Deadzone (Skirmish Game)

Deadzone is a tabletop wargame created by Mantic Games.

Background

The game has been designed for armies of Science Fiction miniatures. The same miniatures are used in Warpath, another game by Mantic Games as they share the same fictional world.

Game Mechanics

The game is played on 2' x 2' 3D battlefield. The players are free to build the battlefield to their liking with the included tiles or separate accessories. There are also campaigns for playing with a predetermined battlefield.^[1]

Armies

There are a number of playable armies for Deadzone.

The following factions are currently represented by official army lists:^[2]

• Asterians
• Enforcers
• Forge Fathers
• Plague
• Rebs
• Marauders
• Rebs
• Veer-Myn ^[3]

Game and expansions

The game comes with game play rules, the battlefield equipment, rules for Enforcers, Plague, Marauders and Rebs. It also includes the starter miniatures for Enforcers and Plague. Miniatures for other armies are sold separately, except for Plague zombies which come with the Contagion expansion.

• Nexus Psi expansion includes background information about the four original armies in the game and a new campaign.
• Incursion expansion includes the rules Forge Fathers and Asterians and rules for multiplayer games
• Contagion expansion includes the rules for Plague Zombies and rules for single player games.^[4]
• Infestation expansion includes the Veer-myn faction, new rules for force organisation and an improved campaign mode. Infestation is planned to be released in January 2016.^[5]

Mantic Games has announced that a 2nd edition of Deadzone will be released in April 2016. Some of the expansions for the original game might not be compatible with the new edition.^[6] The 2nd edition is currently titled Deadzone Redux, and is meant to be a simpler ruleset.^[7]

Derivative games

To date, Mantic have produced four games within their Sci-Fi setting; Deadzone, WarPath (Wargame), Project Pandora: Grim Cargo (out of print) and Dreadball / Dreadball Xtreme. These games do not share the same rules or game mechanics, but they do utilise the same range of character races. Warpath, Project Pandora and Deadzone also share miniatures.

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