Dystopian Wars

[crimthaan]

www.spartangames.co.uk/dystopian_wars.html

New game system by the people that brought you Firestorm Armada and Uncharted Seas...I'm thinking about getting into it, anyone else? maybe if a couple of us pledge to buy it we can get Travis to order some of the stuff

[inzeos]

Looks interesting. If enough people were interested I'm might be part of a group buy. Then again I keep looking at my BFG stuff and wish people played that.

[crimthaan]

Ok man..it looks like you, Chris B. and myself would be interested in giving the game a try. If we can find a 4th we can pick up the 200$ starter back that comes with a naval group for Blazing Sun, Prussia, US, and Britain in it with markers and the rule book..it would be a pretty good starter set I think.

I know I want to start the Prussians and Chris B. said he wants to try and play Blazing Sun. Would you be cool with US or Britain? Remember that other countries ARE slated to come out!

[bromento]

Im down. I call the Blazing Sun Army. BFG is tons of fun... but i sold all my minis long ago

[inzeos]

I would be interested in the US.

Anyone else interested in getting additional rule books? Might be handy so we are not all reading over each others shoulders.

[travis]

We sell the rules for this. I don't plan on bringing in the mini's as my wall is currently over flowing right now. I can special order anything that you want though.

[inzeos]

I enjoyed playing a demo game over at Pair-A-Dice this weekend. Anyone on this forum interested in playing and or already have models?

I was reading over on the Dystopian Wars forums that people do highly suggest using terrain. One or two crazy people even mentioned that people should consider building papercraft terrain for this game due to the lack of properly scaled terrain available from major suppliers. People who suggest making 1/1200 scale paper terrain should be bound, gagged and thrown over board! In fact tonight due to boredom and not wanting to glue more magnets on my current project I fired up Microsoft Visio 2007, got my trusty pencil and calculator out and scaled out what could be considered a small barracks or military base building. I based my building on the following dimension, 20' x 40' x 10', with a flat roof. Did the conversions based on this chart;

www.scale-modelers-handbook.com/scale-conversion.html

Assuming I did it correctly I copied and pasted a bunch of these buildings and then dispatched them to my trusty laser printer. I opted not to use card stock but regular paper due to the scale of these buildings. I was worried heavier paper would make it impossible to fold the buildings.

Here is my result present on a regular round black 25mm Warhammer 40K base;


www.flickr.com/photos/inzeos/5400238922/

Here is a comparison of the building against a GW Warhammer Fantasy Empire Militia model;

www.flickr.com/photos/inzeos/5399637425/

Would I recommend you lock your customers, friends, children, wife or husband in the hobby room to make 1/1200 scale paper terrain? HELL NO!

Looking forward to my next game of Dystopian Wars.

[crimthaan]

I picked up the rules a the Covenant of Antarctica starter fleet this past weekend. I'll be contacting Travis soon to have some other stuff special ordered, but I'll be down for a game anytime!