- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers - Homefront

The First Interstellar War comes to a stirring climax in "The Homefront Campaign", the latest DVD release in the Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles series. During the close of the Klendathu campaign, the Arachnid Queen escapes and SICON forces follow her trail. They find her in deep space and after pitched battle destroy the Royal Transport. The world celebrates but Carl Jenkins, the Roughnecks psychic believes the Queen is alive on Earth. At Carl's urging the Roughnecks enter deepest darkest suburbia to prove the bug menace remains. Sadly Jenkins is correct, the Queen is on Earth and our home becomes the last battlefield. The war does not go well, and the Roughnecks are in the thick of it. The squad suffers a terrible loss and must find a way to stay together to continue the fight. This DVD is a triumph and disappointment. The stories in this chapter are surprisingly adult and poignant, as the squad deals with death, self-doubt, and uncertainty. The CGI work done primarily by Foundation Imaging is some of the best of the series (watch for the fighter plane flyover of Hawaii) The disappointment is that the end of the story is uncertain. Sony originally scripted three final episodes to include the final conflict of the war, and because of budgetary constraints those episodes have not been produced. I hope the success of these DVDs will prompt Sony to give the show's fans the ending they deserve.

This is a GREAT dvd, however we are missing the story arc I have loosely named the Frozen (or Lost) Asteroid Campaign and it directly precedes the Klendathu Campaign. Without revealing content, the "Frozen Asteroid" arc introduces new bugs (Fireflies) and answers the questions: What was referred to in the Homefront Campaign as the destroyed Transport Bug, and why the Troopers felt the war was over. The missing episodes are "Ice-Olation", "Mixed Signals", "Hot Ice", "The Inside Story", and "The Ice Men Goeth". War is hell with no true victories and the Homefront Campaign drives this "home". Throughout this series we have lived with the members of the Roughnecks and have developed a kinship with them. Now our kinship will be translated into emotion and empathy. No more hot, cold, wet and inhospitable planets to fight on, we are home. We are safe, but we are not alone. The bugs have inexplicably arrived, adapted, and infested. The war now will be fought using the family car as a shield, the front door as a barricade and the radio as our window to the world. When it comes to "bug" infestation, on a grand scale, victory may mean that "we" are expendable. Action sequences take place in familiar surroundings; the streets of our cities. The Homefront Campaign is definitely the most visceral story arc in this series and will leave you with an unexpected sense of loss. To end at the beginning, THIS IS A GREAT DVD.

Great cartoon series. Kids and adults can enjoy it. Just wish Shout! Factory or someone would release the entire series. I'm waiting!

As a fan of the book, the movie, and Henlein in general, I bought all the DVDs in this series. The CG is a little crude, sometimes it looks like a very old computer or X Box game, but that said these DVDs are the only way I can see more of Johnny Rico and friends. Lets hope that someday they make a big budget movie that is spot on with the book's origional story. Until then we will make due with what we have.

I love this entire series. It reminds of the old days when cartoons like Starblazers and Robotech were all the rage. Only these are far better in every aspect. And they are definitely more for the adult consumer. But if you are into the sci-fi animation/ cartoon aspect, then its a worth a watch.

Don't get me wrong. I love the animation and the CGI graphics. It's some of the best I've seen. But I waited a long time for this series to come to DVD, because it's almost never shown in chronological order on television. I ordered this particular DVD because I was expecting/waiting for the excellent episode called "Trackers". This was the episode where the troopers followed the Queen bug to earth after a game of "hide and seek" in deep space. In "Trackers" we learned a great deal about Higgins (the reporter) and we saw an excellent space battle that rivaled some of the greatest sci-fi movies in existence today. So those of you who purchase this DVD should know that "Trackers" is MIA. I don't know about anyone else, but when I purchase a DVD, I at least want ALL of the episodes that were available on television.

Ok I'm sure you already know how awsome this show is. I Loved it the first time I saw, and as soon as I saw it being sold I bought all the DVD's. Each DVD is better then the last one. Although there are a couple of epsodes that were left out, you can imagin what happens. I hope that when sony gets the money they can put the epsodes that they left out on to one disk. The ending is left open. I was told that there are 3 more story's before the final battle. I hope that sony gets the money and completes it all. These DVD's are a must for anyone who liked the show. So stop reading this and buy the damn disk's.

I have to say that I usually do not watch cartoons whether they be celluloid or CG but I make an exception here. Not only is this an action packed series but it also has intelligently written scripts. The characters are believable and you do end up actually caring for them and hoping that they don't get skewered by bugs. I have watched every episode to date except the last Chronicle which has yet to be released, the Zephyr Campaign was just released last week so we're almost there. I recommend this entire series to anyone who loves SST or sci-fi for that matter and I know anyones children will love it too.

DVD ARRIVED WITHIN 5 DAYS JUST AS IT SAID ON THE TIN. lOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING THE WHOLE SERIES AT XMAS TIME BEST ANIMATED SERIES I HAVE EVER SEEN AND A LOT CHEAPER THAN THE EXPENSIVE BOX SET AND IN REGION 2

Klassic brilliant

Received on time, well satisfied.

the animation isn't quite there but good stories and voice acting is well done

This is the end of the Roughnecks series. Unfortunately the last episodes never got made, so it kind of ends in the middle. Even more unfortunately, this series of DVDs is pretty screwed up. Not only has it been released out of order, but there's an episode missing between "vol 5" and this "vol 6". I suppose that this was done to make this a 5 episode story arc like the rest of the DVDs (or, more correctly, make Vol 5 a 5 episode arc, since the missing episode fits better there), but it's a stupid decision, IMO. (As is calling these volumes 5 and 6, instead of 6 and 7, and not releasing the story arc before them. I have no idea what the people who made this series were smoking, but it must have been really strong stuff.) Haven't seen the extras yet (two commentaries).