Dust Warfare - Latest update

Hey dusters!

Another one of those long interval posts. Lots of personal stuff been keeping me busy away from this project, along with the evolution of the game. On that topic heres a big shout out to Gregory Withrow for what he's doing with Dust Warfare 2.0.

I've been following quite closely what the new license holder of  Dust Warfare, Gregory Withrow has been doing to update Dust Warfare. From what  I've seen Gregory has been working ass off, to craft a new set of re-balanced stats and rules the will build on top of the core rules to refresh this game to a whole new level. Very responsive to community discussions on the rules and discussions what we've gotten so far is exactly what we've all been waiting for, for years!

Here is a little bit on the project from the man himself:

"Ladies and Gentlemen,

The revision of Dust Warfare is well underway and is playable as it stands. What does this really mean?

Yes. I possess the license for Dust Warfare and therefore the rules are official. I work in conjunction with Dust Studio and what I produce is done with regard to pending releases and the Direction in which Dust Studio is moving. This does not mean that units used in Dust '47 are going to possess entirely the same abilities as those produced by Dust Studio for Dust '47 (the latest revision of Tactics/Battlefield).

Working copies of revised rules are available in the Dust Warfare DropBox. Also available in the DropBox are all the cards as they are produced as well as all of the original rules for your use. Anyone can access the DropBox by contacting me on Facebook or emailing me at gregory.withrow@gmail.com.

Why don't we have a website? We are working on one, but the priority is to provide the revised rules and playable cards immediately. With that said, we have a function card app in development and it will be available for the public as soon as I get the SSU cards finished and can update the spreadsheet which drives the app.

Cards and rules that have actually been play tested with regard to feedback from the community. We have play testers on at least four continents.

Also, I want to capture players contact information so we have a grasp on just how many players are out there - and the DropBox helps me do that. For those of you who remember the days when there were no cards, you know how much that sucked. Now, you have really good cards at a decent price available on DriveThruRPG.com.

Currently, we are working are working toward completing the update of all cards from original units as well as for newly published units.

Currently Available from DriveThruRPG:

Allies:
- Rangers: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/195841/Dust-Warfare-47-Cards-Allies--Rangers

- USMC: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/195907/Dust-Warfare-47-Cards-Allies--USMC

- Vehicles & Aircraft: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/195926/Dust-Warfare-47-Cards-Allies--Vehicles--Aircraft

Axis:
- Wehrmacht & Blutkreuz: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/195865/Dust-Warfare-47-Cards-Axis--Wehrmacht--Blutkreuz

- NDAK: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/196255/Dust-Warfare-47-Cards-Axis--NDAK

- Vehicles & Aircraft: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/196097/Dust-Warfare-47-Cards-Axis--Vehicles--Aircraft

Also, we are working on an App which will contain all cards and allow you to make favorites lists for ease of reference during game play.

Currently, the rule updates are divided into sections for my sanity. Check the New Rules Compendium for general updates and look under each faction folder to get a more specific information on your favorite forces.

What are some of the rules that have been revised?

1. Air Drop. All factions now have access to Air Drop at cost, but certain platoons gain the ability for free. But Air Drop mechanics work differently and incorporate drift as well as damage upon landing. Yes, this means you can land within reaction distance of an enemy unit, or perhaps on top of that unit. Airborne Rangers,Spetsnaz,Fallschirmjaeger, Paramarines and Red Devils are new platoons which incorporate Air Drop free of cost and actually act like airborne units.

Wait? What? New Platoons?

2. Yes. There are new platoons. In, all the factions have a variety of new platoons, and even company level elements have been incorporated into Dust Warfare. Armor platoon are actually armor platoons now.
New platoons and companies have faction based themes and abilities.For example, if you want to play a Polish Cavalry Reconnnaissance Platoon, you can do that now and garner a different Special Order or Special Ability than a Canadian themed Cavalry Reconnnaissance Platoon.


3. Available Cards:
New and revised cards for the Allies, including Rangers, USMC, Vehicles, Aircraft and Bunkers/Strongpoints are now available.

New and revised cards for the Axis, including Wehrmacht, Blutkreuz, NDAK, Vehicles, Aircraft and Bunkers/Strongpoints are now available. Fallschirmjaefer/Luftwaffe cards will be available in the near future.

Mercenary cards are available. Mercenaries may be fielded alone or as part of existing factions.

SSU cards are almost finished and you can find examples in the DropBox. SSU cards will be available for purchase within a week, so you can get them for your holiday games.

4. Some weapon ranges have changed and so have the possibilities of hitting S4. Example: DSHK 12.7mm, .50 Cals, MG48s all have a range of 20" now and hit S4 at 1/1 - not much of a chance, but still a chance where there was one before. And, S4 should be tough.

5. Lots of units have smoke grenade capabilities now, and there is a smoke grenade template.

6. Damage Resilient for troops is now called Tough as Nails and functions as before. Damage Resilient now applies to Vehicles and works to reduce the effect on the Vehicle Damage Table.

7. Tesla has finally come into its own. The Tsep' Molniya (Chain Lightning)now jumps to every unit with 4" of a Soldier target or 6" of a Vehicle. You can even continue to target destroyed Vehicles in order to get Chain Lightning against units using them as cover. Check it out.

8. Attack Aircraft are being removed from platoons. They will get units of their own, known as Flights. Support Aircraft are still viable in certain platoons as described.

Also, check out Air Strike, which is a platoon upgrade giving you limited time with an Attack Aircraft on the table with prescribed movement restrictions for only 20AP, rather than the full cost of the Aircraft. This gets us a more realistic, cinematic application of Aircraft in the game, and keeps those expensive Aircraft from sitting on your shelves.

9. Aircraft with VTOL on the miniature now have that ability on their cards.

10. Band of Heroes: You can now form a unit of heroes.

11. Historical Vehicles: There are a variety of historical Vehicles defined for your use and are included in the platoon organizations. You will find there are a few cards already available in the DropBox or in the albums on Facebook. In the near future, certain historical Vehicle and Aircraft cards will be available for purchase. "Certain?" Yes, basically tanks and aircraft in use from 1945 onward will be included, but a variety of transports will also be available as long as they can roll or swim.

12. We are working on cleaning up the rule revisions and will compile them into one publication so you have a ready reference. After that, we will update and compile everything into a grand tome of Warfare knowledge.

I can go on-and-on all day about this stuff, but you should make the move and join us on Facebook and/or the DropBox:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dustwarfarefans/

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Greg"

Dust Swarm!

Hey dusters!

Apologies for the long silence, looks like sporadically will be the best I can do for now in terms of a posting schedule. Not that I'm not working on stuff but with the fluctuations in the game recently I want to wait for Gregory Withrow's update to Dust Warfare in Version II, which will feature an updated and expanded Rosies scrapyard - custom unit builder.We'll revisit the stats and rules in an update and then go on to new things.

But not that I've been doing nothing in the meantime.

- from old Mars Attacks card game

Couple of months back i saw someone playing some Alien swarms vs Axis on one of the Dust Facebook pages. I happen to love these types of Space-Dino-Bugs and have a large collection, though haven't played the game they are set in a while.

Just for laughs thought I'd whip up some dust warfare unit cards for swarm based aliens, feel free to use them to spice up your games.

Turned into a bit of a mission but got some I'd like to share.

The Swarm - Special Rules:

Swarm Consciousness: all units need to have at least one model with in Swarm Consciousness range of a unit with the Swarm Consciousness special rule, or will only be able to take a move action at the units max speed towards the closest unit with Swarm Consciousness. If no such unit is left in play the remaining units must move at maximum speed and attack the closest enemy unit. Does not Apply to units with the Ranging or Swarm Consciousness special rules.

Now just as is stated in the blog description, let me state this again now all credit and copyright to those who own and deserve it and I make no claims to the ownership of the imagery or anything nor am I making money from any of this... yada yada yada.

Anyways hope you guys like and find useful and fun. Please let me know what you guys think conceptually and stat/point wise.

As a last thought, Was wondering if there was anyone out there a collection of AT 43 Karmens, that would be willing to take and send through some photos to be used in the cards. Big prob at the moment is lack actual miniatures to divide into dust compatible teams. Think lots of 3 and 2 man Armour 4 units plus armour 3 aircraft.

Mustang p51-D (Recoilless guns) and Axis Jagdherman

Today I'm posting a little historical Dustified treat.

I've always loved the P51 mustang, especially the later models. They were an extreme improvement on previous escort fighters and saved hundreds if not thousands of bombardiers on their air raids over occupied Europe, who had been left to complete most of the journey over occupied Europe alone due to range limitations in previous fighters.

The 2 additional .50 call machine guns the P-51D (in addition to the 4 previous versions already sported) model sported were particularly devastating.

This version, I'm designating the P-51D/30 sporting four wing mounted recoilless guns to attack ground targets. (Went with Recoilless guns instead of 6 rockets to add a bit of diversity, lest it end up armed exactly like the "Bouncing Betty" however there was no pro-painted model I could find so the image on the card is just the P-51D/25).

Think though since models of this version is more readily available will probably card one up to, being a cheaper and lighter (and more fragile) version of the Bouncing Betty itself.

Then for something a little different since I love the look of the tropical Herman and can't abide how unreliable the standard one is. I present this bad boy: calling it the Jagdherman.

Same old Herman but with twice the hitting dice (and priced point wise accordingly). Brings it a bit more in line with the Wotan in terms of how the lasers function game wise, than the Tropical Herman. The only prob that was pointed out to me by Christopher Barnhart, is that these had a danger of becoming spamming fodder alternative to the Wotan, thus the single per platoon limitation.

Know I been  promising more AT43 stuff and slowly churning on those. Main reason they going slow is time basic restraints but hoping to get Operation Frost-Bite out in the next month or two. 
As always let me know what you think and if you have any ideas.

ME262

Hey guys, another quick update, with another Dustified Historical Axis unit.

This time a ME263, heavy fighter version, with 2 extra 30 mm cannons and four X-4 missiles. All of which were actually layout options however I’m not sure if any model of this specific armament flew in our timeline.

In the world of dust however, the design proved itself in 1944 and though by now outclassed by newer generation aircraft, it can still dominate the skies agains thousands of older fighters that still fill the air forces of all the blocks.



Rules wise, this ME262 is more heavily armed then the Fledermaus series, but less resilient and maneuverable. Because of its slightly out dated design does not have the Air Superiority special rule.  

Any thoughts on this or the previous stats for the E-100 Tiger Maus?

Hit us back on the facebook group or the comments.
Thanks and Cheers for now

A New Year and New Battles

Hey guys, been a while since I posted anything. Rest assured though life has been getting in the way a bit, it has not killed me or this project yet.

Through the face book group I’ve received multiple submissions for Stats for especially the Karmans. At this point slowly looking and using these, coming up with background and special rules to make the army unique. I believe at the same time I will be looking at the Redblock, keeping Dust Warfare - Campaign Book Operation Frostbite in the same Army vs Army format. Big call to anyone who’d like to dip their toe in the water for some fluff creation. Even if you just have a few ideas, Please post them in the comments!

A bit off the usual but thought I’d diversify a bit and put up a new initiative to go hand in hand with the AT43. Many people involved with Dust often use/convert contemporary ww2 scale units to add a more traditional WW2 feel for their battles. Tanks and traditional aircraft after all, still from the majority of Armored Combat Vehicles in the late war, and production of Combat walkers are switching only slowly from the production of earlier vehicles.
So Using Rosie’s Scrapyard form Dust Cornicles we’ll be showcasing some models from the WW2 era. Those that were and some that were only dreamed of...

Below is a Warfare card for the Axis Super Heavy Tank: E100 -Tiger III(s) (Tiger-Maus):

“In November 1942, Krupp suggested a design weighing 155 tons, compared to the 188 tons of the Maus - but still using the Maus turret, then in December 1942, Krupp suggested a design weighing 130 tons which used many of the same components as the Tiger tank with Maus turret — referred to as the "Tiger-Maus". Weight savings were to be from thinner armour, and narrowing and shortening the vehicle.”


The Tiger-Maus can be used as a support unit in any platoon that can field a Königs Luther. As always please let me know if you have any ideas about stats, point costs etc.

Next in the list for Dustification:

•         Panzer IV Ausf. J
•         Allied Crusader AA (Skyraker)
•          P51D Mustang
•          Me 262 A-1a/U5

Just a quick call, if anyone with .PSD versions of blank card templates in the new format could contact me, would be most appreciated.

The Dustification side of things will be much more casual then the AT43, cards, fluff and platoons (and background).
Using something like Rosie's Scrapyard from Dust Chronicles its allot easier and quicker to get stats and work out point costs, not to mention historical units these hardly need extra fluff, when Wikipedia has it all already. The main focus of this project will still be on the AT43 side of things but a little extra fun never hurts. If you have stats and point costs for your own historical and dustified unit, post in the comments or facebook page. 

Lastly just a quick note on the Issues surrounding the now infamous Kickstarter… - What a godamned mess. Though there seems to be much confusion, not least from the companies involved in it. When it started and during its entire run I followed dumbfounded by its success and the the awesomeness of the products being offered. With a deep regret did I watch the final hours of it tick by, without having invested in it. But now it deeply saddens me to see the damage done to the dust brand, as well as that of the reputation of Battlefront and to a lesser extent (because of more active community and client engagement) Dust Studio. Personally I implore both parties to sort this out as quickly as possible and for a change put the fans of this awesome game first again. 

Thanks and Cheers for now

Dust Warfare Campaign Book Operation Damocles

Operation Damocles is a go!

Click here to download to final completed version!

This final version has all found typos issues and errors fixed.

Then just like to leave this little teaser from the next project:

Dust Warfare - Campaign Book Operation Damocles!

Finally ready for your enjoyment!

Please find the Dust Warfare - Campaign Book Operation Damocles here.

After some extensive proof reading and checking it seems to be alright now, but i'm gonna assume its a beta (v2) for a week or so in case anyone picks anything up, whether it be a typo or suggestions.


Unit Cards and platoons have also been updated.
Right now the book contains the following:

UNA background
U.N.A. - SteelTrooper - Damocles Platoon

• U.N.A. - Steel Trooper Command Squad
• U.N.A. - Steel Trooper Combat Support Anti-Armor Squad 
• U.N.A - Steel Trooper Combat Assault Squad 
• U.N.A. - Firetoad MK1 Combat Support Walker

Therian background
Therian Expeditionary Storm Platoon

• Therian Overseer - Sigma Urash
• Therian Storm Golem - Combat Assault Squad
• Therian Storm Golem - Combat Support Squad
• Therian Wraith Golgoth - Medium Assault Walker

Damocles Fortifications Rules

We will release separate Scenarios if we get a chance.

So go forth and conquer and send us a few battle reports!

Thanks and Cheers for now