Vaktathi wrote:DP9's history has definitely been quite odd, and while I've never really been privy to the details of most of the drama, it's clear there's been a lot of it from perusing the
DP9 forum (was especially amused by coming across a thread where one
DP9 employee and a former contributing writer got into a mighty nerdrage spat over the
RPG era CEF hovertank rules, the former contributor describing how he wrote the rules to match lore expectations and the other dude telling him they were insanely broken and unbalanced
), and a lot of older products/rules range from fantastic to "
wtf", and I'm honestly surprised
DP9 is still in business at all. I'm pretty sure Heavy Gear will continue to remain niche, but I'm far more enthused about the current rules and state of affairs than I ever was previously.
With regards to background material, depending on what faction you're going to play I'd say look for the old
RPG era Sourcebook for that faction (most can be found for cheap, $5-15 online, a few are more expensive/rare), and see if you can find one of the various "Life on Terra Nova" books for a good overview of everything.
The Fer
De Lance is a cool model, it's the Southern Republican Army's honor guard unit, very fancy-pants
Yeah love the Fer
De Lance design.
I'll keep an eye on it. Saw ebay had some. Including a collection. Prices were a bit high though. At least the
EU based ones. But i'll see.
Much appreciated feedback!
Automatically Appended Next Post: I purposely am no longer on facebook.
Nor do I want a twitter account.
I purposely am avoiding most social media.
Hate those things.
I'll mostly play solo anyway I think except when I can set up a rare game with my buddy.
I did hear of a lot of the nonsense from my buddy. I'm hoping the plastic transfer continues via Kickstarters and they just try to push on with a stable line.
It's not like there is a community of
HG over here.
Heck there is barely a truly active
GW community anymore. Except for the skirmish and boardgames of
GW.
40K/
AOS are more dead than alive.
Seems drama and horrible businesschoices have killed of many promising games. Privateer Press was going to start over here and before it got off the ground distribution was cut off at the source. Battletech I got my hands on relatively easily but with enormous order delays.
And when companies aren't shooting themselves in the foot there is the shadow of
GW. Who is the only one with a massive playerbase. And even there 'massive' is relative.
The only thing I really regret about
HG atm is the sorry state of distribution.
I loved the games I played of it with a buddy a few years ago.
Good system if not a bit convoluted here and there. Nice mech designs.
But in a store i've only seen some models when I was a teen. (blisters) And i'm 36 now...
