All have since gone out of print.ĭuring the production of the third supplement for Warzone 2nd Edition, Target Games underwent a significant restructuring which resulted in the establishment of Paradox Entertainment as an independent company and the license for the Warzone brand being sold to them. Three different editions of Warzone have been produced through the years: the original Warzone, Warzone 2nd Edition, and Ultimate Warzone in 1998.
Warzone aims for a more realistic feel, being set in a more plausible future, with recognizable weaponry, megacorporations that represent modern-day nations and cultures, and a focus upon the power of units of soldiers, whereas Warhammer aims for more of a fantasy feel, with a greater variety of weapons, aliens, and a predominant focus upon the power of individual heroes. Warzone is mostly compared and contrasted to Warhammer 40,000, which targets the same market audience, and has similar gameplay, although Warzone never reached the latter's volume of market penetration. The game became gradually more complex with later editions and expansions adding more details and special abilities. It is played at the skirmish scale, where one model represents one soldier. Warzone is a tabletop miniature wargame in which players take turns issuing orders, moving model troops on a model battlefield, and resolving combats that occur by rolling dice. This background is intricately tied to that of the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game. The Earth has become known as Dark Eden following a global apocalypse, and it is home only to tribal survivors and renegades. Most people are citizens of one of the major megacorporations, who have colonized the inner planets of the solar system, and who fight against each other when not fighting the evil forces of the Dark Soul. In light of these events, technological and social progress has largely come to a halt. This force soon started corrupting both man and thinking machines, instilling hatred and fear in their minds, then sent its own minions, consisting of legions of undead mutants and alien monsters called Nefarites, in an attempt to conquer humanity. Warzone takes place in a fictional dieselpunk future in which a space faring humanity has explored beyond Pluto and has uncovered ancient artifacts which unleashed an evil entity known as the Dark Soul and an obscure magical force known as the Dark Symmetry. has announced they have acquired the rights to Warzone and are developing a new Edition of the game. Warzone has since gone out of print.Īs of 2020, the american company Res Nova LLC. The rights to the Warzone brand were acquired by Paradox Entertainment in December 1999, in the wake of a complicated restructuring of Target Games and its child companies.
Warzone was originally produced by the Swedish company Target Games.
It features squad-based combat at a skirmish level, although vehicles and large models were introduced in later supplements to the main rule book. Warzone is a tabletop miniature wargame based on the Mutant Chronicles universe and role-playing game. For the battle royale video game published by Activision, see Call of Duty: Warzone. This article is about tabletop miniature wargame produced by Target Games.