I’m back

 I haven’t posted in quite so time but now in this very different world we all seem to have a bit more time on our hands so here I am again. Until recently I’ve been quite busy with renovations after moving from the Hutt Valley in Wellington to the Friendly town of Feilding in the Manawatu.

Since moving up here I have got back into Dystopian wars as there is a reasonably good player base here. And I have also got into playing Star Wars Legion using the separatist droid armies. X-wing is something I haven’t played since I moved but a small group of players is trying to get a regular group playing. I am still playing Star Wars armada with a few new players up here they are quite quickly getting the hang of kicking my but. Bolt action is still in my gaming scene but haven’t played too much but hope to increase that.

My Brother has started a streaming channel on twitch and doing some videos on YouTube under the name of Phazon kiwi check him out. I will be linking his videos when I am able to.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAnb1Mek2t9Gy0h1KEx3Y4w

https://www.twitch.tv/phazon_kiwi

Hopefully I will have some content to put up at least each fortnight.

The Parade Ground

I Finally got a decent cabinet to put all my war gaming models in. All Thanks to mum and dad moving house and wanting to get rid of some excess stuff. So I said ill take that.

Top row the Jerries and FSA Dystopian wars, Second row more krauts, Third row the Communists and the fourth row the Yanks as you can see some Sherman's are missing as they are in my army bag for Valleycon next weekend.

I'm going to need a bigger cabinet.

My Russians are the only army were i could fit in some of the infantry. Still have more of them ans my US, German and British that I'm still working on.

Well now that the wall cabinet is cleared out i can now put all my modelling gear in it instead of on top of it and all around the computer room. Theres alot of stuff in that cabinet that has yet to be used in any comps I'm hoping this year that i can try to more away from the more traditional armies. Ive always liked using the more weird or least used things like the Katyusha, T34 Calliope, T-35 land battleship, Moblewagon and things like that. Tomorrow I believe the Valleycon lists are due in so ill be getting that off to Nick who is running the Flames of war comp. I will put up some pics of what I'm taking to Valleycon shortly and why Ive chosen what I'm taking.

Dystopian wars at the Masterton Marauders

I played my first full game of Dystopian wars on Sunday at the local club in Masterton with a gentleman by the name of Craig i used my FSA (Federated states of America) and Craig used the Empire of the Blazing sun (Japan). We played 750pts as I'm still new to this I wasn't quite equipped to field a full 750pts list so Craig lent me some of the FSA's Freedom Mk2's which are flying robots these would be attached to my commander's Valley airship which is the company command. The company commander always goes in the biggest Unit In your battle group. Each Battle group must have at least 1 large, 1 medium and 1 small component to it.

My Fleet:
Commodore's Flagship
1x Valley (Airship) - Aer. Large
3x Freedom MkII (Escort Robot) - Aer. Small
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2x Lee (Scoutship) - Aer. Medium
2x Lee (Scoutship) - Aer. Medium
3x Augusta (Frigate) - Nav. Small
3x Augusta (Frigate) - Nav. Small


Craig's Fleet:
Commodore's Flagship
1x Raijin (Command Gyro) - Aer. Large
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2x Inari (Scout Gyro) - Aer. Medium
2x Inari (Scout Gyro) - Aer. Medium
2x Nakatsu (Light Cruiser) - Nav. Medium
3x Tetsubo (Small Flyer) - Aer. Small
3x Zarigani Mechanical Squid (Small Naval Robot) - Nav. Small

The Setup - Craig moves his 3 Tetsubo fliers forward but is out of range.

After a few more moves my Lee class scout ships fire a rocket salvo and blast 2 of his Tetsubo fliers out of the sky.

In Return 3 of my Augusta class frigate's are sunk and one damaged. One of the Mk2 Freedom's has also taken a hit. Meanwhile i damaged one of his Zarigani Mechanical Squid's and a Inari Scout Gyro.

The empire's Flagship with its massive gun battery flanked by 2 Nakatsu Light Cruiser's

My fighters move in and kill off this dive bombers my 2 Lee scout ship's open their bomb bay doors and heavily damage Craig's cruiser. But i don't go unpunished as his guns open up on me and take me to within 1 HP of dieing on one of my Lee's.

By now very few ships are undamaged one Lee has a raging inferno on board. One has damaged weapons other ships have had HP damage and some crew killed (which affects boarding actions). At this point I have lost 5 frigate's, 1 Lee, 2 Freedom Mk2's. Craig had lost 1 Inari Scout Gyro, 1 squadron of dive bombers and all 3 Tetsubo Small Flyer's.

The 2 capitol ships broadside each other doing some damage to each other but nothing the can't handle.

The game ended with a few more losses on each side but Craig winning but getting the objective on his secret objective card i was only a few models away from getting mine. So not too bad for a first game.

Well I didn't find it to hard to pick up so that was good which meant for not too many holdups. the only thing that slowed me down was checking the stats for ships weapons and movement. I thoroughly enjoyed the game I'm glad i decided to take this up as Ive always like Ariel and naval games. Now just need to find some people in Lower Hutt to play this with.

Dystopian Wars FSA aka Federated States of America

Well I have bought myself some of the Spartan Games Dystopian wars models specificly The FSA (Federated States of America) There is quite a few Nations to choose from there is -


Core Nations

• Empire of the Blazing Sun
• Federated States of America
• Kingdom of Britannia
• Prussian Empire
• Covenant of Antarctica
• Russian Coalition
• Republique of France

Alliance Nations (The following Alliance Nations some are yet to be released)

• Commonwealth of Free Australia
• Kingdom of Denmark 
• Dominion of Canada
• Chinese Federation
• League of Italian States
• Ottoman Empire 
• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Republic of Egypt
• Socialist Union of South America (SUSA)
• Free Republic of Chile
• Spanish Republican Confederacy (SRC)
• United Kingdom of Romania
• Free Hellenic Kingdom
• Belgian Royalist Rebels
• Portuguese Empire

Dystopian Wars is a steam punk war game set on a alternate time line in the1870's. There is Naval Aerial and Ground forces to collect some nations excel at some types of forces better then others. Ive only played one game so far and a was hooked a gentleman by the name of Craig from the Masterton marauders club had set up a game as i had expressed an interest in the game. And from then on i was hooked the models look great and just look cool massive flying fortresses huge aircraft carriers in both the sky and on the sea. Ive always liked naval games but never found one that i liked until now. From what iv'e seen its isn't widely played yet but the comunity is growing. It was played at Natcon this year for what i'm sure is the first time with 8 players most from the south island.

So going with the FSA i bought my stuff from Wayland games in the UK as they had a sale on some of the stuff. So along with getting my FOW Remagen book i bought A Blister pack with 6 Augusta class frigate's, An Aerial Battle group box set which had 1 Valley class Airship and 4 Lee class scout ships. Some of the packs come with little Refrence cards for the ships which show hit points, movement, Weapon stats and so on.

Lee class scout ship

Valley Class airship

The 3 type's of ships i have

My total current force as you can see they come as a white resin.