TTCombat Launch Dropfleet Dreadnoughts & Big 2-Up Battleship!
September 5, 2018 by brennon
TTCombat has launched a new series of Dropfleet Commander Dreadnoughts. Each of these are mighty ships in their own right, able to take on a myriad of different foes with their various armaments. We're going to run through them faction by faction and show off the fluff that TTCombat discussed about them too...
"Facing a single Scourge Dreadnought generally means death. These 2000 metre monstrosities prowl the void, hunting prey imperiously. They are one-ship fleets, the mightiest vessels that this hated enemy has to unleash. The Nosferatu class packs vast Oculus banks and terrifying close action weaponry.
The Cthulhu’s colossal triple furnace cannon can bisect a battleship. If that wasn’t terrifying enough, both carry swarms of strike craft and have potent stealth systems. By the time an opponent is able to finally plot a firing solution, it’s usually too late."
This Scourge Dreadnought can either be played as the Nosferatu designation or the Cthulu designation, each with their own tactical uses on the tabletop. This is also the LARGEST Dreadnought from the set so it's fitting that we showed it off first.
"At 1750 metres long and triple a Battleship’s displacement, Dreadnoughts are the most powerful warships ever produced by mankind. Their prodigious firepower allows a single one to engage and annihilate a small fleet unassisted.
Commanded by only the most decorated Admirals, each of these mighty vessels is a legend in its own right. The London class packs a staggering array of conventional mass drivers - fifty, to be exact. The rarer Washington class can unleash a swarm of bombers equivalent to an entire carrier taskforce."
This new UCM Dreadnought can be played as either the London or Washington Class Dreadnought and is one of the most detailed kits within the range. There are so many intricate details across the hull of the ship and it is absolutely bristling with guns.
Turning to the PHR we have this very sleek looking floating fortress...
"PHR Dreadnoughts are paradigms of technology. Nearly 2000 metres long, they’re built around a next-gen intermeshed power management system. Virtually all the ship’s gunnery, core systems and drives are integrated seamlessly into it. This allows unique and advanced weaponry.
The Romulus packs Energy Glaive broadsides and the dreaded Hypernova Laser. The Remus boasts the Apocalypse Cannon - one of the most potent bombardment weapons ever conceived. Any of these can be overcharged when fired alone, upping the devastation to biblical proportions."
Named after the founders of Ancient Rome, the Romulus & Remus Dreadnoughts are bringing some powerful firepower to the tabletop. Why would you not want to run a ship with a Hypernova Laser?
Finishing things off on the Dreadnought front we have the Shaltari Dreadnought.
"Over 1600 meters long, Dreadnoughts are the largest vessels utilised by the enigmatic Shaltari. Records are sketchy though, as they are incredibly rare and opponents seldom survive an encounter with one. This lethality comes from incredible firepower, shields and peerless scanners.
Their captains can wage entire campaigns personally with minimal support. The Plutonium class features a plethora of eldritch weapons, devastatingly flexible in combat. The Uranium is supremely aggressive, attracting the most warlike Starchiefs, desiring the honour and satisfaction of close range slaughter."
Either rocking out as the Plutonium or Uranium (whose 'ranium?) Class of Dreadnought this is the most intricate of the designs put forward by TTCombat for Dropfleet Commander.
Massive 2-Up!
As well as these big Dreadnoughts, the team at TTCombat has designed something special for this month. You can currently pick up the 2-Up (double the size) New York Class Battleship.
This is an advanced modelling kit so it is not for the faint of heart and is recommended for hardcore hobbyists. It would be a perfect mantlepiece prop to hover over you as you play your games of Dropfleet Commander.
Exclusive Condor
As well as the goodies for Dropfleet Commander we also have a new limited edition release for Dropzone Commander. Here is the Titania Pattern Condor.
"Recently, the Titania Aerospace Corporation has expanded aggressively, with designs on supplanting Ferrous Motor's pre-eminence, spearheaded by their Condor-AV program.
This brutal-looking variant manoeuvres similarly but has superior range, combat ceiling and avionics.
Field trials have proved encouraging, fuelling speculation that the AASC may order as many as 50,000, their largest single procurement since the start of the Reconquest."
This is an alternative pattern of the classic Condor with a bulkier design which brings it in line with the look of many of the other UCM ground units.
Will you be snapping up any of these goodies?
"Will you be snapping up any of these goodies?"
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Gods, those Dreadnoughts look bloody gorgeous!
Well as a Kickstarter backer for Dropfleet they just gave me £105 store credit and I am not going to be spending it in Rumbleslam?
The question is do I go for 2 dreadnoughts or 1 dreadnought and some other bits 🙂
Perhaps you should try Rumbleslam. It outsold both Drop games at GenCon, Adepticon and Origins!
To be fair Rumbleslam is much more a game you can pick up on a wimp at a Con – than a full on Wargame
Already have 2 UCM Dreadnaughts on order. Now I just have to wait…….
Those are some great looking ships.
Fabulous looking they will be tremendous in a fleet also the shaltari ship could be a great Killjoy’s RAC shipship. ?
I like the PHR ship but the others I’m not so sure about. They look a bit like conversions made from sticking other ships together. Cool conversions, but not like actual new ship designs.
I like the look of the two-up though (is that a re-release of one of the two-ups available during the KS or is it new?).
And I like the new Condor, although I also like the old one and I’m not seeing anything which is making me think this new one is better. Not that I think options are a bad thing!
The Dreads look a lot better in person
There was a kickstarter exclusive 2-up of the Beijing battleship. The New York is the same base hull with components swapped out, so non-backers are getting the chance to pick up something similar but different.
I don’t play any spaceship games at all but I just really love the design of their Scourge ships. I feel like just buying them and finding a use for them later, LOL.
I gotta get me some Dreadnoughts!
Gotta keep the fleets up to date.
One of each, please!
I do like the DFC designs, but really struggled with the resin model components for the early special ships. What looked great painted up just wasn’t good in practice. The details weren’t that pronounced, pieces didn’t fit or were warped. Even with the best intentions Hawk couldn’t unfortunately deliver the right quality and the prices weren’t reasonable either. Considering at the time Spartan had mastered really good resin ships it was a shame. I hope TTC has improved things, because I’d really like this to do well and would like to paint up some of these.
That’s a shame. Hawks resin was usually good stuff, but I think their QA suffered as theory struggled to fulfil the kickstarter. TTCombat are showing good customer service though so if you did have issues they are there to help.
Be warned though, the 2-up is pitched as an advanced modelling kit due to the size of the resin components. It will take more prep work to put together.
DZC resin was no problem to deal with. DFC resin was both in terms of how the individual components were designed and the quality of the casts. The problem was mostly from UCM ships. The original 2-ups were not really more advanced modelling kits and this won’t be any different. Yes its more complicated than a plastic kit, but not more so than your average Forgeworld or Warlord model. In fact probably less as the components in theory are straight forward. The problem was the casting quality which just wasn’t as good as other companies an often created gaps which… Read more »
Interesting. I have a resistance thunderstorm awaiting assembly, will be interesting to see how it goes together with those big chunks of resin.
Never built any resistance units. Enjoy 😉
not that nice imho…
the UCM got turrets in the right arcs or the launch load-out, the Scourge dish out scald destruction without retaliation, despite its sig of 20 due to full cloak and stealth. PHR got wrong weapon arcs and a bombardment dread that no one is going to use. And the Shaltari are again strange, yet seemingly powerful.
To me, the weapon loadouts have been mixed up: the phr should be scourge, the scourge should be shaltari, shaltari should be ucm and the ucm should be phr.