Editions
There have been three editions of Warzone produced: the original Warzone, Warzone 2nd Edition, and Ultimate Warzone. 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. 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. Target Games also released an heroic-fantasy tabletop game called Chronopia, but not set in the same universe.
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. 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 Owned by Thom Talamini and Christopher Schroeder (as well as licenses for the related Chronopia brand). 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.}
The remaining stock of original Warzone and Chronopia miniatures were sold to an Irish company Prince August, who still have copies of the boxed game and supplements of the second edition in stock. The original moulds were destroyed.
In 2008 Fantasy Flight Games released a 54mm CMG (collectible miniature game) set in the Mutant Chronicles franchise. The game was cancelled shortly after release due to poor sales.
A new edition of Warzone was unveiled in February 2013 by Prodos Games (under licence to Paradox Entertainment): Mutant Chronicles Warzone Resurrection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzZcnwXlVY
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“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)