I am a big fan of thed6generation.com podcast (if you haven't heard, go check it out). They have recently been up in arms about DUST Warfare. I grabbed the rule book and the core starter set and I am off to the races. I started painting up my miniatures with the intention of just doing their faces then dry-brushing. That didn't last long, as I started paining I really began to appreciate the miniature. So I am going to spend a little more time on them painting some details.

This weekend my 8 year old and I played our first game. I have to say around turn 3 we really had a good idea of what was going on and did not need to flip through the rulebook as much. Our next game will be a lot less too. We both had lots of fun in what was a "back and forth" battle. With the Reaction system we were always thinking and planning, I liked it.

In this forum there is a post with printable cards with proper stats on them for each unit, I highly recommend either using these or creating your own. This made our game so much easier and fun. I printed them out and taped them to the nice cards that came with the starter set.

I will continue my painting and in the next couple of games we will use vehicles to test out those rules. Can't wait to play more!

I had the same game play experience with my boys and we are having a lot of fun with the game. This game is easy enough for them to grasp in a game or two but still complicated enough with the reactions and suppression to keep even veteran gamers tactically involved.

I listened to the podcast. Thanks for the tip. I really liked it

Thanks for the kind words, gents! We've been hearing great things about the game since we first saw it, so glad our initial opinions have been sustained.

Russ and I played on Tuesday for the first time (against each other) since Adepticon . . . it went very well for me right up to the point where I forgot I wasn't playing 40K and didn't secure my objectives correctly . . . but MAN what a fun game, eh?

~Craig

I enjoyed the podcast as well. I had never sat at the computer listening to people talk for over an hour before so that tells you how interested I was right there. Unlike many others though, I was already sold on the game and had lots of stuff when I heard it, but when new people ask me about the game I tell them they should listen to it (it saves me from talking about it for an hour, lol). Then I assure them that the models are not "gumby"

Funny story though on that was in my LGS when a guy saw that the antenna on my radioman was bent and commented on it. He drives a VW with one of those rubber antennas on it and I pointed out the window at his car that had a bend in his antenna and said, "I know… It's unrealistic to have a bent antenna." Everyone laughed and he replied by saying, "touche".