Friday, 20 January 2017

Deadzone - Team Popularity

Hello All,

I Just ran some quick stats on team popularity on the Strike Team Builder so thought I'd share if it interests anyone.

Faction Teams*
Enforcers 39%
Forge Fathers 13%
Plague 13%
Rebs 11%
Marauders 9%
Asterians 7%
Veer-myn 7%
*I normalised the data by removing multiple teams of the same type for one user. Therefore the numbers are calculated for each Faction unique to each User (e.g. 10 Enforcer teams for 1 user counts as one).

The outcome was not overly surprising with Enforcers being the most popular faction by far. This is reflected in reality at least for me as the most popular team at my club are Enforcers. Everything else is pretty much at the same levels with Asterians and Veer-myn teams being created less.

These are only teams which have been made on theStrike Team Builder by logged in users, but fits with what I have seen at the table. I think players probably own more factions but actually use specific ones more frequently and for Campaigns.

Let me know your thoughts and if you think we need a more even spread. Personally I would like to play against a diverse range of Factions but I'm not helping the issue I guess as I only have enforcers that I really play with. I think I have about six unpainted Forge Fathers together, the rest are still on sprue 😞

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Deadzone Enforcers - My Stardust Cola Redplates

Been catching up on my painting and finally got round to taking a picture of some of my Strike Team.

Theme : These Enforcers work for the massive multi-system drinks company 'Stardust Cola Company'. Many of their missions involve preventing the loss of, or retrieving Stardust Cola's assets and/or drinks recipes.
Rumours abound to the secret ingredients of their best selling cola and their competitors are ever keen to obtain the evidence to back those rumours. Whether their motive is to extort the company or inform the consumer, this cannot be allowed to happen. After all "Stardust Cola Company is a cheerful, family orientated company" (what could be more wholesome). It has its employees and consumers best interests at heart above all else. Sure it makes a large profit for its investors but it sponsors many charities and sports too. As companies go they truly are a paragon of virtue in these dark times.
.......Soylent Green is people??

Still need to paint up the pathfinders. Then Buying some Peacekeepers & Jet Bikes (Super cheap now Warpath squads are out). Will be getting a squad of Striders at some point but not in the near future.