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Very, very quck update: I have since spoken to Only-Games. I’ll make a full annoucement with details when I do the release, but the (positive) upshot is that my Only-Games store will be staying online, but there will be a price increase to compensate coming over December. Just wanted to make a quick note to migitate that FoMO…

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Very, very quck update: I have since spoken to Only-Games. I’ll make a full annoucement with details when I do the release, but the (positive) upshot is that my Only-Games store will be staying online, but there will be a price increase to compensate coming over December. Just wanted to make a quick note to migitate that FoMO…

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𝗔𝗼𝘁𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘆𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘆 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲

I am back at it again after my week off. I, unsurprisingly, have not had time to do anythign special – but as a last-minute decision, I jumped a bit ahead and uploaded XGA01, arguably among the most spooky conceptually of the current powers. (The Aotrs are, of course, Actual Skeletons, but they are not as existentially spooky.)

They also have one of the more extensive and narratively-driven Galaxy Guide Entries (as they made their debut in Rolemaster/Spacemaster, and i made an enormous effort when writing up to expand on the already considerable detail). Their lore entry is somewhat closer, perhaps, to a SCP Foundation exploration log (if with a somewhat lesser emphasis on the horror, but its as close as I got to hand!),
So as a special Halloween treat, here is a drove link to the Galaxy Guide entry for XGA01 in full, in PDF form, with all the bells and whistles and is as close to the format for release as I’ve gotten so far. Please have a look, in the spirit of the season!

In addition to XGA01, the Tarrainian Federtion army is also uploaded, and both forces should be available for purchase sometimes tomorrow.

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𝗠𝘆𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲
𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗨𝗣:
Updated: End of 31/10/2023
𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗲𝘂𝘃𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 (𝟭𝟰𝟰)
China
Czechoslovakia
France
Israel
Irregulars
NATO
Russian/Soviet
German
UK
US
**Moderns uploads completed!**

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀
Flight stands
Alpha Strike force
SSA
Stone Portals
Vivrathk
Phystyulons
General Designs Hulls
Jalyrkieons
Aotrs
Extra-Galactic Aliens (XGA01)*
𝗠𝗚 𝗦𝗰𝗶-𝗙𝗜
Cybertanks
Galactic Terrorists
British Royal Space Army
Strayvian Dominion
Phystyulons
Herosine Empire
Jalyrkieons
Aotrs
Soviet Remnant
Tarrainian Federation*
𝗠𝗶𝘀𝗰
Explosion/Suppression Markers
*Uploaded but not in Store page yet
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𝗔𝗼𝘁𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘆𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆-𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀!
As a final reminder, the 20% off Aotrs Shipyards (physical) products at Only-Games sale remains on all the way through to November the 30th!
Use code 𝗔𝗢𝗧𝗥𝗦𝟮𝟬
The small text:
Applies to one-time purchases, no minimum purchase requirements, no usage limits, can’t be combined with other discounts!
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In other news, both Maneouvre Group and Maneouvre Group Sci-Fi have pending updates – the latter might have already been done, but any plans for that have been derailed. No time frame yet, but both the MG authors and I have been working on these in the background.

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Aotrs Shipyards October 2023 Update and Surprise Release

Just in time for the Spooky Season, I can report that as of yesterday night, the entire Army Of The Red Spear starfleet, ground force and fighter force, in all their highly trained and organised magical space-lich glory, are uploaded to MyMiniFactory!

The starships are up and cleared, though the ground force and fighters won’t get their final checks passed likely until Monday, but you SHOULD be able to see them all under the Aotrs collection on the Shipyards MMF page.)

For that matter, the Aotrs Shipyards sale at Only-Games is still on until the end of November (details below), so if you want so magical space liches in physical form, everything is up there (including the Blackhole, which appears to have been missed as an oversight last time…!) so now is as good a time as ever!

The Aotrs range is the single biggest range for any one power (eclipsed only by Manoeuvre Group Moderns when counted a whole, not as multiple nations). It is been an appalling couple of weeks, which problem after problem on top of the already stressful situation[1]. But I, driven more by stress to get the job done than by anything else, managed to get about 130 models up this week, which takes me to 422 out of around 560-ish models to upload. (The count isn’t identical, since some separate physical models have been collated into one file set.) All the moderns are now up as well, so it’s now basically the back half of the alphabet of the sci-fi to go.

This brings me to today’s surprise release! I said there wouldn’t be a release this month (and there isn’t for moderns, but I’m ostly copy-pasting to both sets of threads – and why I’m posting this as an new post, not a thread here), but as I completed the Aotrs, I decided that I would do one, since it is exclusive to MyMiniFactory due to its size: the 1:300th scale version of the Murder, as seen at Hereward and Other Partizan!

Murder Fightercruiser (300th)

MyMiniFactory (.Stl File) Price: $15* Link

(The fleet scale version is already out… And obviously, I’m NOT going to do a 144th scale one. In fact, as it’s closer to terrain at that size anyway, you’d be better served using the 300th version at that scale anyway!)

*MMF mandatorily works in dollars with no conversion, so it has to be in dollars. Yes, that irritates me a bit as well…

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MyMiniFactory Progress Update

The Aotrs being done, and with their surprise release marked a convenient point to make an update post (as I don’t know how many, if any, people have been checking the updates on the prior post); but also because I am basically taking next week off. The start of my working week (Tuesday) is my birthday (which I’d have been taking off anyway), but the events of the past couple of weeks have convinced me I NEED to take it off, before I do myself even more of a health mischief. (I’ve been so tired that I went an entire week without playing anything, so I haven’t really even relaxed. Even last night and this morning, just thinking about this post as a Job To Do was giving me anxiety.)

So, after posting this up, I’ll continue on today and maybe tackle one of the smaller ranges still left to do, but then that will be it basically until the 31st.

So here is where we stand as of today (21/10/2023).

Ranges currently Up:
Updated: 21/10/2023

Manoeuvre Group Moderns (144)
China
Czechoslovakia
France
Israel
Irregulars
NATO
Russian/Soviet
German
UK
US
**Moderns uploads completed!**

Starships
Flight stands
Alpha Strike force
SSA
Stone Portals
Vivrathk
Phystyulons
General Designs Hulls
Jalyrkieons
Aotrs (bar 6mm fighters which are *)

MG Sci-Fi
Cybertanks
Galactic Terrorists
British Royal Space Army
Strayvian Dominion
Phystyulons
Herosine Empire
Jalyrkieons
Aotrs*

Misc
Explosion/Suppression Markers

*Uploaded but not in Store page yet

The small mercy is that I have sold enough this first month to cover the MMF subscription fee, so at least for this month, my efforts haven’t been in addition to actively costing me money…

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Aotrs Shipyards Sale at Only-Games!

20% off Aotrs Shipyards (physical) products at Only-Games all the way through to November the 30th!
Use code AOTRS20

The small text:
Applies to one-time purchases, no minimum purchase requirements, no usage limits, can’t be combined with other discounts!
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Whether or not there is an update next month remains in question (likely not for moderns, though a possibility of releasing some of the elves remains. However, I would quite like to do something actually creative, or at least different after several weeks of hell, so I might instead just do CAD work and/or some more work on Bleakbane’s Galaxy Guide as a break; we’ll see.

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[1]For those of you who have not been tracking the updates on the Facebook post, these have included: Mum having her car run into (no physical damage to Mum, but the car is damaged and thus I been helping with the insurance stuff); when my uncle came up for a visit (he’s now arguably as disabled as my mother and frighteningly getting worse every time I see him), so I was helping with him – and on the Friday, Mum’s phone was stolen. (It dropped out of the car in one of two places and was nicked.) So I have had to sort that (make sure everything was cancelled, report to the police, the whole nine yards). I went to get some cash out, and realised I did not remember my PIN (as it was not what I thought I remembered). Because I never used my card at all during lockdown, I totally forgot my previous one, and since, I only get money out once in a blue moon. And because Lloyds treats customers without smart phones as second-class citizens, I have had to wait for a huge amount of time for them to send me a new one. We’ve also had to have our COVID jabs this week as well, so I wasn’t not good yesterday, and none of us had fully recovered from the nasty flu-y cold we had a week or two ago. And for good measure, I am still waiting to be told to pay back the working tax credit I owe, which apparently has been passed to Universal Tax Credit who may (or MAY NOT) follow up on it, and I can’t even chase them for one way or another for another two weeks. I basically HAVE reached my breaking point, to the point that (when I can find the energy and effort to chase it) Mum has said I should go to the doctor’s.

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Aotrs Shipyards Sale now live!

The sale is now live: 20% off Aotrs Shipyards products at Only-Games all the way through to November the 30th!

Use code AOTRS20

The small text:

Applies to one-time purchases, no minimum purchase requirements, no usage limits, can’t be combined with other discounts!

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Update:

So, bad news. Sorry, I don’t have any pictures or anything to leaven this up.

My fears about today’s Universal Credit appointment were 100% justified.

In a very real sense, they are not so much moving people from Working Tax credit to Universal credit as just obviating Working Tax credit entirely, especially if you are self-employed.

Universal Credit is basically set-up such that if you are self-employed, you are tacitly told by the system “either Get A Proper Job Loser, make enough money you can’t claim it anyway or get knotted, mate.”

To whit: If you are self-employed, if you are not making enough to qualify for “gainful employment” (whose gain? Certainly not mine.) you have to be looking for work and sign-on every week. Identically, in fact to if you are NOT self-employed and signing-on, though apparently we don’t call it that now.

If you ARE making enough to qualify for “gainful employment” – you are about 50% past the break-point at which the 45% of your income they reduce the benefit by is larger than the benefit you qualify for anyway.

(Or at least if you are single and don’t have children. The children – and presumably, but I may be reaching, since Mum doesn’t count apparently – dependants is fair enough; that I am single because I Don’t Significant Other (and thus Don’t Marriage) also feels a bit punitive, to be honest.)

That “gainful employment” threshold is – are you ready for this? £1400 a month.

(Twice what is if you are getting paid employment, apparently.)

I have, basically, taken the final option of the three (got knotted), and spent the last few hours composing a letter to my MP (because that nonsense is not something I will tolerate without issue, and that is about the only thing I CAN do about it).

So, what are the ramifications for the Shipyards?

It’s still going be here, for at least as long as my savings last and I HAVE to functionally sign-on. I am not in any immediate danger of going short of food or anything like that. Long-term, what it does mean is that what saving I have gathered which were, basically a buffer for what happens when my parents die will be being whittled away .

In the shorter term: An acceleration of the process of getting the .stl files up, and maybe setting up of a kofi account (just as SOMETHING) and using that as an indicator as to whether it is even worth trying to set up a Patreon.

I have also been idly considering compiling Bleakbane’s Galaxy Guide to a first edition PDF release for a while as essentially a mechanics-less sourcebook, but that is still a ways off yet; under the circumstances, I may well put that as a “pay what you want” on Wargames Vault.

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Just a quick note: MG Issue 2 has had a minor update to v2.01, co-inciding with the release of Maneouvre Group Sci-Fi. This is a few typos, one clarification and generally things I spotted while working on the sci-fi expansion. Current owners should have gotten an update notification with the change log.

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Aotrs Shipyards December 2021 (Re-)Release: Phystyulons

Starships:
Re-release (update and release to Only-Games)
Type 754 Lazer Drone, Byraxin Raider, Nytvyx Bomber, Katorak Marine Fightercruiser, Pylonaz Cutter, Vistrixon Strike Corvette, Syrotukan Escort Frigate, Sylor Barrage Destroyer. Kablak Destroyer, Arkaz Torpedo Frigate, Hazarak Light Cruiser, Hrastyukar Escort Cruiser, Hrastyukar-Za Escort Cruiser, Phystyukor Heavy Cruiser, Ortukat Electronics Warfare Cruiser, Takovt Supply Cruiser, Rauztrak Light Carrier, Nakrozar Battlecruiser, Lokutar Missile Battleship, Rylorz Artillery Battlecruiser, Zokukarn Superdreadnought, Urkotrazarak Dreadnought, Kantusar Disruptor Dreadnought, Yaraktunar Carrier
Itorkat Troop Ship

Ground Forces:
New:
Pazukasst Main Battle Tank, Pazkotak Heavy Armoured Personnel Carrier, Phystyusorv CP Command Post, Tarovazik MRLS, HU-946 Rocket Cycle, HU-948 Heavy Rocket Cycle, TAV-98 Armed Robot Scout, Type 333 Lazer Pylon, Phystyulon Infantry, Phystyulon Strider Soldiers

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Here’s December’s release post, for the Ferret Mk 1 Armoured Car

Aotrs Shipyards December 2021 Release: Ferret Mk 1 Armoured Car

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Aotrs Shipyards November 2021 (Re-)Release: Saturn Syndicate Ascendancy Fleet and Tarrainian Federation Army

Starships:
Re-release (update and release to Only-Games)
HSB-124 Pegasus Heavy Bomber, MMF-101 Comet Interceptor, HSF-112 Breach Heavy Fighter, WDF-78T Siren Medium Fighter, CAW-109 Spoiler Class Fighterdestroyer, CAW-109C Spoiler C Class Fighterdestroyer, HAM-117 Class Scarab Attack Cutter, MM-193 Chariot Class Frigate, WDN-109 Riposte Class Frigate, HAM-119 Spider Wasp Class Destroyer, CAW-107 Fusillade Class Destroyer, HAM-112 Enfilade Class Corvette, WDN-113 Strix Class Frigate,
CAW-104 Arbalest Class Light Cruiser, HAM-123 Bulwark Class Escort Cruiser, HAM-124 Marlin Class Heavy Cruiser. HAM-106 Heimdallr Class Light Cruiser
WDN-114 Cataphract Class Dreadnought, HAC-124 Nomad Class Freighter, HAM-127 Charybis Battlecruiser, HAM-128 Corsair Battlecruiser

Cavalier Class Light Torpedo Frigate

Ground Forces:
Re-release (update and release to Only-Games)
Vampire (Tracked), Vampire (Grav)

New:
Neuron Truck, Neuron Command Vehicle, Neuron MRLS, Leopard 2X8 MBT, Chieftain Mk T5D MBT, Wiesel 11, Tarrainian Federation Infantry

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An early November release, for the QF 25-pounder and its towing vehicle.

Aotrs Shipyards November 2021 Release and Only-Games Update: QF-25 Pounder

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Aotrs Shipyards September 2021 (Re-)Release: Vivrathk Aggression fleet and Galactic Terrorist Army

Starships:
Re-release (update and release to TheShop3D)
Fire Plague Fighter, Blistering Slash Bomber, Eternal Inferno Battlebarge, Void Sting Scoutship, Flightspawn Corvette, Feral Thrust Class Frigate, Turbulent Sky Destroyer, Fierce Thrust Frigate, Torrid Sky Destroyer, Tumultuous Sky Electronics Destroyer, Ferocious Thrust Class Frigate, Bloody Moon Light Cruiser, Dagger Blade Strike Cruiser, Vicious Meteor Heavy Cruiser, Burning Moon Light Cruiser, Darting Blade Transport Cruiser, Wild Horde Light Carrier, Solar Rage Battlecruiser, Savage Nova Battleship, Star Maim Dreadnought, Furious Burn Battle Carrier, Ravening Swarm Carrier

Ground Forces:
Re-release (update and release to TheShop3D)
T-132AH Hyena, ZIL-1135 ASP (Air Superiority Platform), GAZ-99371 Vodnik Sensor Van, FV101AA Scorpion, Scud Mortar, Rocket Boxer

New:
GAZ-99371 Vodnik Battle Wagon, GT Infantry Horde (80), Grand Marauder

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Here’s October’s release post, for the German M113s, the M113A1G and M113A2G (ETF).

Aotrs Shipyards October 2021 Release: M113A1G and M113A2G (ETF)

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Aotrs Shipyards September 2021 (Re-)Release: Stone Portals

Starships:
Re-release (update and release to TheShop3D)
Stone Portal Fighter, Stone Bomber, Stone Portal Assault Shuttle, Stone Portal Corvette and Escort Corvette, Stone Portal Frigate and Recon Frigate,
Stone Portal Missile Frigate, Stone Portal Destroyer, Stone Portal Torpedo Destroyer, Stone Portal Escort Destroyer, Stone Portal Light Cruiser, Stone Portal Escort Cruiser, Stone Portal Heavy Cruiser, Stone Portal Transport, Stone Portal Assault Cruiser, Stone Portal Light Carrier, Stone Portal Battlecruiser, Stone Portal Battleship, Stone Portal Dreadnought, Stone Portal Heavy Carrier

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Here’s September’s release post, for the Gepard 1A2.

Aotrs Shipyards September 2021 Release: Gepard 1A2

(Oh, hey, and I remembered to change the month this time, so we don’t have three June releases in a row…!)

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