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Dystopian Wars / Re: MBS DW Fan 2.5 FAQ - Working Thread UPDATED 2/20/18: FAQ is Live!

« on: October 27, 2021, 11:49:03 am »

Our eight player group has house ruled it this way - Carriers take Deck Damage at the same rate as hull damage, up to the maximum Carrier points.

Effectively making Carrier(x, 1x5 wings) behave like a gun with (x) AD then. Does Redoubtable apply in such fashion in your circle? i.e. lose one point of Carrier(x) for every two hull damage

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Roll Call / Re: Ello

« on: October 26, 2021, 08:07:53 pm »

It's the naval fleet I'm starting with, at least. If I end up liking the game a lot (which i probably will), Covenant will probably by my land army, and after that I'll end up jumping around like the indecisive weirdo I am, paced only by my ability to draw little ships

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Dystopian Wars / Re: MBS DW Fan 2.5 FAQ - Working Thread UPDATED 2/20/18: FAQ is Live!

« on: October 26, 2021, 07:21:15 pm »

About Carrier() being damaged:

The Carrier Value of a Model is by no means fixed, and can be reduced as the actual Model suffers Damage. This represents the decks of the Model becoming too damaged to allow planes to land, the hangar bays becoming blocked with debris, or the magazines of the Model catching fire!

Okay yeah, that's nice, but the book never defines how this damage works! So, how does it? For instance, a Chui carrier (HP5, Carrier(4, 1x4 Wings)) has taken two damage; what happens to its Carrier rule?

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Dystopian Wars / Re: Sizes of Ships? In millimeters if at all possible

« on: October 26, 2021, 02:11:02 pm »

From 20mm to 42mm, damn that's a big change!
I had a friend measure a couple of the airborne bases, for larges and for smalls/tinies;

The Small bases are 25mm squares (smallest ships pictured below)
The Large bases are 50x100mm rectangles (biggest ship pictured)
I estimate that the Medium bases are 40mm squares, but then I only base this assumption from guessing at other peoples' photos.
courtesy of Melchior on the Spartan forum archive; what are the airships adjacent the big boy mounted on?

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Dystopian Wars / Re: Sizes of Ships? In millimeters if at all possible

« on: October 26, 2021, 12:29:25 am »

By the sounds of it then, my rough scales have been on the money. I saw your video on the matter, and my currently-88mm long cruiser seems to fit into the realm of reason as well; thank you for the help with boats

Next, then; what's the base size of a single SAW token? I've heard 20x20mm.

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Dystopian Wars / Sizes of Ships? In millimeters if at all possible

« on: October 25, 2021, 07:48:13 pm »

I'm sketching out 2d paper ships to play with, so I'd like to come close to typical unit sizes. Can anyone give me the length of the naval ships they have in millimeters? Preferably one-or-more of every size class, small to massive. Dimensions of armour and aircraft bases would also be very welcome - particularly bases, but model size would be fine too.

I've already created a Chinese Federation destroyer of 53mm scaled length - does this length seem about right, or too big, too small?

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Roll Call / Ello

« on: October 25, 2021, 07:43:04 pm »

Newbie to naval games, introduced to Dystopian Wars 2.50 by a friend. Planning my first game of it in the not-too-distant future, right now I'm simply working on paper cutouts for the occasion.