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So, I was Hanging around my FLGS while they where setting up the paint rack. I was trying not to make a nuisance of myself. S i looked at some of the games in the back. part of the store. I saw a game called "Dust Tactics"
It looks interesting. You dont build the models but you play it.
Its a story where ww2 escalated to the later part of the century because of alien technology uncovered by the allies and stolen by the axis.
You have classic tanks(Like a panzer) on legs intead of tracks and it loked fun.
Anyone here ever try it?
I was thinkig of buying the starter(its cheap) to play with a friend to get him into war gaming.

There are several threads on it down below and a rather big rumour thread in the N&R section. Fun to play, it will get a proper table top version soon.

Dust Tactics is a great game. The models are quite detailed, and the starter set especially is great value for money. The rules are simple enough that your first game might take an hour, and subsequent games only 20mins. The unit cards are nicely done, the forces are well balanced.

You get special dice which are marked on 2 sides with 'hit' symbols - ie, everything hits on a 5+. Players alternate activating one unit at a time: that unit can perform two actions (move+shoot, move+move, shoot+move, shoot+shoot).
Its easy enough that my girlfriend started playing - she's avoided warhammer like the plague.

So.. yeah. I love it. give it a go: I think you'll find that the starter is very reasonably priced.

Absolutely brilliant game. The models are stunning and come pre-primed if you wish to paint them. Very easy to learn, simple game mechanics, but very tactical and strategic. A bit like Space Hulk, easy to learn, hard to master.

I cannot reccommend this game enough. There is loads of support for it, 4 expansions have so far been released for it, and every couple of months there are new models to be had.

Buy the starter set as its great value for money, and I bet within a month you are deciding what other units to buy.

I've been following it since it came out, but I don't play it. It's a good game with a following that's growing in strength. I actually played the demo of the tabletop version of the game (as opposed to the one with gridded boards) at Gen-Con last year, and it was fun, even for a game system I wasn't familiar with the mechanics of.

I would recommend it. The rules are lighter than 40K, but still good, and the worst I have to say about the models is that some of the stuff on the tanks is a bit fragile for what I want in gaming miniatures.

hotsauceman1 wrote:So, I was Hanging around my FLGS while they where setting up the paint rack. I was trying not to make a nuisance of myself. S i looked at some of the games in the back. part of the store. I saw a game called "Dust Tactics"
It looks interesting. You dont build the models but you play it.
Its a story where ww2 escalated to the later part of the century because of alien technology uncovered by the allies and stolen by the axis.
You have classic tanks(Like a panzer) on legs intead of tracks and it loked fun.
Anyone here ever try it?
I was thinkig of buying the starter(its cheap) to play with a friend to get him into war gaming.

If you like the game, you'll love this...

http://dust-models.com/

http://dust-models.com/link.php

Game plays pretty tight, as well. If you can swing it, try to get yourself one of the older starter sets.

If not, just pick up a few guys and try it out. very cool stuff.

Dust Tactics tends to play much more like chess. Very move-countermove orientated. I've had very fun and engaging games where each side only lost 1-2 units. I'm interested in seeing where the Dust Warfare rules take the game, but if it ends up too much like 40k, I'll probably stick to the Tactics rules.

I keep seeing units on sale on HLJ.com but they are fairly expensive.

However it looks like you could cannibalise and rebuild a lot of WW2 stuff as long as you had the rules and unit descriptor cards.

The overall aesthetic and background is somewhat reminiscent of PS2 game Ring of Red.

Per model the units can be a bit pricey (though still not as much as 40k in AUS) but, like Warmachine, you need far fewer models and units to make for a decent game.

I got the big starter box set a while back just because I wanted to paint the models inside (and I had an amazon gift card to burn). Never had a chance to play the game though, but I would like to.. but I'll be getting into Dust Warfare once it's released.