Loophole Master said:

I second this.

I think some kind of Overwatch would go a long way to dealing with out-activation as a tactic, rather than resorting to army org charts, or whatever that wall of text was.

Well the idea of having more units and benefiting from that is kind of basic mechanic of dust tactics.

I don't think that adding those blank cards is a relaiable and game mechanic wise idea. The problem is not the out-activation but using it as a lame-ass of a strategy.

I don't fault anyone for using a high activation army in a tourney. If your there to win its the best and easiest way to stay competitive. I don't like the idea of needing specific army lists like 40k uses (1 HQ, 2 troop etc…) but simply put in multiple activations per turn to even things out. That would go a long way toward moving people away from having spotter/sniper heavy lists without over complicating the rules. The main thing that is great about Dust Tactics now is its simplicity and quickness of games. It allows you to focus more on gaining a tactical edge rather that needing to remember hundreds of pages of rules. If you look at almost every tourney winner over the last 2 years almost all of them are heavy on spotters and snipers. This needs to change as the whole tourney system will become bogged down with identical lists and make for a rather dull experience IMO…

 But again, this isn't the players fault for trying to win, the fault lies with the flawed rules.

I don't mind snipers, at least they serve a purpose. Spotters just for the sake of increasing your unit count is a different story.

SeismicShock said:

If you think that was a walll of text, do you think the rules for Overwatch would be any shorter?  Did you even bother to try to read any of it?

Hello folks-

So I'm excited to hear of a new box set. What I'd like to see is a remold of Bazooka Joe and Sigrid heroes so new players who weren't able to get a coffin box set can get them. They're great heroes and I'm sure I read some where that Paolo was thinking of re-releasing them in a hero pack at one time. As far as new units go, that'd be cool - who doesn't like new - but I'd rather see them rework the stats of older units to make them more viable against some of the newer units. Another light walker from the revised core set for both Allies/Germans would be cool. I still use both of them when playing larger scenarios. In fact I'd really like it if they just released them as a $15 unit alone, same with the SSU Chinese Volunteers and the SSU airlift walker. Having to spend $35 to get another version of either of those units is just not in the average players budget. Other than that I'm tapped out on ideas of what will come in the box.

As far as breaking a hero off from a unit mid game to equal out activations per round, it works. I've been doing this the past few weeks with my SSU army and it helps alot especially if you've already whitled your opponent down some.

Overwatch rules are unnecessary as they have reactive fire rules. Reactive fire works alot just like an overwatch rule would, so I don't see a reason for having two sets of rules to cover something thats already in place.

And to sum up with rules on limiting players on the amount of unit types they're allowed to play, I can't get behind this. I love fielding 3 zombie units and can't wait for the two new Ubertoten squads to be released to flesh out an entire zombie army. And if you limit how many Observers that can get fielded then you have to limit all other unit types. That would only be fair.

Thanks

Reorder-

Just to clarify, nobody involved with the game has mentioned anything about a new core set.

Loophole Master said:

We can always hope. 

golem101 said:

We can always hope. 

Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Loophole Master said:

 

golem101 said:

We can always hope. 

 

Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

 

That there's something inside…that they can't get to, that they can't touch.  That's yours.

What are you talking about?

Hope.

Hope died last week with my phaser units and cobra getting none kills…

Do not trust to hope, it has foresaken these lands.

Loophole Master said:

The Record of Lodoss War is awesome….I need to watch it again soon.

Reorder said:

umm…think you have the wrong series, I believe that is Eomer speaking…