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unusual facts about Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game



Battlefield Evolution

Set in the near future, and inspired by games such as Battlefield 2, Battlefield Evolution is a miniature wargame from Mongoose Publishing, the same company that created the Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game.

Big Sky Trooper

The general plot of the game (planets conquered by alien invaders, player is suddenly recruited and must don power armor to retake them) is similar to the novel Starship Troopers.

Freddie Joe Farnsworth

Upon leaving the Marine Corps, Farnsworth returned to Casper, Wyoming and was working as a truck driver and in sales for Butane Power and Equipment Co. when in April 1996 he began work as a technical advisor on Starship Troopers and began his association with Dale Dye's company Warriors Inc.

Kunio Okawara

In a then unheard-of move, Tomino instructed Okawara to design more "realistic," practically-designed title mecha for the series, closer to lines of the "powered armor" described in the Robert A. Heinlein novel "Starship Troopers," rather than the fanciful iron giants depicted since the airing of Mazinger Z.

Live fire exercise

In some fictional scenarios, such as the training of the soldiers in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, a small fraction of the ammunition shot at the soldiers during exercises is real, and the shots are fully aimed.

Planet P Project

The band's name was inspired from the fictional "Planet P" in Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers.

Starship Troopers: Invasion

Edward Neumeier, writer of the three previous films in the series, and Casper Van Dien, actor playing the protagonist Johnny Rico in the first and the third film, are attached as executive producers.


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