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Dust Tactics

2. Edition

Dust Tactics, the SciFi/Fantasy Tabletop set in Paolo Parentes parallel universe Dust, has been reworked and streamlined and has been published again as Revised Core Set. In the Core set the adversaries are Axis and Allies, and then there is the Sinosoviet Union as a third power.

The components feature 28 detailed miniatures, landscape elements and special dice as well as a scenario booklet, which tells the events of the Battle of Cobden Bridge. One game simulates a complete encounter up to and including victory for one adversary. You choose a scenario, prepare the landscape, roll for initiative, activate one unit after the other in turn and unlock units at the end of the turn. For each activated unit and round you have up to two action chosen from the possibilities of movement, attack, ability, do nothing and permanent attack.

Permanent attack uses up both actions in a turn and you cannot choose attack + attack. A game ends when all units of a player are destroyed, or completion of the scenario goal or by destruction of all mission targets; in the last two cases the winner is always the player with the highest score. The game features six scenarios which can be combined into a campaign: You try to conquer Victory Bridge with an army deploying your units. A new feature are the landscape posters, for instance for Victory Bridge, they introduce a bridge and construction structures as well as new landscape symbols.

Confrontation as a tabletop - a vast amount of expansions for the system is available, as befits a good Core Set - offering an interesting introduction into the world of tabletops and conflict simulation.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 60+

Designer: Paolo Parente, Olivier Zamfirescu

Art: Vincent Fontaine and Team

Price: ca. 60 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger 2012

Web: www.hds-fantasy.de

Genre: Tactical miniature game

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de en es

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Streamlined rules

Good as in introduction into the tabletop hobby

Many extensions and expansions available

Compares to:

Dust, Dust Tactics 1^st Edition, Memoir ´44 and others

Other editions:

Dust Tactics Revised Edition, FFG, USA; Edge Entertainment, Spain

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0