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.