Warzone (game)

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Warzone

Designer	Bill King
Publisher	Target Games
Players	2 or more
Setup time	variable
Playing time	> 1 hour
Random chance	High
Skills required	Strategic thought

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Warzone is a tabletop miniature wargame based on the Mutant Chronicles universe and role-playing game. 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 was originally produced by the Swedish company Target Games Adventure AB^{[citation needed]}, a now-defunct child company of Target Games. The rights to the Warzone brand were acquired by Paradox Entertainment in December of 1999 in the wake of a complicated restructuring of Target Games and its child companies.^[1] Warzone has since gone out of print.

[edit] Editions

There have been three editions of Warzone produced: the original Warzone, Warzone 2nd Edition, and Warzone: Universe Under Siege. All have since gone out of print.

The original Warzone was released in 1995 by Target Games. Though based on Mutant Chronicles, the universe of Warzone differed from the source material as presented in the role-playing game.^{[citation needed]} The release of Warzone 2nd Edition in 1998 was intended to address a number of shortcomings perceived by players and designers alike in the original rules. This edition also saw the rewriting of the background according to Nils Gullikson's original vision of the Mutant Chronicles universe, to a mixed reception by established players.^{[citation needed]}

During 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 Warzone being sold to Paradox Entertainment.^[1] Development and production of the Warzone line was not resumed after the disruption and a license to use the Warzone brand in the context of miniature wargaming was awarded to Excelsior Entertainment (as well as licenses for the related Chronopia brand).^{[citation needed]} The resulting edition was Warzone: Universe Under Siege, released in 2004. Excelsior Entertainment went out of business during production of Warzone: Universe Under Siege. This last version was called Ultimate Warzone while in production.^{[citation needed]}