Warzone (tabletop)

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Warzone , often with TM. Or WRZ. abbreviated, one is science fiction Tabletop - Game of the American company Excelsior Entertainment. The game was developed and first published by Target Games SE in 1996 . The fantasy game Chronopia is based on the basic game systems of Warzone .

Warzone has as a background the fictional events in our solar system in the 23rd / 24th. Century . During this period, mankind colonized the solar system and largely left the exploited and contaminated earth , which is now only inhabited by more or less nomadic tribes. Unlike in the past, people are no longer organized in states, but in a few megacorporations that rule entire planets. During the advance to the frontier of the solar system, the conquistadors of the Imperial Group found a steel tablet on the planet Pluto , touching which allowed evil to enter the sphere of humanity . At first, through the effect of the so-called dark symmetry, all machines and computers that were more sophisticated than at the time of the First World War turned against humans, stopped working reliably and provided incorrect data. From the point in time of the technical regression mentioned, the World of Warzone can be assigned to the diesel punk genre.

After these events, 50 years later a non-human building, the citadel, is discovered on the newly discovered planet Nero and after entering it, the attack of the dark legion, hordes of demons and mutants follows . After the brotherhood, which prophesied the coming of the dark legion 50 years ago, destroyed the revolting robots and artificial intelligences, mankind was able to repel the dark legion on Venus, and the corporations have been fighting each other with simple weapons and techniques ever since . At the time of action, it has been 1200 years since evil withdrew and it is slowly returning to the realm of humanity.

In terms of game size, Warzone lies between the two well-known tabletop games Confrontation and Warhammer Fantasy . It is a skirmisher system with an emphasis on troops and less on individual characters. The 3rd edition of the game, Ultima Warzone , is now available, which is a mixture of the first two versions. As with Chronopia , the high use of terrain is also an important part of the game in Warzone.

Factions at Warzone

In this game you have to choose one of the following factions , each of which has its own army list, according to which you set up your game army . Almost all factions are people who are organized in so-called corporations , the only major political and economic structures, besides the brotherhood, in the future.

bauhaus

A corporation whose population comes from continental Europe and parts of Asia. Bauhaus is best known for its engineering, the headquarters of the group is located on Venus. The group management is incumbent on the four electors who lead important group areas.

brotherhood

Religious order with the task of fighting evil . Under the leadership of the first Cardinal Nathaniel Durand, who had foreseen their coming fifty years earlier, the united corporations succeeded for the first time in repelling the dark legion. Over the past 1000 years, the Brotherhood has lost its influence, but that seems to change after the reappearance of the Dark Legion. The headquarters, as well as the largest sacred buildings of the order, are located on the earth's moon.

Capitol

A corporation that emerged from today's USA and is based on its ideals in addition to profit. As the first company to invest heavily in space travel. Capitol's headquarters are on Mars.

Cybertronic

The youngest company with the most technically advanced equipment, was formed only after the victory against evil and is 160 years old. Cybertronic violated the prohibition to build thinking machines and uses intelligent combat robots, called machinators, already as cheap foot troops, as well as more sophisticated AIs and cyborgs for more complex tasks, an act that the Brotherhood increasingly displeases and could lead to confrontation with. Cybertronic settled in the asteroid belt and is based on the largest asteroid Ceres.

Dark Eden

Collective term for tribes that have formed from the remaining people on the devastated earth and are now fighting for the few resources that the mega-corporations have left behind.

Templar

The Templars, brutal fighters who are filled with religious fanaticism and the conviction of being chosen by God and are the only ones able to survive without breathing apparatus, owe their adaptation to a team of genetic engineers who visited the earth on behalf of the cartel, stranded there and through their intervention in the biology of the Templars were elevated to gods.

Sons of Rasputin

Also a tribe are the sons of Rasputin, the technically most highly developed faction on earth, which is expanding its empire ever further. Once this culture, which originated from German and Russian elements, was allied with the Lutheran triads against the Templars, but the "colonels" were under the ruler, the tsar, decided to betray the Lutherans, massacred them and disempowered the tsar. Lutherans never forgot the betrayal.

Lutheran triads

The Lutheran triads, a sect based on Protestantism, go through an initiation rite in their earliest youth in which tubes are inserted into the air and esophagus so that the nose can be removed and sewn up together with the mouth until a smooth face is created through the following treatments The initiate is able to breathe the contaminated air of the earth without a gas mask through a filter unit, the so-called Jehovah Box.

Crescentia

Nomadic society that lives in cities that are on the backs of huge creatures. These nomads are similar to the cultures of Arabia and also reside in their former areas of distribution.

Dark Legion

Units of the dark legion can also be found on the hardly habitable earth, their base in Europe is a huge fortress in the mountains of the German wasteland, the legion does not need any protective equipment for their stay on the dark Eden.

Corporations

The corporations are also trying to regain a foothold on earth and to influence the residents who have been left behind. Bauhaus is successful with Rasputin's sons, due to their shared past, as the Bauhaus population comes from the ethnic groups of continental Europe and Asia. Imperial pursues a similar strategy, the corporation has gained influence with the Lutherans, something that also goes back to a common history, since the clans of Imperial are from the British Isles, the home of the Triads. Cybertronic, or rather, the cyborgs that the corporation has sent to earth, are recognized by the Templars as being equivalent, as a selected and improved form of man. Capitol is the only corporation to have a base on earth which is located under the Dead Sea.

brotherhood

The Brotherhood operates from its headquarters in the ruins of Jerusalem and keeps an eye on the situation on Dark Eden.

Dark Legion

The evil , an army of demons, undead, mutants and subjugated by these powers aliens under the leadership of five apostles, who is known in the name of an entity only as the dark soul, struggling against humanity. Ilijan - The mistress of the void, is the most powerful and most important apostle. Algeroth, who appears as a mighty 10-meter-high creature interspersed with every imaginable weapon, is the apostle of war, Semai, a bloated being, is the apostle of malice, Muawijhe is the apostle of illusions, and the disfigured Demnogonis is the Apostle of Plagues and Diseases. There are always power struggles between the five apostles, but these are always under control because the apostles are accountable to the dark soul. The next lower level of the hierarchy is occupied by the Nepharites, terrifying creatures with spikes, pupilless eyes and grotesque bodies. Alakhai the Cunning, and Valpurgius, his archmagus, for example, are Nepharites of Algeroth. Wherever the Legion invades, it builds dark citadels as outposts.

Imperial

A corporation based on the British Empire and organized into clans. Half of the logo shows half a Union Jack. Imperial is the smallest corporation. Through its conquistadors, Imperial is also responsible for finding the steel tablet on Pluto, later also for the discovery of the dark citadel on Nero, and thus ultimately for the invasion of the dark legion, but also the invention of the Harrison drive, which humanity was able to use after the collapse Its high technology made it possible to navigate through space again, was brought about by Imperial.

Mishima

A corporation that is based on the culture of Japan, which is reflected in armaments and other equipment. Mishima suffered the most from Dark Symmetry, as the company had microtechnology and AIs as its core business. Mishima is not always one with the Brotherhood and is seen by many, like Cybertronic, already on the path of evil. This group also builds intelligent combat robots which are known as "warheads", the headquarters of the group is on the planet Mercury.

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