Dystopian Wars
Explore Dystopian Wars naval combat! Dive into Russian Coalition showcases, dreadnought painting guides, and tactical tips for Victorian super-science at sea.
Weekly Waffle #310
Weekly Waffle #310 11th February 2023 I know I missed last weeks weekly waffle but that was simpIy because I was socialising and didn’t get chance to to write an update. Work has been manic as well but I did manage to get a little bit of hobby time in. This week has been much the same but a little bit heavier on the work front and not quite as much social time. I finally managed to make it to game night last week although the timing was a bit tight. But I made it and that’s what counts. I didn’t get any gaming in but I’ve pencilled in a…
Weekly Waffle #309
Weekly Waffle #309 28th January 2023 I’ve learned my lesson from last week and instead of trying to do a single large update just before it’s due to be published I’ve been updating this post after each writing sessions. So hopefully this update will be on time this week although I still have an issue with the automatic Twitter update. For some reason it’s stopped including the url to the post and I have no idea why and more importantly I don’t know how to fix it yet. But I’m working on it. Anyway enough of the technical issues and on to the fun stuff. I’d made sure Northern Rail…
Weekly Waffle #308
Weekly Waffle #308 January 22nd 2023 The update is a day late due to some technical issues. Basically I’ve learned that I can’t add a lot of pictures in a single update. So in the future I’ll have to do regular updates of the draft until everything is ready go and I publish. Anyway onto this weeks update. Game night was back on this week and it feels really weird to that it was the first of the year. Although thanks to Northern Rails punctuality I wasn’t able to make it in person. However everyone survived the break more or less in one piece but the same can’t be said…
Weekly Waffle #307
Weekly Waffle #307 14th January 2023 As promised I’m back for another week, although considering it is only the second week of the year so it’s not that much of an achievement. I’ve spent quite a bit of time away from home this week so haven’t had a lot of hobby time but I’ve tried to put my time to good use. With the Alliance fleet progressing at a steady pace I’ve been thinking about how to go about painting the Hunt for Prometheus box set which has been sitting I’m my pile of shame for some time. For the Enhanced I’m thinking of going with a pale blue for…
Weekly Waffle #306
Weekly Waffle #306 7th January 2023 I’m trying to start the year on a slightly better note than I ended it by getting my updates done on time. I’ve had a few technical issues getting some updates done and for reasons I can’t yet figure out last week’s update failed but then appeared on the site on Wednesday. But at least it got there in the end. However this weeks update is going to land on time and I hope you will like the content, but I’ll be happy with on time. For this first update of the year I’ve gone old school and brought it back to the future.…
Weekly Waffle #286
It’s been something of a weird week so far and whilst I have quite a full update for you I haven’t done any painting at all. That’s not to say I haven’t managed to get in a reasonable amount of hobby time, just that none of it has involved a paint brush. But it has involved quite a lot of prep work so that I should be able to start on some painting next week. I could have broken things down a little and done less prep but got started with some painting but I just felt that it would be better in the long run if I did all…
Weekly Waffle #200
Bicentenary edition of the weekly waffle today and to be honest with you when I started this I didn’t even think that I would still be turning out content, albeit in limited volume, nearly four years later. The nice thing about it all though is the original reason for starting the blog was to help keep my motivation up. And whilst there have been ups and downs along the way to get to here overall I like to think I’m still in credit. Some things have changed in that time but other have stayed the same. Think the changes have been in the games I’m playing, or not as the…
Weekly Waffle #171
It’s been another slow week for this week’s weekly waffle with not a lot of progress on anything really. There’s been no game night and no D&D so all told it’s been something of a let-down. No particular reason for this it’s just been slow. But it’s not been a total write off. I get the Empire of the Blazing Suns Emissary model for Wild West Exodus this week. This also marks something of land mark as now that War Cradle have taken over and they are ostensibly part of Wayland Games I was not expecting this model to turn up for at least another four or five weeks. So…
Weekly Waffle #151
I’ve been a bit more organised for this weeks weekly waffle and stolen a bit of time throughout the week to put this week’s update together. So this week’s update will be a proper waffle, and it’s quite a specific waffle. It’s loosely based around what happens to a game when someone else takes over the IP. I’m bringing this up because Warcradle studios now owns the IP for both Wild West Exodus and Dystopian wars, both games I own and really enjoy. They had already made some big changes to WWX but now that they have taken over Dystopian Wars they have announced that they are going to merge…
Dystopian Wars – Fleet Basing Guide
I can’t find anything in the rules that says you have to base your ships for Dystopian Wars but they do look much nicer on the table top if they are based. It took me a while to get round to basing by fleets but once I found a method that I thought looked ok and was reasonably easy to reproduce there was no stopping me. Now if something isn’t based it just looks wrong. So having been through the anguish of wanting to base but not knowing how I thought I would share with you how I base my ships. First things first and that is what size…
