Hi. I have briefly dived into the Dropzone Commander world. A brief outline of my progress....
Firstly, I found that there is a growing group of players over here, which is great to hear. One guy has the two player starter boxed set, plus three resin starter armies, and another just bought the starter set. Personally, was initially drawn to PHR as a force, with maybe UCM as a secondary.
But, looking at the play styles, UCM seems the default all round force, and PHR are a very static force. Plus, while the PHR minis are fantastic, they are all very samey. I like the walker design, but that one design with minor variations will make up the entire ground armour force. On top of all of that, Shaltari seemed like a lot of fun to play.
As I looked into it more, I warmed a lot to the Shaltari designs - the tripod walkers, skimmer tanks and floaty aircraft seem very cool in concept. So, the final decision was to put together a Shaltari force (reinforced by the fact that no-one else here seems interested in them), and get some PHR just because I like the minis, as a secondary force.
After this, I picked up the resin starter box from the guy that bought it. He picked it up from Wayland Games in a sale and sold it to me, still shrink wrapped, at cost, so it came to about 43GBP.... In that, I got (all resin): - 3x Eden Medium Gates - 3x Tomahawk grav tanks - 3x Kuri.... something.... AA tanks - 2x 'bear trap' Haven Gates (probably my least favourite minis in the force\ - 4x stands of infantry
The glaring ommission there are walkers. I can place an order through my local store and in a couple of weeks I will grab a Jaguar, a pack of 2 Tarantulas and maybe an Ocelot because it looks very cool. That will give me a nice rounded initial formation with a few core units and a bit of everything.
I even picked up some paints in readiness to get painting, and decided on a general paint scheme.
EDIT - At some point I will get a few PHR units just to paint. Definately a Neptune, which looks awesome. Then its a choice between a pair of Ares walkers as the 'core choice' of a pair of Enyo walkers as my favourite pattern.
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