Prodos Mutant Chronicles Warzone Resurrection - Yes/No/Maybe?

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**Siygess**

Dark Severance wrote:
I am having trouble figuring out what I like to play. Unfortunately I never pick factions because of their play-style (I know a mistake) which has bit me before when the play-style doesn't match mine. I tend to pick something that looks cool, all about the rule of cool. ^_^

With that in mind there is definitely some choices to make because I can't find a faction where I like everything. I either like the heroes, but not the troops or I like the troops but not the heroes. There does appear to be vast differences in factions that dont' exactly make their miniatures blend well together.

For example Imperial Troops, I love the Grey Ghosts. When you compare them with their other support brethren Mourning Wolves, Imperial Life Dragoons, Golden Lions.... the looks are completely different. The same thing goes for Troopers, Trenchers style is completely different than the Mourning Wolves. Mourning Wolves could match Wolfbane Commandos if the wolves didn't have bare legs. Sure I could make them skin tights instead with painting, but that is what makes my troop building difficult.

I know I'm probably the oddball out there.

Ah, the same problem I had with DUST! Luckily for me, the SSU had helicopters and helicopters > everything.

As for Imperial, don't forget that the ISF (Imperial Special Forces) are actually a troop type too, just like the Trenchers, and are very customisable rules wise. Visually I think they fit pretty well with the Grey Ghosts and I think those two squad types - plus a custom Warlord of your own design as Raven911 said - can make up the core of your force. Don't forget that you can include Brotherhood Troopers and Valkyries in your Imperial army as support choices too!

**Darth Visari**

Hi

Any rumors?

I like alot this game ( and in italy warzone never died) but the slownes of new realeses is painfull.

Saluti

**Siygess**

The only thing that is around the corner (if my memory serves me correctly) are the Imperial Life Dragoons / Young Guard models.. which I think we have seen a teaser for. Hopefully Prodos will be able to wrap up the remaining units from the Imperial book over the next few months so that we can see a variety of releases across all factions again

**Raven911**

Battle report delayed guys. I'll post it as soon as I can reschedule it.

**Dark Severance**

Siygess wrote:
As for Imperial, don't forget that the ISF (Imperial Special Forces) are actually a troop type too, just like the Trenchers, and are very customisable rules wise. Visually I think they fit pretty well with the Grey Ghosts and I think those two squad types - plus a custom Warlord of your own design as Raven911 said - can make up the core of your force. Don't forget that you can include Brotherhood Troopers and Valkyries in your Imperial army as support choices too!

I was not aware that I could include Brotherhood Troopers and Valkyries as part of the Imperial Army. Hhmmm well then it sounds like I might end up an Imperial player after-all.

**Siygess**

Capitol and Bauhaus can also take Brotherhood Troopers or Valkyries as a Support choice. It is worth noting that if you take Brigadier Rist as your Warlord, he can also have two Brotherhood Guardiani Oblati as bodyguards.

**Skinnereal**

The Imperial rules are for sale as a LE book, from what I saw.
http://shop.prodosgames.com/en/rulebook-starter-sets/179-the-imperial-corporation-warbook.html

**Raven911**

Hey guys check out the CTC Magazine thread. Issue 9 just came out. It's great!

**Darth Visari**

**Raven911**

Finally Got a game in!
1500 pt Heavy OOC
Captiol vs. Mishima
Mission: Kill Them All!

Capitol List:
Custom CC Free Marine WL with Rocketeers

5 man Airborne Infantry squad
6 man Airborne Infantry squad
2x 5 man Heavy Infantry with chain bayonets, flamer, and chain ripper

5 man Free Marine squad with rocket launcher
10 man Sea Lions squad

Orca walker

Leviathan tank

Mishima:
(will correct later but from what I remember)
Custom psychic WL
4x ronin squads
2 tiger dragon squads
Crimson Devil squad
2 mekas
2 dragons

Turn 1
Initiative- Mishima

Tiger Dragons on the left go Flesh to Stone and shoot two free marines, killing one
Airborne Infantry drop in on left an kill 4 Ronin in one squad with Hail Mary and 9 more with shotguns. The Remaining Ronin charge the Airborne and blow up in a psychic explosion, killing all but one. The second Airborne squad drops in on the right, and kill 4 more ronin from one squad with hail mary and another 8 with shotguns. The remaining ronin use the same psychic suicide attack and kill all of the airborne. The leviathan moves up and kills a Tiger Dragon that was using the sandbag bunker for cover. The Crimson Devils run up and throw an obscene amount of gas grenades at the heavy infantry on the right, and after a ridiculous amount of gas mask saves, finally kills all of them. The Orca moves up and fres its rocket launcher at the Crimson Devils, killing two of them. The Mekas move up and both fire on the tank, causing SP damage on the hull and turret, but can't power up their shots.

Turn 2
Initiative- Capitol
The Leviathan loads up Assassin Ammo and blasts the two meka, causing 3 SP on each of their hulls and weapons. Serious damage but not enough to take them out of the fight before they both power up and aim at the engine, blowing the tank up. The Orca moves up and uses the wreck of its friend for cover, and blows the weapons off of one of the Meka with its HMG, and causes another hull SP on the other one with its autocannon. The left side Tiger Dragons kill some of the Sea Lions, and the Sea Lions causes some wounds in return.

Turn 3
Initiative- Mishima
The Mekas move up to get a better shot at the Orca, but misses. The second heavy infantry squad moves up and takes out both Mekas with aimed shots to the hull. The Orca fires on the Tiger Dragons in cover but fails to cause any wounds. The Dragon rider moves up and burns up the remaining Sea Lions.

Turn 4
Initiative- Mishima

The Dragon Rider Charges the Orca, and causes a SP on the hull with a rear attack.
The heavy infantry Sgt runs over and kills the remaining Crimson Devils with his flamer, including the Screaming Devil. The rest of the squad move to engage the dragon rider, and three are able to make it. They cause 2 wounds to it. The WL engages and causing another wound. The Orca finishes off the dragon with a stomp attack.

Final Score
Capitol killed 1064 points of Mishima
Mishima killed 1029 points of Capitol

This was a fun, bloody, and brutal game. Just goes to show what grood friends, good beer, and a good game can do! This was very close and very well fought.

Pictures

The board

Action shots:

And the CTC Cheat Sheet in action!

**Darth Visari**

Hola

Warzone 2.0

http://forum.prodosgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2340&sid=c9d75e70db8fa5680eac0a64ced1fff9

saluti

**Alpharius**

When did PRODOS' Warzone 1.0 finish funding and then finish delivering?

Is it going to work out to about 2 years between editions?

I'm not sure that's the thing I'd emulate about GW!

**Raven911**

WZ 2.0 is just cleaning up and reorganizing the current rules and changes. It's not going to be a while rewrite, so no worries.

**Raven911**

Check out my crashed sharks!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/669971.page

**Raven911**

Mission: Search and Destroy!

Army lists:
Ravens Capitol
Free Marine CC Warlord with Rocketeers ability
2x 5 man airborne squads
2x 5 man heavy infantry squads
5 man Sea Lions squad
5 man Free Marines squad
K9 squad with investigator dog and 4 attack dogs
Orca Walker

Bax's Brotherhood
Crucifier psychic Warlord
2x 10 man trooper squads
Sacred Warrior Squad
Mortificator squad
Judicator Walker

Turn1
Capitol wins Initative
Sea Lions blend in on top of the pyramid and and shoot at the mortificators and hit but they all dodge. Two of the Sea Lions didn't have shots except at a BH trooper, and kill him.
Mortificators move up.
Airborne infantry droop in with shotguns blazing and kill 5 trooper from one squad and 4 troopers from another.

The Judicator moves up and kills 3 of the airborne with its Gatling cannon.

The second airborne squad drops in and remembers their rocket launchers and kills some more BH troopers, and shotguns the sacred warriors and kills two. The sacred warriors turn and engage, killing all of the airborne.

The free marines use the high ground and nail the Judicator with a rocket in the chest cause some damage.

The heavy infantry and the orca move up to get shots on the approaching Mortificators, but they dodge everything.

Turn 2
Capitol seizes the Initative using a strategy card from last round

The orca moves up and unloads on they mortificators killing one of the bastards.

The Judicator fire on the free marines and kills two of them and engages the last two airborne, killing one and causing the last one to break and run. The K9s move up toward the Mordificators.

Thanks to some lucky shooting from earlier that I don't remember, the morts had been whittled down to size, so only a couple remained to engage the heavy infantry, killing two of them. The heavies retaliate and fire up the chain bayonets and cut the remaining morts down.

The crucifier runs up and kills the remaining fleeing airborne, and the marines thump another rocket into the judicators hull causing another point of damage.

The Sea Lions have a back shot at the Judicator, so they aim for the torso and kill the walker with their spec ops ammoed M50s.
A few more things happened that I forgot to write down, but at the end of turn 3 Capitol had decisive control of the field.

In retrospect, I screwed up with the second airborne squad by using the hail mary ability then shooting shotguns. The hail mary counts as a shooting action and therefore I would not have been about to shoot a second time. I forgot about the rockets with the first squad so no problem there.

We had a great time playing and had a lot of interest from people walking up and asking us about the game.

**Raven911**

Pics of my new imperials:
The test model

And the squad
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**Plampers**

got my dark legion starter set through. Can't wait to start assembling and painting!

**Raven911**

Awesome post pics! Dark legion is one of my other armies and they are great to play!

**Plampers**

My mate was involved in the kickstarter but I never jumped in. Decided to look and fell in love with it. Watched the bow demo video on YouTube and I'm hooked.

dark legion look fantastic , the world is really gritty and dark. Right up my street

**Darth Visari**

Hi

New rules for all factions but imperial:

http://calc.prodos.co.uk/photos/game_and_factions1_5.zip

Improved balancing , improved underwhelming units , leveled down over powered units , huge cut of point cost for the lords , and new characters.

saluti

**Skinnereal**

Oh what? I just bought the 1.3 hardback.

Oh well

**Raven911**

Thank I was just going to post the updates, you beat me to it. Skinn, you didn't hear that the 2.0 rules are coming out very soon? Hey no worries, and fluff is still worth it in the rule book.

**Skinnereal**

Since everyone I know that plays it here would probably stick with the current rules, it's no biggie.
Will have to keep that ear closer to the ground...

**Raven911**

check out the thread about the Southlands campaign. Make sure you and your friends sign up and play!

**gunslingerpro**

If you're int he Northeast in February, we're running a Warzone tournament at Captain Con in Rhode Island!

I think we'll have twelve spots open, should be a good time!

**Darth Visari**

Hi

December release

http://shop.prodosgames.com/en/71-december-releases

saluti

**Alpharius**

Whoa!

Raiden Class Tatsu Gigamek

**HudsonD**

You gotta be kidding me ? That thing is HUGE !

**Darth Visari**

Hi

I hope the "gigantism syndrome" don't will spread in Warzone res. . Because i find very silly play with 8-9 inch models tall.

saluti

**Siygess**

I think it's okay size wise considering it's a Heavy.. and not that much bigger than the Death Egg (which only seems smaller because most of the bulk is in the torso). Hopefully Illian will get some kind of giant dinosaur so the two can fight it out