from our ranges. All orders that do not contain these offer codes will continue to ship out as normal.

The SEORC Geo Shelters are brand new 15mm scale resin buildings. Useful in many different settings from our own space opera to near future, post apocalypse, arctic survival, refugee camps and temporary command stations during zombie outbreaks plus many more. Here are a couple of scale shots for your enjoyment. The first shows a Geo Shelter with an IAF015 Hab Dome (since so many of you already own one or more..thank you!) and the second a Geo Shelter with an AIAF03 Betrayer (15mm tall) next to it and the third with a Yellow Adder Combat Lifter:

We think that the SEORC fabricators guild have come up with something really nice and with varied use within The Ion Age and also way beyond it too. Excellent Value and very useful. Thank you for your support of all of us here at The Ion Age in allowing us to pursue our dream of a space opera future that is wholly its own.

GBS

Sneak Peek – The Corbal Deployable Hardpoint Kit

Coming your way with an introductory offer on Thursday 14th August 2014 the IAF041 Corbal Deployable Hardpoint is a resin and white metal 15mm scale science fiction wargaming kit.  It's more than a drop pod; but its not a drop ship.  Its a tower than comes down from orbit or from high altitude to make a real impression on the enemy.  On a column of fire it digs a crater into the ground and then settles atop it.  In this static position its weapons offer cover to nearby allies and secures the immediate area.  There it remains for the duration as a hard point of fortified resistance.

The Corbal kit is a fun number of pieces for an easy assembly wargame model that is really unique and useful.  The parts are as follows and refer to the numbers in the parts image.  Number One is the Corbal Crater in which sits the assembled Corbal Tower when it is in play.  It can also be used as a stand alone terrain piece in its own right which is great!  Number Two is the main body of the Corbal with a flat underside for the engine pod and a rotation mount on top for the turret; its covered in detailing and armour plating.  Number Three is the engine pod for placing beneath the Corbal body and fits snugly into the crater as well; it has main engines and guidance thrusters too.  Number Four is the underside of the turret which attaches to the top of the Corbal body and allows turret rotation in play if desired.  Number Five is the turret which has two mounting points for main weapons (the Corbal is supplied with two Fretan Rail Guns but can mount any turret weapon from our Adder vehicles).  Number Six composes four white metal ball mount Angis 12.5mm guns which attach to the four points on the Corbal body for anti-personnel fire power.  Number Seven is two Fretan Rail Guns for mounting into the main turret.  As we said any turret mounted weapon from the Adder Combat Vehicles will fit the Corbal too.

The top in this blog post shows you the impact that the Corbal can make on your wargaming table.  Assembled it stands a mighty 90mm tall from the bottom of the crater to the top of the turret.  It is 80mm wide at its widest point across the crater and the body of the Corbal is about 40mm wide.  In the image you can see the 15mm Noblesse miniature which is 17mm tall to top of head for scale.

We imagine that a Corbal Deployable Hardpoint is controlled by the Muster of the Prydian Army or the Marcher Barons.  It has a crew of two who are typically also in charge of the infantry carried by the tower.  Sitting in tight harnesses there are spaces for eight infantry which means a whole squad can be transported of ten soldiers.  Some Corbals are dropped into battle and then specialised Fortress Muster act in tandem with them in the ensuing fight.  Others carry normal Muster or even Retained Knights.  The placing of even one Corbal can readily affect the process of a conflict in progress.

This model will play a part in Patrol Angis in the second title of the series 'Khanate Returned' in which the Shia Khan Empire will be covered in all its evil glory but also additional rules for structures and weaponised structures among other things.  All building on the core book which I will be talking about in the next few weeks.  Thanks for your patience after the playtesting I am working hard almost every day and getting further and further with it.

As a personal point if you love the idea of the SEORC Geo Shelters early supporter offers but you fancy this brand new bit of awesome too I recommend that you place your order for both at the same time on the 14th or within a few days later.  That way you get the shelters, the Corbal, the monthly free IMP12 Starvaulter Instructor and freebies too!  Don't think you have to listen to me but again you will find me one of the friendliest fellows out there and it makes sense to me.

Thanks for Reading about our biggest, literally, coming release thus far in our birthday month August 2014.

GBS

An Outline of August 2014 for The Ion Age and Freebies!

IAF017 Ripley and Ellen

This blog post has a twin purpose and that is to tell you about what to expect and when during this month from us at The Ion Age and the second purpose is to let you know about freebies in your orders in celebration of the birthday month.  So here we go and if you have any questions please do ask in the comments section or by email direct to us.  There will be two to three blog posts per week.

What is Coming in August 2014

Sneak Peek – The Corbal Deployable Hardpoint Kit 

SEORC Geo Shelters Early Supporter Offers 

From Birth to Now a Round Up of Our First Year 

Corbal Deployable Hardpoint Released 

'Get your Ass to Mars' Sam Croes paints up the SEORC Geo-Shelters

SEORC Geo-Shelters Released

Castella Havelock Battlesuit Prototype and Offer! 

Vehicle Conversion Pack Released 

MadMechaMen and his Skylark Patrol Flyer

Freebies in your Order

Now you know that during the whole month you will automatically get IMP12 Starvaulter Instructor in your package but that is not all.  We have been (since 30th July) and will until the end of the month put an extra great free bonus in as well.  What is that freebie?  Well its a surprise packet and it will be bigger the larger your order is but its our choice and it will be roughly ten percent of order value before postage.  It will be great though so leave it to us.

I have put a lot of effort as has everyone else into making this month totally awesome so we all hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

IMP12 Starvaulter Instructor free miniature for August 2014

“Its been a year since we began the space opera dream of The Ion Age so I want to give our friends and customers something special for the anniversary twelfth free monthly miniature.  What should it be?  How about something that's coming in the next twelve months?  Yes.  Good idea.  I know just the thing.  Spoken of in the fiction of the Prydian Civil War and hinted at in quests and adventures and in fact the best of the best when it comes to Human warriors.  The Starvaulters.  Sitting at the top of the military tree for the Prydian Army but actually answerable to the Aeddan Council on New Glastonbury Tor the Starvaulters are proper Space Knights.  Obeying the Code Gallant they take up quests which bring them into contact with foes as diverse as Marcher Barons, The Khanate Empire, The Zin and aliens as yet unknown.  I am sure they pass on their combat knowledge to the ranks of the Retained as instructors.  A fitting birthday treat for IonFans.” 

The IMP12 Starvaulter Instructor is August 2014's free miniature which is automatically put into every order at the rate of one per order of any value.  It can also be bought in any amount too on the monthly IMP page of the website.  Starvaulters are master warriors who have proved their mettle.  Wearing MkVIII Alwite armour and carrying a Valerin 3MW Laser Rifle the instructor is minus his helmet and instead shows the long hair that mark out his kind.  Designed by Sam Croes he is to be the first of many.  About  18mm tall he is a big fellow and bulky in his armour. too   A real character. This miniature is a fine addition to any 15mm science fiction collection for any game system.

So this is the last month in the first year of the free monthly miniatures series.  I am already looking back at the earlier miniatures such as the Knight of the Dead from November and remarking it seems so long ago. All of the Year One Collection is now online if you missed any or just want more.  Year Two will begin in September 2014 with IMP13 but lets focus on the here and now.  August is going to be a big month.  More on this in a few days.

Of course you earn reward points on all orders too through your account.  We realise that some of you may wish to purchase the currently free miniature to get multiples of it without placing a lot of orders so you can do just that.  Visit this page on the website for the miniature at a fair price for a special miniature.  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 and go HERE. 

Lastly yes this does mean that you can now get IMP12 before month's end but I am cool with that. This is being done for my benefit as I will be travelling on the 1st of August.  But any orders that come in from this point until August will get IMP11 Female Adventurer AND IMP12 Starvaulter Instructor free automatically with bought codes.  Any questions asked and comments wrote will be answered upon my return, so I am not ignoring you all!

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Ion Age Year One Collection now online!

 

August will mark the one year birthday of The Ion Age and as I hinted at a week ago we are going to be having a month of new releases, special offers and sneak peeks too. This will go across the whole month but it starts here and now in terms of releases with the Year OneCollection.

We at The Ion Age love to give things away free. We love to keep the fun in wargaming and to make our universe deep and rich and one way we do it is the monthly free miniature. Every month we have a special IMP series figure which is put into all orders for free. This release gives you the option to purchase formerly free miniatures from Year One. That is August 2013 to August 2014. The prices are reasonable and it means you can get the ones you might have missed and get more of any you like the look of for your collection. As I have said people asked for this and since we now have ten fold more customers than we did when we started out it makes a lot of sense. But not to worry...Year Two kicks off in four weeks with another free and unique miniature.

Here is a list of the miniatures by month in this collection:

Month One (Aug - Sept 2013) - Kneeling Retained Knight in Cloak.

Month Two (October 2013) - Retained Knight with Power Fist.

Month Three (November 2013) - The Knight of the Dead with Pumpkin.

Month Four (December 2013) - Santa Desteria with sack of Presents.

Month Five (January 2014) - Winter Musterman with Bottle.

Month Six (February 2014) - Zin Envoy.

Month Seven (March 2014) - Female Muster Patrol Officer.

Month Eight (April 2014) - Salute 2014 Promo, sitting Muster Girl.

Month Nine (May 2014) - Retained Sniper prone camo net.

Month Ten (June 2014) - Malig Tank Ace (space goblin).

Month Eleven (July 2014) - Female Adventurer with Pistol.

Month Twelve (August 2014) - Starvaulter Instructor in powered armour with laser rifle.

This code comprises twelve different 15mm miniatures in white metal. These were formally the free in all orders monthly miniatures from August 2013 to August 2014. You have the option of purchasing a whole collection or three whole collections with a saving of 10%. You can also select single miniatures from the drop down list. These run from top left (Month One) across by row to bottom right (Month 12).  Go HERE.

Lastly yes this does mean that you can now get IMP12 before it becomes the free miniature but I am cool with that. We will be changing the free miniature on the 31^st July for the month (and outlining what is coming on the 3^rd of August too). This is being done for my benefit as I will be travelling on the 1^st of August. But any orders that come in from this point until August will get IMP11 Female Adventurer AND IMP12 Starvaulter Instructor free automatically with bought codes. Excellent!

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Sneak Peek SEORC Geo Shelters coming 7th August 2014

As the Prydian civil war rumbled and then began to roar its way across the Prydian Precinct there started to emerge a need for more structures.  While the Seorc Compono Guild (SCG) revolutionised rapid settlement construction with the Habitation Dome Riser System (HDRS) the hugely successful 'Hab Domes' were still time consuming to ship across the core systems and beyond and also to assemble once at their destination.  Added to that the twin arising demands for structures suitable for friendly atmospheres (non lethal) at a lower cost and the increasing numbers of war disposed and the pioneers of SEORC put their minds to the challenge.   Ubiquitous Rubbacrete and Golglass were too heavy and expensive (titanium alloy being at a premium) and there was no need for towers and landing pads this time.

The solution lay in the Kabeatan research station on New Glastonbury.  At the northern pole this station sat atop a deep dig into the ice.  The workers, fabricators and seekers who resided there did so in a little used SEORC design; the Geo Shelter.  The Geo Shelters were made of a thin titanium alloy skeleton with a dense carbon weave fabric stretched over it.  Resistant to cold but simple and durable these structures were used as Accommodation and as Storage was well as for Laboratories with purpose made components added to them to suit their functions.  There was even a Defender version armed with a Moth 88 Rotary cannon in a turret mount a defence against roving packs of Darga which ranged across the tundra.  These  SEORC Geo Shelters fitted the bill and a massive fabrication plant was founded.

While lacking the more permanent facilities of Hab Domes the SEORC Geo Shelters were shipped out in their millions all across the Precinct and used by patrolling troops of all sides in the conflict as well as by researchers.  But the biggest beneficiaries of the SEORC Geo Shelters were the normal people who had lost everything in a war that was seemingly ever lasting.  Anywhere you travel in space you will see these structures in all their variety.

Quincy Portent, SGC New Glastonbury, 4330IC

Coming your way in a series of Early Supporter Offers (ESO's) on 7th August 2014 at The Ion Age as part of our first year anniversary month the SEORC Geo Shelters are brand new one piece 15mm scale resin buildings. Useful in many different settings from our own space opera to near future, post apocalypse, arctic survival, refugee camps and temporary command stations during zombie outbreaks plus many more each of our new domes will be about 50mm wide and 30mm tall.  Different models for the offers will be:

IAF064A Habitation Geo Shelter

IAF064B Storage Geo Shelter

IAF064C Laboratory Geo Shelter

IAF064D Defender Geo Shelter

IAF064E Smashed Geo Shelter 

August is going to be a big month so keep an eye on us...more blog posts real soon.

Thanks for reading.

GBS

IAF015J Smashed Hab Dome released!

“1^st Squad do you copy? 1^st Squad come in now. This is Sergeant Utrecht 4^th Squad. Sound off. That's an order. Click on 1^st Squad.”

From his vantage point in the rubble of a fallen building the Sergeant who was now in command of 4^th Squad looked out at the rows of SEORC type Habitation Domes that made up more than half of Fergusville. They were spotted in among the more recently constructed buildings a testimony to the recent prosperity of this small town on Camarthen Prime. A prosperity that was now gone with the return of the Shia Khan Empire. It was likely now never to return as the whole planet was slowly being turned into a wasteland by war.

“1^st Squad do you copy? 1^st Squad come in now. This is Sergeant Utrecht 4^th Squad. Sound off. That's an order. Click on 1^st Squad.”

It had been a rough day for the whole 334^th Regiment but the sergeant's concern was only for his own soldiers and his immediate surroundings. After all it was up to the Knight General to win the war. He just wanted to live long enough to get home. The platoon had advanced through the outskirts of the town and the remains of a Vicar Close Support bombardment that had greased the waiting Legionaries and Maligs. Right now he was concerned with a partially collapsed habitation dome which had been ready coated a bright yellow. 1^st Squad had taken shelter there preferring it to the fabricators yard which had a half dozen abandoned SEORC Geo Shelters in it. The dome had taken the brunt of an exchange of fire with a solitary Khanate Warlord that had tried to ambush the platoon. Its Maia 12.7mm scatter cannon had caused the roof to partially fall in before two Anvil 888 rounds had taken it down hard.

“1^st Squad do you copy? 1^st Squad come in now. This is Sergeant Utrecht 4^th Squad. Sound off. That's an order. Click on 1^st Squad.”

Utrecht was about to give up and resume the advance into the town but it was then that he noticed the titanium alloy hatch to the yellow habitation dome was slowly being pushed outwards a degree at a time. After a few seconds the hatch fell from its two remaining hinges and slammed into the rubbacrete paving. The sergeant smiled broadly as nine Muster emerged coated in fine yellow dust making their white helmets look like summer flowers. Those SEORC domes could sure take a licking.

“Glad your Momma's let you out to play. Now pick it up 1^st Squad. We gotta war to win!”

4^th Squad on active from 334^th Regiment, Fergusville, Camarthen Prime, 4331IC.

IAF015J Smashed Hab Dome

Down but not out! This Hab Dome is battered and bruised perhaps from Marcher Baron bombardment or Khanate Legion caresses but its still standing. Cracked open like an egg with one side totally intact and then other reduced to rubble the top of the dome has slid down but its still got an intact mounting point for a turret top of your choice. This release is from a great number of world wide requests for something in between an intact and a totally destroyed structure. So here you have it! A high quality grey tone resin one piece casting which is 65mm wide and 20mm to 30mm tall with a high degree of external and internal detailing. It fits in well with the rest of the terrain range from the Ion Age. Suitable for use in any science fiction setting as well as The Ion Age. Decorate your wargame table. As always this code can be bought as a pack or as a single or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page. Go HERE. Price 5.00GBP.

Here are some images showing the new Smashed Hab Dome in a comparison with a totally intact Hab Dome and also with an IAF015A Sentry Gun turret mounted which, as I am sure you will agree, looks totally cool!

 

IAF015I Cratered Hab Dome

Hab Domes are tough. They need to be. But sometimes that tough exterior comes up against something so lethal that it leaves the Hab Dome a totally ruined shell of what it used to gloriously be. Since we began our terrain range we have had requests for damaged and destroyed structures and after some hard work we can give you just that in the form of the Cratered Hab Dome. A high quality grey tone resin one piece casting which is 65mm wide and 10mm to 25mm tall with a high degree of external and internal detailing. It fits in well with the rest of the terrain range such as the Hab Dome and Block House. Suitable for use in any science fiction setting as well as The Ion Age. Decorate your wargame table. As always this code can be bought as a pack or as a single or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page. Go HERE. Price 4.00GBP.

IAF015 Hab Dome

The first 15mm resin building from the The Ion Age. Fabricated by the Seorc Guild Hab Domes have many uses and can be found all across Prydian space. The Hab Dome is the starting point for a whole series of resin structure system for The Ion Age in 15mm scale. The Hab Dome is the basic unit for stackable and adaptable units. It can be used on its own or with our other terrain releases. It is a high quality grey tone resin one piece casting which is 65mm wide and 30mm tall with a high degree of external detailing. Suitable for use in any science fiction setting as well as The Ion Age. Decorate your wargame table. As always this code can be bought as a pack or as a single or select the three packs and save 10% option on the page. Go HERE. Price 7.00GBP.

Information Burst

There is just a week to go on the free IMP11 Female Adventurer in all orders so if you want this lovely lady (saving 0.60GBP in the process) then get an order in before month's end. Perhaps you are going to dome your wargame table up? The Female Adventurer will included automatically in the package. Once you have had a chance to take in the awesome of the damaged building (which was a complex undertaking in the making let me tell you) then we have a little look at the upcoming anniversary month for us with the Year One Collection which is being put together right now. We are working on more miniatures right now and have just about got our 15mm vehicle conversion pack ready as well so you can expect to see that soon. We are already being asked for more variants of the wheeled and hover Adder Combat vehicles, we will put our thinking caps on for this. Lastly remember that by placing an order with us you will sign up for an account with the website and that means you get Reward Points in all purchases (plus the free miniature every time you order). These points can be used any time to get free products and discounts on orders.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS