it's sold down my LGS, but apparently has fizzled. Lots of people bought in at launch, but without continued support they drifted back out of it again.

It's got it's pros and cons. Beautiful, highly detailed models, but fairly expensive....... In terms of model count it doesn't capture the feel of a true mass battle game; a dozen armored vehicles, a half dozen dropships, and a few dozen troops at 1500 doesn't count.

I keep seeing this claim that DZC is expensive and I really have no idea where that impression has come from. At this point I'm fairly sure it's just internet whisper echoes repeated without any actual critical thought.

For instance, The main human tank is priced at £11 for three, roughly the same as ForgeWorld sold their 6mm vehicles at and substantially less than some Specialist games prices, and they're 10mm size rather than 6mm.

Coupled with your second point about low model count for a tournament sized army, and at worst a DZC army is going to cost roughly the same as a 3k EA army would have when EA was still available. It's going to cost substantially less than a 40k army. Coupled with the fact that the £30 scenery pack gets you enough tiles to cover a 4 foot square table with urban terrain and loads of buildings to place on top means that complaints about price are misguided at best.

Have to agree. For what you get in quality they are very reasonably priced and a workable army is comparable in price to most systems (baring 40k/WH which is in a league of its own obviously.)

My impression is (having not played) is that each unit also needs a £10 to £15 drop ship to carry it onto the board which does little else in the game - but this may not be true. That seems to add £50-70 to a decent starter army. IMHO is if the drop ships were sold cheaper (at cost??) there would be a bigger take up.

Just my 2p.

@ Primarch - there are some pics floating around - prob in the 10mm. The armour is big for epic - the Bear APCs are about SH tank size. (Im thinking about using them as Gorgons...)