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Available in the Bioficers core ships box, the Fugue Frigate is one of many Frigates you'll need to hurl at your foes. Kitted out with a Light Vice this ship can decimate hulls but only in close action. Luckily closing the distance to your enemy is easy due to a hugely powerful thrust!

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 slyphic wrote:
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.

Yep. I've asked my 3D printer friends to keep their eyes open for any counts-as STLs, or I'll just kit-bash them.

The hangars look like they’d be pretty easy to kitbash.

Still, is it worse that TTCombat offered them separately for a steep price than if they never offered them separately at all?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Still, is it worse that TTCombat offered them separately for a steep price than if they never offered them separately at all?

It's certainly a Monkey's Paw...

They get no points for 'responding to customer requests' but being a bunch of dicks about it.

It's a wash. Not better, not worse, just kinda even. Par for the course (for TTC). I expected nothing better from them and was not disappointed to see them squander the opportunity to extend an olive leaf to existing players, and instead shove their hand in their face, making the 'pay up' gesture.

Irrespective of the morality of it, I don't like the model at all, but that might be just be the single angle we have of it. God forbid they pay their photographer to take a second picture of a product.

£12 for six small resin models isn’t exactly cheap but I don’t really think it rises to the level of spitting in the community’s face. Its pretty much the same price as a single cruiser and if you are buying the stand alone pack, you likely already have the other sectors so you are only buying them once. I don’t really understand the vitriol here?

I’d probably wait and buy the whole sector token set with the hangars eventually, but only because I am using the tokens as conversion bits for ships and stations.

Enlist with the Post Human Republic! They have cool cybernetics and built in Bluetooth options for all citizens. PHR vessels of light tonnage are highly advanced, resilient killers. Some, like the Ariadne, Castor, and Echo, are focused gun platforms built to excel and survive in a specific tactical position, be that defensive or offensive. Others though are specialists which offer unique and useful capabilities. The Ourania exists solely to assist the fleet in targeting, and the Pollux is a dedicated escort.

No hate to DZC, but I kinda want someone to photoshop an arrangement of 6 real world looking military vehicles that are all just different arrangements of the same parts.

I don't think you need photoshop to do that. box, treads/wheels, turret, antennae, lamp greebles...

Looks like there is only enough bulk lander bays to make one drop destroyer…which is fine by me, but a weird choice. The Pollux monitor design is the most different we’ve seen so far between the plastics and the resins. I’m not sure I like the Michael Bay Transformers look they have now. The corvettes are also pretty different, but they still look great.



Looks like there are new options for the destroyers, the cutters, and whoever those torpedoes are for.

I like the ships in this new starter set, reminds me of the Normandy from Mass Effect mixed with the Pillar of Autumn from Halo. This game has been on my radar for a while. Still need more info on the new edition before taking the plunge though. If it ends up being a downgrade that would be a shame.

Many Bioficer ships are able to carry Cells on a specialized hardpoint, while deployed these Cells provide a variety of support functions in a Bioficer fleet. Almost immobile themselves, Cells are able to be dropped off and picked back up by Porter capable ships with the matching hardpoint. Getting Torpedoes, Bulk Landers, and Bombardment Cells into position will be crucial to a Bioficer victory.

I expect most Bioficer players will either glue them to the cruisers or leave them off completely. Playing Lego with the ship components mid-game seems one gimmick too far to me.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I expect most Bioficer players will either glue them to the cruisers or leave them off completely. Playing Lego with the ship components mid-game seems one gimmick too far to me.

It would be fine if the parts were designed that way with magnet slots built into them even if you had to buy magnets on their own. Right now the resin exclusive ship and the early images we have suggest that whilst you can "pop them on and off" they aren't made with magnets in mind so it won't be a clean option to magnetize them or anything.

So yeah I figure as you get 6 in a box and most cruisers take 1 then most people will just mount them and keep a tab on which ships have them on/off manually.

Yeah problem is you need to be able to deploy them on the board independently of the ships as they drop them off, etc. and you can't buy them separately. It's the factions whole gimmick and shtick apparently that they have these little deployable mini space stations that provide dropship, bombardment, point defense and torpedoes capability that you need to actually be able to play the faction successfully and which the ships themselves do not offer (and apparently the cells can't be used until deployed off ship). If you glue them in then you basically can't play unless you get yourself some alternative tokens to represent them or whatever.also it's not just cruisers that take them, one of the frigates is also a cell-pusher.

I would model them separate and tow the cell on the back of the ship's base then

chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah problem is you need to be able to deploy them on the board independently of the ships as they drop them off, etc. and you can't buy them separately. It's the factions whole gimmick and shtick apparently that they have these little deployable mini space stations that provide dropship, bombardment, point defense and torpedoes capability that you need to actually be able to play the faction successfully and which the ships themselves do not offer (and apparently the cells can't be used until deployed off ship). If you glue them in then you basically can't play unless you get yourself some alternative tokens to represent them or whatever.also it's not just cruisers that take them, one of the frigates is also a cell-pusher.

But there's only 3 cruiser hulls and 6 central parts. So you can still have 3 left over after building most cruisers (exception is the one that looks like it can take two)

I'll go out on a limb here and say there has to be a way to magnetize the cells. That's such a core gimmick and so mostly well executed in Dropzone that surely they're designed to work that way.

Like look at the cruiser's cell divot. There's a male plug looking thing sticking out where the female socket on the back of the cell is. I'll bet they either push fit onto it like a peg and/or you can pop a magnet in both sides. Yeah, it looks like a long lever for the weight, but if they're all plastic and small, maybe it works?

It's obvious it's a push fit peg at worst

Probably be scratching paint tho.

The other thing is stability - at least on the resin one the front of the attachment kind of wants to sit/be glued onto the front of the ship as well as the peg at the back.

 Overread wrote:
The other thing is stability - at least on the resin one the front of the attachment kind of wants to sit/be glued onto the front of the ship as well as the peg at the back.

I had to glue it on the front as well. Hopefully the plastic version will fit better.

One of the UCMF's premiere electronic warfare ships, the Nuuk EM Harasser uses the ultra-fast frame of the UCM Cutter to position itself for optimal disruption. Its Haywire Blaster is able to focus its disruption effect on the target's defences, scanners, or navigation, allowing the rest of the fleet to close in for the kill.
Will you be deploying this ship?

It looks cool, but I hesitate to play with these kinds of gimmicky ships with their special rules I’d have to look up every turn. So, I’ll just have one to have it.

That is a cool looking ship!

The Cataphract Heavy Cruiser is a horrifying example of Bioficer ship design. Armed with a Ghost Orb and Heavy Lightvice, this ship is best used in close action and can easily cripple enemy ships at this range. Better yet, thanks to its Porter S-1 special rule, this Cruiser can hold and deploy Cells!

It's one of those credit card shaped multitools

That is impressively ugly

I'll I buy bioficers I'll probably skip heavy cruisers. I like the way the reg cruisers look w cells but the heavy cruisers look silly to me

Rate my paintjob

Now glue some lego plates to it