The View from the Turret

Dust Warfare — August 2012 Update

Posted on 17Aug12 Updated on 26Jan13

Fantasy Flight Games is busy churning out Dust Warfare goodness. GenCon 2012 provided us all with some nice peeks at new upcoming products. Thanks to Russ from The D6 Generation and BattleTactics.TV for their great coverage. For a great look at the upcoming DW minis see BattleTactics.TV’s excellent video. FFG also now has a post with more information. Below is a recap of the recent news:

• First up is the release of the Campaign Book: Zverograd that introduces the SSU and a few additional Allied and German units. You can also get the book as a PDF on Wargame Vault. (Note: For some odd reason the book still does not show up in search on Wargame Vault but if you follow the link you will be fine.)
• FFG also announced Campaign Book Hades. It will include the first Soldier 4 unit in the game, the SSU Hero ‘Winter Child’.
• The various SSU helicopters have started to hit the stores.
• As you can see in the BTTV video  there is a huge amount of upcoming goodness for all factions. This is what you’ll see:
  • Allied: British Commandos and French Foreign Legion Kill Squad. Both are three-man Solider 3 squads. They are in the Allied suit armor but with bare arms. They come in the same package and you just swap heads to make one unit or the other.
  • German: Two new vehicles shown. They are large walkers based off the Vehicle 7 walker chassis. Shown were the Prinzeluther and Sturmprinz that both are sort of a mix of the WW2 SdKfz 251/D and SdKfz 232. They both have small turrets and open topped transport compartments. For infantry there are the new Jagdgrenadiere and Laser-Jagdgrenadiere. What is unique about those is that they are both three-man squads all based together on a single base (similar to GW IG heavy weapons). Perhaps the biggest surprise was the new German aircraft model prototypes. Also see BTTV’s aircraft video. FFG has now officially announced these with the upcoming Operation Icarus expansion for Dust Tactics. Also the P-38-eque aircraft in the page art is rumored to be the Allied fighter.
  • SSU: The SSU get the most love with all sorts of new goodies:
    • Hero Winter Child
    • IS-48 Karl Marx – Heavy Tesla gun-armed heavy tank
    • IS-5 Vladamir Lenin – KV2-like heavy tank
    • IS-5 Mao Zedong – AA tank. Both IS-5s also carry troops.
    • IS-48 Lavrentiy Beria Tank w/155mm main gun – Looks like an IS-3 tank
    • KV-3 Matrioshka – Walker with two main guns
    • KV-3 Babushka – Walker with Gatling guns
    • Red Guards Assault Squad
    • Red Guards Antitank Squad – With 2 Bazookas

All in all life is looking very good for Dust Warfare fans. FFG is providing strong support for the game. Now if we only knew what the fourth faction will be!

[Updated: 12OCT12]