This month at Warcradle Studios, we’ve not only been busy preparing the latest pre-orders for Dystopian Wars and Warcradle Scenics, but also getting ready to announce our latest thrilling Wild West Exodus novel!
Following the release of Sturginium Skies last month, and the original Two Player Starter Set Hunt for the Prometheus, you can now venture further into the Dystopian Age with Beyond The Sturginium Skies and Beyond The Hunt for the Prometheus. Will you seek to claim the Labrador Sea for either the Crown or the Imperium or are you prepared for a Commonwealth ambush on the Enlightened? It's time to choose your battle and fight.
And the Dystopian Wars releases don’t stop there! With THREE new Battlefleets setting sail at the end of November, you have plenty of options to choose from for your next tabletop force. Union players will be able to add the Mexico Battlefleet Set to their collection, whereas Crown players have the Protecteur Battlefleet, and Sultanate players will be able to expand their fleet with the Retaj Battlefleet Set.
Build your tabletop farmstead with the Buckhorn Ranch Set from Warcradle Scenics. Featuring a Silo, Stables, a Water Tower and more, you'll have everything you need to set the scene for games of Wild West Exodus.
Due to be released at the end of November 2022.
Dystopian Wars
This month we are excited to introduce two Beyond Campaign boxes to enhance your starter sets for Dystopian Wars, alongside three new Battlefleet Sets to introduce new flagships to the Union, Crown and Sultanate players out there.
Beyond The Sturginium Skies
The Crown sent word to have a battlefleet assemble which is now on its way from the United Kingdom while the Imperium mobilised the Teutonic Knights and used its efficient logistical chain to assemble a battle platform, defended by Vitruvian Colossi, to maintain hold on the area before more support can arrive.
This box contains:
2x Crown Cruisers (Can be built as either an Athelstan, Agincourt or Hotspur Class ship)
2x Morgana Assault Submarine
4x Excalibur Heavy Destroyer
2x SRS Token
2x Sets of Platforms
2x Hochmeister Vitruvian Colossus (can also be built as Metzger Vitruvian Colossus)
2x Wreck marker
2x Mine Marker
1x Rule Book
1x Campaign Book
20x Action dice
6x Critical dice
1x Token set
Beyond The Hunt for the Prometheus
After Helsinki Markov’s treachery stole the Prometheus away from its creators there has been a bitter rivalry between the Covenant of the Enlightened and the Commonwealth. Certain Peers of the Enlightened have decided to make an example of the Commonwealth for such an audacious heist and show that they have as much military influence as any of the Great Powers.
As for the Okhrana, the Commonwealth Intelligence Service, they hope for more secrets of the age to be unlocked by luring the various automata and advanced enemy vessels into engagements that they can’t hope to escape from. With the plan of dissecting any captured inventions for reverse engineering.
With the help of Mongolian offshore platforms and a web of false leads, the Okhrana have orchestrated for an Enlightened battlefleet to be in place for an ambush. The Commonwealth now has engineering marvels of their own in the shape of Vitruvian Colossi. Will the Enlightened fall for the trap or have the Commonwealth bitten off more than they can chew?
This box contains:
2x Marena Vitruvian Colossus (can also be built as Kostroma Vitruvian Colossus)
4x Boyar Heavy Frigate
2x Sets of Platforms
2x Assault Machine (can be built as either a Ketos or Lotan Class machine)
2x Advanced Cruiser (can be built as either a Newton, Zumeena, Vesalius or Origen Class ship)
2x Enlightened Escort
2x Orca Token
2x Mine Marker
2x Wreck Marker
1x Rule Book
1x Campaign Book
20x Action dice
6x Critical dice
1x Token set
Protecteur Battlefleet Set
Huge submersible strike carriers, the Protecteur class was the brainchild of Canadian Frank Andrew Fleming and his assistants at the Davie Shipyard. The Protecteur uniquely combines the capacity of a large support carrier with the stealth and strike capabilities of an attack submersible.
The Newfoundland Class Cruisers the mainstay of the Canadian offering to the Crown’s naval forces. These impressive warships are therefore the stalwart frontline in the Crown’s defence against Union expansionist ambitions, as well as any other factions who dare to encroach upon the Crown’s dominion.
Built on the Newfoundland hull design and outfitted to support fleet operations, the Toronto class Control Cruisers have a vital role in coordinating Canada’s defences. The installation of a McGill radar array above the bridge provides an impressive fire control suite.
While similar in design and Providing a powerful combination of heavy firepower and an ablative armoured prow, the Bonaventure class serves in the Dominion of Canada’s fiercest fighting in the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Arthur McCurdy’s augmented shield generator technology was arguably the most groundbreaking use of the tried and tested Guardian Generator. This huge device is mounted on the Halifax Shield Cruiser, and projects even greater protection to critical elements of Canadian battlefleets.
Designed for supporting and reinforcing Canada’s fleet actions, the Yukon class are especially good at establishing blockades and disrupting threats to shipping lanes.
Often the threats to Canada can be deterred or even destroyed long before they engage more visible elements of the Crown battlefleets. Orca Hunter Submarines are silent pack hunters.
This box contains:
1x Protecteur Submersible Carrier
2x Canadian Frontline Cruiser (can be built as either a Newfoundland, Bonaventure, Halifax, Toronto or Yukon Class ship)
4x Orca Hunter Submarine
2x SRS Token
Mexico Battlefleet Set
The Testbed ship for Nikolai Tesla’s revolutionary Arc technologies, the USS Mexico is often sent into the heart of engagements against the enemies of the Union. The results of these engagements make for precious study material at The Pipeworks.
The Union fleet has seen a number of technological improvements since the defection of Nikolai Tesla from the Imperium, and a significant overall increase since the end of the Ore War. Support Cruisers and Automata have all been upgraded by the creative team in the Pipeworks.
The Washington Missile Cruiser serves to increase the long-range firepower of the battlefleet as well as providing additional cover against enemy aircraft. Armed with Kettering pattern cruise missiles, the crew of Washington class vessels often make use of observation rotors and spotters in fighter squadrons to ensure the deadly payload strikes true.
The Roanoke Strike Carriers provide air support to any fleets they are attached to. These Cruisers employ powerful electromagnetic catapults to rapidly launch their Corsair strike fighters into the fray; the Roanoke carrier is a valuable vessel in the Union fleet. The class was named after the Union naval base on Roanoke Island, destroyed in 1862 during the Ore War.
Finally, with a reputation for working miracles, the crews of Montgomery support ships are always a welcome addition to any battlefleet. Scores of repair teams use a combination of flight gear and escort craft to effect repairs and rescue to friendly vessels in need. These ships are also able to provide field repairs to the RC-52 Patriot Automata.
These towering simulacra are designed by the brilliant theoretical engineers at The Pipeworks, and are the largest automata in the Union's military. Just like smaller automata, over time their adaptive computations develop quirks that give veteran Automata distinctive personalities.
This box contains:
1x USS Mexico
2x Union Support Cruisers
Each Cruiser can alternatively be built as Roanoke, California, Montgomery or Washington Class
4x RC-52 Patriot Automata
2x SRS Tokens
Retaj Battlefleet Set
Sinister vessels crewed entirely from the cult of the Order, the Retaj Portalship is beyond the limit of the scientific and engineering expertise of the Sultanate. Indeed it is beyond even the esoteric designs of the Enlightened. Able to create stable rifts in the aether and allow entire ships to pass through, these fantastic energies can be harnessed and repurposed most lethally.
Carolus Destroyers are formidable indeed. Crewed entirely by the devout members of the martial religious group known as the Order, they answer only to Sircan Osman on behalf of the Sultan.
This box contains:
1x Retaj Portalship
4x Carolus Destroyer
Wild West Exodus
We’re excited to announce the first full-length novel for Wild West Exodus, Lazarus! Holster your firearm and get ready to uncover what exactly has gone rotten in the prosperous frontier town of Provenance in this gripping page-turning novel written by the popular Black Library author Sarah Cawkwell.
Lazarus
Welcome to an alternate 1870s where the heroism and hubris of humanity in this era of steam and steel have unlocked secrets that the world was unprepared for, as super-science and alien technologies bring about an exciting and unpredictable age. The Dystopian Age.
The Badlands of North America are a wild and dangerous place. It has been a generation since the end of the civil war, known as the Ore War, and the Union of Federated States has emerged as a dominant power on the world stage. But all is not as it seems and there’s something rotten in the prosperous frontier town of Provenance. The Union have sent Major Willa Shaw to investigate in an adventure that will see her cross paths with old friends and new and terrifying enemies. Can Shaw and her allies discover the origins of Lazarus before all hell breaks loose?
1x Softback copy of Lazarus
Warcradle Scenics
Beware of cattle rustlers this month as the Buckhorn Ranch Set offers a farmstead environment to field your battles, with buildings that provide the perfect vantage point to protect your land.
Buckhorn Ranch Set
Buckhorn Ranch is a typical example of life on the frontier. It’s changed hands many times over the years, occasionally sold by a family who’ve grown too old to look after the place but more often through nefarious means.
The Farmstead itself is a comfortable home for a family while the smaller Lodge is usually reserved for trusted workers.
The great Silo can hold enough grain to help keep a herd of cattle fed through the winter months.
Scattered around the ranch there’s a hen house to keep the workers in fresh eggs, a well and water tower to keep them watered and the one piece of engineering, a tractor for any big jobs.
A well kept Barn houses all the hay needed to supplement any cattle feed as well as being somewhere they can calve.
All this work needs cowboys and cowboys need horses, that’s where the Stables come in.
This set contains:
1x Farmstead
1x Lodge
1x Silo
1x Ranch Scatter
1x Barn
2x Stable
There’s a little something for everyone in November, with so many exciting pre-orders available! Make sure not to miss out when they go live for pre-order on the 28th of October 2022 at your FLGS or Wayland Games Online.
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