Reply To: So why did Dropfleet Commander and Dropzone Commander just disappear……

[danlee 22600xp 1]

I backed the Dropfleet kickstarter. I’d been a big fan of Battlefleet Gothic and was hoping for a similar game that my friends could get into. It never quite gelled for me.

 

I found that even the biggest ships seemed to lack endurance – as soon as the enemy got within range and chose to shoot at you in earnest the ship just was out of the fight. I think I heard Andy Chambers say in an interview they’d deliberately tried to do that to make the game go faster. But for me it just made the ships feel less impressive.

 

The idea of using little pegs on the flight stands (something Warren claimed credit for at one point) was a bad one too. It was far too fiddly and you’d end up moving your ship in a game where position and facing is critical. We quickly abandoned it and just used dice.

 

The background never appealed to me either.

 

As for why it doesn’t get much attention now that it’s owned by TT Combat, I couldn’t say.