Profound, profane or pedestrian

Spartan Games just showed the latest wave of ground force releases for Dystopian Wars. Looks impressive - and a few suitably wacky designs to keep the fun element going!

I'm not entirely sure which nation has which model - although the "flying squid" is pretty damn obvious - so my guess for CoA is for #9 (Orpheus Class Drone Controller), #11 (Skorpios Class Heavy Bombard) and #24 (Janus Class small walker). The Janus could be quite interesting because it looks like it has some kind of energy weapon there - somewhat like the Fresnel. It is possible that #16 (Colossus Class Small Robot) may also be CoA but I'm not so sure.

It will be interesting to see the stats once they become available.

With the upcoming Storm of Steel expansion and the infantry tokens, I decided to bite the bullet and get my first DW land units - off to Tactics it was (on the way back to the station after a meeting in Perth) and bought a Covenant of Antarctica Armoured Battle Group. I'm actually quite curious to see if the land models are as well cast as the sea/air models I'm used to.

I am becoming quite impressed with the releases from Studio Sparta and they've now added some terrain to the range. Both the Military Base Island Set and the Industrial Complex Set look quite impressive

( and here's the photos to prove it. )

Spartan Games finally released the Invaders rules in a blog post. I'm still redaing the rules to figure out just how the Invaders will play - they certainly look tough, taking damage only on CR's but the drone clusters look a bit daunting too!
Now, if my Invaders starter pack would just arrive, all would be fine!

Just got the e-mail from Spartan Games to say that my Invaders bundle has now shipped. Should get here about 9th October, maybe - that's the usual rough shipping time.

Good game of Dystopian Wars last night
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Just how many times can Spartan Games impress me? (hint: the answer is endlessly!)

I bring you the Aufseher Class Assault Airship! There are so many things right with that model that I don't even know where to begin. I say again, Holy Crap (and I don't even play Prussians)!

Went into to Tactics today and bought a Landing Platforms and Small Landing Barge Set and a Large Landing Barge. The pictures do not do those models justice - the "small" landing barge is big and the "large" landing barge is just enormous, easily the biggest model I've seen yet for the Dystopian Wars range.

Rather than go all the way up to Perth for the Dystopian Wars Edition 1.1 Master Rulebook, I decided to drop into Asgard Games during my lunch break. Sadly, no book (but they have ordered it for me) but I did get a second Covenant of Antarctica Naval Battle Group!

As an additional bonus I dived into Cosmic Comics (right next door - so convenient!) and they had a hardback copy of The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor so I grabbed that too. Neither were what I went shopping for but both were good buys!

Had my second "serious" game of Dystopian Wars last night and enjoyed the game again.

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