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Incy posted:I was going to name my ships after famous hedgehogs, but gave up after the only two I could come up with were sonic and Mrs Tiggywinkle.
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I was thinking of sticking with SEA city names for UCM. For my PHR, I'm going to name at least one of them "The Great Cornholio."
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I considered the Justice/Sword/Mercy naming scheme from the Ancillary books but that might get dull when applied to a whole fleet. I'll probably just end up picking from various places, Halo has a bunch of good names and some of the more serious Culture ones will probably work too. That said, i also played around with some random generators and some ship is going to be The Spectral Nancy.
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Bistromatic posted:That said, i also played around with some random generators and some ship is going to be The Spectral Nancy. Do you have the Scourge battlecruiser?
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Bistromatic posted:some of the more serious Culture ones will probably work too. You prefer names with more gravitas?
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Stood at the back when the gravitas was handed out; needs to be the name of a battleship.
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Maybe i'll just name a battleship Gravitas then  Ugleb posted:Do you have the Scourge battlecruiser? That would be a great fit but i'll only be keeping UCM out of our groups pledge.
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UCM Tokyo-class. Gravitas This.
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Mr Penis Gun is what I'm calling the one UCM Battlecruiser, it's going to look great alongside things like the Kusnetsov, Maksim Gorky and the Kursk. Also I think I'm gonna build 2x Seattles out of one of my starter boxes, strike assets seem baller as hell and the Seattle is cool. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Bistromatic posted:Maybe i'll just name a battleship Gravitas then Hmm probably one of those electronic warfare frigates then. Jakarta I think?
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Jakarta is the disco flak frigate. A collective term would be an Ibiza :p. Lima is the EW frigate.
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Ugleb posted:The Factions I'm starting to update the OP's a bit now that Phase 2 is out and Dropfleet is (hopefully) not far off. I never did get around to describing the factions before, so any insights to filling this out are welcome!
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Shaltari are for cheese weasels. Looks good so far. Building Cruisers I'm probably gonna go for a Moscow, St Petersburg, 2x Seattle, 2x San Francisco, 2x Rio and a Madrid. I've got 4 Taipei, 4 Toulon, 2 Lima and 2 Jakarta. As well as 4 Metal Strike Carriers. I'll probably go for a Beijing for a Battleship because it looks awesome.
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Flipswitch, don't know how familiar you're with PHR dropfleet sprues, but would you say its possible/worth magnetising cruisers?
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I havent seen the sprues for them sorry dude. I'm awful at magenetizing but I imagine it's doable. 
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The Impaler posted:Flipswitch, don't know how familiar you're with PHR dropfleet sprues, but would you say its possible/worth magnetising cruisers? Hawk said magnetizing the broadsides should be easy, but the front jaw section might be hard.
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Shaltari are for cool people who like giant ninja robots.
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cheese weasels in giant robots who like anime butts
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New backer update is out.... Guess we have another 2+ weeks to wait then. . I really, really think it is the rulebook. quote:
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Goddammit Hawk, I am moving this month and I do not want the delivery to be stuck in redirection limbo!
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Games real fun you'll enjoy it when it arrives!
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I built my St. Petersburg finally and am prepping to paint him up, just planning where to put the transfers and there's very few flat surfaces on these UCM ships... E: New post, not edit,
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Did the Nova Open tournament yesterday. Did, uh, ok-ish. 1-1-1 but the win and draw were close while the loss was utter demolition and the lopsidedness of that game gave the eventual winner just enough points. Unfortunately Hawk Dave re-FAQed Hawk Liam on the Overseer/Warrior interaction so I'll have to change up my list again. Also the guys in my local meta are really shy about cqb comparatively. Also I really have to do better about not getting my skimmers blown up before they can get going.
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I decided i'll end up keeping the shaltari portion of my groups commodore pledge in addition to the UCM to use as a demo fleet. There's no way i'm getting a deal like that again.
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wdarkk posted:Did the Nova Open tournament yesterday. Did, uh, ok-ish. 1-1-1 but the win and draw were close while the loss was utter demolition and the lopsidedness of that game gave the eventual winner just enough points.
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Flipswitch posted:What kept getting your skimmers detonatd? Also shy about CQB? down here people throw blobs of dudemans at each other its kinda nuts. Not getting them activated, so they get shot at without the Skimmer-Bonus in the first turn (Or after being Dropped), I'd guess.
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Renfield posted:Not getting them activated, so they get shot at without the Skimmer-Bonus in the first turn (Or after being Dropped), I'd guess. Yeah this. Aside from the time I forgot about the Hades's AOE  That was the game I won too.
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Reminds me the first time I found out what the Firedrake did. Oh there goes 4/6 of my Katanas.
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Flipswitch posted:Reminds me the first time I found out what the Firedrake did. Yes, except I own a Hades. Hilariously, there was more prize support than attendees so I got a Shaltari starter, Aegeon (everyone got one to make up for Hawk not showing), and a limited edition battle bus.
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wdarkk posted:Yes, except I own a Hades. The (only) thing that annoys me about that, is you get the minis for 6 bases of Braves, but only 4 bases. It's like plasticard isn't a thing. (I think the stuff in the Shartari starter comes to about £90 if bought separately, as plastics... so it's not huge deal.... more a minor annoyance. especially as I got spare bases when I got Firstborn)
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I've just been painting a vast amount of Dropzone I bought on a whim the other day, getting some Raven As for my starter box infantry, an Eagle and some Longbows. What's the best way to use Longbows? Is it building demolition, smoke coverage or just indirect firing at tanks from two feet away?
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Bob Smith posted:I've just been painting a vast amount of Dropzone I bought on a whim the other day, getting some Raven As for my starter box infantry, an Eagle and some Longbows. What's the best way to use Longbows? Is it building demolition, smoke coverage or just indirect firing at tanks from two feet away? I find it's just sitting there, while Thunder/Firebirds take many turns, rolling lots of 1's to kill them
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Smart Smoke owns, as does building wrecking if you need the numbers to stack up. Longbows are pretty rad.
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wdarkk posted:(everyone got one to make up for Hawk not showing) Does this mean they were all locked away in their warehouse packing my dropfleets instead?
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They actually are done and are holding it back just to harvest the entitled tears on Facebook.
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Ok need some army advice. I bought in on day 1 player a couple of times and barely touched it since. Aiming to rectify that now. I've got the Shaltari starter, a Gaia, 4 extra bases of troops, jaguar, ocelot, Coyote, 2 spirit gates and 2 Tarantulas. What could I add to get a reasonable 1500 points ?
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A deck of command cards. Also pigs (pungari) would be a good start, as they are the new hotness for taking objectives (ie winning the game). Is your ocelot one of the new kits that are dual ocelot/panther? You certainly don't have enough AA with what you have listed. Also some yari (or samurai? They still look bad though) may be a good idea, to act as scouts. You don't have to put guns on them, and they enable the swordpoint. Here's what you have at the moment. That's easily enough gates, not really enough troops and decent on the anti-tank. Nothing fun or special there, though. code:code:
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While the glorious Pungarii Proletariat are indeed awesome, if you're just looking to get up and running - Yari (with ion-cannon), the Totem and a Firedragon are the way I'd go. As you said it's all stuff you got a while ago, I'd assume you have the ocelot only pack - might be worth asking your group if you can proxy it for the new Panther AA-walker vvv but if he's looking to get a game, while not spending more than he has to, he has enough inf. already Renfield fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Sep 5, 2016 |
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Renfield posted:vvv but if he's looking to get a game, while not spending more than he has to, he has enough inf. already Least money is to just get totem and yaris. Swap out the pungari in the above for braves and take an ion cannon on the 4th yari, but I don't think that leaves a very good list! A firedrake variant would take out the tomahawks and enough yaris to make the points, but is also probably not great as it leaves you very light on focal points on the ground (approx 800 potential scoring units?)
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