The D6 Generation Ep 70: Dystopian Wars

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**malfred**

Thanks for the quick rundown. I've given up on podcasts in general. I just can't follow them.

**Ruckdog**

Master-Terraformer wrote:Thanks for the kind words, guys. The intro was a lot of fun to make, and you might see it re-appear over at Spartan Games sometime in the future . . .

To be honest, I'd have to say DW is the strongest rules set (although some people on the forums have started to find places where the rules seem to break down a little, we haven't locally, and the people who have aren't the most . . . gracious folks on the site, so not sure if they're just Debbie Downers). Other than the fiddly fighter fuel tracking (which I've taken care of with the Litko dial system . . . if it ever shows up . . . ), the rules seem very well written.

Also MUCH stronger than the previous two games is the background and the graphic design. MUCH more time/effort/space has been dedicated to the background (see Russ' example of the FSA history above for starters), and they have a for-real artist now, rather than the computer graphics that dominated in the F:A book, or the 'oldy-timey' graphics of U.S.

I like all three, so don't get me wrong. I'm HOPING this one has some legs, not the least because I'm putting a LOT more time into the X-Cam for this one, but also the models are SO much better, the rules are SO much smoother, and the release schedule is so quick it means AWESOME models of DIFFERENT types will be released almost every month for the next several months . . .

Thanks again, guys!

~Craig

I generally agree that the DW book is probably the best one yet to come from Spartan. They really corrected the biggest problem that I had with the FA book, which was the lack of background info.

Speaking of which, I heard what you were saying about the Blazing Sun and the Greater East-Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, and after going back through the background page in the book I think I disagree with your interpretation. It seems to me like the Blazing Sun really is fighting a war for regional dominance against the FSA, Russia, and Brittania. The map shows that China, Indo-China, and much of the East Indies are either neutral or under the control of Brittania. As such, the Blazing Sun strikes me as a Japanese-dominated empire that is figthing to establish the "Co-prosperity Sphere," rather than a true coalition of Asian states. As a result, for the Blazing Sun the Dystopian Wars amount to a kind of amalgamation of the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and WW II.

**Armandloft**

Great show, gentlemen and lady.

The Dystopian War review was awesome. I wish that my budget and gaming friends would allow me to get into it...instead, I'll just long for that little piece of fun.

Thanks for mentioning the Leviathan audio book. I checked it out on the basis of the review, and was easily taken into a Dystopian Wars like world. Of course it had me at Alan Cummings (Nightcrawler in the X-Men movies, Satuninus in 'Titus') doing the readings.