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Warwickscire

Kickstarter LIVE!

Current planned goals:


£40k - Goal Reached
£70k - Race Pins (Bolt-on)
£100k - Hostile Map Set (Bolt-on)
£110k - Faction dice (Bolt-on)
£130k - SHALTARI PLASTIC STARTER SET UNLOCKS (Bolt-on)
£140k - Acrylic Tokens (Bolt-on)
£150k - 1 Free Scourge Cruiser Sprue (1 cruiser with all upgrades) (All backers) + 1 Free Scourge Frigate Sprue (4 frigates) (High Rank Backers)
£190k - Alien Map Set (Bolt-on)£195k - Art Print 2 (Bolt-on)
£200k - High Rank Backers - 1 Free UCM Frigate Sprue (makes 4 Frigates)
£210k - PHR PLASTIC STARTER FLEET UNLOCKS (Bolt-on)
£230k - Art Print 3 (Bolt-on)
£240k - Nocturnal Map Set (Bolt-on)
£250k - Kickstarter Exclusive Paper Radar Map (Bolt-On and Free for High Rank Backers)
£275k - Launch Assets Pack (Bolt-On)
£290k - Dropfleet Commander Bases Pack (Bolt-On)
£300k - High Rank Backers - 1 Free Shaltari Frigate Sprue (makes 4 Frigates)
£310k - Collectors Edition 2 up KS Exclusive UCMF Atlantis model (256mm length)
£325k - Miniature Unlock to be announced
£350k - High Rank Backers - 1 Free PHR Frigate Sprue (makes 4 Frigates)

£370k – Activation card pack
£390k – (Free to all Backers) Deluxe rulebook extras for all rulebooks
£400k – UCMF Admiral T-shirt
£415k – (Free to all Backers) Desktop and screen saver assets download pack
£425k – (1 Free to each High Rank Backer) Civilian Cruise liner (ship and base)
£440k – Eden Prime Map pack
£460k – Deluxe cluster upgrade pack (resin)
£475k – Dropfleet Commander Poster range
£500k – Frigate Bonanza
£525k – ???
£550k – ???
£575k – ???
Final Day unlock: (Free to all Backers) Dropfleet Commander KS exclusive T-Shirt

Free Rewards for all backers:

£150k - 1 Free Scourge Cruiser Sprue (makes 1 cruiser with all upgrades)
£200k - 1 Free UCM Cruiser Sprue (makes 1 cruiser with all upgrades
£300k - 1 Free Shaltari Cruiser Sprue (makes 1 cruiser with all upgrades)
£350k - 1 Free PHR Cruiser Sprue (makes 1 cruiser with all upgrades)

£500k - Frigate Bonanza (Super Reward) 4 Frigates for each race (16 Frigates total!)

Backer number Free Rewards:

2000 backers: UCM Credit
3000 backers: UCM Dog Tag


Timed based Rewards:

25th November - KS Exclusive Battlecruisers for Scourge, Shaltari and PHR (Bolt-on)






Shaltari fleet:











Box cover:








UCM

The below shows some of the possible ship classes that can be built just from the standard UCM Cruiser Sprue.






Older news
Spoiler:

Cavebreaker


Ramses, the Firstborn


Gunnar, the Ferryman


General Arthur J. Wade


Jocasta Caine, Battle Vizier


Jessie Adams, Guide of the Damned



The Dropzone Commander Special Edition Rulebook - limited to 1500 with some being sold at Gencon


New Units:

Resistance ATVs:


UCM Flak Teams


Scourge Vampires


PHR Valkyries


Shaltari Samurai


Latest newsletter

New Dropfleet ships previews:










Spotted this on the Hawk Forums. Some preview art and unit concepts:

Some nice (and large) artwork within:

This year we wanted to do something a little different!
Since Patrice joined the Team, Hawk Wargames has been able to produce some great artwork for Dropzone Commander. We want to share some new pieces with you, alongside a few other things...

With each piece of artwork you are invited to enter a caption competition to describe the scene, max 100 words, with the best one from each piece winning our show only model (the escape pod). (A winner will be announced the following day for each piece).

So, without further ado... to start the Advent Calendar off, The UCM Colonial Legionnaire.


"CIC, UCMS Avenger"



New unit concepts:

Commander Isis


Catos Ferrum


Karl Foley's Hellhog


Marcus Borros' Hades



Still waiting for the scourge preview...

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You don't happen to know what the approximate dimensions of the Marcus Borros' Hades? I don't play dropzone commander, so sorry if thats a dumb question I just love that model and want to buy one when its released

Everything I say, barring quotes and researched information, is my personal opinion. Not fact.

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http://www.hawkwargames.com/products/hades-super-heavy-walker

135mm
Been out for a while now, afaik
   
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Warwickscire

 Bolognesus wrote:
http://www.hawkwargames.com/products/hades-super-heavy-walker

135mm
Been out for a while now, afaik


I know. This is a variant Hades that hawk have today posted on their Facebook as part of this years advent calendar. Speculation is that it's Marcus Borros hades.
   
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England

I initially wondered what on earth they were doing having 'old' models as this years Advent Calender but these models have some slight differences to represent them housing a 'famous commander'.

Looking forward to the Scourge ones as we are a bit starved fro HQ choices.

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Please don’t necro to ask if there’s been any news.
 
   
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Yeah, getting a desolator with a 'proper' gun will be pretty awesome.
   
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gf got me a desolator and Hades at Salute last year, while I love them both I'm thinking of scourgifying the Hades and using it as Cavebreaker's annihilator - shame that'll mean I can't use the Desolator though.

Will be very interesting to see what Hawk produce for the scourge, not a massive fan of the stock annihilator

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Charax absolutely nailed it.
 
   
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 Bolognesus wrote:
http://www.hawkwargames.com/products/hades-super-heavy-walker

135mm
Been out for a while now, afaik


Ah thank you very much

Everything I say, barring quotes and researched information, is my personal opinion. Not fact.

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"I barely believe my dice are not sentient and conspiring against me." - knas ser 
   
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Charleston, SC

Isis's particle cannon is terrifying on that skimmer chassis. A beautiful model that I can not wait to kill. That said, I want to see Salakhan. Anything to do with the M3 Alexander makes me incredibly happy.

Also found some more artwork on their facebook page from their advent calendar. Put it under the spoiler tag.
Spoiler:
Scourge Razorworm:


Shaltari Brave:


Scourge Warrior:

 
   
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Warwickscire

Today's reveal:



Artwork for the forthcoming dropfleet? Tantalising...
   
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Shadeglass Maze

Very cool! Although everyone I know is jumping into Star Wars Armada, so dropfleet is going to have competition. It's a slightly different market, and maybe the rising tide of space game popularity will raise all boats, but the timing might be unfortunate.
   
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Augsburg/Germany

Armada is quite different from Dropfleet so there is not that much shared market

André Winter
L'Art Noir - Game Design and Translation Studio 
   
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SoCal

As long as a single frigate isn't $40, I'm far more excited for Dropfleet. (I already have all the Star Wars ships I need. Probably. Maybe. For now.)

   
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Shadeglass Maze

Well I'm planning for both but I think Armada will hit a lot sooner. Hopefully they'll reveal more about it, I'm definitely interested!
   
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Augsburg/Germany

They revealed a lot about it on the FFG-website.

Dropfleet will have a plastic starter as far as I know and will probabaly see the light of day during GenCon for the first time.

André Winter
L'Art Noir - Game Design and Translation Studio 
   
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That's a nice Caiman. Shame I have a strider heavy army, but I will probably get one as I get more grav tanks.

hello 
   
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Here's todays preview. The dirty Scourge:

   
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 Daba wrote:
That's a nice Caiman. Shame I have a strider heavy army, but I will probably get one as I get more grav tanks.

Yeah, I'm unwilling to trade in my warstriders, no matter how nice the commander-in-Caiman model is.
   
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Augsburg/Germany

Wekk, caimain makes a nice strider support, so why not use both.

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 zedmeister wrote:
 Bolognesus wrote:
http://www.hawkwargames.com/products/hades-super-heavy-walker

135mm
Been out for a while now, afaik


I know. This is a variant Hades that hawk have today posted on their Facebook as part of this years advent calendar. Speculation is that it's Marcus Borros hades.


Ah.
... they all look so alike?
   
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 Duncan_Idaho wrote:
Wekk, caimain makes a nice strider support, so why not use both.

Oh I am . But Isis, the special named commander whose uniquely armed Caiman mount that model represents, cannot take warstriders.

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Full imagines of the new Desolator variant are up. Likely the version belonging to Eden's Dinosaur.



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It's so very, very awesome.

However, the one thing I'm not sure about is... I don't think it'll look right if I angle it Reaper style, like my normal desolator.

   
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Warwickscire

Todays art reveal:

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I love that artwork, but it does raise questions such as "where is the Admiral's adjutant?" and "why didn't he iron the Admiral's uniform?"


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Forest and Bubba look pretty sharp, though.

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Warwickscire

Oh yes!



Salakhan!!

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Warwickscire

And the full reveal. Brutal:

   
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Absolutely stoked about Salakhan. This is the one I have been waiting to see.

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Whoa. What faction is that for? Extremely menacing tank... love it.
   
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Virginia

Salakahn is part of the Resistance faction.

If you take him you get to take tanks as standard. Not sure how viable that is but I'm doing it.
   
 
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