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

Damocles UNA & Therian Fortifications

Finally managed to complete a first draft of the Fortification rules for Campaign Book Damcoles.

This page contains all you need to field Therian Nano source generators and UNA Barricades (Tactical Deployment Barricades).

Please give it a read and please let us know what you think:



As soon as the Therian background has been completed the 2nd draft Campaign Book Damocles .pdf will be released including some updates to the previously released content. This should be enough to get playing fully, though the final version should also include a few scenarios.

Note I'm going to relook the way the way Routines special orders are written. The idea is that these count as special orders, only with a unique set of rules for how many can be given, to which units and how to give these orders.

In the mean time, some members in the community have compiled and sent through rules, stats and info for more units, including most of the Karmen units. Will be whipping up unit cards for these as soon as possible, and these will form the basis of the next campaign book.

As always thoughts, ideas and suggestions welcome, head over to the Dust-43 Facebook group and join the project.

Thanks and cheers for now

V1 - Damcoles Therian Platoon

Introducing the Therian Damocles Platoon!

This Platoon mainly covers the Mid ranged units, Mainly Storm Golems, with Support from various Golgoths. However I believe I has the space to field one of each type of Therian save for the Baal & Kraken Golgath.

Also added the rules for routines, which are supposed to function like special orders and unit upgrades but very experimental and Most certainly open to changing or amending these. Please let us know in the comments or pop over to the Facebook group to give us your thoughts, suggestions and ideas.

Also updated the Sigma Urash Card to better reflect the Routines:

Finally have this first version ready for community review. The background is coming along nicly as well, though as you can imagine incorporating Therians into Dust, while keeping to the spirit their original AT-43 fluff, is a bit challenging. Again not trying to rewrite the world of Dust, just fit it in.

Also decided to add an aditional section to the book that covers some UNA and Therian specific Fortifications, so as to make it just that bit more interesting, hope to get this out as soon as possible.

The to do list now is:

• Complete Therian Fluff - 75% done
• Create 3+ scenarios - 0% done
• Complete fortification rules - 50% done

As always, thanks for everyone's support, please feel free to engage and cheers for now

Dust Warfare Campaign Book Damocles - Draft Release

Alrighty so after a week of writing some background, finally managed to get Campaign Book Damocles in an initial releasable form. As of now, covers some background for the campaign and the U.N.A. Stats and Rules.

Campaign Book Damocles:

Campaign Book Damocles is a fan community campaign book for Dust Warfare, Allowing players to field AT-43 units in Dust Warfare.

This is following the spirit of other Fan Campaign Books such as DustWar's (and Old Hat's) Campaign Book Headway which lists rules and stats for some traditional WW2 Tanks, and DDI's Dust Warfare Appendix V.1 which lists rules for Dust Studio's Dust 48 units (some of which have by now been released by battlefront with updated rules)

CB Damocles uses the cleaner design format used by Battlefront in Campaign Book Achilles, along with old AT-43 art and photo's.

It lists the rules, stats background for fielding U.N.A. and Therian forces, during a massive UNA offensive to combat the growing menace of the Mysterious Black forces.
Both Forces can be used as Mercenary units to compliant a current Dust Warfare Army or to mix things up, to be fielded as a stand alone force.

Check out the current PDF. inital version (containing background and rules for the UNA forces) here: Campaign Book Damocles V.1.1

So let us know what you think and/pick up on the Dust-AT-43 facebook group

Thanks and Cheers for now
Joprair

Dust-43 - what is this?

Hi guys, just thought I'd give a bit broader context on this project.

AT-43 is a science fiction tabletop wargame using 28 mm miniature figures and terrain to scale developed and published by the now defunct French company Rackham, which tanked in 2010. Should be noted this is widely claimed to be not because of its product but a less then viable business strategy.
The game itself was widely praised to be smooth and relatively simple, and is felt to be, to a some degree, the Aesthetic predecessor to Dust Tactics and some of the rules for Dust Warfare are also suspiciously similar. The rules are available for download online.

Anyway, since the mini's are no longer being produced and some people might not have full collections or limited forces, it got to a point where it was inevitable that these mini's would be given a set of Fan rules and stats the universe best suited for them.

Thus this project, to allow the Dust community can Adopt the AT-43 orphans.

For more info and better views of how the minis compare, check out these articles:

AT-43 article on 1d4Chan

Dust Warfare — Review and Musings

Are Dust figures the same as AT-43 figures?" Topic

Here you can see some Walker conversions from AT-43 to Dust:

Dust Australis - Japanese Heavy Walker

Dust Australis - Japanese Walkers

Axis AA walker Heinrich II - scratchbuild design

AT-43 Therian - Dust Warfare Cards

A New Day and some new statcards, this time for the Therians.

 These guys were really hard to convert, both in terms of Fluff and rules, especially while maintaining their AT-43 feel. But think a balanced level has been reached.

One of the things raised was that the Nano Blasters were somewhat short ranged, however to keep the units on a broad level to be more or less in line with the standards, its necessary to distinguish between Nano Blasters and Nucleus Rifles so they correspond with say, Shotguns and Assault Rifles.

But its still an open Field and we can change. Any thought and ideas, please join and engage on the Dust-AT-43 Facebook group.

Well here they are, Therians from the Damocles Assault Platoon:

Therian - Wraith Golgoth - Dust Warfare Card:

Therian - Storm Golem Combat Support Cadre - Dust Warfare Card:

Therian - Storm Golem Combat Assault Cadre - Dust Warfare Card:

Therian - Sigma Urash - Dust Warfare Card:

Thanks and Cheers for now
Joprair

Some Dust Warfare - UNA Stat Cards

Some Dust Warfare - UNA Stat Cards

Today thought I'd post some of the Dust warfare stat cards for UNA units.

These have been submitted to the Facebook group and the Dustwarfare.com Forums so seem to be pretty well received and look balanced enough but if needed can still be tweaked. 

The rational and fluff behind these units should make more sense once Campaign Book Damocles is finished, and will also have the platoons and platoon/unit upgrades.Needles to say though the main focus on the how these units were divided and constructed was in keeping with the broad template used by the Allies and Axis armies.

But without further ado, Ladies and Gentlemen, the UNA:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A. - FireToad MK1:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A .- Steel Trooper - Anti Armour Squad:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A. - Steel Trooper - Combat Assault Squad:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A. - Steel Trooper - Command Squad:

These all form the bases of the Damocles SteelTrooper Platoon, A basic platoon meant to be constructed using the Damocles Staterset (or multiples there off) and supplemented with other UNA units.
Hope you Likey, and let us know what you think.

Cheers For Now
Joprair

Unit Forward - Features DUST43 Facebook Project

Unit Forward - Features DUST43 Facebook Project

 

Read more here:
http://www.unitforward.com/news/dust-43-on-facebook/

Facebook group (as mentioned in previous post) found here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/513704348762007/

Dustwarfare.com discussion thread:
http://www.dustwarfare.com/tabid/89/g/posts/t/1074/AT43-to-Dust-Rules-Conversion---Custom-Rules-and-Stats-for-AT-43-Units-in-Dust-Warfare.aspx

Cheers for now
Joprair

Welcome to Dust43

Project to write and create Custom fan rules for AT-43 miniatures for use in the awesome world and rules of DUST.

Coming soon: Dust Warfare - Operation Damocles 

Engage more at the Dust43 Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/513704348762007/
Cheers for now
Joprair