Update and Appeal to Arms

Hi guys

Just a bit of an update,

Still working on the rest of Campaign Book Damocles, Therians coming along with a semi completed Platoon. Still working on the upgrades and how the Routines will work. Trying to keep it in line with the spirit of AT-43 while still being DUSTy. Trying to get this done asap but fate has been keeping me tortuously busy with much more mundane things so please bare with me as it might take a bit longer then the previous draft.

Then I'd like to appeal for ideas on fluff, stats and rules for the next book and other factions. and the units not covered in this book. We can easily wip-up new platoon pdfs and stats until we can complete a full faction army book. Anything is still open to us.

To join in please go the the Dust-AT-43 facebook group.

Cheers for now

Dust Warfare Campaign Book Damocles - Draft Release

Alrighty so after a week of writing some background, finally managed to get Campaign Book Damocles in an initial releasable form. As of now, covers some background for the campaign and the U.N.A. Stats and Rules.

Campaign Book Damocles:

Campaign Book Damocles is a fan community campaign book for Dust Warfare, Allowing players to field AT-43 units in Dust Warfare.

This is following the spirit of other Fan Campaign Books such as DustWar's (and Old Hat's) Campaign Book Headway which lists rules and stats for some traditional WW2 Tanks, and DDI's Dust Warfare Appendix V.1 which lists rules for Dust Studio's Dust 48 units (some of which have by now been released by battlefront with updated rules)

CB Damocles uses the cleaner design format used by Battlefront in Campaign Book Achilles, along with old AT-43 art and photo's.

It lists the rules, stats background for fielding U.N.A. and Therian forces, during a massive UNA offensive to combat the growing menace of the Mysterious Black forces.
Both Forces can be used as Mercenary units to compliant a current Dust Warfare Army or to mix things up, to be fielded as a stand alone force.

Check out the current PDF. inital version (containing background and rules for the UNA forces) here: Campaign Book Damocles V.1.1

So let us know what you think and/pick up on the Dust-AT-43 facebook group

Thanks and Cheers for now
Joprair

Dust-43 - what is this?

Hi guys, just thought I'd give a bit broader context on this project.

AT-43 is a science fiction tabletop wargame using 28 mm miniature figures and terrain to scale developed and published by the now defunct French company Rackham, which tanked in 2010. Should be noted this is widely claimed to be not because of its product but a less then viable business strategy.
The game itself was widely praised to be smooth and relatively simple, and is felt to be, to a some degree, the Aesthetic predecessor to Dust Tactics and some of the rules for Dust Warfare are also suspiciously similar. The rules are available for download online.

Anyway, since the mini's are no longer being produced and some people might not have full collections or limited forces, it got to a point where it was inevitable that these mini's would be given a set of Fan rules and stats the universe best suited for them.

Thus this project, to allow the Dust community can Adopt the AT-43 orphans.

For more info and better views of how the minis compare, check out these articles:

AT-43 article on 1d4Chan

Dust Warfare — Review and Musings

Are Dust figures the same as AT-43 figures?" Topic

Here you can see some Walker conversions from AT-43 to Dust:

Dust Australis - Japanese Heavy Walker

Dust Australis - Japanese Walkers

Axis AA walker Heinrich II - scratchbuild design

AT-43 Therian - Dust Warfare Cards

A New Day and some new statcards, this time for the Therians.

 These guys were really hard to convert, both in terms of Fluff and rules, especially while maintaining their AT-43 feel. But think a balanced level has been reached.

One of the things raised was that the Nano Blasters were somewhat short ranged, however to keep the units on a broad level to be more or less in line with the standards, its necessary to distinguish between Nano Blasters and Nucleus Rifles so they correspond with say, Shotguns and Assault Rifles.

But its still an open Field and we can change. Any thought and ideas, please join and engage on the Dust-AT-43 Facebook group.

Well here they are, Therians from the Damocles Assault Platoon:

Therian - Wraith Golgoth - Dust Warfare Card:

Therian - Storm Golem Combat Support Cadre - Dust Warfare Card:

Therian - Storm Golem Combat Assault Cadre - Dust Warfare Card:

Therian - Sigma Urash - Dust Warfare Card:

Thanks and Cheers for now
Joprair

Some Dust Warfare - UNA Stat Cards

Some Dust Warfare - UNA Stat Cards

Today thought I'd post some of the Dust warfare stat cards for UNA units.

These have been submitted to the Facebook group and the Dustwarfare.com Forums so seem to be pretty well received and look balanced enough but if needed can still be tweaked. 

The rational and fluff behind these units should make more sense once Campaign Book Damocles is finished, and will also have the platoons and platoon/unit upgrades.Needles to say though the main focus on the how these units were divided and constructed was in keeping with the broad template used by the Allies and Axis armies.

But without further ado, Ladies and Gentlemen, the UNA:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A. - FireToad MK1:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A .- Steel Trooper - Anti Armour Squad:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A. - Steel Trooper - Combat Assault Squad:

Dust Warfare - U.N.A. - Steel Trooper - Command Squad:

These all form the bases of the Damocles SteelTrooper Platoon, A basic platoon meant to be constructed using the Damocles Staterset (or multiples there off) and supplemented with other UNA units.
Hope you Likey, and let us know what you think.

Cheers For Now
Joprair

Unit Forward - Features DUST43 Facebook Project

Unit Forward - Features DUST43 Facebook Project

 

Read more here:
http://www.unitforward.com/news/dust-43-on-facebook/

Facebook group (as mentioned in previous post) found here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/513704348762007/

Dustwarfare.com discussion thread:
http://www.dustwarfare.com/tabid/89/g/posts/t/1074/AT43-to-Dust-Rules-Conversion---Custom-Rules-and-Stats-for-AT-43-Units-in-Dust-Warfare.aspx

Cheers for now
Joprair

Welcome to Dust43

Project to write and create Custom fan rules for AT-43 miniatures for use in the awesome world and rules of DUST.

Coming soon: Dust Warfare - Operation Damocles 

Engage more at the Dust43 Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/513704348762007/
Cheers for now
Joprair