New Aerial Groups Conquer The Dystopian Wars Skies
June 10, 2014 by brennon
Spartan Games have added a number of new battle groups to their Dystopian Wars line-up. This time they'll be taking to the skies with a mass of Aerial Boxed Sets...
So if you like aerial combat, land battles or taking to the high seas Spartan Games pretty much have you covered now. I'm quite the fan of the Britannia Aerial Group although the Russians look awesome too. You even get those neat little movement trays to move all the small flyers!
The whole world of Dystopian Wars have a very distinctive and interesting aesthetic and I love that while all of the armies look different there are little things in the design that tie them all together. If you want a proper expansive Steampunk-style experience then I don't think you can do much better. The rules are pretty awesome too!
Have you been playing a lot of Dystopian Wars?
Dystopian Wars is such a fun game. I’m really looking forward to digging into the 2.0 ruleset. After I paint all my japs and FSA first.
…I like rockets…
The stars of the new FSA for me are the strike bombers they are just death subs…. These sets are a great continuation of the other ones and they do not dissapoint
Love the game and like the new rules can’t wait to give them a go this sunday. Love they changed how robots board, much better and like the new SAS rules. Shame they didn’t change the big ships shooting at little ones rule though, I think it should be the weapon type not the user that matters.
Won’t be getting the aerial battlegroups though as i’m KOB player and I have the flying fortress and the Merlins are rubbish.
Looks like my French will be getting some good looking air support. For some reason I love the idea of the broadsides they have with their turret placement.
Though do those blimps have helium or hydrogen gas in them? Because if so, then that Prussian air carrier is a bloody death trap. It catches on fire and the flames are going to go right up into the flight deck and all the wonderful ammunition and crew on it.
The fluff says they have some helium in the bags but that is helped by antigav plates. Same thing with the british ones they don’t rely on the tiny little props to keep them up. But even if you aren’t filling them full of gas you’ve got to have Zeppelins, they are just cool. My fleet has major blimp envy.
Oh they certainly look cool. And no self respecting steam punk setting would be complete with a zeppelin air ship.
Still the Prussians have built a death trap that you couldn’t pay me to step foot on. 😛
I love that Prussian hot air aircraft carrier. How does it not tip over? Oh, never mind! Who wouldn’t want to this fleet on the board, while cranking Vader’s “Imperial March” on the stereo? 😀
The flight stand.
Hope this is the start of some more DW 2.0 coverage. Of my 2 mail fleets the only thing in those boxes I don’t have several of already is the FSA strike bombers – more likely to try to find them in the old box with the repair ship. For the EotBS there is not any thing that is not already in the fleet, but the Coa box might well find it way here Now get me some (more, they do have one model each …) Danish and Italian Air and I would be a happy admiral … I wonder… Read more »