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Dystopian Wars / Viruses are Dystopian Wars. The Wait Continues
« on: February 28, 2020, 09:28:24 am »
https://blog.warcradle.com/blog/2020/warcradle-studios-diary-24
Also, why doesn't WC give us renders? Their artist's cartoon style doesn't do the models 'steampunk' justice, also the Rotors look a little too diselpunk for my liking.
Also, why doesn't WC give us renders? Their artist's cartoon style doesn't do the models 'steampunk' justice, also the Rotors look a little too diselpunk for my liking.
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Dystopian Wars / Fan Northstar Campaign booklet
« on: February 07, 2020, 07:43:12 am »
Hello all! With so much help from the People's Front team I've written so much background material for the Canadians and Teutonic order to produce a fan version of the Northstar campaign booklet. I hope to make a start on the campaign narrative shortly, but to build it up love some help from the MBS team. In particular artwork of Teutonic Order and Canadian commanders, the fleets involved, especially up against each other that can be used in the booklet. Also love suggestions for battles, commanders, formations and the rest.
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Dystopian Wars / Goodbye to the old
« on: December 29, 2019, 04:03:49 pm »
Warcradle is closing down its classics range shortly, leaving only their designs. https://community.warcradle.com/topic/22186-warcradle-classics/?do=findComment&comment=370484
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Misc. Naval Games / Brigade Cruel Seas scale Areonef game
« on: December 10, 2019, 09:28:53 am »
I really like the look of the crew on them
https://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2019/12/looking-ahead-11/?fbclid=IwAR1rtzWZlVeXSzYmYSzUoooITmCVJkMGrujszGMooRdEO6KFSYnghsz9NxU
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2019/12/looking-ahead-12/?fbclid=IwAR0iHEWi1B5oLyzwNzsjQ7vh7FkBUd-M0F3J24-aCamBz8Wh9sSmMwPj3PQ
https://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2019/12/looking-ahead-11/?fbclid=IwAR1rtzWZlVeXSzYmYSzUoooITmCVJkMGrujszGMooRdEO6KFSYnghsz9NxU
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2019/12/looking-ahead-12/?fbclid=IwAR0iHEWi1B5oLyzwNzsjQ7vh7FkBUd-M0F3J24-aCamBz8Wh9sSmMwPj3PQ
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Firestorm Armada / According to Richard Lawton expect some FSA news shortly
« on: August 04, 2019, 11:31:51 am »
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Dystopian Wars / Got the new Sussex, a fantastic cast
« on: May 30, 2019, 05:15:20 pm »
Wow! I'm afraid the photo is rather blurry, but the detail is fantastic. 
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Dystopian Wars / Legacy models in 3.0
« on: April 18, 2019, 04:56:57 am »
There has been an official announcement from Warcradle today that confirmed they would not be producing rules for Spartan's models. While there seemed to be some hints earlier that suggested that was a possibility, considering the size and diversity of Spartan's range and the difference in style, scale and load out of Warcradle's range this always seemed a brave concept. This poll is mostly about gauging where the community is looking to go to think about the priorities going forward, especially for those with large extant fleets.
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Dystopian Wars / Preview KoB carrier sketch from Salute
« on: April 16, 2019, 12:24:30 pm »
Lose the Lion and the really far too diselpunk flak guns and it's pretty nice.
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Misc. Naval Games / Where would you set a fantasy naval wargame?
« on: December 22, 2018, 09:58:38 am »
After listening to the podcast and thinking about how far we are from Neo-UCS and possibly Man'o'War, I was thinking about how there doesn't seem to be much action on the fantasy naval wargame front. Obviously a diverse setting like classical Warhammer Fantasy or Uncharted Seas would seem a slamdunk, but there is one Fantasy setting that seems crying out for such a game. A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones is crying out for a system.
I would go for the book licence since a) probably cheaper, b) more battles and fleets, c) you can include stuff from earlier in the setting. It seems to have worked for CMON for their massed strategy game.
The advantage of the setting is that GRRM's world is mostly quite low fantasy allowing the game to be a test bed for a decent medieval game that can have magical elements tacked on, be it dragons, kraken, or wizards. You can really play up Euron's madness in contrast.
I would imagine the fleets being the impressive Royal fleet, with access to a couple of wildfire kamikaze ships, Stannis' stormlands fleet with an effective core of anti-pirate galleys and mercenaries, the elite and well built Lannister fleet, the impressive and effective Redwyne fleet with excellent scouting, three different possible Ironborn fleets of the Iron fleet of warships, the longship raiders, and Euron's magical fleet summoning kraken, the small and hardy Night's Watch fleet out of East Watch, the new Manderly fleet out of White Harbour, the Seagard defensive fleets, and Aurane Waters pirates out of the Step Stones. You could add on some Essos stuff if the game caught on, with mercenaries, the effective massed produced Bravos boats, the slave ships out of Slavers bay, Volantene fleets with Red Priest support. You could differentiate by Galleys vs. Sailing vessels, warships vs. longships and equipment of siege weaponry. Then something like Fantasy Flight systems with upgrade cards to represent certain commanders like Euron, Stannis or Victarion, or characters like Moqorro could give them that sense of ownership.
I would go for the book licence since a) probably cheaper, b) more battles and fleets, c) you can include stuff from earlier in the setting. It seems to have worked for CMON for their massed strategy game.
The advantage of the setting is that GRRM's world is mostly quite low fantasy allowing the game to be a test bed for a decent medieval game that can have magical elements tacked on, be it dragons, kraken, or wizards. You can really play up Euron's madness in contrast.
I would imagine the fleets being the impressive Royal fleet, with access to a couple of wildfire kamikaze ships, Stannis' stormlands fleet with an effective core of anti-pirate galleys and mercenaries, the elite and well built Lannister fleet, the impressive and effective Redwyne fleet with excellent scouting, three different possible Ironborn fleets of the Iron fleet of warships, the longship raiders, and Euron's magical fleet summoning kraken, the small and hardy Night's Watch fleet out of East Watch, the new Manderly fleet out of White Harbour, the Seagard defensive fleets, and Aurane Waters pirates out of the Step Stones. You could add on some Essos stuff if the game caught on, with mercenaries, the effective massed produced Bravos boats, the slave ships out of Slavers bay, Volantene fleets with Red Priest support. You could differentiate by Galleys vs. Sailing vessels, warships vs. longships and equipment of siege weaponry. Then something like Fantasy Flight systems with upgrade cards to represent certain commanders like Euron, Stannis or Victarion, or characters like Moqorro could give them that sense of ownership.
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Dystopian Wars / Revealed painted Warcradle British Battleship from a demo
« on: December 02, 2018, 11:38:29 am »
Its certainly different...
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Dystopian Wars / Sinking Sark Narrative Campaign
« on: August 27, 2018, 04:50:14 am »
With the Beta expected shortly we've created a page for running a narrative campaign which will start the week after the rules drop. We have the campaign rules and fluff up already so why not it check it out? www.facebook.com/sinkingsark
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Dystopian Wars / What do people actually want out of the new fluff?
« on: May 18, 2018, 07:50:50 am »
I definitely have opinions on this, but I am more interested in other people's opinions. Do people want alt history going back to the point of difference? The technological background or the great men and women who have shaped history and the destiny of nations? Do people care about the kind of government each nation has, the structure of it's military? Do they want grimdark or shades of grey? A neutral 3rd party omniscient narrator, a series of historical accounts woven together? Very dry or narrative heavy? In jokes and puns or taken seriously?
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