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Dystopian Wars / Re: Confused about SAS attacks and carrier actions
« on: October 05, 2017, 07:38:09 pm »
From a tactical perspective, probably worth noting that T Bombers are really only viable against subs, as they have no AA defence if submerged, and you Crushing Impact them.  Virtually every other scenario, D Bombers are superior.

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Roll Call / Re: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Spartan
« on: September 29, 2017, 07:02:30 am »
Thank you thank you, os that meant to sound ominous?  :)

 ;D

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Roll Call / Re: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Spartan
« on: September 27, 2017, 04:41:19 am »
I remember you sir.  I remember you.

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Roll Call / Re: You may remember me from such forums as...
« on: September 26, 2017, 02:49:54 pm »
Why hello! And thank you very much, I wasn't on the forum very long afterall. Merlin is here too, you will likely recognise him - and Ruckdog and CDR_G.

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Dystopian Wars / Re: Height Band Rules questions
« on: September 26, 2017, 08:25:43 am »
A) just to sell models.
B) Low Level means they can basically drop down to the Surface height band, avoid AA, but cannot drop Bombs and become Vulnerable. See page 197.

Limitation-wise, SAS, Small, and Tiny models may never go Statospheric. No other (generic) limitations apply.

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Dystopian Wars / Re: The Nile Delta Incident
« on: September 25, 2017, 02:17:28 pm »
Haha, I understand that! I was amazed to discover I've over 7k now, partly thanks to a few post-SG Collapse bargains... insane level of stuff since I only started playing again in January...

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Dystopian Wars / Re: The Nile Delta Incident
« on: September 24, 2017, 07:06:31 pm »
@Landlubber - was the 'one of everything' approach tactical? Or just what you had painted? Lol.

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Dystopian Wars / Re: DW Rules and Stats UPDATED 9/13/17
« on: September 22, 2017, 04:50:39 pm »
If you are interested, I have created the following:

v1.1 Free Aussies Orbat (Naval units only);
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1glM1HUTsp92vS0ZG3aagvfp5VGkOpfw-317QyX0o0kc/edit?usp=sharing

v1 SUSA Orbat (Naval only);
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mzC4wXMpPjMev0M2MklKTUIFuVdpnLd2w1FUVd2G_SQ/edit?usp=sharing
(flag is wrong, can't find the one from the 2.5 Orbat anywhere online, or copy/paste from the pdf)

v1.1 FSA Orbat (Naval only);
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PbHmAsYxfnXdfMHu8HGkEQiZC7b3suSK3PavOE45QZY/edit?usp=sharing

v1.1 Savannah Sky Fortress;
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12CdeEaftr2-zl01vL5YN0HCXqbtqiPDVDe3lX3E1D6c/edit?usp=sharing

Any feedback welcomed (even just being told somebody actually read it! haha)

Thanks.

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Dystopian Wars / Re: DW Rules and Stats UPDATED 9/13/17
« on: September 21, 2017, 08:51:53 pm »
I'm sure you've see the Facebook post about them, but here are the Nation Specific TACs I put up yesterday

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_maQCSHmkfoZG13bDV1aHdUSzA/view?usp=drivesdk
Almost enough to get me to play TAC Cards- These are cool-Thanx

I quite like TACs in general, albeit I think the system needs a bit of work - but today I got to use these new ones, and loved them. Big improvement.

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Dystopian Wars / Re: The Nile Delta Incident
« on: September 21, 2017, 08:49:25 am »
Thanks for sharing! Would you mind posting full fleet lists?

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News and Rumors / Re: SPARTAN CLOSING
« on: September 20, 2017, 05:36:11 am »
£50 k for the entire company seems reasonable considering the debts etc.

No, the bidding was split into 6/7 different lots.  Of these, we only know the Firestorm IP definitely went for more than £50k, and presumably significantly more.  The rest we do not know, other than at least some got bids.  None of that factors in the physical production facilities, which were sold separately.

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The Swap Shop / Re: Looking B-72 FSA Bombers
« on: September 16, 2017, 07:53:24 pm »
Alas not them

Thanks anyway.  Another few A17s wouldn't be bad, but not worth postage from the US really on their own.  :(

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The Swap Shop / Looking B-72 FSA Bombers
« on: September 16, 2017, 07:58:30 am »
Exactly what it says on the tin, folks - anyone got a B-72 or two for sale?

I'm interested in Federated States Naval/Aerial in general, but B-72s are a really hard thing to find...

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Dystopian Wars / Re: community rules changes - ideas/direction
« on: September 16, 2017, 07:54:34 am »
Your point about the points cost of Sky Fortresses is a good one, and one that makes no logical sense to me unless the theoretical opportunity for true Sky Dreadnoughts was being left open intentionally - guess we'll never know.

I don't play at 800 points, for the reasons above - games that are too small remove tactical ability as a determining factor.

In general, if I'm playing against a Sky Fortress, the aim will be, depending on the rest of their force, either to damage and then ignore it in favour of winning by killing other stuff, or it will be to bring it down asap (preferably by prize-ing) if they have too few other scary elements to worry about, or too many resistant to damage from range perhaps.

Either way, I rarely don't have an answer, largely because I play with Volley Guns.

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Dystopian Wars / Re: community rules changes - ideas/direction
« on: September 15, 2017, 01:50:32 pm »
Yeah, I apologise, I have no idea what hungover maths my head was doing - but it isn't an illegal %.  It is sufficiently large an outlay that the rest of the fleet must be pretty slim - but that wasn't the issue I presented.

The issue with small games generally is that things that seem broken in them aren't necessarily scaleable.  For instance, if I take 800 points of FSA with:
Enterprise (Shield, Kinetic)
Annapolis (Shield) x2
Guilford x3

Then my list would be an incredibly tough nut for, say,
Kiyohime (Stoic) + Kitsune
Nakatsu x3
Nakatsu x3
Sui x3
Sui x3

But not for:
Ika
Ika
Ika
Chita x2
Chita x2
Zarigani x5
Onryo (Disruption)

Basically, and I wish I had just written this now instead of working those lists out, it exacerbates the inherent paper-scissors-stones elements of any wargame.

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