while reading the dust wars comic i noticed alot of other ww2 vehicles fighting along side the new walkers such as half tracks a stuart light tank and jeeps . is fantsy flight going to release stats for these other " inferior " vehicles to support their more tech superior brothers ? in my mind the new walkers must be costly to feild lots and lots of them . just an idea .

I'm sure at some point probably. They're mostly classified as Armor 1 and 2 vehicles in the rulebook such as jeeps, trucks, ect., with no armor being for 1 and with some armor from bullets for armor 2.

I would assume so, since the rules for Wheeled and Tracked are in the Core book!

Indeed, the original comic shows the Germans using a Skdkfz 251 for transport. And, since the construction of walkers uses the McGuffin 'VK,' and I would assume tanks don't, we come back to the old Battletech problem: Why are we using these hideously hard-to-come-by things when we can simply overwhelm a foe with more conventional arms? The answer is thematic, usually: Walkers are cooler (the Japanese answer). But since the weapons being used are just as effective on these super-material 'VK' walkers as they are against tanks (moreso, I would think…let's face it, the average 88mm Rakatenpanzerbuchse would scarcely dent an 'obsolete' Tiger I), then why aren't tanks a fully viable option, particularly since, by 1947, an M24 Chaffee would be a real challenge for a Mk II Pkl, and an 'Easy Eight' Sherman would tend to do even better, and I'm not even gonna talk about what a T34/85 could do…or a JS II. Or a Pershing. Yikes.

That is, if we want to break the somewhat stereotypical Japanese fantasy of single-man mecha, making essentially a tank worked like a fighter plane. I wonder why this concept came about in Japan, post-war ('way post-war, sort of the 70s)?

I have the dust graphic as well, and was thinking the same thing. I would love to see some conventional vehicles but the only problem is will FFG make any money out of it - as soom as the stats were released the hardcore players/ modelers (i include myself in this catagory - i have to pimp every game!) are surley going to go out and buy 1/48 scale kits rather than wait for FFG to produce them. However i will then have to buy minis to crew them!

It would be awesome if they made some stats for these , but i wont hold my breath!

I don't see the problem here, we've got the charts for them, so should be very simple to create stats for them, I think there is pleanty of 1:48 vehicles to proxy and I wouldn't mind if somebody would use them in a friendly match, maybe not so in a turnament.

I think we would probably see the same kit as the helicopter. A squad of 4-5 guys with a little jeep, a little truck for so and so, and the likes that way it would force you to buy the jeep/truck and guarantee that the vehicle that could be purchased as a kit would be purchased with the guys.

Forget 1/48 scale models; they're too big. Warlord miniatures sells WWII vehicles in 28mm scale, which is the scale of Dust and Warhammer. Not bad prices; a German halftrack goes for $29. I was disappointed to find that they have none of the M3 vehicle line, lacking both halftracks and scout cars.

While not official and for Tactics.

twc-dust-tactics.blogspot.com/p/dust-card.html

Just scroll down. All the tanks you could want, oh and Dust Tactics/warfare is indeed 1/48 or O scale, the guys are just a bit bigger like how GW say they are 28mm but really 32mm.

-jay