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Eilif wrote:Thanks,
Somehow I missed that. At least he's still involved.

That black widow with jets "Black Mamba" would have been cool to see

I wanted one, heck i wanted all those and then some to add to my armies.

Here is an overview off all the planned models, a few of them made it before the end....but so many more would have been great. the allies in particular are lacking in artillery options so seeing a walking priest made me a bit excited.

https://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/2019/dust-1947-previews-4/

FrozenDwarf wrote:

 Eilif wrote:
Thanks,
Somehow I missed that. At least he's still involved.

That black widow with jets "Black Mamba" would have been cool to see

Thing is, he moust likely aint, all thouse images was from right before he shut down the game.

That is why i am hoping the new company taking over will continue with the previous releases, but it is all up in the air.

Either way i was fortunate enough to grab PDFs of all the available cards as well as a hard copy of the main rule book plus a bunch of the missions before the related online resources went away.
So we can still play the game in full.

 aphyon wrote:

Eilif wrote:Thanks,
Somehow I missed that. At least he's still involved.

That black widow with jets "Black Mamba" would have been cool to see

I wanted one, heck i wanted all those and then some to add to my armies.

Here is an overview off all the planned models, a few of them made it before the end....but so many more would have been great. the allies in particular are lacking in artillery options so seeing a walking priest made me a bit excited.

https://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/2019/dust-1947-previews-4/

FrozenDwarf wrote:

 Eilif wrote:
Thanks,
Somehow I missed that. At least he's still involved.

That black widow with jets "Black Mamba" would have been cool to see

Thing is, he moust likely aint, all thouse images was from right before he shut down the game.

That is why i am hoping the new company taking over will continue with the previous releases, but it is all up in the air.

Either way i was fortunate enough to grab PDFs of all the available cards as well as a hard copy of the main rule book plus a bunch of the missions before the related online resources went away.
So we can still play the game in full.

I'm grateful to say we grabbed a lot files, resources and the like before they disappeared as well.

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:
Very cool. Are you playing free-measure?


Automatically Appended Next Post:
How are all of you feeling about the CMON acquisition?

Based on the comic preview minis, it seems like CMON will probably be treating DUST more like a board game going forward at a smaller scale that isn't compatible with the legacy minis. At a glance, they did not appear to be scaled to DUSTs 1/48 scale and look more in line with Zombicide, etc.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:
Very cool. Are you playing free-measure?


Automatically Appended Next Post:
How are all of you feeling about the CMON acquisition?

Based on the comic preview minis, it seems like CMON will probably be treating DUST more like a board game going forward at a smaller scale that isn't compatible with the legacy minis. At a glance, they did not appear to be scaled to DUSTs 1/48 scale and look more in line with Zombicide, etc.

Paolo on Facebook said the CMON stuff was 1/48.

oh sweet, nevermind me then!

Well the comic figs has 40k style bases but i guess that is nitpicking, the industrial plate design of the bases could be seen as a little out of place, but then again it was unique.

 Monkeysloth wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:




How are all of you feeling about the CMON acquisition?

Based on the comic preview minis, it seems like CMON will probably be treating DUST more like a board game going forward at a smaller scale that isn't compatible with the legacy minis. At a glance, they did not appear to be scaled to DUSTs 1/48 scale and look more in line with Zombicide, etc.

Paolo on Facebook said the CMON stuff was 1/48.

A quick last minute game tonight. nothing fancy-150 point Ctulhu VS SSU. the other player wanted to try out the monsters.

The avatar of Ctulhu did some serious work. but finally went down, the avatar of Nyarlathotep was a much tougher nut to crack and killed quite a few units.

MVP for my side had to be the winter child. russian iron man really racked up the kills.

At the end it was basically down to the beasty and my tank....tank came out on top. good times.

Sadly my groups have moved away from Dust since the dissolution of the company. I still have all my stuff, but we haven't played in ages. Looks like a blast there.

We needed to get some DUST time in at the FLGS, had a couple extra players join in to try out the game taking over a couple units.

!75 point game. scenario-midnight run

There were 2 ammo crates on the table. slightly offset from the center in opposite positions. the players had 6 turns to get infantry to the farther crate and drag them back to their deployment zones. the battle takes place at night so ranges are reduced to 24" for all units. giving the slower shorter ranged SSU steel guards a bit of an advantage. it was as expected a brutal fight. with 3 entire steel guards units getting removed while trying to get their crate. the last squad barely survived and managed to pull off a win on turn 3. the guards lived up to their reputation and did not go down easy having an improved infantry save and damage resilience.

In total the SSU lost a steel guards fire support unit, tesla unit, anti infantry unit. a single combat engineer walker, a light gatling gun walker and the winter child (Russian iron man) . 12 models

The axis forces lost a grenadier laser rifle squad. a tommy cooker support gun squad, a death ray support laser squad, a medium walker, heavy walker and Sigrid (character). 12 models.

One of the guys at the store wanted to try out the mythos Cthulhu army for dust so we did a quick 150 point battle against the axis airborne forces.


The air support for the falshirmjaeger was the key to victory as they had limited weapons to hurt the big monsters as they counted as class 5 or class 7 vehicles. the focus on my side was to kill everything he had that could fly and thus melee attack the aircraft. it came down to a critical failed assault by the avatar of Cthulhu leaving one aircraft alive with twin laser cannons and no anti air capability left in the mythos army. he still had the avatar of Nyarlathotep that was just wrecking the ground units, but with no way to hurt the plane that could kill everything on the ground the mythos force conceded.

We did another chase the alien mission and this time there was no good outcome for the alien....on one side we have axis zombies and on the other Cthulhu monsters. every time a unit activates for both players the alien moves a random direction. he ended up spending most the game running in circles around the center ruined building. it was a very close game with the zombies taking a beating from the big monsters. but they still managed to win by getting the alien far enough away to successfully capture him.

Finally got some DUST in again.

Mission- plane crash

the objective was to search for missing documents from the crash starting on turn 4. requiring a double success roll on a search action by infantry. the objective is then placed withing 4" of the search unit and 8" of the crash. it can be claimed if there are no enemy units wihtin 8" of the objective and the search unit is within 4".

The table was heavy woodlands

Points-125

Forces-
axis heavy grenadiers with 2 characters

Allied mixed force of heavy ranger/desert scorpions and 6 characters.

The start.






we picked away at each other but failed to find the objective on turn 4, the panzer prince managed to find it on turn 5 and we spent lots of back and forth trying to eliminate the opposing forces that rushed in to take the objective. the axis forces managed to chase the allies off the objective and pull out a win on turn 6 (of 8).

I wasn't actually supposed to be playing dust, but the guy who was supposed to fight the axis forces was out sick so i filled in with my allied force.

I went really phaser heavy including a large number of desert scorpions units.

It was a bloody slog and i was down to 3 units at the end, but i managed to kill everything he had that could hurt my heavy walker, giving me a narrow victory.

Got some 3d printed "dustified" pershing IIs in my force. so i ran through one of my oldhammer 40K players through a training game of DUST to give him some new experience. '

now he wants to build his own force. luckily i have copies of all the unit cards and rules. and i have found some STL files for the vehicles and infantry.

Since it was his first game, we didn't do any special scenarios. as it is with DUST it was a pretty bloody game. with only a few units left on the table at the end. we played 165 points allies VS axis.

Got a larger DUST game in tonight just shy of 250 points.

We did the operation titan mission. with various ways to earn points by killing enemy vehicles.

The Allied force was a heavy phaser tank unit supported by heavy ranger.

i had a buddy of mine 3d print some of the "dustified" units like pershing IIs



I faced him with the steel guards SSU force.

I was overall a lighter force, but most of my units were damage resilient.



For most of the game we were neck and neck on score. i was winning the attrition war, but started loosing on victory conditions. in the end i ran out of time (8 turns) and enough AT firepower to turn the game around. still a good fight with some silly levels of durability. (it took 4 tanks shooting my AT infantry squad to finally take them down).

Just a small introductory game tonight. put mythos up against axis forces.

it was a very close game with only rasputan and his command squad VS a single heavy grenadier and a laser heavy walker that had a single point of health left.

the win went to the axis force when he remembered he could back up and outrange me-

We played the capture the alien scenario again because it is fun and i was teaching a new player.

this time he tried out the allied heavy ranger forces and i took the axis paratroopers.

the paratroopers are a glass hammer. with the really heavy lifting being done by the support aircraft. even so they managed to do enough damage to help finish off the really dangerous allied walkers and anti-infantry jump units.

The allies should have brought the AA platform instead of the artillery version. but still fun overall.

This time we did a slightly bigger game at 165 points. my opponent wanted to run the SSU again. so i decided to throw somehting at him he hadn't battled yet.

i ran a phaser heavy armored list. his heavy infantry of course being some of the best in the game shrugged off the damage, but his tanks losing the only save they could get (cover) was a bit punishing.

we played the 3-2-1 contact mission with the spaced objective each one being worth more points the father it is from your end of table starting zone.

While he managed to get his infantry to the center of the table to contest it, it wasn't enough to overcome my early gains.

Just a heads up for anybody looking for DUST walker proxies-

Found these fantastic STL files that really fit the setting-

https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Scoutsifer?show=store

DUST is alive and well.

Thanks to the availability of 3d printing, my friend decided to play test the IJN to find out what worked for him before he ordered the STL files.

For the first game he tried an infantry heavy list with 2 AA walkers mostly focusing on the ninja railgun teams

for the second list he traded out 4 of his 7 ninja railgun teams for 2 of his railgun walkers (tengu)

Aside from that switch he kept most of it the same-

ninja command squad, ninja infiltration team, named character sniper, named character ninja railgun solo, vehicle pilot named character solo, (3) ninja railgun teams and 2 of each of the walkers AA/railguns

clocking him in at just under 150 points which is about a standard large game size.

The improved cammo for the ninjas is rather annoying since you cannot directly shoot at them unless you are withing 8" in the first game the plane was his demise since it is fast enough to get right up on him. once i destroyed both his AA walkers it was pretty much game over.

Game 2 was much different. as the Tengu have AA capability as well as one shot tank killing power if they hit with both railgun shots. VS the allied bulldogs heavy phaser cannons it was pretty much a game of who lands the shots first. as both ignore cover. the railguns have the advantage of extended range (unlimited VS 40")

It was a good experience fighting an new force. in both games we ran the chase the alien scenario.

One of the guys i play MCP with is a big WWII wargamer with flames of war and bolt action. since he likes how MCP game mechanics work i ran him through a game of DUST 1947. he opted to play the fallschirmjager VS the allied heavy rangers.

We had 3 objectives down the main road, even though i was running a dedicated AA unit, dealing with all his planes was difficult. i managed to kill one, along with his anti-tank squad but he pretty well worked my forces over.