Sure, she can escort your Battleship/Dreadnought and protect it, but what utility/support is she really offering? Battleships are slow and thus usually out of range from CA/Bomber attacks for the first 3-4 turns anyway, making the Aegis kinda useless, the Lasers ability to light up targets to help the battleship shoot them is redundant since the Battleship/Dread is longer ranged anyway, and the close action attacks are useless since it'll never get close enough to use them. Aegis is a very nice ability, but it shines protecting ships in the midfield, which is where most launch assets and close action attacks will be happening, but she'll have a very hard time keeping pace with your midfield cruisers, destroyers and frigates. She has a powerful weapon that wants to shoot asap and close action attacks that need her to be close to work well, but she's too slow to get anywhere and too low of a scan value to make up for her speed. I'm still unsure of what purpose the Vienna serves, though. I mean, while its obviously slower and thus will not get there as fast as the other ships, its pretty good at what it does desu ģ Istanbuls cost 126 points, and have either 9 3+ massdriver shots (compared to 8 3+ shots of a moscow on WF for 163 points), or 6 2+ dmg 2 bombardement shots (compared to 12 2+ dmg 1 bombardement shots from 2 Madrids for 158 points). A long range fire support piece that cant be targeted by the enemy very easily, thanks to low signature and operating on standard orders, with the option to switch into utility bombardement in the later stages of the game. The Istanbul sounds pretty neat desu, interesting niche for UCM. Dropfleet Commander is its fleet-scale companion game, featuring spaceships in close orbit over a planet, battling for control of ground assets and orbital installations. Dropzone Commander is a 10mm scale sci-fi wargame focusing on highly air-mobile futuristic forces and objective-oriented scenarios. This is a general thread for Dropzone Commander and Dropfleet Commander sci-fi wargames, created by Hawk Wargames and currently published by TTCombat.

I'm a little curious about the nuts and bolts of the rules mechanics, which is likely going to be the make or break point for me.> !y8sUHC4B!pwH-pViRnc-432mzzAO4rPeMa7qxDJrTQpVa6-FQl1w The game's creator has been releasing images of the models to generate interest (which is a good move), but there is little information on how the game works. On the other hand, if Dropzone Commander was made in 15mm, it would have competition, but the models might give the game a solid edge over other 15mm sci-fi games and it would benefit from people buying the models for use with other games.Īs far as I know, the rules aren't out yet.

I don't know of any other sci-fi wargames using that scale, so it could result in the game dominating that niche. Looking at the bigger picture, picking 10mm for Dropzone Commander is a brave move. Getting into a third scale means making or buying terrain to fit that scale. It's not just the cost of getting a new game and army.

This means that a given Dropzone Commander model might not fit the other games I already own, so the value of getting their models rests entirely on how much I value having another sci-fi wargame. I'm already invested into both 28mm (for wargaming and role playing games) and 15mm (sci-fi wargaming). Kinda refreshing.ġ0mm is an odd duck for scale. The sculpts are imaginative and detailed. I haven't been following the game's progress closely, but it's been hard for me not to run into the coverage surrounding it.

Dropzone commander rules.pdf