Dropzone Commander / Battlestar Galactica

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Had my first game of Dropzone Commander today and it was awesome as it had a unique but familiar gaming system, with the addition of the command cards, gave it a boost in my books. While it isn't exactly cheap, 1500 points is roughly £120, it has everything you need to get going from the starter armies until the 2 player starter box is released at the end of September; www.hawkwargames.com/products/… Though I am looking forward to getting my Post Human Republic army up and running with the hopeful addition of the Hades Heavy Walker www.hawkwargames.com/products/…

Also I have been keeping this little DWAR3 conversion hidden for a while until I picked it back up just the other day thinking it might be worth making it massive fleet battle worthy; Battlestar Galactica: Another Era. Basically it my own alternate version of the BSG storyline but with a massive war going on as the BSG fleet finds Earth only to discover that it is at war with Kobol and they have been fighting for over a 100 years. Earth and Kobol colonise 15 distant worlds with 15 different colonisation fleets and a secret 16th is sent beyond known space (12 Colonies). Cutting a few thousand years worth of history short the plotline of the game picks up where Earth is under siege by Bionics (Kobol's version of Flesh-Cylons but are lettered not numbered) that have amassed a large Battlestar fleet. Earth defends with it's own ships; Titan class Battlestars with it's own elite Centurions on the ground helping evacuate the planet. The Centurions are actually humans clad in elite mechanical suits of armour (think Iron Man, Mk2 BSG Centurions, and Starcraft's Terran Marines) based on the original Cylons who have since left known space and are out in the galaxy somewhere.  
The other colonies have formed their own "Coalition" to help protect themselves from the war between Earth and Kobol and now the 16th colony arrives seeking salvation (BSG Season 4) but only finds more destruction and chaos, but also hope.

The game itself would be an all out fleet engagement on a large scale with unique ships for each planet/faction with the colossal Titan class Battlestars (for which there are 6) taking centre stage for Earth, and the hulking Bionic Warstars for Kobol, where as Human Alliance ships would be a mix of various different ships designs.
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