A Dropfleet Commander blog
There are many different tactics that can be utilised in a game like dropfleet. In this post I will describe three simple ones that I guess many experienced players know, but which might not be…
In Dropfleet, quite a few rules have slight variations or dependencies depending on two factors that both tell something about ship-size; hull and tonnage. This is stuff like how serious a catastrophic explosion is, if…
One of the more obscure rules, is the ramming rule. I say obscure, because when I first read it, I quickly disregarded it as not viable and I think a lot of others might have…
Being a very mathematically oriented person, I long ago learned that our intuition often cheats us when we're working with statistics. In short, it seems our brains are not made to be good at grasping…
Though I'm in no doubt that Hawk spend a considerable amount of time to design a good (and easy to produce!) base, the bases that come with the base game has some glaring problems. I'm…
One of the things I like about DFC is that it really lends itself very well to adding new rules to customize the individual games. Maybe because I find the rules rather simple yet elegant,…
After last post about composition of Pathfinder and Line battlegroups, I came to ponder on another quirk about army composition - the dive in battle group size from skirmish to clash. Read More
This is rather niche, nerdy and detail-oriented (and short!) post about battlegroup compositions. Read More
When I do something a lot, I quickly start to see the small things that could be improved. Even though dropfleet is amazing, there are many small things where improvement can be made - especially…
So, following after my longer article about defending against bombers, I would like to go into a bit more detail on how I view attacking with bombers. If you have not already read it, I will…