Mar 24
Click for full imageSo I just read from the list on this sheet? Alright then, terrible fonts, realistic guys doing manly stuff and pulling awkward faces, and a futuristic city. Might I add something of my own? Why don’t we credit only the editors and none of the authors? …You’re promoting me to management?! OHHH yeaaah!
(Rating: 5.67 out of 10)
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March 24th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Looks like the bloke at the front is having dump.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Future war fought (again!) with today’s weapons. Clearly dfence budgets under severe pressure in the future as well.
Robotoverlord Brown: ‘I can confirm that any request from the armed forces for equipment was fully met by the Imperial War Museum.’
March 24th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Ian > Maybe he is. In the future people still need to go to the toilet in the height of battle.
“Who cares about lasers. My men can take dumps in their battle armour!”
March 24th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
The giant shock absorbers in the background rather suggest that this battle is taking place inside the chassis of a futuristic megacar.
March 24th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Also, I find the way the ‘W’s in the title are starting to devour the rest of the letters a little bit sinister.
March 24th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
The guy behiind the dude taking a dump kinda looks like he’s dancing to a cheesy 80′s songs. The 3rd guy is naturally providing covering fire for them.
Its phycological warfare of some sort. If i was conducting a raid on their megacar and blasted my way in only to find an assortment of soldiers crapping and dancing (the generals would ideally be doing both simultaneously), i think i would be taken aback long enough for the sniper to get me
March 24th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
looks like they’re inside a giant pinball machine…?
And in the future, braces will be part of the standard-issue body armour for grunts…
March 24th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
This makes a Warhammer 40K cover look well laid out and sensible.
March 24th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Personally I’m impressed by the catastrophic layering. These are obviously really saintly soldiers (despite their appalling expressions) since the one in the foreground is lit by his own private light source, and the one in the middle has an all-body halo. Praise be to Holy Photoshop, without which so many dire covers would be much less dire.
March 29th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I’m pretty sure the guy in the back is doing the chicken dance.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:11 pm
The soldier in front looks like he got a paintball in his right eye.
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I don’t know when this was painted, but….I don’t see much FUTURE weapons….
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
That is totally a future rifle – it’s got little red lights on the side!
May 4th, 2010 at 10:49 am
David> I like to think that those red lights are actually telling him things like, the temperature, the current news, even twitter.
December 16th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
The editors of FUTURE WEAPONS OF WAR were trying too hard with the title.
Hard-core Baen readers are more than satisfied with a simpler title like “WEAPONS”, or “WAR”…