Voltron: Defender Against Monsterpocalypse!

Think about this…

You are in the far, undisclosed, future.  Far enough that there already exists a “Galactic Alliance” between Earth humans and other humanoid alien races, and sufficient technology for space travel and military hardware designed to withstand the harsh primal elements, travel in space, and equipped with the best tools and weaponry that the Galactic Alliance members have to offer.

Then, an ambitious schmuck from a backwater hell-hole of a planet with no discernible economic value whatsoever manages to launch a single giant robot-beast using a combination of whatever scraps that planet has available and voodoo.  Suddenly the generals and tacticians of the whole Galactic Alliance Military are stumped.  Their warships are useless!  Their combined equipment, manpower, technology, and intelligence prove no match for the single “ro-beast”.

The only way counter the sole menace is to get 5 or 15 of their most specialized military hardware to combine into 1 equally (or almost equally) giant robot, the weapons of which are generally ineffective except for the sword.

WTF kind of military are they running?!  Has years of peace turned the inter-galactic generals and tacticians into such morons that they can’t take on a single scrap metal monster running on bad juju?!  Perhaps it’s time to show those interlock activating, dynotherm connecting, infracell upping, megathruster go-ing Galactic Alliance pansies how it’s done!

Privateer Press (apparently not busy enough with the Warmachine MKII revamp) recently announced that it has has acquired the license to integrate Voltron: Defender of the Universe to its tactical pre-painted minis game Monsterpocalypse.  Next year, you can start adding “Robeasts” to the giant monster/alien/robot/ultimate-evil smackdownfest [sic]!

Well… maybe.  Aside from the announcement, there aren’t many details available yet.  We don’t know if the Lion Force or the Vehicle Force will be involved (I’m betting on the Lions).  We don’t even know the chosen Force can be combined to form Voltron, or if Voltron is pre-volted-on (which would be no fun at all).

Yep, the concept is cheesy, but Monpoc already is tongue-in-cheek so it could work well.  Given what I’ve been hearing about the current Monpoc gameplay, and given Privateer Press’ track record in their tactical minis design, it’s very plausible that this would be good.  Here’s to hoping that this crossover will make good cheese.

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