Category: dystopian wars

Prussian Empire Arminius Class Frigates

The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games.

The Prussian Frigate is a simple ship with a single turret and aft Tesla weapons. Squadrons of Frigates are often used to screen larger ships, combine their fire against enemy ships, and sometimes chase down vessels that have submerged below the ocean waves.

This is how it looks from the marketing material.

There are six models and they come in a single blister pack.

The first stage will be washing the resin models and giving them a white undercoat.

Dystopian Wars Airfield Set

This set contains three medium-sized hangers, two zeppelin towers and one communications building.

This was very much an impulse buy, but I was inspired recently by some Dystopian Wars pictures that I recently posted to the blog.

As with virtually all Dystopian Wars castings these are very clean and no flash.

Beautiful Dystopian Wars

Reading the Cianty Blog they had a show report from Hamburg, in amongst all the photographs was this amazing Dystopian Wars demonstration game. A series of rocky islands complete with cities and airship landing stations.

Dystopian Wars

An incredible piece of modelling and painting. Very inspiring.

Dystopian Wars

You can see how it all came together with a lot more photographs on the Hamburger Tactica website (in German).




Dystopian Wars – Prussian Empire Blucher Class Dreadnought

The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games.

The Prussian Empire Blucher Class Dreadnought is a powerful vessel in the Prussian Empire navy. This is how it looks from the marketing material.

This is a very clean casting and the computer aided design certainly shows in the detail of the model.

I gave the model a wash in soapy water in order to remove any release agent remaining on the model.

I then glued the metal turrets to the model.

Dystopian Wars – Prussian Empire Blucher Class Dreadnought

The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games.

Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher was a famous Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshall) who was known for his rather direct military tactics. ‘On it like Blucher‘ is a term synonymous in the Prussian military for taking the fight to the enemy. The designers behind this Dreadnought certainly took this to heart. FOUR powerful Primary turrets rain death on enemy targets and row after row of Tesla Coils rip into enemy vessels.

This is how it looks from the marketing material.

The model itself comes in a quite a large blister pack.

I really do like the concept of and background to the Dystopian Wars and I really must get around to painting the models I have bought.

Dystopian Wars – Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group

The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games. I have discussed my thoughts on this game in an earlier blog post.

Having decided that the Prussian Air Fortress was a definite purchase, I realised that I would also need an opponent and looking at the boxed sets, I decided to go with the Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group.

Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group

In the box you get:

Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group

1 x Battleship
3 x Cruisers
9 x Frigates
2 x Bombers
10 x Resin Flying Tokens
2 x Acrylic Flight Stands
4 x A5 Token Sheets
Laminated Statistic Cards

This is how it looks from the marketing material, though this image includes the aircraft carrier which is not included in the Battle Group.

Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group

This is the resin you get in the box along with the metal bombers.

Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group

They are very clean castings.

Dystopian Wars – Prussian Empire Sky Fortress

The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games. I have discussed my thoughts on this game in an earlier blog post.

The Prussian Carrier – or Sky Fortress – is a terror to behold, especially when searchlights catch it floating above a town or city, ready to launch its Aeroplanes against targets below. This Sky Fortress has plenty of offensive capability, and is more than able to soften up enemy defences with bursts of Tesla energy and clusters of bombs dropped from high in the clouds.

The model comes in a quite a large blister pack.

It looks like a very clean casting.

Dystopian Wars

I don’t know about you, but occasionally I find a game that I think just makes me go “woah!” and I just have to have it.

I remember playing Talisman (1st Edition) for the first time and thinking what an amazing boardgame. I had before playing Talisman only played boardgames like Monopoly, and Talisman was so very different. That was nearly thirty years ago…

Since then other games that have had a similar impact include Car Wars, Twilight 2000 and Space 1889. I really enjoyed playing Car Wars and spent many hours designing vehicles and playing it back in the 1980s. I loved the concept behind Twilight 2000 and though I never really got a chance to play it for a lengthy campaign, I did enjoy reading articles and scenarios for it. Space 1889 was one of those ideas that I hadn’t really considered before and was my first introduction to Victorian Science Fiction (well the First Men in the Moon aside). Since then I have really enjoyed VSF and steampunk, I really liked the Difference Engine and even wrote an article on wargaming in the world of the Difference Engine.

So a few months back when I was a gaming shop in Birmingham and noticed the Dystopian Wars, I was like a moth to a candle! This was one of those games that I just had to have and would have to play.

Imagine a world similar to our own, but subtly different. Now imagine the year is 1870 and the Industrial Revolution occurred decades earlier than in our own world. Technology is far advanced, and in many cases, unrecognisable, which has led to the development of fantastic naval vessels, hulking land ships and terror from the skies in the form of airships and war balloons.

Looking at the models, unfortunately the rules had sold out, there was one model that caught my eye and that was the model I had to have and would set me down the path of the Dystopian Wars. It was the Prussian Sky Fortress.


Having decided that this was a definite purchase, I realised that I would also need an opponent and looking at the boxed sets, I decided to go with the Kingdom of Britannia.

A few weeks later I managed to get hold of the rulebook and was very impressed with the content and production values.

So time to get painting.