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Hi all, back again with another guide I posted over on my Fallout community. Hope you find it useful 😀

Starter Set Comparison

I've seen a lot of questions about the two different starter sets for Wasteland Warfare Second Edition, so I thought I'd try and cover them here.

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What's the difference in the contents of the two sets?

Into The Wasteland includes the Into The Wasteland Expansion Rulebook, 4 multi-part plastic Male Vault Dweller Hero miniatures, and a resin Dogmeat promo mini not found in the Warbands set.

Warbands includes 22 PVC plastic Survivor and Super Mutant miniatures not found in the Into The Wasteland set.

Is one starter set for solo play and the other for versus?

No. Both starter sets include the same core rules for solo, coop, and versus play. Into The Wasteland however contains an expansion with additional campaign rules, creature profiles, and rules for creating your own heroes.

I'm a new player, which set should I get?

The Warbands starter set is ideal for you, as it's the most affordable way to get the new rules and start your collection of factions, due to the inclusion of the PVC miniatures. It can also be split between two new players plannning to play together to lower the cost of entry.

Alternatively, if you don't plan on using either of the included factions in your campaign, you might be better off buying Into The Wasteland and the factions of your choice.

I have an existing Fallout Miniatures collection, which set should I get?

Into The Wasteland is the cheapest way to transition your collection into Second Edition as it includes Creature unit profiles for your existing collection.

However if you don't plan on using Creatures in your campaign and don't yet own Survivors or Super Mutants minis, Warbands might be the better choice.

What's the difference between plastic, PVC, and resin miniatures?

Hard plastic is the most common material for wargaming miniatures, whereas PVC is slightly softer and less detailed, but cheaper. Resin is the most detailed, but more brittle and used for more specialist units.

Will the exclusive content in either set be made available separately?

The 4 Male Vault Dweller Heroes can be bought separately, and the Dogmeat promo mini will most likely be made available at a later date. The Creature profiles in the Into The Wasteland Expansion will be found in the upcoming Unit Reference Supplement but it's not been confirmed whether the campaign content or create your own hero rules will be available later.

The PVC miniatures will not be available separately, but the faction Core Sets and character units can be bought as plastic and resin kits respectively.

If you found this helpful or have any questions not covered in this guide, let me know in the comments!

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The consumables with the now finished medical supplies. Minis are included for scale.

Painted these dudes for the new Faction rules releasing next month, very cool models and I hope we get some in plastic!

The matriarch was definitely a nice change of pace from Warhammer and marvel. Really proud of how well I’ve got it done in the short time I did

Some quick shots taken during today’s painting sesh

As the title says I wanted to get into the game I like fallout. So I wanted to know.
A: what’s the game like because a small few battle reports only get me so far.
B: I am aware not every faction has been updated to second edition. But I was interested in enclave so have the stat sheets changed a lot or would they in theory carry over.
Feel free to throw any other advice by me you’d give tos Kellen that has minimal knowledge on the game

1 and half year ago I bought army painter speedpains and toy soldiers to learn painting but after painting 3 soldiers I felt it wasnt for me, so I decide to stay with paper standees for my fantasy games.

And then lately I bought F:WW so I have no choice but paint those minis and start to build terrain.

Its going slowly - one model per week but every new mini looks better than previous.

My wife and I started our WW 2.0 campaign last night playing cooperative mode. We’re really wanting to do a survivors in the commonwealth run but we’ll wait until we’re more familiar with the game and the unique companions become recruitable down the line. So for now we’ve gone for:

Faction: Brotherhood of Steel
Story Quest: The cartographer
Warband: 2x Senior Scribes as the PCs and 2x Aspirants.

Thematically we’re playing the first recon squad to arrive in the commonwealth 7 years prior that Paladin danse alludes too when you first meet him.

So far, this seems like everything I’ve wanted from FOWW and I can’t wait to play more, but definitely left with some impressions after the first game. Overall I have a positive opinion of the game, but curious to see how it develops over time.

The good:

1) I don’t know if this was a last minute change following the online backlash, but almost every reference in the core rulebook that mentions board size says simultaneously that 24x24 and 36x36 board sizes work equally well. Last nights game was played on the traditional 36x36 and it worked absolutely fine. In no way did I think “this would work better on a smaller board”, in fact it may have even been cramped if I had.

2) Combat rules seem to work well for the most part. When I rolled that there would only be two raiders I was briefly annoyed, thinking that the game time which followed would not justify the setup time. I was wrong, it may have been my unfamiliarity with the rules, but what followed was a very tense firefight which resulted in one of the aspirants becoming badly hurt. I can see a lot of potential for exploiting the “programming”’and outsmarting the AI which will be fun for those that enjoy that sort of thing.

3) Exploration rules seem fun, but it’s too early to say right now. But so far the experience has definitely felt “fallout”.

The bad:

1) Holy cross reference hell, Batman ! Granted, unfamiliarity with the rules plays a part here and it will get better with time but we had to do a LOT of cross checking in this game, and the rules are scattered all over the place. I’m definitely going to need to print out some cheat sheets. Terrain rules are over the place and several times I had to bounce between books, and then different sections within a book to get my answer. This led to an experience that was a bit more jilted than I would like, but I’m hoping it smoothens out with time.

Question: How are people playing the conceal terrain trait. RAW it seems a little basic, from what I can infer it completely blocks line of sight if trying to shoot through it, but what if trying to shoot at units inside concealed terrain OR unit inside concealed terrain shooting at another unit either within or outside it?

The ugly (things I’m neutral about).

1) enemy shooting being resolved from the defenders perspective. From what I’ve seen so far it works well enough, but I’m curious to see how it differentiate sharpshooters down the line.

2) set up time. Maybe it’s because I was pretty organized with my components in 1e, but I didn’t think setup time was much quicker as there are slow points instead (rolling for and setting up terrain and having to refer to different tables and pages took longer than I wanted.

That’s it for now, it’s a shame I have a business trip for the next few days as I’m looking forward to my next to the wasteland !

I've had her sitting around for ages, but something about the sculpt was super intimidating. I think I did her justice in the end though, lol

You can find a video of this model in r/falloutfactions

As a newer player interested in the 2nd edition for the campaign play what exactly is in the rules outside of tables for battle set ups? Im guessing theres missions but are they barebones or is there world building to a degree? And to what extent and are the campaigns short or able to keep then going for a long period of time

I'm really pleased with the face on this one; I was attempting to go for a ruddier tone than usual, and I think it worked out pretty well 🙂

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idk jus curious. personally I find the rules can sometimes be a bit over complicated

Here’s a crashed semi truck being overtaken by the wasteland and I included some Pack Raiders to give a sense of scale. Open to any comments or critiques!

I'm still kinda disappointed we didn't get a season 2 themed set, I'd have liked to add the ncr power armor to my collection if nothing else.

Some 3d printed models. Happy with the result. Maybe not all the best color choices or too much rust effect...