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Dystopian Wars / My First Attempt At A DW Scratchbuild.
« on: July 23, 2019, 12:49:03 am »
So, After a long time finding parts, making decisions and some actual work, here's a shot of my first try at a homebrewed model for DW -
The write-up is there with it, and since this photo was taken some painting has been done. Basically, I had the idea from recieving a job lot of items which included a damaged Brunel Class land carrier, and I reasoned that with the tracks cut from it it woudl resemble nothing so much as a huge barge with a carrier deck added; Given the Free Australian fluff and real-world details like their coal indutsry in the time period,with barges easily available, and a need to be able to project forces into the Pacific and the Arfaura Sea. a grandious gesture of national pride like an assualt carrier to rival both the Raj and the Britannians made weltpolitik sense at least.
Have yet to work out stats for the beast in 2.5, though I'm leaning towards Carrier (5, 2x4 SAW wings ), Artillery with range bands 2, 3 and 4 and a 90 degree Fore arc, 4 crocodile assualt subs and a fore fixed-channel battery of frigate sized guns, with limited broadsides.
The write-up is there with it, and since this photo was taken some painting has been done. Basically, I had the idea from recieving a job lot of items which included a damaged Brunel Class land carrier, and I reasoned that with the tracks cut from it it woudl resemble nothing so much as a huge barge with a carrier deck added; Given the Free Australian fluff and real-world details like their coal indutsry in the time period,with barges easily available, and a need to be able to project forces into the Pacific and the Arfaura Sea. a grandious gesture of national pride like an assualt carrier to rival both the Raj and the Britannians made weltpolitik sense at least.
Have yet to work out stats for the beast in 2.5, though I'm leaning towards Carrier (5, 2x4 SAW wings ), Artillery with range bands 2, 3 and 4 and a 90 degree Fore arc, 4 crocodile assualt subs and a fore fixed-channel battery of frigate sized guns, with limited broadsides.
) were sitting on shelves and made a grab for their air units when a set came up on eBay. Figure they'll assist my Black Wolves, and will be most useful in a putative campaign I am pondering ( See below)
) these have been regular and mostly solid games of simple "Search and sweep" operations in the islands south-west of the Asian coast. My next idea is a campaign based on the real-life piracy in the Arafura Sea, involving those tribesmen of renown the Bugi who were so troublesome to the Dutch, the historical EIMC and even today make the area the second most pirated waters on the globe. If I can find a League of Crimson fleet that someone has tired of ( HAH! ) at a fair price ( Again HAH! ) the twist that Bugi are being recruited by the ne'er-do-wells of that nefarious organization. . . . ( Yes, a LoC force coming on the market these days is a long shot, but it 
) plenty of second-hand Brunels out there so it might inspire others as well.