Dust Tactics - alguém do Norte joga?

oDESGOSTO escreveu:O Daniel é um crossdresser... ora é do Porto, ora é de Lisboa!

Ebizo escreveu:Por acaso não conheço o jogo..

Overview

Dust Tactics is a fast-playing strategy war game for 2-4 players from Fantasy Flight Games featuring high quality miniatures and a modular board.

Components

For the hefty price tag of $100, you get nine thick cardboard tiles which make up the playing surface, along with some smaller square tiles to use as obstacles on the board, and a handful of plastic ammo crates and dragon's teeth obstacles. The stars of this show, though, are the miniatures. You get two complete armies, Allies and Axis. Each army consists of two robots (read: walking tanks), three infantry squads with five troopers each, and one hero character. The miniatures are exceptional - each has a ton of detail and they're already matte finished to make painting easy if you so desire. You also get a concise rulebook and a scenario book, along with a single quickstart rules sheet. Laminated unit cards and custom d6 (with 2 hit sides and 4 blank sides) round out the included materials.

Gameplay
The rules for Dust Tactics are simple and they work very well. After rolling for initiative, players take turns activating their units. On a turn, a unit can make two actions - move/move, move/shoot, shoot/move or sustained fire (basically an attack followed by a re-roll of any misses).

There are a handful of additional rules, mostly for cover, melee combat between infantry squads, and special rules associated with the various weaponry in the game. Unit cards are easy to read with very clear indicators of range and number of dice rolled against various target types. Combat is fast, too. If a robot is in range to open fire with all of its weaponry on a target, in most cases you'll combine the dice for all of the attacks into one roll. This can lead to some massive rolls of ten or more dice! But, with only two hit sides per die, this leads to only a few hits on average. However, the sustained fire option when combined with a big attacker like this will in most cases result in the complete destruction of the target unit.

Don't get too attached to your units in Dust Tactics. This game plays out fast and furious, and even the robots can only take a couple of hits before being reduced to so much scrap metal. There's a slight rock/paper/scissors effect in that some units are specialized killers of certain unit types, but in actual practice any unit can pose a threat to any other unit, which can often lead to very close outcomes, with a handful of troopers holding out against greater numbers or pulling off an against-all-odds win against a full-health robot.

Summary

In a genre crowded with games that take hours to play out and feature extensive and convoluted rules set, Dust Tactics is a breath of fresh air. The rules are clean and easy to understand, turns are fast, combat is tense and fun, and the whole thing plays out in an hour or less. The game does give you the idea that the surface has barely been scratched - the rules mention things like aircraft and mobile fortresses. My only fear is that the designers will turn an elegant and easy game system into an over-complicated mess of additional rules and errata. As long as they can avoid this all-too-common pitfall, I think Dust Tactics will be be able to successfully expand and grow for years.

Kopos escreveu:Confesso que n conheço esse sistema, mas n me importava de o conhecer...talvez se me mostrares um dia

Draco escreveu:Fixe, parece porreiro esse conceito de 2ª guerra mundial mas mundo alternativo

Kopos escreveu:Btw, como é que tás a pensar em adaptar AT43 para aqui? creio que os stats são diferentes n são?

Kopos escreveu:N te esqueça do AE-WWII da Darkson Designs

Kopos escreveu:N sabia mas já me informei... foi à Blackball Games

Predatorpt escreveu:
Strange...podia jurar que já tinha respondido e agora não está aqui nada

as vezes acontece isso, é um stress destes foruns em que nao se paga nada pelo alojamento.

se alguem tiver a fazer um post ao mesmo tempo que o teu pode dar erro e nao fica postado ... outras vezes simplesmente o forum passa-se, ja aconteceu isso comigo

Predatorpt escreveu:

Espero dentro em breve começar a testar as regras E depois, se tiver tempo, vou começar a pintar este material todo. Entretanto já comprei mais umas miniaturas que tenciono adaptar para o jogo..

hellboy escreveu:anda lá que é para em breve fazer uma demo para o povo

Predatorpt escreveu:As minis realmente são excelentes - embora tenham algumas armas tortas, mas isso já esperava. Vão ter que levar com o tratamento de água quente/água fria para endireitar.