Vlog: Dropfleet Commander Week – Moons Complete & Final Layout
December 8, 2016 by warzan
Lloyd's stolen the cameraman to continue his Moons, moving on to colouring and shading the craters on the surfaces. With simple tools and handy polystyrene spheres you too can make your own easy Moons for your games.
We're also setting up final layouts of our mats from Deep Cut Studio ready for the weekend.
Click here to see the paint schemes vlog or check out The Beginning of Lloyd's Moons here.
How would you colour your Moons?
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So looking forward to getting there
looking forwards to seeing you again. We meant to get a sign for the walking dead bootcamp for you….but I’m a terrible slacker, sorry about that.
lookimg great … on the pearl harbour theme my Scourge list is called Tora Tora Tora:-)
(shhhh, send us some inside info)
Why are all the moons bare rock? No forest moons, ice moons, that’s no moon, lava moons, etc? Was it a timing issue, or a theme? I haven’t played Dropfleet, so I am not familiar with the universe.
Where do you get forest moons?
around Endor is a good place to look 😉
Looking good guys, see you tomorrow!
Looking fantastic as always guys, I’m sorry I couldn’t make this one but I’ll be catching up post work to see how everyone is getting on….also did I see a little female mage appear and vanish again around 13:34? say hi to Savanna for me and I hope she hasn’t spent all that gold already.
I’m off to watch a medley of my favourite Babylon 5 episodes now for no reason at all 😉
Dropping in on us? Danger Wil Robinson Danger!
Will be good to catch up
time permitting I may get down on Sunday after the bootcamp finishes. may get a pint or two Rasmus, not sure if the new bar will have Stonecutters or whatever it’s called though
I been drinking American beer for a while so anything will do 😉
Warren – instead of Pearl Harbour (75 years ago yesterday) the unannounced strike on NachWolfyon-5 would probably be more like the scenes of the strikes against the Colonial Fleet in the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVPN1ZQX4w
Those moons look amazing. Would love to see some that are more than bare rock. Forest would be easy to do with a bit of flock. Loving those gaming mats too. Have fun guys.
Have a great time everyone. I wanted to come…
“If it’s too big it won’t get into the little hole and fill it up” ??
Crickey, watching Lloyd create moons turns out to be innuendo gold, doesn’t it… 😉
who’d have thought he was @Warzan‘s brother 😉
The giant potato (brown) moon of Irelandia, Spud-nik One.
I like the idea of the space stations rotating (moving across) on the mats, but if an actual moon-like object were that close to the planet, tectonic havoc would ensue, let alone collision, leaving little or nothing left to land troops for. Shouldn’t the moons be more for the approach path and not near-orbit? Or bases on the moons themselves? Staging areas?
Looking good guys.
Good luck and cannot wait to see how things progress over the weekend.
Them moons look flippin brilliant. That monster space station … wow.
everything’s looking great guys have a great weekend everybody.
Looking great. Those mats are really amazing. Not sure which of them I prefer.
I really wish I could have got to this boot camp. Looking really good. Hope it all goes well and much fun is had by all.
In regard to the big station: A Pearl Harbour attack could be cool. I saw it with the ships attached and just thought of it as a massive “Transport” ship that warps to another part of a system with the smaller ships attached and then they deploy into action when they arrive.
the boards have really come together – looking very ace indeed. gonna struggle to watch the blogging as it happens but will endeavor to catch up on sunday. have a boss weekend everyone who is involved 🙂
Here’s a suggested rules hack from someone who has not read the rules yet. (Yeah, they delivered my stuff to my house in Utah and I am in Mexico this week! ) Vessels heading towards the moon get an additional 1/4 speed when heading toward the moon *and* after they pass the moon to represent a “slingshot” effect. Vessels heading away from or with the moon in their flank move 1/4 toward the moon due to gravity or stay on their desired path if they drop 1/4 of their forward move to compensate. How this will work when the moons… Read more »
Surely the space station should be called Station mc Station face? Or atleast one planet should be Planet mc Planet face…….. or is that joke old news now? =P
Also, love the moons, such a great effect for so little work. I personally think they are better without the airbrushing, simply to give them a bit more scale. The ones without tended to look like enormous objects but far away.
Like!
I will be watching jealously.
Suggestions for Space Station Name:
Space Station No. 5 (for any old Montrose Fans)
Deep Space Warren 9
TriJUSTINroga 12
Albuquerque 6 (as in I should have turned left at Bugs Bunny!)
LLoydsville Orbital Station
Shootatwill 29
Spaghetti Junction Station
Jamestown 7
M26
Babylon B0W
On the moons and space stations move do it after all ships have moved (snigger)
Planet names
Dungheep (Many of my sci fi games are based there)
France ( where all good wars should be fought)
Belgium ( were most wars are actually fought)
Diz Astor
Warren Prime
Justinople
Bob (why not it was in the cartoon movie)
That’s some amazing spray can shaking there Lloyd… or was the film sped up? 😀
I’m also assuming that Lloydoslavia must have colonised a planet by this stage in the future. Is there time to get some banners made (or just a little flag to plant on a moon)?
Oh man, what an incredible series of “pre bootcamp” videos. I’ve pick great ideas for my own Dropfleet games. Thanks!