Niðavellir Shipyard: February 2023

Niðavellir Shipyard

The Nidavellir Shipyard is a large UCM Shipyard hidden far away from any planetary system.
After the scattering of humans after the first Scourge attack many ships used their ftl drives and made an random Foldspace jump just to get away. Many of this ships found themselves alone in the dark, to close to a star or a black hole and perished but some made it to an empty place in space. And that’s how the Nidavellir belt was discovered. A collection of large rocks, asteroids in different sizes and collection of dust and sand. Exactly how this place come to be, far from any sun, placed in between systems is not known. It is believed it was created after an extremely unlikely collision of two larger celestial body, with no stronger gravity pull in the vicinity this collection of minerals and rocks have held together by their own combined pull of each other. The scatter of large rocks and the natural background radioactivity have created a hiding place. After the survivors made contact with the now formed UCM the area have been put to good use.

Named after the Norse mythology Nidavellir, the world of the dwarves, for its rich mineral and metal resources. Perfectly for foundries and a large shipyard complex.

This is the place to produce ships...

Friday 17 February 2023

DZC 1.5 my own homebrewed version

I have tried. Really tried. But can't find the experience of playing DZC 2.X even close to the first version. One part are the rules where a lot of changes didn't make sense. If something was awesome why change it? The other part is that TT have also, in my opinion gone in the wrong direction for units. The original DZC had a base of "same but different" and then the models will be used differently anyway. But now the units released tend to have special rules where they really doesn't need any. Hawk had this problem as well after the initial release. But TT have the same issue.

For my part, a cool model can be a new scout unit with a small AT weapon or a AA weapon as variant. They don't need a written unique special rule as well. In fact basic units get used where as units relying on special rules are often a gimmick and only used in a limited way.

So the solution? I wrote my own version. Take it as you wish. Use as you wish. Don't bother to give me credit if you find anything here you will use as a house rule. I have found this is a DZC that I enjoy. Also, it has command cards. Which I haven't included. Because they are in excel right now... and I don't know how to get them to the blog.

Be aware. Wall of text coming. Broken English Royal.

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