Warzone - rebirth ^^

[Willypold]

Great to see here someone who'd been pulling some Wazone strings.
I read some theories about game's fell but since you are pobably the most appropriate person to ask:
did it REALLY had to end this way?

You mean the failure of the company?

I was employed by Target Games between 1986 and 1993 as an editor, translator and games developer, and then freelanced for the company until it went under. During all that time the company was dancing on the edge of financial disaster, and almost went down in 1988 and 1993, before it finally collapsed in 1999. It was a wonderfully creative place, but as a company Target Games kept overextending itself, and reality finally caught up. With someone less impatient in the lead, and not as eager to jump onto the next great thing before it had really consolidated the previous step, it may have been around a lot longer.

[Cherno]

What'S important is that the people involved found new places to do what they are good at, and that gamers still play the game they created years afterwards

It's a shame about the miniature molds though, from what I understand they were all destroyed

[demi_morgana]

Did anyone else enjoy the short stories, especially from the 1st edition, as much as me?

Here!

People who are loving warzone and amiga must be good people 

And must be rather adult: I've noticed most of spammers in this topic are over 30 years old.
So looks like while being teenagers we were basicaly drooling over the same miniatures

You mean the failure of the company?

Yeah, that's what I meant.
Thanks for reply - looks like you confirmed all the rumors I read while TG was going down. Sad story really especially the company released such a classic as Kult (both CCG and RPG) - until it really went down I was quite sure everything was fine  

It's a shame about the miniature molds though, from what I understand they were all destroyed

Exactly - always thought it was totally weird and kinda stupid to destroy the molds - couldn't the be stored or something?

[Cherno]

Kinda OT, but it's the same when Ral Partha lost the rights to cast AD&D miniatures... Some of the best miniatures ever produced, and all the molds were ordered destroyed Really a shame... Oh well, money is still king

[Inso]

Well, thanks to this thread I have been assembling Vulkans and Victors this afternoon. 5 shiny bodies all attached to bases ready for the arms and converted bits to get done tomorrow. I must admit that working with miniatures that have a higher lead content is great fun because they drill so easily .

[Chuckaroobob]

Hi Kids, all the molds were not destroyed, you can still buy all the Warzone/Chronopia figs from Prince August.

I think it's www.princeaugust.ie or something like that.

[Chuckaroobob]

Whoops, Prince August has already been mentioned... oh well...

There were a bunch (5-6) of us who used to play Warzone a lot, it was so much better than 40K!!!  I went on a trip, and when I came back the company had gone under, and all my friends said they couldn't play it anymore since new stuff would not be published in the future.  I still think they are all nuts.  My fav was Cybertronic.  Don't tell GW, but LARGE portions for my 40K/fantasy armies were Target figs!

And yes, I have a Bauhaus Grizzly around here someplace.

[Cherno]

I'm pretty sure I read read somewhere that all molds were destroyed after the Mutant Chronicles  rights changed hands and Prince august only bought off the remaining stock which they are selling now bit by bit, and that's why most blisters are out of stock now 

[sundayhero]

Hi Kids, all the molds were not destroyed, you can still buy all the Warzone/Chronopia figs from Prince August.

Unfortunatly, you can't. A lot of figures are not available anymore, in both warzone and chronopia ranges. Especially the great swamp gobelins, imperial trenchers troopers, and other things like that.

[Inso]

I just have to tidy up the heavy weapon upgrades... but these have come out of storage to get some love because of this thread :



I have decided on squads of 9 with a comms robot to be added later.

[demi_morgana]

And yes, I have a Bauhaus Grizzly around here someplace.

Lemme know if you ever need it got painted

@Inso: What was the original "face" of the bots? I mean - not the gs visors

[Inso]

They had human heads sticking out of the top of the body, with a metal collar around them to protect them. They looked daft and very vulnerable to me so I filled the area and put a lid on it .

[Willypold]

May I contribute a picture of my own? This is the only MC mini I've actually painted. It's the plastic ezoghoul from Siege of the Citadel, and I must have painted it maybe a year after the game was released, which would place it around 1994 or 1995 or thereabouts.

[Roebeast45]

I know it's probably an impossibility but I'd love to see a company revisit Mutant Chronicles and Warzone to create miniatures that more closely match the artwork. Just seeing how much better the second version of the Purple Shark is to the original shows that the designs concepts are strong. They just were not often translated well. Modern digital sculpting could make minis that looked like Paul Bonner's paintings and that would be amazing.

[Willypold]

That would be fun! The illustrations, both by Bonner and Parente, are great and really should be explored fully. I had the privilege of meeting both of them at the one and only Doomtrooper World Championship, and they were both very friendly and approachable, and of course great artists! Parente is busy with his Dust game now, but is still just the same.

Another detail that may interest any Doomtrooper fans... You know that the images on the cards were round, right? Whenever a piece of colour artwork arrived at the office the graphics department used sheets of paper with round holes of different sizes cut out. These were used to scan the images looking for parts that could be used for different cards. Nils, the art director, told me that they had used one of the larger and more detailed paintings for - if I remember it correctly - 23 different cards!