Dream Pod 9, Heavy Gear Arena Released

What is Arena? It's in your face! It's multi-ton robots trashing each other! It's all about drama on the field and off the field! This isn't your slow paced hack fest! This is Gears kicking tail and taking names!

Hire the best. Kit your Gears. Slug it out with the best. Only one team can rise to the top, but do you have what it takes to win?

Heavy Gear Arena is a fast paced, highly customizable tactical battle game set in the award winning Heavy Gear setting. For centuries, Terra Nova's best pilots have taken their Gears, advanced robotic fighting machines, and pitted them against each other in the world of sports dueling. Only the best stay in the games and earn their legendary reputations. Of course, reputations only get you so far. Winning equals money for upgrading your team and its equipment, the support of your adoring fans brings fame and more importantly the corporate sponsors, or just the thrills, pilots come from all over to find the thing they're desperate for in Khayr ad-Din.

Take on the role of team manager and build up your team to pit against the competition.

What you'll find in the Heavy Gear Arena Core Rules:

• Robust tournament campaign rules
• Duelists capable of growing in experience and talent
• In depth Gear Customization
• Support Personnel to aid your team's growth
• Fast paced combat with combo chains and Duelist Talents
• Background information on badlands city of Khayr ad-Din- Lots of new artwork
• and Bowser!

DP9-9187c
Heavy Gear Arena Core Rules 112 Full Color pages $45.00

Dream Pod 9 will also be selling the Heavy Gear Arena two player starter kit.  The starter kit includes the following:

• A small-format 5.5" x 8.5" B&W version of the Heavy Gear Arena Core Rules book 112 pages.
• 4 Hired Guns Minis (Grizzly, Hunter XMG, Black Mamba, DartJager) plus extra weapons.
• 4 six sided dice.
• 1 measuring tape.

DP9-9210 Heavy Gear Arena - Two Player Starter Kit $65.00

Dream Pod 9, Aller Heavy Tank

Here are some comparisons of Dream Pod 9's old Metal Vs Resin Northern Aller Heavy Tank. You can see the new Resin tank has much more crisp detail.

Dream Pod 9, Heavy Gear Tanks

Everyone knows Dream Pod 9 makes Heavy Gears, but you may not know they make some pretty cool tanks.  In Heavy Gear Blitz, tanks have lots of armor, lots of firepower and are tough to take out.

Earth/PAK HT-68 Hovertank Tank

North Aller Main Battle Tank

South Visigoth Tank

 

Heavy Gear Blitz, Barnaby and Sandriders

Dream Pod 9 has just released the Badlands Leagueless Faction for Heavy Gear Blitz.  The releases include the Barnaby and Sandrider Squad Pack and the Sandrider Infantry Platoon.

The Sandrider Infantry Platoon (DP9-9206, 40 Sandrider Infantry, 12 hex bases and platoon datacard, $24.95) and the Barnaby and Sandrider Squad Pack (DP9-9207, 3 Barnaby riding beasts & 3 mounted Sandrider Infantry in Resin, 3 hex bases, $24.95),

Dream Pod 9, Heavy Gear Arena

Here is a fantastic paint job from Dream Pod 9's master painter Mason.  The figure is for Heavy Gear Arena.  If you like what you see give a vote for Mason on CoolMiniOrNot.  This is hireable character duelist Adrianne Bils in her Gladiator Heavy Gear from Dream Pod 9's upcoming Heavy Gear Arena.

Dream Pod 9 - Heavy Gear Blitz

Here are the Dream Pod 9 Heavy Gear Blitz figures I am going to use for Demos.  The paint jobs will not win any contests, but they are perfect for doing demos and will be able to stand up to use and abuse.   Actually I quite like the paint jobs for what it is worth.  I used a base color and then did a wash with Future Floor Polish (1/2 water, 1/2 future + black for the Southern troopers and brown for Peace River)

Southern Cadre

Peace River Cadre

Dream Pod 9, Heavy Gear Arena

Dream Pod 9 will be releasing a new game for the Heavy Gear lineup called Heavy Gear Arena.

What is Arena?   Heavy Gear Arena is a fast paced, highly customizable tactical battle game set in the award winning Heavy Gear setting. For centuries, Terra Nova's best pilots have taken their Gears, advanced robotic fighting machines, and pitted them against each other in the world of sports dueling. Only the best stay in the games and earn their legendary reputations. Of course, reputations only get you so far. Winning equals’ money for upgrading your team and its equipment, the support of your adoring fans brings fame and more importantly the corporate sponsors, or just the thrills, pilots come from all over to find the thing they're desperate for in Khayr ad-Din.

Dream Pod 9, The Interpolar War Begins

If you have been wanting to try out Heavy Gear Blitz with a friend, September might be the month for you.  Dream Pod 9 is releasing the The Interpolar War Begins box set (DP9-9200, $100.00).  The box set will be available September 10th.

The set includes

• Locked & Loaded Rulebook (DP9-9996s, B&W Version)
• 10 minis (North and South G.P. Squads)
• Datacards
• Measuring Tape

It is the perfect set to give new players a chance to check out the rules and play the main factions of Terra Nova.

Dream Pod 9, Heavy Gear Blitz, September Releases

In September, Dream Pod 9 will be releasing the really cool Badlands Leagueless faction.  In the vast Badlands of Terra Nova, people are caught between two superpowers (North and South) bent on dominating the planet.

Barnaby and Sandrider Squad Pack (DP9-9207)

3 Barnaby riding beasts & Sandrider Infantry in Resin, 3 hex bases, $TBA

Sandrider Infantry Platoon (DP9-9206)

40 Infantry, 12 hex bases and datacard, $TBA

Dream Pod 9, Heavy Gear Blitz, Badger

Here is what you get in the Dream Pod 9 Heavy Gear Blitz Badger set.  I saw the Badger at Gen Con and really liked the look of the model. The Badger APC comes with customization parts to upgrade it to either a Cavalry Badger, Rabid Badger or Medevac Badger plus datacard.

Dream Pod 9 - Klemm & Hun light tanks

This past May Dream Pod 9 released two new light tanks to the Heavy Gear Blitz lineup called the Klemm Light Tank (Northern) & Hun Light Tank (Southern).  Both tanks are resin and come in a two tank box set for ($41.95). 

The Klemm Light tank kit will allow you to customization parts to make several common variants (Bandit Hunter Klemm, Tyburr, Jaxon or Stormhammer).

 The Hun Light tank kit will allow you to customization parts to make (Hittite, Ballista or Recon Hun).

Dream Pod 9 - Heavy Gear Blitz - Northern Badger

Dream Pod 9 recently released a really nice model for their Heavy Gear Blitz line called the Badger for the Northern alliance.  The Badger has 4 configurations depending on what is needed including Standard, Rabid, Cavalry and Medevac. 

Dream Pod 9 - Heavy Gear Blitz - Drop Bears

Here is the first production of High Gear Production's Dream Pod 9 product called the The 08th WFPA "Drop Bears" Airborne Regiment Patch.

I ordered a few of these patches because I thought they were just plan cool looking.  The price seemed right at $5USD plus
$1USD shipping for up to 6 patches. Additional $1USD for larger quantities.  You can order them via this PayPal link.

Besides the cool patch Dream Pod 9 has produced an e-Books called Operation Drop Bears Dive! that details the adventures and background of the Drop Bears.