Monday, September 1, 2014

6 player Dystopian War

We had a HUGE battle at our club. 3 players per side each with 900 points of Dystopian Wars Naval madness and supporting technological marvels. The game went for a long time and was probably a draw. I am probably happy at this stage to stay out of multi player games for a while now as we have been playing a fair few lately and whilst it's great fun it requires a certain amount of patience. Different play speeds and off topic talking etc can slow it to a grind. But rules learning with more people is really beneficial to get players up to speed or pick up on mistakes made and I get to know people a bit better that I haven't really had that much interaction with. We did not include the TAC card option but did include the Objectives but only rolled up 3 of them. They add another random bit of interest to a game.
I tired out a whacky list with some of the more exotic options and some for the very first time. At the bizarre and unusual end of the spectrum my Blazing Sun forces have a few interesting choices like the large Ika Robot Assault Squid, Ziragani small acid squirting Robot squids and the mysterious Yurei Terror ship with it's Ghost generator. I really enjoyed how it worked and may have found a good combination that works for me on the table. Not dominating by any means as I think the game is far more balanced now but it will hopefully cause a few hard choices for my opponents.
Anyway here are some photos.
Cheers from Brendon
Australian Navy (opposite my fleet).

My deployment and the mysterious Ghost Ship

Lots of Ocean

whoooooooo...ooooooo...oooooooo. Spooky!

Those crazy scientists from Antarctica.

Ottoman skimmers vs French skimmers at the other end of the table.

Aussies on the attack!

Unpainted wars. Who's who? I can't tell but the circles are big storms. Crazy technology strikes again.

Arise to the surface my Robot Squid and DESTROY!

Mwah mwah ha ha ha! Tentacle guns to the FACE!

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End Game! No more time!

8 comments:

  1. Wow - very, very cool looking game and models! I've never played these rules before, but this game surely has me intrigued.

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    1. Thanks DeanM. Not the easiest game to learn but fun once you start blowing stuff up.
      cheers

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  2. Crazy! Lot of cool looking ships. Love the mechanical squid.

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    1. Thanks for the comment Mark G. I like the squid model a lot as well. It's the reason I started.
      cheers

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  3. What a great table, the squid rules!

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  4. Thanks Monty. I am learning to use it better so it will one day rule the Oceans. Mwah ha ha ha!
    cheers

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  5. Great pics Brendon! You're right in that multi-player games can be a bit of a challenge in keeping everyone on-task and on-target but it is fun getting a lot of friends around a table for a bit of mayhem. I really like Dystopian Wars and this may prompt me to drag out the collection and brush-up on the rules. Are you using the 2.0 rules now?

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    1. We sure are. Version 2 is an improvement over the first version but there are still a large amount of rules.
      cheers

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