New! Covenant of Antarctica for Dystopian Wars

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Spartan Games have announced releases for the first army since Dystopian Wars was launched, the Covenant of Antarctica.

For full details and loads of shots of the new models see this PDF.

You can pre-order the Covenant of Antarctica releases from Big Orbit Games at 10% discount including FREE world-wide shipping:

Covenant of Antarctica Armoured Battle Group
Covenant of Antarctica Naval Battle Group
Covenant of Antarctica Pericles Class Drone Carrier

Here are a few pics for to whet your appetites…

Covenant of Antartica Armoured Battle Group
Covenant of Antartica Armoured Battle Group
Covenant of Antartica Naval Battle Group
Covenant of Antartica Naval Battle Group
Covenant of Aantartica: We Are Coming
Covenant of Aantartica: We Are Coming

Dystopian Wars: Armoured Clash announced

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The good people at Spartan Games have announced that they are releasing a set of mass combat fast-play rules for their new Dystopian Wars land units, released tomorrow (1st June), and what’s more they will be available to download free from their website.

Here’s Spartan’s announcement:

Spartan Games is pleased to announce the imminent arrival of Armoured Clash, our first set of community rules that we are making free to download from our web site at www.spartangames.co.uk. During the development of the Armoured Battle Group boxed sets it became clear that not only do we LOVE to play large games, but we believe our customers do as well!

This is where Armoured Clash steps in. Centred in the world of Dystopian Wars, the rules are designed for large scale land combat with commanders pushing numerous units around a battlefield, the command and control of which is key to their success. So if playing with one Armoured Battle Group excites you – think what 2-3 boxes, plus support models, will do to your blood pressure!

Early on in the development of the rules it was decided that the game had to be very simple, easy to set up and quick to play. It was also a perfect opportunity to develop the Dystopian Wars background by providing detail on the land armies of the first four main Imperial powers involved in the conflict!

One of the great strengths of Dystopian Wars is the way it blends air, land and sea units into a single game system. These free rules are not intended in any way to replace or amend the core Dystopian Wars rule book. They are a totally separate set of rules using unique mechanisms designed to provide players with an opportunity for fun, fast games that focus on the mechanised land units of each Imperial power.

The rules needed to play a game of Armoured Clash, Background and Army List for each of the four main
Imperial powers and a basic scenario are all provided in the first PDF we will make available on our web site –
www.spartangames.co.uk.

Dystopian Wars - Armoured Clash

Pick up the new Armoured Battle Groups at Big Orbit Games – 10% off and Free Worldwide: Dystopian Wars

Pre-order Dystopian Wars at 20% off RRP

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Dystopian WarsImagine a world similar to our own, but subtly different. Now imagine 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.

The Dystopian Wars game, from Spartan games, is set in a Victorian Steampunk world and the rules have been 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. Dystopian Wars features highly detailed resin and pewter miniatures with which you can roam the high seas, scour the smog filled skies looking for enemy flying ships, or doggedly defend the cities and countryside of your home nation using giant Land Ships.

Spartan Games’ fast play rules are optimised for large fleet actions, so you can get as many miniatures on the table as you want, and still finish an enjoyable game in an afternoon or 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.

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…

Dystopian Wars is being released on 24th November 2010, if you order by midnight on 23rd November you will save 20% off RRP.