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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Battleships somewhere here in this video




Something interesting to note - Shaltari battleships come in 2 variants, and you can make either one by simply swapping out a piece.

That's a good sign - it drove me crazy in DzC their not including alternate guns. It's so much less work as a hobbyist to paint one tank and swap the gun, but to do so previously you had to buy two whole blisters!

Currently watching the video. Those Battleships... I'm speechless... what incredible sculpts (or rather CAD design) - Dave has done it again!

Especially loved the story about the 365kg of dice almost being delivered to Dave's parents house in London!

Back to watching the rest of the video! Ooh, and Kings of War Historical - cool beans

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Battleships somewhere here in this video

So what do I have to sacrifice to the god of miniature games to get this game in my hands? Are we talking sheep, small woodland animals, a virgin, a 40K-scale Tau Manta? Tell me, please!

Oh man I wasn't going to go for the big ships on principle but they are all gorgeous and the UCM carrier is particularly so (although I do have to wonder about the torpedos that seem only a little bit smaller than a full size frigate with potentially thousands of troops aboard). Shame that they didn't have a preview of the orbital bombardment battleship though.

So this is a bit of an aside but does anyone know if there are the naming conventions are for the ships themselves? I know the classes for the UCM are named for cities etc but are there any examples of named individual ships in the fluff? I quite like the system used in Mass Effect where individual frigates are named for famous battles, cruisers for cities and dreadnoughts for mountains but wondered if there was official word on the subject

So no advanced copies at the Cardiff promo day. No official announcement just changed the wording on the event page. Guess there is a bigger delay than they are letting on.

Nah, Dave from Hawk specifically said at some point that no dropfleet would hit retail before the backers had their pledges, so even if it's in the shipping stage right now, people wouldn't have it before the promo day.

The event notice stated until today that there would be advance copies of the starter set available. It now says that people participating in the events will get one free scourge or UCM frigate spree. The event notice was changed today. So they obviously were intent on selling product in advance until today.

They actually sent an email around:

"Since the Kickstarter pledges are unlikely to have been delivered yet, the Hawk Wargames Team have decided not to proceed with the original planned sale of core products. Instead, each person who attends the pre-release day and participates in one of the planned activities will receive a free UCM or Scourge frigate sprue! (each sprue builds 4 frigates). In addition to this anyone who places pre-orders for Dropfleet Commander products on the day will receive one free UCM or Scourge Cruiser sprue! (each sprue builds 1 Cruiser). "

Gasmasked Mook wrote:
I know the classes for the UCM are named for cities etc but are there any examples of named individual ships in the fluff?

'Azure Night', 'Eternal Darkness' and 'Leprechaun' are 'Lysander Lighters'- Stealth Frigates which may or not be in DFC. The 'Silent Blade' is probably a Lysander as well.
'Anastasia'- a cargo ship

The current fluff is centered on the very large scale (for the 'intelligence briefings') and the very small scale (fluff pieces) so there isn't much information about individual ships aside from some Lysanders as they are used to provide a background to mysterious goings on or some Marine Force Recon skullduggery. From what little is available suggests that there is no set naming criteria but that could well change.

How do you sign up to the event again anyhow? I've been debating with myself for the past couple of weeks.

Thing is I probably would need to take like a 7am train to go

 Compel wrote:
How do you sign up to the event again anyhow? I've been debating with myself for the past couple of weeks.

Thing is I probably would need to take like a 7am train to go

Its fully booked unfortunately. I couldn't go originally as I was busy this weekend but that fell through so I tried to book this morning and all the events are sold out.

Ah, alrighty, extra nap time then!

Also means no more reason for me to put off doing an order for the various show only models and getting them delivered.

Hawk have just released an update on the KS. No real change, they are still waiting on a delivery from a printers, supposedly the rulebooks, but everything else is currently being packed and they are looking to get stuff sent out in August.

A lot of info here: link

Wayland have put up DFC preorders including a lot of new information, no release date as yet though.

Unfortunately this also includes a massive spoiler (don't read the Ferrum preview page if you are following the fluff)

Exciting stuff! This is the first glimpse of rules that outside of the admiral pledge and I am especially glad to see they are including a lot of fluff and detailed descriptions for the ships.

Wayland also seems to have a bunch of detail shots on the new battleships - including the third UCM battleship varient (Tokyo-class?) which I don't think we've seen before.

Gasmasked Mook wrote:

Wayland also seems to have a bunch of detail shots on the new battleships - including the third UCM battleship varient (Tokyo-class?) which I don't think we've seen before.

It was in the most recent BoW videos. Heavy bombardment cannon, Battlecrusier levels of firepower and apparently the cheapest Battleship in the game.

I currently have 3 games in my must play list 1 is Konflikt 47 which because the Brit starter isn't out until December I won't be getting into that for a while. 2 is the dungeon saga in space that mantic are doing which isn't even up for funding let alone anything else then there is dropfleet which now looks like a first week of October release. As long as there are people in my gaming community wanting to play this and it's not to complicated I will be spending a massive amount of money on a massive fleet.

I'll admit I've no interest in Dungeon Saga in space. Best case scenario it's 'Star Wars: Imperial Assault" but without the Star Wars.

Anyhow I made my show only purchases, 4 Aegean dropships, reconquest book, trucks, cars and buses and two drop pods

From what little I know of this game looking into videos and reports etc, it is not a game I would call overly complicated by far.

The only thing that feels like it can get clunky to me is the Scanning system, which I appreciate for it's attempt at Realism, but to people I know it's very much like Marmite. Some love it, some hate it, but I think once people get into it and use to scanning system, it'll play fine just like breaking into any new tactical gimmick.

Hm, the scanning system doesn't seem too bad. Add modifier to base scanning range and check to see if the target is in range. Doesn't seem too complicated on paper.
Of course, it depends on how many modifiers there are. If there's like 3-4 it should be fine. If there are about 20 with differences of one or two inches, then yeah its going to be awful.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Hm, the scanning system doesn't seem too bad. Add modifier to base scanning range and check to see if the target is in range. Doesn't seem too complicated on paper.
Of course, it depends on how many modifiers there are. If there's like 3-4 it should be fine. If there are about 20 with differences of one or two inches, then yeah its going to be awful.

I don't think that there are any modifiers at all. Just scan range+signature range+minor/major spike so at most its adding 3 single digit numbers together. Scan and signature range does vary between ship classes and races though so that is an added complication but not much.

This and Firestorm Armada has captured my attention as of late. Any clue when it is coming to the States for retail?

Supposed to be late sept to mid October, Kickstarter stuff should ship any day now.

nedTCM wrote:
Supposed to be late sept to mid October, Kickstarter stuff should ship any day now.

Supposedly the retail launch is the 22nd of October, although I doubt that is an official date, but the KS stuff should be well out the door by then.

The latest KS update has finally arrived, Hawk's communication for the last few months has been terrible, and the situation is exactly the same as it was in the middle of August.

Still waiting for "a printed component" and no idea when it will turn up.

Well, to be fair, I have a feeling that they are quite frustrated by the delays as well. They need to take a page out of Ninja Division's book and put out some articles with their non-updates. That way the mob is at least slightly appeased.

hopefully their printed stuff hasn't been caught up in the great container ship bankruptcy that's just happened (and is messing up CMON's The Others for the EU)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/02/hanjin-shipping-bankruptcy-causes-turmoil-in-global-sea-freight

The Others EU was already royally fethed up by what seems to be CMON trying to save money and lying about it.

I sincerely hope that Dropfleet wasn't using Hanjin.

I think that their printers are based in the UK mainland. They have also been waiting on this "printed item" for a good few weeks now.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dropfleet-commander-pre-launch-event-wayland-games-essex-tickets-27673428971
very interesting.