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had not gotten a full dust game in for a while so when i noticed a certain historic yellow building in the back room i set up the stalingrad table.

Unfortunately, a couple of the buildings were missing so i just winged it with some other fill ins.






The mission was- a mechanics job

His engineer was holding a tech discovery in the far right rear ruined building, i had 8 turns to kill his engineer. by the same token he was trying to stop my engineer from getting into the building ruins.

The table deployment for this scenario was end to end with the table broken into 24" 3rds. for a change of pace i took the plane out (probably a mistake) and filled in my points with british SAS phaser troops.




The other player picked the heavy panzer grenadiers to defend-




As one would expect with DUST the game was brutal for both sides. i spent a fair few points on bringing 4 characters instead of more rangers.






It ended up being a loss for the allies, who were down to 2 members of the command squad. on the other side though he was down to a tank commander without a tank, a single heavy grenadier he still had his command squad hold up in their command vehicle.

Nice game by the sound of it,

Heads upp, apple and google are removing apps in the store that has not been updated whitin some time.
That could mean the dust1947 army builder app(dust enlist) goes out the window too. if you have it installed, it can still be used until it no longer works, but if any players wold stumble across the remains of this game in say 6 months, there wont be any app for them to find.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/23/23038870/apple-app-store-widely-remove-outdated-apps-developers

Are there any places on the internet that has the full statcards for all the units right up until the game ended, outside of the army builder app??
I never bothered to buy the physical decks when i could find anything in the app......

The only place that had all the core rules and stat cards online was DUST war journals, but that site is gone.

you can screen grab most of the cards from ammo drop

https://ammodrop.eu/categoria-prodotto/dust-primed-edition-en/?lang=en

If there is anything missing, you can PM me with an email address to send it to, as i have all the PDFs saved from DUST war journals including all the dustified units.

P.S. Ammo drop still has many DUST minis in stock according to their web store.

Have not had a DUST game in a while to post, but i still have been adding a bit here and there-

the full SSU force is up to 194 points with the addition of a "dustified" KV1



The table was set up for a 40K game so the terrain may look a bit out of place.

The mission was "operation titan" that centered around earning points for killing walkers and vehicles in various ways-infantry VS vehicle, heavy VS light walkers etc...

the game had an 8 turn limit.

the setup/deployment-






The axis scored first blood since they had more ranged fire than i did.

The steel guards themed force is very resilient but it has to get to you to do real damage. so my side of the table thinned out early on especially thanks to the hard counter against my infantry of his super heavy walker using artillery (he forgot his at home so he barrowed my AA variant).

Once i got to him though it started turning around quickly and we tied up the points in the last couple turns.

The winter child (we all know he is Russian ironman) was probably my MVP but at 21 points one would hope so. he left a trail of destruction while tanking fire from most of the axis force for a few turns.

At the end the axis force managed to gain a 1 point advantage that i just ran out of time to overcome. it turned out to be a very close game with a score of 9 to 8 in the axis favor.

Was looking around the internet to see if I could finish off my IJN Cadet set (just need the sniper from the starter) and saw that Paolo sold the IP earlier in the year so I'll probably just wait to see what comes back instead of trying to order from Italy. Rumors seam to be either CMoN or Asmodee bought it but who knows if either of those are true.

Ok that is possibly a bright spot, i hope that something positive comes from the new owners. there are so many units i was looking forward to getting before everything went away.

so we now know the game has been sold, atleast it is not lying dead in hes shelf, so that is posetive.

im not expecting any annoncment for atleast 12 months.
- a massive model range if one includes the tactics range
- finding production facilitys if the new owner desides to sell physical models.
- there will be new rules, no company that buys another companys game is using the same rule book, and making new rules plus basic playtesting takes 1-2 years.

one thing i am pretty shure about, there wont be any pre assembled primed models under the new owner if they choose to sell models and not just STL files, it is a pointless cost expense that allso drives up the price of the model range if they choose to sell physical models.
it might have been a viable thing to do 8 years ago, but not in todays world.

- finding production facilitys if the new owner desides to sell physical models.

Seams like if they need to produce models they can use Paolo's factory as that didn't go under. He's one of CMoN's manufacturers -- thus the rumor that CMoN bought it.

No he's not. Read the rest of the bit from the interview, under the section you circled. he very specifically says he does not own a business and that he is just an employee of a hong kong based company.

Yes I know. His factory doesn't have to mean he owns it but works there instead. I refer to the place that employees me as "My Company" when talking to friends and family and they call it "Your Company" when talking to me.

Yes, but, its a bit different when you say "my/your factory" vs "my/your company", the nuance of contextual idiomatic expression works when you're talking about a company as a place of employment, when you're talking about a place in terms of a more specific function (like a factory) the distinction breaks down and becomes less clear. Especially when you follow up in the next sentence with a statement that seems to double down on ownership (wrt "He is one of CMoNs manufacturers", as opposed to "He is one of CMoNs employees" or "He works at one of CMoNs factories", etc.).

It's just semantics. I don't see any reason to really get that debitive over it.

Im not... errr... debitive. I'm just explaining to you why the intent of your statement was misunderstood.

Spreading the love tonight with a couple of demo games.

The first was a smallish 75 point basic learning game of ALLIED heavy rangers VS AXIS falshirmjager.

It went so quick we had another go with a 105 point game. this time he wanted to try out the SSU steel guards heavy infantry.

We decided to use objectives, so we did the 3-2-1 triple objective 8 turn game. the middle objective was worth 2 points, the closest to each side was worth 1 and the one furthest away from the starting area was worth 3.

Because the AXIS force was a paratrooper army they gained and early lead by being able to drop on to 2 of the objectives. the game was as bloody as normal, it took till the final turn for the steel guards to kick the falshirmjager off the table and score a narrow 1 point victory.

Where's that German hover tank from?

Great battle pics all around. The German forces look really good along side what I assume is SW Imperial (space Nazis...) themed terrain.

I dug out my box of Dust stuff from the big FFG selloff and it's going very well for me on eBay. There are quite a lot of folks apparently still interested in even the FFG DUST product.

Except of course for the Tenament sets which are my treasure and I'm going to use every last piece from.

If you are referring to the hover STUGG i am using it as the laser hetzer, although the rules do exist for the dustified standard STUGG (along with free 3d print files on yeggi for a ton of "dustified standard WWII vehicles). it is a 3d printed mini design called the huntsman, you can find the STL files online or order from one of the many ETSY sellers like this one-

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1231054299/the-huntsman-hover-tank-combat-tank-sci?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=3d+printed+miniature+scifi+tank&ref=sr_gallery-5-6&frs=1&organic_search_click=1

Great battle pics all around. The German forces look really good along side what I assume is SW Imperial (space Nazis...) themed terrain.

Depends on which battle we are talking about the one with the hover STUGG is actually a Stalingrad table. it is missing a few original buildings but that big yellow one is the German headquarters in the ruined GUM department store.


The space marine outpost table is 3d printed terrain from war scenery taken directly from the dawn of war video games.


Als on a side note...in the DUST universe the AXIS forces are not NAZIs Hitler was successfully assassinated in 1943. Germany was denazified by the 1947 era hence the return to the use of the imperial iron cross for the national symbol.

And yes, veteran DUST players, as well as people who discover how good the game is are still trying to get ahold of minis, with the new announcement of the sale of the IP hopefully in the next year or so we will see a return of the game officially.

 Eilif wrote:
Where's that German hover tank from?

Great battle pics all around. The German forces look really good along side what I assume is SW Imperial (space Nazis...) themed terrain.

I dug out my box of Dust stuff from the big FFG selloff and it's going very well for me on eBay. There are quite a lot of folks apparently still interested in even the FFG DUST product.

Except of course for the Tenament sets which are my treasure and I'm going to use every last piece from.

You wont have any major issues selling what you have, the FFG range is pretty rare now and about 2/3 of the total model range in 1947 are from them and was not recast in any major numbers (if at all)
But there is allso the visual design of the dust models, they do stand out.

Did another demo game tonight at around 130 points.

I had originally set up the table for a 40K game i was supposed to have so we just re-used the table.






The person trying out the game chose the axis fallshirmjaeger force.

Since i was going up against elite airborne troops i decided to face off with my allied heavy rangers.

The axis force is a hammer, a glass hammer but still a hammer. and for most of the game they were in the lead. since it was an intro game, we decided to skip any scenarios or objectives.
We went the full 8 turn standard game and ti was down to the wire at the end.

The rangers managed to win the day but at a very high cost. all they managed to hold was their right flank. with only the command team, command walker and the tank commander character with his dog (Gregor and Izzy) surviving.

We really need the new company to start making DUST again. i only have so many armies i can share

Such was the case tonight.

The store still had a bit of DUST items in the back room so i loaned out my alled force to the player that got them so they could do a big game. a "normal" game for DUST comparable to a 40K game for example is about 150 points. they ame was over 260.

As you can tell by the deployments





The game mission they chose was operation titan. points were awarded for vehicle kills by various means-fisrt blood, man VS machine etc...

The way it goes with dust the back and forth AA system leads to a high amount of action in every turn.

The fight you know had to happen was the named CC characters going toe to toe. Marcus the gorilla VS the heavy ranger Rhino.




The battle of attrition started favoring the allied side of the table so they called the game after 3 of 8 possible turns.

Still a fantastic battle.

Been a while for some DUST action, got a fun game in tonight

steel guards (SSU) VS heavy genadiers (AXIS)

150 points
Scenario- alien on the run (it's here)

Every time you activate a unit the alien you are trying to capture moves 4" in a random direction.

Unfortunately for me he kept running Stright for the soviet force.

They captured him early on, but i managed to destroy the unit holding him....then they got him again and the steel guards unit holding him could not be dislodged.


the game went 4 turns (required to score the win in the scenario) of a possible 8. with the SSU force coming out the winners.

In the spirit of the holiday it was time for some Cthulhu...VS falshirmjaeger at 150 points.

I was doing some damage but there was no stopping the monsters, i killed most of his infantry but only 1 spawn of Cthulhu, then i got wrecked in return.

Fun times indeed!.

Very cool. Are you playing free-measure?


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How are all of you feeling about the CMON acquisition?

I don't think I'll ever play DUST but I keep following this thread for the great models and the reminder that a game is never really dead as long as long as it has players.

Same. I love a bunch of the models but only own one though so far as I keep making my save vs that anime school militia unit...

Shrapnelsmile wrote:Very cool. Are you playing free-measure?


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How are all of you feeling about the CMON acquisition?

We are using the standard 3d terrain rules (written by Andy Chambers) from the DUST tactics/battlefield book-times all movement and ranges X4 to represent the conversion from the tiles.

As for the latter, it has been what six months since he sold the IP? we are just waiting on them to do something with it. there are many people who want to build armies if models were more available.

Eilif wrote:I don't think I'll ever play DUST but I keep following this thread for the great models and the reminder that a game is never really dead as long as long as it has players.

I feel that way about many games, it is why we play old hammer, or large table infinity via N2, and we still play the B5 wars rules set for star wars and star trek games-sometimes updates are not an improvement.

warboss wrote:Same. I love a bunch of the models but only own one though so far as I keep making my save vs that anime school militia unit...

The power of an army of school girls and ninjas will wear you down eventually. i didn't have the funds at the time to get them as i was working up the falshirmjaeger and Cthulhu armies as well as helping a friend find unis for his zombies at the very end of the production run.

Regarding the DUST IP, was it sold outright or licensed to CMON?

Is Paulo still involved? Tough to imagine Dust without him.

Looks like there's a comic that comes with figures coming soon with a new game in summer.

 Eilif wrote:
Regarding the DUST IP, was it sold outright or licensed to CMON?

Is Paulo still involved? Tough to imagine Dust without him.

Looks like there's a comic that comes with figures coming soon with a new game in summer.

If you look near the top of the page there is a screen capture, looks like he sold the IP completely. either way there was so much stuff in the pipe that i hope sees the light of day

Many of the models were done and more were rendered when things went under like these-

Thanks,
Somehow I missed that. At least he's still involved.

That black widow with jets "Black Mamba" would have been cool to see

 Eilif wrote:
Thanks,
Somehow I missed that. At least he's still involved.

That black widow with jets "Black Mamba" would have been cool to see

Thing is, he moust likely aint, all thouse images was from right before he shut down the game.