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TristramEvans TristramEvans Ok, that would be a rather interesting and fun version of BattleTech to play. Set in WWII with super technology and with a focus on mechs. Kinda digging it.
 
Acmegamer said:
TristramEvans TristramEvans Ok, that would be a rather interesting and fun version of BattleTech to play. Set in WWII with super technology and with a focus on mechs. Kinda digging it.
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there was a miniatures game with a similar premise, Dust Tactics. i believe was based on ww2 if HG Wells' War of the Worlds happened, and the Axis & Allied powers were adapting martian technology.
 
TristramEvans said:
there was a miniatures game with a similar premise, Dust Tactics. i believe was based on ww2 if HG Wells' War of the Worlds happened, and the Axis & Allied powers were adapting martian technology.
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Oh, very cool. When was this? What were the mechanics like, do you recall?
 
Acmegamer said:
Oh, very cool. When was this? What were the mechanics like, do you recall?
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I think it debuted in like 2010 or thereabouts. I've honestly never played it r even owned/read the rulebook, and I don't know if it's ended or still going. The FLGS by me at the last place I lived stocked it, so I looked at it years ago but no one in my immediate gaming group had any interest, and I couldn't justify to myself another vanity hobby project at the time (I had armies I was running of Skaven, Wood Elves, Fimir, Nurgle Chaos Warriors, Undead, Adeptus Custodes and Necrons already, along with side projects just for painting) though briefly considered kitbashing some of the mechs as Skaven vehicles)

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Interesting, yeah I'd never heard about it. I'm not thrilled with custom dice of course, if that's what I'm looking at in the picture. At least they look like six sided dice that might be easily replaced with common d6. Who knows. Digging the mechs for sure though. I wish more gamers would be up for trying new game systems. Folks I keep running across these days are soo rigid and unwilling to try different non DnD (and its variants) systems. (sigh) It didn't used to be like that in the late 70s, 1980s and early to mid 1990s in the the various locations I lived in.
 
Acmegamer said:
Interesting, yeah I'd never heard about it. I'm not thrilled with custom dice of course, if that's what I'm looking at in the picture. At least they look like six sided dice that might be easily replaced with common d6. Who knows. Digging the mechs for sure though. I wish more gamers would be up for trying new game systems. Folks I keep running across these days are soo rigid and unwilling to try different non DnD (and its variants) systems. (sigh) It didn't used to be like that in the late 70s, 1980s and early to mid 1990s in the the various locations I lived in.
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I dont know about the custom dice, but yeah the situation was very different in the 80s. I think a large part of that is proprietary minis and the associated time sink of painting/learning rules. Bac in the day, particularly with historical wargames, if i had a Roman army, i could play that army in like dozens of systems. Even fantasy mini games back then like the early editions of Warhammer, Chaos Wars, Knights & Magic etc,. were all about using your existed mini collection. But these days there's a lot of games I'd like to try but I'd need to invest in a whole new minis line - Malifaux, Hell Dorado, Infinity, etc. At least with BattleTech that's only like 4-5 minis for a game. But I enjoy mass combat games more than skirmish games.

so what ends up happening is, if i really want my gaming group to play a new game, then I usually have to buy and paint 2 armies myself, learn the rules, then invite friends to play while I GM, and hope at least one person gets interested enough to either adopt one side or invest on their own.
 
oh sadly, looks like Dust Tactics was a covid casualty in 2021..

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It's a sad day as Dust 1947 is closing after a twelve-year run due to increasing costs and the remnants of COVID. Another casualty to the global economy
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Acmegamer said:
TristramEvans TristramEvans Ok, that would be a rather interesting and fun version of BattleTech to play. Set in WWII with super technology and with a focus on mechs. Kinda digging it.
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May I introduce you to Gear Krieg ? The Silloutte System works really well and Heavy Gear players have run the heck out of the rules, so they are smooth.

And here are some mini's for the game
 
Acmegamer said:
I wish more gamers would be up for trying new game systems. Folks I keep running across these days are soo rigid and unwilling to try different non DnD (and its variants) systems.
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This is why I wrote Convergence Point. My core group played nine different genres/ chronicles. I was able to get them to shift to these other genres/ settings because they did not have to learn a new game system at all. (And by running short chronicles 4-8 weeks, they were willing to play it because if they didn't like it, we would be switching pretty soon. And if they did all like it, I would run a couple of short chronicles in it OR one long one.)
 
TristramEvans said:
there was a miniatures game with a similar premise, Dust Tactics. i believe was based on ww2 if HG Wells' War of the Worlds happened, and the Axis & Allied powers were adapting martian technology.
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I'm pretty sure Gear Krieg came first. But Dust is originally European, Italian if I remember right, so it might have been out there before it came here.

Gear Krieg ran okay, sadly the models are only available in short production runs these days and costly enough to make Warhammer look like a cheap hobby.
 
David Johansen said:
I'm pretty sure Gear Krieg came first.
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problly, since it was from Silhouette. Funnily, while i heard of it in passing in rpg circles, I had no idea it had an associated miniatures wargame. Tho TBF, that would've been during a period when I'd gotten out of the hobby.
 
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