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Space Naval Games / Shattered Void

« on: March 17, 2020, 09:01:06 am »

Seeing as the Kickstarter is delivered and folks are receiving their ships it seems time to make a clean thread for Shattered Void content.
I’ll start us off with an inventory and general thoughts.
I backed the Kickstarter at the Lieutenant Level and went full in for most of the Astivar Collective faction. I ended up with twelve ships:
3 fighters, 2 heavy fighters, 1 armored fighter, 1 interceptor, 2 gunships, 1 repair drone, 1 devastator, and 1 corvette.
All the cards, dice, tokens, templates, and bases are accounted for except on further inspection I’m missing two plastic stat trackers.
The resin is top notch! Really high quality details, very little cleaning necessary, and construction was fairly straight forward. The quality of the cards and plastic components is average at best, the movement template is good quality but massive (which may effect gameplay), the cards are pretty basic boardgame quality, but the design and “finish” when slotted into the stat trackers is pretty poor.
I’ll post some close photos of the assembled ships in the near future.

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Space Naval Games / Re: Kurse You Kickstarter

« on: January 22, 2020, 10:04:33 am »

Bringing this thread back to life
The latest update from White Dragon Miniatures came. He sent out the backer kit stuff again so that folks could update their address. If you backed and haven’t seen the email yet check your other folders. I had to update my address.
I also saw what I had originally backed, which I completely forgot, just can’t remember what any of it looks like
We’re nearly 4 years from the original end date of the Kickstarter. I’m still essentially skeptical, but it seems there is progress.

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The Swap Shop / Re: Firestorm and Dystopian for Sale

« on: August 08, 2019, 10:56:49 am »

They're a combo leaning to V1. Also I have an IM offer on the side for them :-)

Sounds good, whoever that is can go for it. Set them free!

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The Swap Shop / Re: Firestorm and Dystopian for Sale

« on: August 06, 2019, 09:43:58 am »

Any word on those Dindrenzi Dale? I’ve been on the hunt for V2 Dindrenzi for awhile. A lot of V1 out there.

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The Swap Shop / Re: Firestorm and Dystopian for Sale

« on: August 01, 2019, 06:14:59 pm »

Dale, I don’t remember, is that the v1 Dindrenzi stuff or v2? Combo of both?

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The Showcase / Re: Tiny Ships and Dioramas

« on: June 21, 2019, 06:18:23 pm »

Wow! These are incredible. What a treat.

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Dystopian Wars / Re: Legacy models in 3.0

« on: April 26, 2019, 08:28:11 am »

I haven’t been interested in anything Warcradle has done with the Dystopian line from the beginning. Not that it matters at all as they are the rightful owners of the IP and can do whatever they please, but I feel they’ve really handled the whole situation poorly.
2.5 is actually a pretty decent ruleset and there is VERY little incentive to move on from it.

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DWCO / Re: Besides Dakkar who else still around.

« on: March 12, 2019, 08:27:35 am »

There are three of us that play Dystopian Wars regularly. We try to meet monthly if possible and are located both in Denver and Colorado Springs. We’re still playing v2.5 and will likely be sticking with that going forward.
Landlubber, CaptainRockMan, and Quickdraw are the handles on MBS.

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FACO / Re: HALO at Kobold-Con

« on: March 08, 2019, 12:06:30 pm »

What I would like to do is have a UNSC Punic and a Covenant CAS duking it out in the middle of the table, and assign deployment zones and missions to the other battlegroups instead of having them role for random deployment. In my idea, each player controlling a battlegroup would get a sheet of instructions on where to deploy (diagram of the battlefield), which turn they deploy on, and what their battlegroup(s) mission is. For example, one UNSC battlegroup might be carrying a LOT of boarding craft and a few Spartans, and their mission would be to close with the CAS and conduct a boarding assault. One Covenant battlegroup would be made up of CPV-class destroyers, and their job would be to deny a specific sector of the battlefield to enemy battlegroups. Some battlegroups would deploy on a specific board edge, some would come out of slipspace in their assigned sector (or would try to...we could add in the Firestorm Armada randomization roll...)

This is a good idea and a good way to play it as a multiplayer game. I think I still have the list of “operating orders” for incoming battle groups, I will locate it. I remember them being randomly assigned upon entry, but it’s a smart idea to designate orders for specific battle groups in this case.
Why don’t you and I virtually sit down and talk through our collections to prebuild some balanced battle groups ahead of time. Then day of all we have to worry about is how many people we have playing.

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General Discussion / Re: MBS Monthly Poll #32: 2 Player Starter Sets

« on: January 22, 2019, 11:11:29 am »

Two player starters should have everything available for two people to get in. But I also enjoy having value in a starter set. For instance, the Spartan Games starter sets held good value and could be added to easily and in small chunks to increase the level of play.
As a comparison we have the X-Wing starter. It has everything contained in the game but is slim pickings when thinking about next steps. Really requiring multiple additional purchases in quick succession to continue the enjoyability of the game.
I however, selected Sails of Glory simply because the complexity of the game play means that you could buy that one set and contentedly play the game for a year without getting stale or requiring additional purchases. It’s a great starter set as well as a great self contained game.

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FACO / Re: Looking to play some Firestorm at the Haven

« on: July 18, 2018, 08:54:02 am »

Works for me. I’ll bring the Terrans. I want to try some of the new ships so expect to see a weird little fleet.

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FACO / Re: Looking to play some Firestorm at the Haven

« on: July 17, 2018, 08:13:57 pm »

Quickdraw, I'll most likely be working in the Springs next Monday (23 July). Free for some Firestorm Armada if you are available. I can be at the Haven as early as 4:30. Let me know.

That would work for me I think. Want to play 800 points or 1000 points? Patrol fleet or battle fleet?

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FACO / Re: Looking to play some Firestorm at the Haven

« on: July 12, 2018, 12:50:36 am »

That would be fine. I’m really looking for some Firestorm, but we need to get that Halo campaign back up and running too.

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FACO / Looking to play some Firestorm at the Haven

« on: July 08, 2018, 12:36:22 pm »

Hey eveybody
We recently had a guest staying at our house and I had to clean up my hobby room to make some space for her. In that process I pulled out all of my Terrans and gave them a good dusting and found a place in my display case for them.
Looking them over has got me interested in playing some Firestorm. Is anybody interested in having some games at the Haven, maybe on Monday nights? Not sure if they still have “Spartan” night on Monday but that seems to be a less busy night generally.
Let me know!

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DeepWars / Re: The Blood Reef Incursion

« on: April 19, 2018, 02:40:34 pm »

Nice! This is looking really good.