Armoured Clash and Dystopian Wars

[Killer Angel]

Yeees, I'd rather you didn't in my thread for the Dystopian Age... as a very different subject from Armoured Clash and Dystopian Wars, it certainly needs to go into its own thread .

then i'll do it.

Back on topic!

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

then i'll do it.

Back on topic!

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Absolutely!

My latest work on my Armoured Clash Crown force has been to partially-scratchbuild one of the unit entries - a Mordred Heavy Siege Gun:

Reason being that Crown particularly like their Artillery units, and there are only enough parts in the Introductory Set to make two of one variant - the Mordred or the Bors Heavy Bombard. The Bombard I felt was easier to build using the full array of official parts, so I decided to make a scratch chassis for the Mordred parts left over (the large ornate shield and the Siege Gun itself... plus some flagpoles trimmed down to make the frontal supports for the gun), in order to ultimately allow me to field a Basic unit of each Artillery piece in my starting force. The rest is all either plasticard, bits of old sprue spliced together and filled in with Green Stuff, or, in the case of the wheels, little boxwood ship's wheels made by an Italian company for making scale model naval vessels, with the handholds snipped off.

For reference, a size comparison with the chassis parts from the official sprues, being used to make a Bors (with the latter not having its wheels or railings added yet):

It's coming on nicely I find... still have to think of what to use as similar-looking railings along the edges of the Mordred, and source the crew, but it's certainly progressing.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

With the starter sets and first two Regiment boxes now out for every faction in Armoured Clash, future releases are looking interesting - recently Miniature Wargames here in Britain released an issue with a free new Imperium sprue not yet out in retail, designed, I believe, to fix some minor issues in the Imperium ORBAT army list, with some alternative poses for their Teutonic Knights including a Commander, and a Teutonic variant of the Panzerwagen transport:

And some new units teased for Commonwealth, Enlightened, Union and particularly Crown:

I'm really looking forward to picking up at least one (or even two, one of each configuration ) of that Super-Heavy Tank for Crown...

 

[JTSleep]

With the starter sets and first two Regiment boxes now out for every faction in Armoured Clash, future releases are looking interesting - recently Miniature Wargames here in Britain released an issue with a free new Imperium sprue not yet out in retail, designed, I believe, to fix some minor issues in the Imperium ORBAT army list, with some alternative poses for their Teutonic Knights including a Commander, and a Teutonic variant of the Panzerwagen transport:

And some new units teased for Commonwealth, Enlightened, Union and particularly Crown:

I'm really looking forward to picking up at least one (or even two, one of each configuration ) of that Super-Heavy Tank for Crown...

That is one overcrowded sprue and those heavies look great.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

That is one overcrowded sprue

One cannot deny Warcradle know how to make best use of sprue space

And overall it's a big leap forward, because it's the first Armoured Clash sprue that can have viable Basic units made just from one sprue - all the sprues in the Regiment box sets, by contrast, though they are more spacious, only include enough figures and vehicles to make half of each unit included, which meant two sprues were needed to make usable units for the game. Mantic does similar for Epic Warpath as I recall.

Speculation is abounding on the Armoured Clash discord on how this sprue will be released for general purchase - will it appear on its own in a smaller, cheaper box to allow players to just buy some models for one unit and its dedicated transport (as opposed to the Regiment boxes which give you a lot of different units all together), or will it be part of another, third Regiment box for Imperium, along with another sprue containing some brand new units?

Only time will tell... and it'll be interesting either way to find out.

 

[JTSleep]

Mantic does similar for Epic Warpath as I recall.

Well... I think Mantic planned to have prefabricated forces as whole and sell them as full armies (as they do now). When I was building sprues, amounts were all over the place. For example:
To make basic infantry squad of 6 bases, you need two sprues.
To make Mule APC unit, you need 3 models, sprue has 2.
There is single walker on sprue, unit is made out of 3
Best of all, Leapers, Bursters and HMGs are single base per sprue, unit is 6 bases.

So you can´t make "half size" army boxes from current (new) sprues, they have to be used in box of 6.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

It has begun! Over the past weekend I started painting some of my Armoured Clash Crown models...

The Galahad Medium Tanks have been nearly completed in just the one afternoon... all they need is to have their tracks touched up and washed, and the officer's helmet and binoculars painted:

Blood Angels Red contrast paint worked a treat on these to give the illusion of metal sprayed red, as did Retributor Armour in rendering a lovely warm gold on the filigree.

Meanwhile, the first six bases for the Command Platoon of the South Hampshire Regiment's 12th Battalion have had their scarlet jackets painted, again with Blood Angels Red, to similarly nice effect. Most of my efforts were spent getting the tanks ship-shape that afternoon, but when I next get chance to paint I will give the Riflemen some more attention.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

And since the last news update, Commonwealth's Third Box has arrived, with a lot of dangerous new reinforcements for Mother Russia:

A couple of heavy infantry variants:

The tanky new transports previewed earlier:

Dinky gun tractors for towing Field Guns into battle:

And some vehicle-mounted Artillery:

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

Additionally, three more factions have had sneak previews of what they'll be getting in their third boxes.

Sultanate will be getting a speedy Sand Yacht unit:

Imperium will be receiving an AT-RT-type light walker (to go alongside the AT-ST equivalent machines in their Armoured Regiment):

And @Killer Angel will no doubt be pleased to see the Italians getting more of a presence in the Alliance faction with a pair of new tank variants :

 

[Killer Angel]

And @Killer Angel will no doubt be pleased to see the Italians getting more of a presence in the Alliance faction with a pair of new tank variants :

Excellent!

 

[JTSleep]

It has begun! Over the past weekend I started painting some of my Armoured Clash Crown models...

They look great, looking forward to see more.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

Perhaps to reward me by completing my first few Crown models, Warcradle have teased a host of gorgeous new Crown releases as part of a third Regiment box following on the heels of the Commonwealth one:

Spearheaded by a new variant of Royal Engineer adept at building barricades:

And Engineers in Dragoon Munro Warframes that can allegedly repair vehicles (with Crown's vehicles already overall the toughest in the game, this will be a huge boost):

Also Crown are getting static fortifications:

And, last but by no means least, this sexy piece of super-heavy armour, which can be built in three different configurations, that makes a Baneblade weep:

In case I didn't need any further motivation to carry on painting what I have

 

[Killer Angel]

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

There are a good two or three decent channels advocating Armoured Clash now... this chap is one of them. The set he's unboxing there for the Commonwealth is the one I talked about here.

And also the Valiant book, which is pretty much Fighting Fantasy, Armoured Clash style, certainly looks a cracking read.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

Where the Commonwealth has done for an artillery and transport support approach in their third Regiment box, and Crown is bringing in the big guns, the Union is going all-out on the air cavalry...



Led from the front by Frontier Rangers in their Davy Crockett 'coonskin caps:


And lightly-armoured Dustcutter buggies equipped with more dakka:


My Dawi will be envious of their automated gyrocopters:

And Minutemen jump infantry accompany them in the vanguard of the air assault:



And the Talon Rotorcraft and Spectre Gunship descend from on high to finish the job with gatling gun fire and the disembarkation of transported operatives:

 

[Killer Angel]

Each faction got its distinctive look...

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

Each faction got its distinctive look...

It certainly has, plus its own distinctive playstyle that follows that look...

Crown: Overwhelming firepower from tough, tanky vehicles, artillery and fortifications, to shield fragile objective-holding infantry... closest in playstyle to (an elite form of) Imperial Guard
Empire: Hordes of expendable short-ranged infantry, durable and punchy Automata units and largely cheap, cheerful vehicles... closest in playstyle to Orks
Union: Fast but fragile, with largely lightweight vehicles, flying units and troops that cannot take a hit, but can deal them out in spades... closest in playstyle to Dark Eldar
Enlightened: Hordes of infantry and stim-infused monstrosities and Tripod vehicles, with the opportunity to deal large amounts of damage through Overcharging weapons and better morale than Empire down to control-based mechanics from leader units... closest in playstyle to Tyranids
Imperium: A medium-ranged hammer army, with overall the highest Discipline in the game and an overall above-average level durability on infantry and vehicles, but the inner weakness of higher than average Break Limits, so that units are vulnerable to being overwhelmed by large amounts of firepower... closest in playstyle to (a less elite form of) Space Marines
Commonwealth: A melee-centric force with fragile but cheap units of infantry, shock troops, vehicles and supporting Field Guns and Artillery, plus drills that can burrow up underneath enemy lines... closest in playstyle to Genestealer Cults
Alliance: A flexible jack-of-all-trades force with both expendable hordes and elite Drop Pod troops, largely very fragile but with the toughest Behemoth unit in the game to put all those eggs into one basket, and Faith mechanics to keep units fighting... closest in playstyle to Sisters of Battle (with more fragile chaff and some more durable vehicles)
Sultanate: An elite faction that makes cheeky usage of Portals, specialist infantry and cavalry - with a particularly durable core - and fragile, fast vehicles... closest in playstyle to Craftworld Eldar

 

[Killer Angel]

nice summay! tnx

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

Have lately finished some additional units for my Crown army - some Glamis Mobile Guns and skirmishing Sharp Rifles. My fully-painted force continues to grow...



I'm really enjoying painting these, even the infantry, which are pretty easy so long as you don't worry much about details and keep in mind the intention to paint them all up as a wider unit rather than individual models (a mindset much easier to maintain when they're this sort of scale than in 28mm, I'll grant you ). It only took me around 3 weeks' worth of of weekend afternoons to finish the new units, on top of spending not much longer painting the first two. It's been a real break to be able to bash out a couple of units at a time really quickly, and make visible progress on my starting force, after previously dallying for over a year just to get 20 Plague Monks done for my Skaven. I suppose it particularly helps that I'm really in 'Armoured Clash mode' as well, but I cannot deny it has been great to not worry about details much anymore, because ignoring them looks much less 'off' on these 10mm models than it does on 28s. I have been really glad of the rest of late, and it has made painting a pleasure again, where for the past few years beforehand it had been slowly becoming a chore.

 

[JTSleep]

paint them all up as a wider unit rather than individual models

Yes, cheerleader effect at its finest

I cannot deny it has been great to not worry about details much anymore, because ignoring them looks much less 'off' on these 10mm models than it does on 28s. I have been really glad of the rest of late, and it has made painting a pleasure again, where for the past few years beforehand it had been slowly becoming a chore.

I second that. As someone too painting 10mm scale as of late, this is exactly the feeling I have as well. And considering I have MUCH less hobby time lately, being able to spit small unit of 10mm models after two sessions of hobby feels much better than spending month on couple of 28mm models.