Fast Play Game Rules plus NEW 2-player Battle Box APRIL 2016 RELEASE

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1 Fast Play Game Rules plus NEW 2-player Battle Box APRIL 2016 RELEASE

2 DWRB05 Dystopian Wars: Fleet Action Fast Play Rulebook A CALL TO ARMS! Calling all Commodores and Generals Dust off your Dystopian Wars Armies because have we got some fantastic news for you! Fleet Action is the new fast play game engine set in the world of Dystopian Wars, which will allow you to take your existing forces and, with no change to what you already own, play a faster, leaner, deadlier game of the world s leading Victorian Super Science Fiction wargame. Based on requests from our gaming community, we have gone back to the basic premise of what makes Dystopian Wars great and rebuilt it into a 45 minuteplus wargame that pays homage to our vast selection of highly detailed models, extends the colourful world we have created and provides continuity of gameplay for all of our customers. Dystopian Wars 2.0 is the ultimate in immersive gaming, explains Derek Sinclair, lead game designer for Spartan Games. When we created 2.0 it was a mammoth job, which with 500 plus models and the ability to fight all three theatres of war: land, sea and air. But we completed it and the vast player base it has is testimony to the in depth, granular game play it delivers. Following Gen Con 2015 it became clear that our gaming community wanted more from our rules. They wanted a way to play faster games, and to also play with MORE MODELS! So we set the project in motion to take the best parts of Dystopian Wars and simplify them to the point that players don t have to worry about complexity in turning, linking mechanics and hit modifiers, etc. Instead, they can concentrate on getting to grips with a more action-focused game that enables players to play faster with the models they already own, or indeed to put more models on the table to play bigger battles!

3 Key areas we have streamlined in Fleet Action include: Movement We have made the game operate using just one movement Template. Players will simply place the template and tack round it. We removed Drift and Minimum Move as concepts in Fleet Action to allow players to get their models into position with a degree of realism, without adding too much minutiae. Shooting Taking inspiration from Firestorm: Taskforce, we have given players a much simpler combining method of gathering their Dice and rolling to hit. In Fleet Action there are no modifiers, only manipulations of the various Dice Mechanics we use in our games, giving players a simple means by which to gather their hits when firing. In addition, using Small Flyers has also been simplified to treat them as a weapon (of sorts) which can be launched from Carriers in the same way as in Firestorm: Taskforce. Boarding Actions The Boarding rules are also streamlined for easy, rapid use, building the tension of boarding right up to the last dice roll. Assault Troops are designed to sow disorder on enemy vessels, using hit and run tactics rather than occupation tactics to make Boarding a very fast, and bloody mechanic. Looking forwards, we have a number of models in the pipeline for the World of Dystopian and when these are released, their statistics will appear in both their Dystopian Wars, and the Fleet Action formats simultaneously. This means that players can choose to use new models in either format as soon as they have them. For the existing models in the range we are currently in the progress of converting them to the Fleet Action game. All in all, it is a very exciting time for Dystopian players. The Dystopian World just got bigger and we can t wait for you all to get stuck in and play Fleet Action!

4 DWBB02 The Battle for Iceland contents include: Prussian Empire Reconnaissance Battle Group 2x Havel Light Carriers 2x SRS Trays, 8x SRS Fighter Tokens and 6x Micro Dice 3x Donnerfaust Support Cruisers 4x Stolz Destroyers Covenant of Antarctica Reconnaissance Battle Group 2x Kepler Light Carriers plus 2x submerged acrylic 2x Trays, 10x SRS Fighter Tokens and 6x Micro Dice 3x Fresnel Support Cruisers 3x Plutarch Heavy Destroyers Other 1x Fast Play Rulebook scenarios will be included inside book 2x A5 Stat Sheets Acrylic Tokens 1x Template Sheet 15x D6 Dice Agents of the Prussian Empire have unearthed information about a covert mission by the Covenant of Antarctica on the frozen wasteland that is Iceland. A Reconnaissance Battle Group, led by Commodore Gustav Schellenberg, has been despatched, its mission a simple one: at all costs discover what the Covenant is up to on Iceland, and bring back the mysterious artefact they have unearthed. This exciting boxed is the first to feature the new Dystopian Wars: Fleet Action fast play rules and the box contents include an array of Covenant and Prussian naval models, scenery, rules, dice and tokens. The contents of this set form a superb building block from which gamers can assemble an even greater military force to wage war with. Terrain 1x Oil Rigs 1x Military Installation 1x Island Terrain Sheets (Printed)

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