Dystopian Wars - new miniatures on preview (Steampunk)

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**Orlanth**

Thr nineteenth century arms race is hotting up.

Its a boat.... its a chainsaw.... no its a British submarine.

http://www.spartangames.co.uk/dystopian_preview_page_vanguard.html

Japanese honourable mechanical squid from Japan.

http://www.spartangames.co.uk/dystopian_preview_page_ika.html

US fighting robots. Boo-yah

http://www.spartangames.co.uk/dystopian_preview_page_john_henry.html

**Mad4Minis**

Eh, I dunno about this mini range...flying steampunk robots...seems a bit much to me.

**cygnnus**

Cool, but not enough skulls!

Valete,

JohnS

**tinfoil**

I"m loving the look, myself.

**Anung Un Rama**

Chainsaw submarines. Why didn't I ever think of that?!

**shinzuer**

Nice ! But they need to get a move on with the new Firestorm Armada ships.

**Erasoketa**

Anung Un Rama wrote:Chainsaw submarines. Why didn't I ever think of that?!

Cos you didn't see (or read) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

**jayjester**

Pic 1: Ork submersable. Oh yeah!

**DarkTraveler777**

The John Henry may be what gets me to buy into this range. I have the rule book and while the setting is interesting the rules didn't really turn me on and the fluff seemed rather poorly written and derivative to the point of being painful to read. But I really like that steam robot so damn...these guys may end up squeezing a few more dollars out of me yet.

**The Dreadnote**

I get a strong Metal Slug vibe from these. All the sub needs is an enormous laser turret!

**sonofruss**

The squid sub has cannons on the end of the tenticals

**Mr. Burning**

Ika and John Henry are piquing my interest.

**Eumerin**

I was a bit surprised when I found out that the giant robot was available to the US-themed military and not the Japanese-themed military...

But stylistically, it fits. The style is definitely more American than Japanese. You'd need to go in a different direction with a Japanese-themed robot to make it look "correct". Something along the lines of Big O might work as a starting point, but it would still need to be heavily "steampunkified".

**Empchild**

I like most of it, but I am not a fan of the robot.

**Eumerin**

Prussian giant robot preview images are here - http://www.spartangames.co.uk/dystopian_preview_page_metzger.html

And on a tangential note, the rulebook explains that the accident described in the FSA robot's preview is the origin of the FSA phrase "Giving someone the finger."

**JOHIRA**

Oh dear, someone showed the Iron Giant a gun again, didn't they.

**Scottywan82**

JOHIRA wrote:Oh dear, someone showed the Iron Giant a gun again, didn't they.

You win!

**manoknok**

John Henry said to his captain, a man ain’t nothin’ but a man, but if you bring that steam drill round, I’ll beat it fair and honest, I’ll die with my hammer in my hand, but I’ll be laughing, because you cant replace a steel drivin’ man

**Pael**

What's not to like about this game!! I thought the storyline is awesome and the minis are spectacular. You really need to see them in person before you make a snap judgement about them. When I actually held the Prussian Sky Fortress in my hand I was shocked by the level of detail and the sheer size of it.

**sonofruss**

So much so that I am painting a sky fortress for a friend and bought one for myself just to paint another one if I play I think it will be the Antarctic group

**Shellfishguy**

Wow, I really like that Prussian robot. What a great line of models.

**Kroothawk**

Here a preview of the Prussian Metzger (=butcher) class Robot:

**manoknok**

What is the scale say to a space marine? Anyone know?

**sonofruss**

This is more of an epic scale game the ships are rather tiny to big the zeppelin is about 4" long so I am guessing the robot will be rather large say 5 to 6" tall give or take.

**CT GAMER**

Empchild wrote:I like most of it, but I am not a fan of the robot.

The Iron Giant dissaproves of your post...

**Manchu**

Orlanth wrote:US fighting robots. Boo-yah

http://www.spartangames.co.uk/dystopian_preview_page_john_henry.html

Liberty Prime is not amused.

Spartan is really shaping some of this stuff up, making me eat my words. Here's hoping it just gets better.

**deleted20250424**

Empchild wrote:I like most of it, but I am not a fan of the robot.

Funny thing about that to me.....

I was not interested at all in the FSA until I saw that robot.

I guess I'll have to get the FSA force going along with my Prussian and Blazing Sun.

**frozenmilk**

I really like what they're doing with the models and the concept but I've yet to read any of the rules or fluff. The squid is very cool!

**Kroothawk**

Some update: Different from the original plan, France will become a full fraction ... with antigrav ships

Spartan Games wrote:When we first defined the 8 nations for the game the list was as follows:

Wave 1 – Book 1
Kingdom of Britannia
Prussian Empire
Empire of the Blazing Sun
Federated States of America (FSA)

The second set of nation releases were defined as:

Wave 2 – Book 2
Covenant of Antarctica
Russian Coalition
Ottoman Empire
League of Italian States

Mixed into this is what we call the Alliance Nations, into which we have the following nations:

Republic of France
Chinese Federation
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Arabian Republic of Egypt
Socialist Union of South America

As we kept developing the back story and models for the game, looking ahead to when the next sets of nations come out, we also evaluated the roles of several nations in the game. One that we decided required a change in status was France, so it changed from being an Alliance nation to a full boxed nation. This also fitted in with our plans to alter the release schedule for the Covenant of Antarctica.

We’ve been slow at rolling out information to you all this year, so my apologies for that, but the wave of support for Dystopian Wars has kept us all very busy here. Now that we’ve found our feet we’ll hopefully be articulating our plans to you all in a better way. As to the French Battleship, well its technology is some of the more advanced in use in Dystopian Wars, albeit stolen from the Covenant by the misguided Markov.

As you can see from many of the models in the game the idea of lightweight alloys that allow giant machines of war to fly or hover is commonplace. Just look at the John Henry Robot or Prussian Sky Imperium Fortress. The French Battleship brings the concept of anti-gravity motion to the world, the model being more of a skimmer than a flying ship as such – it also floats and uses the anti-gravity modules for manoeuvring. More flying models will follow and more exciting technologies to hopefully amuse you and make your game play enjoyable.(...)

New Alliance ships models are developing well. Getting renders and some web pages made soon. Includes out first two Dreadnought models.

Repair Space Station model finished. We're most happy with this model, and has a nice scenario to go with it.

Alliance PDFs are sadly delayed, that's my fault. Other guys have done their bit, I just haven't had chance to assemble all the bits yet.

New documents for the web site include: Spartan Games Space Pirate Rules and Stats, new Civilian Vessel rules and Stats, Space Station and Installation rules and Stats.

Here is also a preview of Dystopian terrain:

**Scottywan82**

This is why I lovehate SG. NOTHING!!! For a month plus. Then this.

Every time I get out... yeah.

Wait, where is:

New Alliance ships models are developing well. Getting renders and some web pages made soon. Includes out first two Dreadnought models.

Repair Space Station model finished. We're most happy with this model, and has a nice scenario to go with it.

Alliance PDFs are sadly delayed, that's my fault. Other guys have done their bit, I just haven't had chance to assemble all the bits yet.

New documents for the web site include: Spartan Games Space Pirate Rules and Stats, new Civilian Vessel rules and Stats, Space Station and Installation rules and Stats.