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The angle of the render for the Scourge ship makes the gun almost look like its just randomly placed there. I think a 3D view would be far superior at showing off the post and style. I'm certainly not opposed to ships with big guns on them - but yeah it looks a little odd from this angle.

I don't like the oversized guns on the spaceships, it makes them look more 40k like and less grounded.
I'm really excited for a 32mm Dropzone game, but i fear that it takes focus away from Dropzone and Dropfleet. One-off recent minis would be preferable in my opinion

My friends call my Perth "The UCMF Overcompensator". I'm afraid it will have to relinquish that crown. Also, I magnetized the prow of my BB, but I don't think I used enough magnets to hold that monstrous front end up.

Need a better view of the ventral side of the Beelzebub to pass judgement, but 'big hanging gun' looked dumb on the Remus (and the Slaughterer in zone, and the Eradicator's Bio-Mortar variant ... and the Obliterator's stupid hat gun. Man, I really hate big weapons hanging off models) and I'm not feeling it either. That said, I was also down on the initial 'Corsair with Arc Caster' (R.I.P. Brigand, you died for Lewis' stupid Great Renaming), and it got better, so fingers crossed Dave tweaks them til they're good.

I'm both surprised and also not surprised by the number of people excited for 32mm dropnoun. Do it, get that skirmish money, it's a bottomless well apparently. Just don't neglect the more interesting games in the process.

Still haven't heard if Dave is running it, or if its a separate team. The models all certainly look like they're from the Carnevale and Rumbleslam designers, not Dave.

Oh. I didn’t know skirmish level was finally/actually happening.

What’s is the “everything we know” for it so far?

Not much, actually. I gather from FB that TTCombat still deny rumors of DropSquad even while posting pictures of it. They may be stand alone miniatures allowing TTCombat to test the waters before committing.

There are some models I'd love to have in 32mm from the dropzone universe, but they are mostly vehicles to be honest.

Will be interesting for me, as I don’t really know what any of the troops look like. Having only gotten Dropfleet stuff, and not really looked at Zone models or any artwork of people/creatures if there are any in the books.

Like, no clue what Scourge are or look like.

Danny76 wrote:
Will be interesting for me, as I don’t really know what any of the troops look like. Having only gotten Dropfleet stuff, and not really looked at Zone models or any artwork of people/creatures if there are any in the books.

Like, no clue what Scourge are or look like.

Scourge are like the Goa'uld; they're alien parasites that puppet sentient creatures for their own ends.
What's interesting is that the infected basically become vampires; they become pale, sensitive to sunlight, overheat really quickly and as such develop a strong thirst for liquids. This includes blood, and I do recall it being mentioned that scourge soldiers were seen drinking blood from corpses on the battlefield.

Their vehicles are piloted by scourge parasites who failed to find a host in time. Scourge can't live long without a host and can only infect a host early in their life cycle iirc. If they fail to find a host before then they basically have to live in a vat of black liquid.

Earlier in the thread there's a 32mm model of a scourge warrior.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I gather from FB that TTCombat still deny rumors of DropSquad even while posting pictures of it.

A series of one-off miniatures does not a skirmish game make.

chaos0xomega wrote:
A series of one-off miniatures does not a skirmish game make.

Except when it does.



https://community.ttcombat.com/2022/12/16/advent-calendar-2022-day-16-drop-universe-news/

"there’s no active development on Striketeam Commander outside of these collectors’ pieces"

"Striketeam Commander isn’t the only thing we’re actively working on"

Good ol' TT, incapable of speaking coherent English.

Sounds like they want to see how well these minis sell before they commit.

Sounds like they want to use the IP to increase sales and are branching out in a few experimental directions. Being clear that this line is a one off release, but likely using the sales data from it.

If it sells well enough and fast enough and all then they might commit to a full game later; if it flounders or fails or everyone is all talk but no buy behind it then they might abandon the idea.

Of course gamers love long term stuff and hate short term so its very nature of being a specialist short term release could scupper its sales rate

Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 20 – Get Starstruck with Dropfleet Commander

PDF Link (15 Admirals in total)

The Red Baron is a broken combo, allowing a player to bypass saves on an otherwise lackluster weapon, which is already so point efficient players spamming it with Galileo support for the extra range and crit bonus is the main resistance meta.

That improves a cruiser from doing 4 damage a round to 8. Which is generally passing the crippling threshold (for an additional 2 average damage) which is enough to destroy most cruisers in a single round of firing. Only PHR cruisers would survive (on 1 hull point left).

This feels less like a well thought out expansion to the game and more like Flightwing Commander. Something to mostly ignore after January.

I'm pretty disappointed, there's basically nothing here that would change force orgs, and the abilities are per TTC's usual all over the place from extremely meh to "did you fethers even playtest this? Even once?" And many of them don't even really make much sense.

I want to especially call out Quetzalcoatl for an ability that has no mention in his blurb whatsoever, isn't limited to his ship's weapons, and you can see the entire thought process on display 'dur, uranium is radioactive'. That's it. That's all the further they thought this through. They based the ability off the name of the ship class, not the commander. It's like if there was a commander whose backstory is about superlative time-on-target munition use, but his ship is named the Fiesta, and thus his ability is some gak about piñatas.

Please for the love of god tell me this is from before Dave took over and TTC didn't infect him with their mediocrity!

I only really play the game casually and never with command cards so the finer balance issues of these new rules is beyond me but I do like the idea behind them, especially if it helps make some builds a bit more viable (like the poor old St Petersburg). I also appreciate that there are a few on the low tonnage end as I mostly play smaller games and don’t really feel the need to get anything larger than a battlecruiser (except for the Beijing).

The wording is kind of confusing on a couple of these though (don’t close action weapons already let you fire them with an additional weapon? how does adding link affect that?)

Could anyone who picked up the 32mm scourge warrior previously be able to post a scale pic with some 40k minis, please?

Thanks

Here you go. I could only find the one GW mini, as the rest are in storage.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Here you go. I could only find the one GW mini, as the rest are in storage.

Cheers dude

Was hoping normal human sized minis would match up with the rest of my collection.

They should Probably be calling this a 35mm game instead of 28-32mm.

Saves me some cash tho so always a silver lining

Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 23 – Famous Commanders Dropping into a Zone Near You!

PDF Link

I like the AWACS mini. Is that for DZC or DFC? I assume the former given the insectile walker below. If so, is it a "normal" albeit larger unit or one of their superheavy equivalents?

 warboss wrote:
I like the AWACS mini. Is that for DZC or DFC? I assume the former given the insectile walker below. If so, is it a "normal" albeit larger unit or one of their superheavy equivalents?

It's a normal DZC model - the UCM Phoenix Command Gunship.

It is a big chunk of model, though.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It is a big chunk of model, though.

Yes -

Contains one multi-part aircraft. 10mm in scale with a length of 101mm.

My brother got me some more DFC minis and seems interested in playing. (We used to play BFG.). So far I’ve never used command cards in a game, but these new characters look fun (for our type of casual gaming). How much do the command cards change the game? Do they take a lot of time or focus to resolve?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
How much do the command cards change the game? Do they take a lot of time or focus to resolve?

They drop in really easily, and there's some factional flavor that you only really see through the command cards. I would generally recommend them. Have you read the PHR cards yet? https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0965/1274/files/PHR_Command_Cards.pdf?v=1629382702

I have not. I didn’t realize they were available as PDFs. I thought we had to buy them.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I have not. I didn’t realize they were available as PDFs. I thought we had to buy them.

Only PHR is officially in PDF because it's completely out of print. The UCM and Scourge cards are also effectively out of print, but TTC hasn't admitted it yet.

Also, all the cards are in the TTS module, but not as nicely laid out. (There's a compiled PDF of all of them I've seen, but apparently forgot to save)

There's good money on the lack of dropzone command cards being similarly attributable. TTC's printing supplier (and global printing still really) is backlogged, short staffed, low on materials, shipping is through the roof, and execs would sooner see the business tank than take a pay cut like a filthy wagey.

Well, that sucks.

I’m surprised they only moved one set to pdf instead of releasing them all digitally at the same time. They even have the rulebook and the lore book in pdf. Seems like a missed opportunity to make the game more accessible.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Well, that sucks.

I’m surprised they only moved one set to pdf instead of releasing them all digitally at the same time. They even have the rulebook and the lore book in pdf. Seems like a missed opportunity to make the game more accessible.

I strongly agree with you.