My good friends Andy Roalfe and John Lambshead introduced me to "Hammer's Slammers", a great little set of rules co-written by John. The rules are based around the worlds and armies envisaged by David Drake in his Hammer's Slammers series of books. The various armies have national characteristics based upon the countries or organisations back on Earth that established colonies in space. GZG and Old Crow Models make figures and AFVs for this rule set.

 

I've used this and various other influences to create my own armies using GW 40k figures and AFVs. I have tweaked the rules somewhat to change base sizes, to make infantry a little more powerful, and to add other AFVs...........and Aliens/Bugs.