Tuesday Review – Barking Dog

Today’s review is the Barking Dog, it is a Dust-Models.com medium walker. It is close to being the Allies answer to the Jagdluther. Only lighter armor.

Pros:

Has great anti tank and infantry weapons.

Standard walker stats

Long range weapons

Has Jump ability

Cons:

Recoiless Rifles are limited ammo but has 6 shots.

Tactics:

I would use him to take out whatever you want but make sure it’s specific targets rather than just the army as a whole. Pick the larger targets for it to shoot at.

Announcements

So soon we will be getting Dust Warfare. The end of the quarter ends this week. We will be getting a chance to play it hopefully soon.

There has been some changed to the blog. I have rearranged the tabs at the top and merged some of them. The form tab has been removed and the forms have been added to their page of results.

Also a new addition to TWC Dust Tactics. If you notice there is a Game Results tab at the top and a form on the side bar. This is a submission to allow players to show their results and compare each missions, campaign, and faction with all the others. It will be updated with missions and other stuff when the information comes out. Feel free to submit as many results to games as you would like.

Superhero Saturday - Red Guardian

So today's Superhero is the Red Guardian from Marvel. He fought with and against Captain America in WWII.

Homegrown Thursday - Tortoise

Tuesday Review – Bergeluther

Today’s review is the Bergeluther, it is a Dust-Models.com medium walker. It is the Axis recovery/repair vehicle much like the Mickey ARV

Pros:

Has great anti tank and infantry weapons.

Standard walker stats

Has a Dozer Blade

Has Damage Resilient Ability

Cons:

Short range anti tank with only 1 range

Short-Medium range Anti Infantry Weapons

Tactics:

Using the abilities as I described I would use it to stand behind walkers and salvage them as needed. Due to his short range he can be affective for holding an objective or close quarter games.

Superhero Saturday - Omega Red

So I figured since Russians are coming out then we should have some Russian Superheroes. So I decided to do Omega Red.

Homegrown Thursday - Valentine Mk X

Tuesday Review – Jagdluther 75

Today’s review is the Jagdluther 75 it is a Dust-Models.com heavy medium walker.

Pros:

Has armor 5

Has 8 wounds

Weapon is good for both anti tank and infantry.

Long range weapons

Cons:

Only has 1 weapon so it can only shoot at 1 target a turn.

Still vulnerable to Napalm weapons

Tactics:

Use it like you would your Ludwig only make him the lead walker instead. Unless someone is super lucky with rolling it should last more than 1 turn out in the open.

Weekly Dust Announcements

There are a few announcements this week. First is more models have been released for viewing from FFG 2 more helicopters, SSU Battle Squad and new 3 Axis Medium/Heavy Walkers that come in 1 box. Also earlier last week FFG released new models of building expansions. Here

Another announcement is that Patrick Doty and Viet Nguyen have started a League Campaign they want to start up soon. I am helping out a little bit by setting up their forms and stuff for submissions. Check back later for further updates about it. Here

Dust-Models.com has release new Operation Zverograd Pattern Laser Grenadier models for preorder check them out on their website. They seem to come with a special squad commander model. Here

Dust Warfare should be coming out soon its set push back date was 1st Quarter of 2012. This month is the last month of that quarter. Hopefully we will be seeing it soon.

Homegrown Thursday - Tetrarch

Tuesday Review – LMC 46

Today’s review is the LMC 46 it is a Dust-Models.com amphibious transport. For rule purposes Naval Unit is can only be in a water designated squad. The transport can carry 8 models and a armor 4 vehicle.

Pros:

Has great anti infantry weapons.

Can transport units across water.

Has 10 wounds

Cons:

Has no anti tank weapons

Can easily be killed by Napalm weapons.

If the LMC carrying units is in the middle of water and there is no land square next to it, the units are destroyed.

Tactics:

Use it to get across large maps with large parts of water don’t waste it on little rivers with bridges.

Superhero Saturday - Silver Fox

One of the most untalked about superhero yet she was involved with Wolverine and WWII. She's Native American but her tribe lived in Canada so I made her nationality Canadian.

Homegrown Thursday - Matilda II

Tuesday Review – Mickey ARV

Today’s review is the Mickey ARV it is a Dust-Models.com walker. It’s a repair vehicle much like the Recovery Tanks back in WWII. I will not be reviewing the Engineer Vehicle, Recovery Vehicle, and Crane abilities.

Pros:

Has Assault Ability

Is deadly to both Infantry and tanks

Standard walker stats

Can Self Repair

Can reduce an opponent’s Victory Points

Cons:

Short range anti tank with only 1 range

Crane is only 1 dice

Short-Medium range Anti Infantry Weapons

Tactics:

Using the abilities as I described I would use it to stand behind walkers and salvage them as needed. Due to his short range he can be affective for holding an objective or close quarter games.

Announcement – Dust Models’ Points and Abilities

Some people from the French gaming magazine Ravage has posted this in their latest magazine. With that being said looks like there is going to be a future releases of Minefields and Bunkers maybe. Paolo Parente himself stated that these points are pretty accurate. 

Mickey ARV : 30

Barking Dog : 55

BergeLuther : 30

JagdLuther : 60

Otto : 30

Ryu : 65

Fury of Ivan : 55

RARE UNIT

A unit with this skill is a rare sight on the battlefield: maybe it's difficult to build or it has been stolen from the enemy. Whatever the reason, when you lose it it's difficult to get another one.

A unit with this skill can never been brought back in play by a Command Squad after it's been destroyed on the battlefield.

CRANE

A vehicle with this equipment can lift very heavy objects: it can enter a space with an anti-tank trap. By spending 1 ACTION it can lift this obstacle and move it in an adjacent square.

DOZER BLADE

A vehicle with this skill can enter a space with an anti-tank trap. If it does, that obstacle is destroyed and removed from the board.

ENGINEER VEHICLE

A vehicle with this skill has many special properties, thanks to its specialized crew and equipments:

- if it's in contact with a Bunker, it can destroy it by spending 2 ACTIONS to do so: the vehicle needs a full activation. At the end of it, the Bunker is destroyed and all units inside are destroyed as well.

- the vehicle can freely enter a Minefield. When inside a minefield, it can chooses to spend 1 ACTION to clear the space it's in from any Mines. The space can then be crossed by any unit without harm.

RECOVERY VEHICLE

A vehicle with this skill has many special properties, thanks to its specialized crew and equipments:

- the vehicle gains the SELF REPAIR skill.

- the vehicle can gather a friendly destroyed vehicle and bring it back to the rear: it can then be salvaged. When you play with a RECOVER VEHICLE, place a marker on the gameboard for any ground vehicle you lose (flying or naval vehicles don't count). If the RECOVERY VEHICLE can manage to go in the space with this marker, it can load the destroyed vehicle (this costs 1 ACTION). The destroyed vehicle has now been salvaged: its parts will be used in another battle. Count only half the destroyed vehicle AP cost when figuring Victory Points at the end of the game.

Homegrown Thursday - Harry Hopkins

Homegrown Thursday - Cromwell

New Stuff From FFG

Friday FFG announce the next part to the SSU Expansion: Operation Zverograd.
SSU Specialist Units

 SSU Riflemen Squad

 SSU Hero Set

 Allies Rattler with Amphibious Equipment (Notice Posed Have No Clue It Actual Models Come This Way)

 Allies Cobra (Notice the different turret)

 There is one last thing add to the page if you didn't notice at the bottom of FFG's article.
"Check back next month to see the devastating new Axis walker!"

Homegrown Thursday - Comet

Superhero - Atomic Robo

Sorry I was a little late accidentally put 2013 for the schedule post date.

As for Atomic Robo its a independent comic I'd recommend reading.

Wikipedia Description:
"Is a robot possessing "automatic intelligence", created by Nikola Tesla in 1923. He is a core member of Tesladyne Industries, "a thinktank dedicated to exploring the fringes of scientific inquiry", whose Action Scientists often respond to paranormal and supernatural emergencies. Robo has a developed sense of humor, and makes numerous wise cracks at his foes' expense. In the past, he has secretly worked with the United States government as well as NASA. Robo's personality is based on Clevinger's grandfather."

If you are into comics look into this one I've found it online to read for free in a couple of places one being the iTunes store itself.