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Spartan Games has announced the release of an updated version of the rulebook for its steampunk-themed miniatures combat game Dystopian Wars. The new rulebook refines gameplay for the system that first launched in 2011. Those purchasing the updated rulebook can take advantage of one of two special offers.

From Spartan Games:

This latest edition brings together a number of key changes to the rules system, a refinement of the rules text and tweaks to the Stat Cards of certain models, all of which enhance the game and deliver a better tournament experience. Rules for the original nations are presented clearly and concisely, backed up with some beautiful illustrations of the characters and ships that inhabit the Victorian Sci Fi Age. Of course, the Edition 1.1 Master Rulebook is still fully compatible with the Covenant of Antarctica and the new Republique of France A5 Fleet Guides.

Look out for the Dystopian Wars Edition 1.1 Master Rulebook in your local store as retailers will be offering 25% off the normal price. Simply pick up a copy with the 25% OFF sticker.

Alternatively, customers buying Edition 1.1 direct from the Spartan Games Online Store will receive our first mercenary naval model – Captain Vladimir Nikonov’s formidable submersible The Black Wolf (worth £8.50). The submersible is supplied with an integrated water base, two acrylic templates depicting the submerged model’s possible locations, a Stat card and an A6 guide, with artwork of Nikonov on one side and rules for the model on the other.

The world of Dystopian Wars is similar to our own, but subtly different. The year is 1870 and the Industrial Revolution occurred decades earlier than in our own world. Technology is far advanced, and in many cases, unrecognisable, which has led to the development of fantastic naval vessels, hulking land ships and terror from the skies in the form of airships and war balloons.

Dystopian Wars is set in a Steampunk Victorian world and is designed to ensure a fun game with a large selection of high quality models in a couple of hours. The rules support Naval, Aerial and Land models from the outset, so that you can set up battles and scenarios in any combat setting. Spartan Games will supply highly detailed, high quality resin and metal miniatures with which you can roam the high seas, scour the smog filled skies of Dystopian Wars for enemy flying ships, or doggedly defend the cities and countryside of your home nation.

Our fast play rules are optimised for large fleet actions, so you can get as many miniatures on the table as you want, and still get an enjoyable game in one evening. Dystopian Wars is also ideal for multiplayer games, because you get to activate individual squadrons of miniatures from one player to the next. The rules allow for the use of a deck of 52 Game Cards that add an exciting fog of war element to each game.

This is our third game to be built using our exciting ‘Exploding D6’ core rules engine and shares elements with the science fiction space combat of Firestorm Armada and the fantasy naval combat of the Uncharted Seas. Dystopian Wars builds on the same successful game ethos.

We are excited about the development of Dystopian Wars – it is an entertaining and violent game, putting you in command of huge Land Vessels, Giant Robots, Impressive Airships and Rugged Naval Ships. Your strategies and choices of fleet construction determine the margin of your victories or defeat. Whether you choose to focus on land, sea or in the air, you have every choice available to you to outmanoeuvre, harass and destroy your opponent.

You command one of the great imperial powers of Dystopian Wars, you can choose to defend your territories from foreign incursion, or you can conquer the world. The choice is yours…

 

Jeff McAleer

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