"New fleet scale Exo Armors for Jovian Chronicles" Topic

DP9 is following up their release of fleet scale space fighters with new fleet scale Exo Armors. dp9.com

They are planned to be available in March.

I really should get into this game…

It does look pretty good

Does anyone else think it is weird that DP9 never produced models for the ships in the Jovian Fleet books 1 and 2? The ships they did make are barely mentioned.

By 'weird' do you mean tragic?

Doug

They still haven't delivered on the Heavy Gear kickstarter, and in the latest kickstarter update announced that due to lack of funds, they will be doing two less Gear models than were promised to backers.

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But now they are taking time and money to make molds for a game line which was dead except when they periodically cast more?

This is the second post on the topic, but the more the merrier!

@Carne68 – The Fleet books were a fairly late addition to JC and by the time they were produced I think DP9 had already started Lighting Strike (the minis game sibling of JC) go. The ships they did produce are the ones you find in the core books and are current with the setting presented there (roughly up until 2210).

The ships in the fleet books are generally from a later period, roughly coinciding with the campaign supplement The Chaos Principle.

I agree it's too bad they never did, as they are some of the best designed hard scifi spaceships out there! But there might still be hope…

@Space Ghost – I think the thing to remember is that the Heavy Gear KS is for injection moulded plastic where the moulds costs thousands of dollars. These EXOs on the other hand, they can do themselves in a garage.

Oh, and here's a picture:

Does anyone else think it is weird that DP9 never produced models for the ships in the Jovian Fleet books 1 and 2? The ships they did make are barely mentioned

The Fleet Books were kind of odd compared to the LS ships, almost like there were two different teams of designers working from similar but not quite the same rules. That said, I'd also LOVE to see the FB ships some day.

But now they are taking time and money to make molds for a game line which was dead except when they periodically cast more?

As Broadsides said, totally different scale of operation, using their own in-house resources as opposed to the plastics which were of necessity farmed out to a plastics company.

-Will

Are those exo-armors at the same scale as the ships?

If so, they're … big.

No, they're still upscaled. You see that grey door on the bottom of the left ship? If my memory is correct, that's an Exo-Armour bay door.

Jakar has it right.

The light blue/grey bars on the left ship are launch catapults for the armors, too.

The only DP9 mecha I have are from their original Heavy Gear line (I think they were about 1:87 or so?)

Are those exo-armors at the same scale as the ships?

The ships are 1/5000 scale. If the exos are ~15mm tall, the exos are somewhere around 1/1500 scale (because the existing JC minis are about 45mm tall and are 1/500 scale)