Dystopian Wars: Kingdom of Britannia vs Republique of France 1000pts

Concentrate all firepower
on that dreadnought!

Our plucky contestants; the largely undefeated Charles - once again fielding his largely undefeated KoB fleet. The relative newbie Dunc, in his very third game, but fielding for the first time his freshly-painted RoF force.

Look, Mum!
Skimming cruisers!

1000points each means both field dreadnoughts, but no air power other than the obligatory 10 tiny tiny flyers. Both KoB are CAPs, whereas RoF field a Torpedo bomber flight and a CAP.

The objective is to destroy core fleet. And they're off! Minimal terrain covers the Britannian right flank, but the French have a plan to skim over it. This plan is quickly abandoned when the heavy Brit left flank open fire.

Magenta mkI rear view

Here come the Ecuyers

Dunc is eager to try his heat lances and manoeuvres his heavy hitters toward Charlie's dreadnought and battleship.

A fierce exchange of fire over the first three turns bag a cruiser and three frigates for Britannia, but a more impressive four destroyers, a cruiser and a frigate fall under the French onslaught. There's serious damage to the Magenta mkII and the Ecuyers though.

Inexorably, they draw closer

Turn four and things start to get nasty. Two KoB cruisers attempt to board a RoF cruiser, and with a swift exchange of cards are repelled! Meanwhile a line of KoB frigates unleash 20 dice on the Magenta mkI.
The French are feeling the pressure as the Majesty class unleashes 25 dice on the beleaguered Magenta mkII, which miraculously survives on 1HP. This proves extremely fortunate on the next turn when it delivers a critical with its redoubtable heat lance! An unfortunate boarding attempt is easily massacred by the dreadnought's CAP, however.

Massed French

Damage abounds, but the
RoF fleet is holding up.

Dangerous boats

Magenta mkI
takes heavy damage

Th KoB frigates completing
their pincer movement

A final round or two of firing saw two French cruisers down and a KoB frigate but the hour was late. A largely disabled KoB dread (7 damage and two half AD counters) faced a ready-to sink pocket battleship and a RoF dread with one hit, so there was still life in the battle, but a marginal KoB victory was declared as he was much closer to the objective.

All parties had jolly good fun, hands were shaken and North duly faced.

I think there will be more painting of DW models in the near future.

Dystopian Wars: Prussia vs Kingdom of Britannia 600pts

Once again, the fleets were rolled out, with some changes this game. My Prussians brought Stolz Destroyer, KoB brought Orion destroyers and a mighty Dreadnought!

The opening round was fairly uneventful apart from a 3 dice shot that exploded to 17 hits on the dreadnought! Unfortunately, a card reduced the damage that caused in the next round, and by round 3, the Brits dice were on top form and all was lost when a critical wiped out my Metzger.

Dystopian Wars: 600 point islands game

Tonight we played another game, this time across the table (we'd played lengthways in previous battles, which gives the Britannians a natural advantage for their torpedo-armed forces).

We also introduced two new elements - flyers and the cards. As a further defence against torpedoes I chose to take the majority of my forces as amphibious Metzgers and introduced the Geier bombers and the Imperium Sky fortress. The huge zeppelin aircraft carrier (still only part-painted) was what attracted me to this game in the first place. My only purely-naval force was the Emperor battleship, which I figured could hold its own.

We also added terrain for the first time, the placement of which helped me no end - effectively negating torpedo fire for much of the game. A large island and three small ones added a new tactical flavour to the proceedings.

Placement of forces is done one squadron at a time, and ended up with a circular sort of set-up - the Britannian fleet at one corner of the table, and the Prussian ship at the other. The bombers faced the enemy fleets and my robotic and zeppelin forces took refuge behind the island.

I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story, but due to a stupid mistake and some awesome ack-ack rolls from a pair of frigates, it was 1866 all over again for the Brits.

A splendid evening's entertainment. Now I really must finish painting those flyers.

Britannian bombers take heavy flak as they approach my battleship

Metzger and Sky Fortress cross the barren island

Prussian bombers approach the Britannian fleet

Cap'n, there are dice ahead!

Britannian battleship with its own Combat air Patrol

Massed Brit frigates line up to cause carnage

Whoops - The sky fortress' AP have been nerfed severely (from 9 to 7). Should have checked the website first. This was after a complete failure to board two frigates.

Going in for the kill

Brit dive bombers (modified nicely) fail to even scratch the paintwork on my battleship

Dystopian Wars: Prussia vs Brittania

The Britannian Heavies

Last night we pushed the boats out for another battle, this time on the new sea table. The fleets were out-of-the-box starter sets, painted of course.

Britannian frigate broadside

Admiral Newman plots a course

By the time 23:00 came around, Brittania had a marginal victory - 320 to 295. Well done Charles.

The fleets close

Things get hairy

The Prize! Prussian rocket marines weathered heavy ack ack to capture a Britannian cruiser

Heavy damage