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DFC is pretty good about being consistent with weapon appearances through a fleet. After a game or two you can eyeball a ship and know exactly what it is capable of.

Very few ships have unique or special rules that separate them from the norm.

The ships with special rules tend to be the really big or really small ships that TTCombat has been adding the last two years instead of introducing a new faction.

It used to be true you could tell what a ship did at a glance, but that has become increasingly untrue. The vast majority of TTC designed ships have been unique rule encumbered.

The more I look at the Bioficers, the more I think the big weapons are misscaled. They look like 35mm guns kitbashed onto ships.

Bioficers are, I think, slowly growing on me too. To be fair, I give them credit for coming up with a genuinely different alien-looking set of alien ships, though they're definitely going to be a bit marmite.

Going by the preorders bit disappointing that the battle cruisers look to be the only resins that aren't direct only? Surprised that at least battleships aren't going to be available for retail too.

Light ship box are all weird amounts of each time, though looks like the resins will still be available. There are a dew design changes sprinkled in it seems, I don't like the new PHR corvette- appears the plastic one is rotated 90° for some reason.

Who knows perhaps they'll shift some direct only back into regular stock if the sales pick up well. It might just be them trying to cut down on having to produce LOTS of things all at once to restock 3rd parties in one big go; esp as resins will restock and manufacture much slower than plastics.

Alternating Activations? Snore.

Could someone kindly explain for me what is the lore on the Bioficers and how do they fit into the current war? I know there is a video on YouTube but it doesn't really say all that much beyond they seem to be AIs that craft creatures of flesh to fight and they seem to have no higher goal other than war. Are there any further nuggets of information beyond that? It sounds like Skynet that uses flesh robots instead.

That video is the full extent of Bioficer lore. We just have to wait for TTC

Iracundus wrote:
Could someone kindly explain for me what is the lore on the Bioficers and how do they fit into the current war? I know there is a video on YouTube but it doesn't really say all that much beyond they seem to be AIs that craft creatures of flesh to fight and they seem to have no higher goal other than war. Are there any further nuggets of information beyond that? It sounds like Skynet that uses flesh robots instead.

So far, there hasn’t been a lot of direct information about the Bioficers. However, there has been a lot of buildup.

Ever since first edition, the PHR (faction led by the White Sphere AI) have been landing in weird places on secret missions, their first priorities lying elsewhere than against the Scourge. They also made some kind of ominous warning to the UCM against launching the war. There were a couple short stories on the TTCombat community site around the time the Anomaly dropped that tied these actions to the Bioficers. Apparently they were trying to keep thr Bioficers from discovering or entering the war.

Available in the Bioficers Battlecruisers box, the Sanctum is a powerhouse! Primarily a carrier, this ship has cavernous launch bays for fighters & bombers. Lightly armed with only a Decon Blast as its main offensive armament. This weapon deconstructs any matter unfortunate enough to be facing it.

Where exactly are these so called "cavernous launch bays"?

I believe it's the holes on the sides of the ship but not positive.

chaos0xomega wrote:
I believe it's the holes on the sides of the ship but not positive.

That was my thought as well, but they could also be connection points on the model...

The holes on the side of the ship are standard for all their ships. They are kind of modular points on them - the wings (at least on the resin ship) can plug into any of those slots letting you vary the appearance of the ship.

The Launch Bays on this ship as I see it are the silver squares with the round holes that run along the whole length of the front and mid-body of the ship. Caverns that unleash a swarm of ships rising up from them.

So been out of drop stuff for a while - so was the scourge defeated? Earth liberated etc?

The_Real_Chris wrote:
So been out of drop stuff for a while - so was the scourge defeated? Earth liberated etc?

Nope and nope; a new faction just appeared out of nowhere and started slicing into the UCM and everyone else.

We haven’t got much of the new fluff yet. From one snippet, it does sound like the Scourge have been reeling and falling back since the Battle for Earth, but we won’t know for sure until the new lore comes out.


I also think the launch bays are the silver “silos” on top of the battlecruiser.

I thought earth was liberated, scourge are on the back foot but not defeated per se


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And yeah I didn't notice the silver "hatches" on the topside before, good call

There's a new 'Hanger' Sector in the pack, so people are messaging TT asking for a separate release.

Bioficer ships of light tonnage are uniquely advanced, efficient killers. Often in the vanguard of Bioficer incursions, these terrors were among the first encountered by the UCM, which was not reassuring. A single sprue contains enough parts to make 6 Bioficer ships.

Right middle just below looks like a second front for the larger ship in the set - I'm guessing that could be a strike carrier with more of those vents on top or another "I'm a gun with engines"

Its been bugging me for a while but I finally worked out what those ugly ships remind me of, replicators from SG1...

 ingtaer wrote:
Its been bugging me for a while but I finally worked out what those ugly ships remind me of, replicators from SG1...

That’s likely an intentional design cue. They also remind people of Lego bricks, which I think is likely also intentional.

Also probably why they’re growing on me.

I'm actually surprised we've not seen a hull connector for them to link two hulls into one.

Part of me wonders if that might end up being some kind of special battleship or dreadnought build

The connectors look the same size as the ones in the space station sprue. If so, the possibilities are pretty wild. If they aren't, TTC done fethed up for no good reason.

 slyphic wrote:
The connectors look the same size as the ones in the space station sprue. If so, the possibilities are pretty wild. If they aren't, TTC done fethed up for no good reason.

You mean the tiny nubbin connectors for the small turrets and little antennae? I’ll try to check the fit with an Anomoly ship when I get home, although the eventual plastics and the resin may not perfectly match up in size.


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It would be amusing to see one of the evil AIs going out of their way killing humans with their own weapons.

Yep, those. I was specifically thinking of the connector tubes that would let you offset or change the plane of various triangle formations of the Bioficer ships.

I don't believe the resistance sprue was compatible with them, so I don't think it's a given that even though they look like the same push-fit style they actually fit.

beast_gts wrote:
There's a new 'Hanger' Sector in the pack, so people are messaging TT asking for a separate release.

Spoiler:

They listened!

Hanger.

(But they're not cheap)

Double the price if ordered separately. It's direct order only so they don't have the excuse of packaging cost, they can just throw them in a plastic bag. What donkey-cave cash grab dick move.