Happy Sunday wargamers, Icarus Miniatures have another preview for you today. This time, we’re looking at the Alliance Drop Trooper

Drop Troopers

The Alliance usually delivers troops to an objective or combat zone via armoured personnel carrier, or a drop ship aircraft.

However, in situations where a ground advanced cannot be made, and there is too much antiaircraft to land troops; the Alliance send the Drop Troopers.

Drop troops are delivered over the landing zone via a drop ship at high altitude before they jump from the aircraft.

Up until the first Nexus war, Alliance airborne troops were still using parachutes to drop to a location. Over the course of the war, thousands of airborne troopers were killed as they slowly descended to the ground. About a year before the end of the war, the Alliance Science Division finished the first prototype of a combat jetpack.

These first devices were little more than a small thruster attached to the soldier’s pack. The trooper would free fall until they were a few hundred feet off the ground and use the thruster to slow their descent to a manageable landing.
It was not a perfect system, and many soldiers were killed when the pack failed to activate, or did not give enough thrust to slow them down.

This is another piece by Hokunin, who was responsible for the Galactic Marines. Galactic Marine, the Gunslinger, and the other Alliance concepts that we have shown previously. My favourite part of this concept has to be the jetpack. I love the look of the single, articulated, thruster, as well as the smaller stabilisers. I also really like the gold visor, designed for actions in space to reduce the damaged caused by direct sunlight, it gives a really nice focus for the character.

If you’d like to learn more about the Drop Troopers, and how they perform in-game, be sure to check out our latest blog post.

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