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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: Ballardian on 19 August 2012, 05:01:03 PM
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FFG have released a few new vehicles for Dust, nice minis as usual.
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Forgot this one;
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I like the tanks: very sleek.
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Hmmm..wondering if you could take the legs off the German walker and replace with tracks or tires.
Love the Russian tanks.
Is that $99 price tag on the walker though?
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The price tag is for the Premium painted models. Retail for the Heavy Walker should be $40 USD (or about $25 if you look around online).
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Were they actually selling any yet?
I noticed they still havn't released the other Soviet tanks or even the helicopters they put up for preorder months ago.
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Russian stuff looks good but the Prinzluther seems definitely underarmed... ???
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Russian stuff looks good but the Prinzluther seems definitely underarmed... ???
Looks like a walking APC to me...
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That could well be it. Didn't recall the previous German superheavies didn't have a Carry Capacity, unlike the Allied biggies.
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Looks like Dust is getting more aircraft, rather nice German jet fighter-bomber (2 variants);
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Oh wow those jet fighters look fantastic.
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Agreed, like them too, a bit stubby and "dwarfish" but still nice!
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How do you play a JET fighter/bomber on a skirmish board? The thing would cross the entire battlefield in one go. I can understand helos but not jets. I smell 40Kism here and that would be to a shame.
Brian
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Your mission is to attack the airfield and destroy the enemy jets before they can launch ...
Or, the model sits to the side of the table or on a stand over it to indicate that you have air assets deployed, rather than to show the actual position of an individual aircraft.
There was a quite brilliant model "asset marker" type doing the rounds of the UK shows some years back in a WW2 game. It was a Typhoon destroying a German tank. The trick was that the (weighted) model exploding Panzer acted as a base - metal rods running from it inside the modelled rocket trails held up the aeroplane, so it looked like it was suspended in mid-air.
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Those tanks look so good cause they're just minor modifications of the real IS-3. :D Not a bad thing though - they're great.
The walker looks cool, but a bit too big for my taste.
The jets are... "dwarfish", I've been looking for this word since the first time I saw them. :)
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Your mission is to attack the airfield and destroy the enemy jets before they can launch ...
Or, the model sits to the side of the table or on a stand over it to indicate that you have air assets deployed, rather than to show the actual position of an individual aircraft.
There was a quite brilliant model "asset marker" type doing the rounds of the UK shows some years back in a WW2 game. It was a Typhoon destroying a German tank. The trick was that the (weighted) model exploding Panzer acted as a base - metal rods running from it inside the modelled rocket trails held up the aeroplane, so it looked like it was suspended in mid-air.
Seems expensive just to indicate you got some off-board air-support. I sure wouldn't buy a battery of 1/48 Long Toms or an Anzio Annie Railway gun in the same scale if my FO was using them as arty, but that's just me. They would make great scenery though for those commando raids or escape games.
Brian
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I'm not really sure about the tanks, they seem to smooth compared to the lenin and the mao tanks that were shown before.
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I think the tanks and the APC are really good, the plane on the other hand........I think I need to comment on the separate halves of it! The back half, from the wings and air intakes, looks brill, the cockpit looks very cartoony and not in line with the quality of the rest of the Dust vehicles!
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I quite like the Dust models because they do have a WWII era feel to them; so many designs could be any generic SF models with WWII-esque elements added to it.
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The German walker loo0ks to be fitted with a SdKfz 222's turret and the other has a flakpanzer IV "Kugelblitz" turret. Not much armament against them big Commie boys!
If the Dust crew had it right, they'd bring in German armor as the E-Series stuff! Talk about making money hand over fist and and you just might kick GW's 40K to the side with stuff like that!
I can only hope,
Brian
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Certainly with you on the E series, but as far as the jet goes, when seen from underneath, it appears to have some form of vectored thrust set-up, so it's possible that it may operate in a similar way to the 40K skimmer/flyer rules.
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Nothing a M-16 GMC can't handle!
Brian
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I like the new tank for sure - much more than the uber mortar barreled ones shown previously.
-Tim
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The jet's from the Dust comics look Much better than the preview models that have been shown.
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In fairness the German jet is a pre-production prototype model, (according to the FFG guy at Gen-Con) & while I like the slightly truncated Horton look it has I agree that the cockpit/canopy area needs work.
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Amazing grace! I like it all. :o
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The German jet sort of reminds me of the Ma.k model kit.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35987294@N00/3487915812
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I thought the same thing myself when I first saw it! ;)
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Any chance we might see some covered trucks from them? or some armored cars? That would be nice.
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Pix of the new heavyweigths:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/dust-tactics/fantasy-flight-bring-heavy-armour-wars-dust/
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You know, this stuff is getting tougher and tougher to resist.
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You know, this stuff is getting tougher and tougher to resist.
ditto. Especially this one :-*
(http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/KV-3-K-%E2%80%9CMatrioshka%E2%80%9D-394x296.png)
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I've got this crazy idea...I think I can kitbash this:
(http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/dust-tactics/wave6/prinzluther.png)
with a Tamiya 1/35 German Hanomag SdKfz 251, some GW Chaos Defiler legs and some plasticard :D
It won't win any beauty prizes...but I have to try it ;D