Ugleb posted:

I'm not sure if its Scourge or Shaltari. Scourge get up close via stealth then melt face. Shaltari get their gate shenanigans with infantry deployment and are/were going to be brittle ships with those long range ion(?) cannons that cause major spikes when fired. The twist being that Shaltari also get their shields up mechanic which is meant to dramatically boost their durability when active.

Ugleb posted:

The PHR dropship counts as a Neptune proxy it seems. I now want at least one for use with a command squad! Very pretty looking imo.

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On our final update before Salute, we have the next wave of releases to show off. These will be available in very limited quantities at Salute this year.

Along with these, we will also have a collection of show only and newly created products, including: The Monorail Expansion Pack, Faction specific T-shirts, and Token packs.

We will also have many Dropfleet Commander models to present to you all - but for those, you will have to come down and have a look... (or keep an eye out on social media for people sharing photos from the day!)

We look forward to seeing many people at Salute!

Ugleb posted:

MOAR MONORAIL?

Loxbourne posted:

I've just been looking at those very models. They're as huge as they look, I assure you.

wdarkk posted:

Shaltari BS looking good, wonder which ones aren't done yet.

Pash posted:

I would assume hes worked on each variation for a faction at the same time, and since we have seen the UCM one and now the Shaltari I would imagine the PHR and Scourge ones still need work.

Loxbourne posted:

Turned out they were just extra track packs, with upright pillars.

FrostyPox posted:

So general release probably won't be till August. I want my super awesome space ships. I want them so bad.

Bistromatic posted:

More modular terrain planning! Turns out committing to a grid system is the hardest part. Also doing an actual introduction since i might crosspost this for some feedback in other places and i never gave one in this thread

I'm currently working on a modular table for Dropzone Commander, fitting with the theme of the game it's going to be urban terrain in 10mm scale. I want to incorporate elevation changes since i find that it makes tables a lot more attractive. The modules will the milled from MDF and held together by magnets. Roads will be permanently attached to the modules, the sidewalk level will be removable in sections to accommodate buildings and smaller features like bus stops or craters.



After some consideration i decided i'll be sticking with metric units. 120cm is close enough to the standard 48" for me not to care about the difference. Working entirely in imperial isn't feasible since all my materials and tools are metric over here and a hybrid approach is a huge hassle.

Originally i was thinking about imitating the paper terrain tiles put out by Hawk ( http://i.imgur.com/BYaGn90.jpg ) which are 12"/~30cm tiles with centered roads. A standard table will be 4x4 modules with good connectivity. However once elevation comes into play you need at least some ramps between levels which means that an elevation change consits of a low piece, a ramp and a high piece and takes up three quarters of the table length.

The next idea was to halve the grid size and do a mix of 30cm and 15cm tiles for more flexibility. With the roads being centered on each this essentially creates two different road systems and requires an adapter piece of sorts between them that shifts the centerline by 7,5cm. To make matters worse, there's two mirrored variants possible that are not interchangeable. A few posts up is the 1:10 scale test pieces i made for this system

Cutting out the 30cm centered tiles left me with a 15cm system, thus giving me 8x8 tiles for a standard table. The two test pieces of road are 15x15cm for example. Already much better but things like overpasses or a large intersection would take up 3x3 tiles and thus a pretty large portion of the table. Going by the test pieces i decided that shaving off the outer row of tiles could pretty easily get me to 12cm and thus a 10x10 table. It doesn't sound like that much of a difference but i find that the two extra rows add a good bit of flexibility.

The 12cm system i currently favour looks like this:


It's the best compromise i currently have between the various factors and i'll probably make another small scale model to play around with it.
For everyone else here's the sketchup file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14617390/Terrain%2012%20fine%20grid.skp
As opposed to the picture above, every module has four pre-rotated copies so they're quicker to assemble without constantly performing rotations.

I'd be happy about any feedback or suggestions.

Ugleb posted:

Anyone know if the hull section pictured right of the supercarrier is part of it? Looks similar to the top piece of the assembled battleship. Do they come from the same kit?

Bistromatic posted:

Loxbourne posted:

The upper section with two "prongs" is for the carrier (and has what looks like a flight deck between them). The one with triple particle cannons is from the battleship. Current theory seems to be that the upper hull section on the battleship is an enormous turret, but Dave wasn't telling...people with Admiral access, does the Shaltari battleship have an all-arc triple-cannon weapon?

Ugleb posted:

Looks like there are smaller turrets along the sides. Looking at the sides underslung towards the back, are those three torpedoes? If so, then 'holy crap'.

Flipswitch posted:

Gaah fast movers are so cool but so frustrating to use sometimes. The availability roll after they've come out of reserve is the most irritating thing ever. Kinda surprised Hawk even implemented it, it's just inherently frustrating when you consider having to hit and then damage afterwards as well.

wdarkk posted:

Theoretically you can use Forward Observers to auto-pass the availability rule for attack runs (but not intercepts).