Mek-quake

Orjetax

Orjetax

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At the prompting of some oldhammer blogpost on Nemesis the Warlock (Zhu's blog maybe?) and notations on its influence on RT, I found myself buying the first two Nemesis books (Titan Books).

There I discovered Mek-Quake, who has tickled my fancy. And who will be a great source of inspiration for my own upcoming RT narratives. The humor and strangeness here has really struck a chord with me.

From googling, I've gathered Mek-Quake was a part of the ABC Warriors (other than what I've picked up as a result of this forum and oldhammer blogs, and this googling, I know nothing of the 2000AD comics).

I'm eager to read more. But - the array of ABC Warriors stuff seems dizzying.

Can someone point me to the ' best' books featuring Mek-Quake? Especially if
you can recommend specific volumes?

Nemesis book 2 is obviously already on my radar, but that's it.
 
cheetor

cheetor

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"Khronicles of Khaos" is my favourite ABC Warriors book. It also benefits from being pretty self contained: it doesnt have lots of continuity dependent storyline in it. Mek Quake features, but isnt the centre of the story. He doesnt ever tend to be really.

Thats what I recommend for a new ABC reader for certain.
 
whiskey priest

whiskey priest

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mek-quake.jpg

I'd probably start off with the Meknificent Seven http://www.amazon.co.uk/ABC-Warriors-Me ... cent+seven but this volume collects that volume along with black hole volume in one hard back http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-B-C-Warriors- ... c+warriors
and the wiki page has a pretty decent chronology of the stories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Warriors
Oh and it might have been my blogs fault! :lol:
 
antipixi

antipixi

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I LOVE the ABC warriors! Hammerstein is probably my favourite, but it's a close run thing with, well, all of them.

When I can afford to and have time, I'm going to get the foundry ABC warriors to paint slowly for fun.
 
barney_leadhead

barney_leadhead

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Joe Pineapples and Deadlock were probably my favourite ABC Warriors but I loved reading about the dysfunctional family that they were.

Staying on the 2000AD theme I think that an army of Termites lead by Tomas De Torquemada would work well in WH40k as would a veteran Imperial Guard unit or mercenary band based on Bad Company.
 
cheetor

cheetor

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barney_leadhead":26mvdmax said:
Staying on the 2000AD theme I think that an army of Termites lead by Tomas De Torquemada would work well in WH40k as would a veteran Imperial Guard unit or mercenary band based on Bad Company.
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Surely the best way to get the Arch Bigot on the 40k table is representing a puritan Ordo Xenos Inquisitor with a retinue of Terminatiors (the Termight kind rather than the Space Marine kind)? The 40K Inquisition concept was lifted almost directly from the Nemesis story after all.

If you guys like a bit of 28mm 2000AD action then you should check out Westfalia Chris 2000AD thread on LAF. He has been Increasing The Peace over there for a few years now, including a really cool scratch built Mek Quake (in vehicle mode).
 

Mahwell skel

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The Nemesis Books are the best start, especially the Gothic Empire one which is in the first book I think.

Is it correct though that the ABC warriors are a small group of a larger band of ABC Robots? So there are THE ABC warriors (Hammerstein Black Blood and the others) and then there are others who are Atomic Biological Chemical warriors who were used to fight the Volgan wars.

In some of the books flash backs include random robots in the background with ABC on their shoulder pads.

I always though this would make a good basis for an army/skirmish game. Also these Minibits robots seem to fit the bill for random killer robots. The Scout ones look pretty good.

http://minibits.net/Crossover-Miniatures-c25/Robots-sc91/
 
Orjetax

Orjetax

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Yes, correct!

Also wanted to post this panel here . . . Too funny.
 

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