Dropfleet 2.0 Dave Lewis talks Light Ship Sprues

[@andrewgibb2663]

Great to see Dave smiling and passionate about this stuff. He was the best ambassador for a games system back in the early days of Dropzone, and it's fantastic to see him delivering all the news about his hard work.

[@tonygreenfield7820]

Got my first three boxes of the UCM light ships in the post today and very impressed with them. Molding and detail is excellent and need less clean plus easier assembly than the older resins. Enough parts to build two standard destroyers or one heavy destroyer. If you choose the later you have one of the "arms" left over so if you get three boxes you can actually build four heavy destroyers. Get four boxes and you can build four heavy destroyers and two regular destroyers such as the Havana. So even more ships than appears at first sight.

[@geoffgill8054]

Wow, so cool to see these new ships up close! :|

[@Dazzxp]

Been wondering how flexible these sprues will be, many thanks!

[@brianalice]

The Resistance small ships didn’t seem to get any new options. Or am I missing something?

[@scepteredisle]

puny resistance

[@adamminister7123]

As nice as this is. (And it is nice.) How about some close ups of the sprues to go with Daves waffle..?

[@Raygun9000]

The box art with order now in the corner would've done! 🙃

[@Dirt1061]

More plastic to feed my addiction! And I am going to need a lot of these!

[@savethefunk]

Well, before I throw the cool bases from 1st ed to the trash :( could you detail a bit more how altitude bands (of which there are 3 if I understood) are visually tracked on the table now?

[@lrdofstrms]

Waiting on my boxed set so I can go over everything and see what can be magnetized easily...

[@FezJr87]

I think it'd be neat if you guys did like a painting "masterclass" type video for each faction. Nothing super fancy, just one video for each faction painting like a frigate or something in the studio model colors. That way inexperienced hobbyists can get a feel for how a professional would go about their faction of choice.

[@klaxxon__]

So, are the ships going to be cheaper now that they are more mass produceable and shippable?

[@tonygreenfield7820]

Well you can build a maximum of 9 ships (UCM) from each sprue and the standard price appears to be £30. I can't recall what the list price was for a pack of UCM destroyers but I think it was £16 or so but I could be wrong. In any event I reckon it would set you back close to £30 for one pack of resin destroyers and one of resin cutters. So not bad value.

[@llamaboss1434]

Everything is fantastic. When are the 2.0 free rules going up digitally though? I want to start reading as my preorders are in the mail.

[@ethanmckinney203]

I also want to know if Resistance got anything new in light ships. Looks as though the shapes are unfortunately inefficient for fitting into the frames. If not, at least make the Collins useful!

[@Dazzxp]

Well i am guessing here but i think there maybe some resin weapons in the new 'repackaged' kits. IDK if they will sell weapons on their own but that would be interesting if you have the older kits that didn't have them.

[@ethanmckinney203]

@@Dazzxp People will be furious if they have to buy resin kits in addition to the light ship packs, just to get a new weapon. In the longer run, selling additional weapons in resin might be a very cheap way of expanding classes, but the revenue for TTC would probably be too tiny to be worthwhile.

[@Dazzxp]

@@ethanmckinney203 Well the new sprues might have extra spare weapons. The reason i say resin weapons is for the likes of the battlecrusiers and battleships that are already resin so would be included in them or a small weapon sprue could be thrown in. However i don't think people will ant to go all laser since i would expect maybe the biofacers, scourge and shaltaris having better energy saves than the human factions. I guess we will find out soon enough on the route they take.

[@ethanmckinney203]

@@Dazzxp Oh, we've already seen photos of the new Rezzie light sprue.

[@Dazzxp]

@@ethanmckinney203 I hadn't seen them till now, had to do a google search, not really seeing any new turrets on the light sprue. The core does have a ship with Tulpan laser turrets however.

[@willnox1]

Wait…DAVE is back???