If you treat your minis like rubbish and throw them in a box then expect the paint to flake off just like it would with any miniature, pick them up and store with respect and they will last for ages, common sense yeah ?!

Good review and helped me to understand the game better, I enjoyed your closing statment of people on forums and in general some of the idiots in the hobby.

 Great review, by far the best one I have heard so far.  I have to agree that Romeo went a bit to far with the Gumby comments about the basic infantry but acknowledge that he is entitled to his own opinion based on his personal experience.  To be honest I was a bit worried about this too at first but I have painted up several squads now with no problems, both repriming the minis (with Flames of War Army Painter brand primer for those that are interested) and painting/ washing straight over the minis as they come out of the box (Pics coming soon).

Thank you for taking the time to explain the game in detail and fully explaining the detail tactical interactions possible for both players throughout each turn.  I would highly recommend that new players listen to your review.

Thanks again.

-jay

Nivanti said:

That was also my favorite part. Haters are the worst part of the gaming industry.

Hey Craig we really want to see your gaming tables for dust, been a fan of your work for a long time ans if thier is anyone whos not seen your work your going to be very surpised…sorry craig no presure…lol

-gordon

 link to tables? I'm gathering parts for my first one now. 

Well, you can see some buildings here.

The table itself is a generic mat . . . I don't make 'tables' anymore . . . not enough hours in the day. But the stuff that goes ON the tables, I'm still a big fan of.

What you'll see in the battle report are mostly Armorcast buildings with mounds of old extra Hirst Arts bits that have been quite literally hammered into submission.

The church is made from Pegasus Gothic sets, except the very top of the tower, which is a very difficult kit-bash of the GW balustrades, because of course they didn't fit :) The roofs are made from scratch from slate-shingle plasticard based upon plasticard frames.

To sort of kick things up a notch or two further, a made posters, based on real WWI and WWII posters with implanted DUST art, and put one on each building, so there would always be a couple facing you no matter where you were looking at the table from, and I used old GW water effects, which they don't even sell any more, to add puddles and standing water here or there, either from rain or coming out of pipes or piles of rubble.

I'll be taking more pictures of other battles, so there will be more chances to see this stuff, and other things, and I'll try to feature the church more thoroughly next time . . .

And thanks for all the kind words, guys! We have a strict No Hate policy on the show . . . but it's harder to police now that each episode features a guest host. And when one gets a burr up about something . . . and we don't know it's coming . . . well, it's hard to no hate the no hate . . . we tried to defend the minis, and they DO bend (although I just got Angela last night, and she was TOTALLY crushed by a less-than-stellar packing job by HOB on eBay . . . but 5 seconds in hot water and she was good as new!

Thanks again, guys!

~Craig

Craig, (and that Russ guy),

Downloading the episode now.  Can't wait to hear your review; however, the no hate policy and your posts here pretty much let's me know what you thought.

Started demoing the game at my local store to good reviews.  The store sold out of stuff after the first demo!  Now we can't get any more due to out of stock.  (ran into that problem with Warmachine)  I need one more unit of Zombies with the two heroes, oh well. 

Great looking table.  I was thinking of going minimalistic on painting the minis at least until I can get some paint on all of them as I'm doing two armies and I'm a very sloooooow painter.  I'm thinking of doing the boots, weapons, faces and hands on the first past.  Did the mini's present any special issues pre primed like they are?

Other than the slightly bendy bits, the minis posed NO problems at all. I dry-brushed all my Original Core Set Axis, then hit some detail colors, and I was good to go. Like I said in the review, I was a little nervous to use hot water to straighten the models, but my eBay go-to gave me little choice . . . and it worked FINE!

Yeah, availability is a real issue around here all of a sudden as well. A HUGE order to a certain online store than sells war-like things, done as a giant joint order to save on shipping, just shipped with a lot of holes in it due to sudden lack of inventory . . . I'm just hoping _I_ don't get hit with the "I got a rock" syndrome . . . which happened to me last time :)

I can't help but feel, as I read those few vituperative negative comments I've found, that I'm playing a totally different game than those folks are. Quite literally there is NOTHING I don't LOVE about this rules set. The game the batrep was based on, for instance. To be honest, I really DON'T love the Assault Walkers. They don't seem to fit, power-level-wise. As Axis I just don't have a lot of tools to take the damned Punisher et.al. on. And when they get evaporated in activation 1 of turn 1 . . . well, I had a HUGE 40K moment . . . I felt like I'd lost my las-cannons, and the mean nasty Land Raider was going to own my whole army . . .

Except that I was able to limit its effectiveness with terrain and focus on the mission, and he had several fewer squads than I had due to his big points dump in the Heavy. So I hit him on the flanks, took out enough to get me a tie (so it would go to Army Points, in case he was able to take out a couple other cheap units, because I had him all up on Army Points at that stage), and then I faded back. Squeeked out a win in the last turn or so, and NEVER felt like my fate wasn't in my own hands.

So yeah, I just have to assume I'm playing a different game . . . . cuz this one rocks . . .  :)

~Craig

This is an awesome review Thanks for doing it guys!

The discussion on Dust Warfare was great.

I really enjoyed your comments about posters that are self proclaimed experts that will say something will not work before they have played one turn.

I've been listening for years, and as usual, it was a fantastic review. Missing Raef. Romeo was a bit harsh about the plastics, but I can see his point. Though, for the cost, there's value there.

Craig, you mentioned hanging out with Mack and the FFG guys. Did anyone mention anything about the Vrill? There's scattered hints in the fluff about a coming invasion, but there hasn't been any solid mention of FFG's plans for our Alien friends. I'm curious if they let anything slip about a fourth army. 

Looking forward to the next episode.

~Steve

 Thanks for all the kind words about the show everyone!!  

Mack and FFG were very cagy about the 4th faction.  I've heard the same rumors about the Vrill, but they were tight lipped.  They did say we'd see previews of the next faction by Gencon (August) and that we could expect quarterly new releases like their LCG products.

Also, I believe the SSU will be in stores VERY soon.

RussWakelin said:

Paolo has already mentioned on the Facebook group that the Vril have been in the early development stage

Jowimus said:

Haters are the worst part of EVERY industry…

RussWakelin said:

Well, I hear they will trickle out over the next 3 months with the Warfare book for them out shortly…