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The Siege of the Citadel Kickstarter is LIVE
A-List Design Team of Richard Borg, Eric Lang, Kevin Wilson and Jay Little Reboot Beloved 1990s Techno-Fantasy Miniatures Board Game Siege of the Citadel
LONDON, ENGLAND (September 8, 2016): Modiphius Entertainment, publisher of the Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, Conan, Infinity and John Carter of Mars roleplaying games, and Cabinet Entertainment (Conan the Barbarian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, Mutant Chronicles, Mutant: Year Zero, Kult) are thrilled to announce today the Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel is now live on Kickstarter.
Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel by designers Richard Borg with Eric M. Lang and Kevin Wilson, is an innovative reimagining of the original worldwide hit board game Siege of the Citadel, originally designed by Richard Borg and published by Target Games and Pressman Toys in the 1990s. This new edition reboots the classic with an A-List design team, balanced and updated rules, highly detailed miniatures and tiles.
Fredrik Malmberg, CEO & president of Cabinet Entertainment says, “Siege of the Citadel was groundbreaking for its cooperative campaign play and it launched a beloved franchise with tabletop games and spawned video games, collectible card games, comics and eventually inspired a feature film. The all-star team developing the new edition is spectacular and we can’t wait for fans to return to the Citadel!”
Set in the Mutant Chronicles universe, the story takes players on a full-throttle dieselpunk sci-fi ride through a solar system beset by corporate intrigue and the invasion of a terrible dark alien force. With technology failing due to the insidious effects of the Dark Symmetry, humankind must fight back against the Dark Legion hordes while dealing with mutiny and conspiracy within. Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel takes place during one of the great wars against the Dark Legion as humanity musters the greatest army under Cardinal Durand and the DoomTroopers of the Cartel to assault Alakhai’s terrifying Citadel.
“The making of Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel has brought together an amazing line-up of A-list designers who were chomping at the bit to create a second edition of this fan-favorite game,” says Modiphius’ publishing director Chris Birch. “We can’t wait to bring this classic game to a new generation of gamers.”
Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel will be a massive boxed miniatures board game featuring 40 new sculpts, new double-sided tiles, new rules and new creatures. This 2nd edition of the iconic techno fantasy board game returns with original designer Richard Borg (Memoir 44), with Kevin Wilson (Descent), Eric Lang (Blood Rage) and Jay Little (X:Wing), as well as artist Henning Ludvigsen (Imperial Assault, Decent, Mansions of Madness), renowned Bauhaus novelist Anders Fager, artist Stefan Kopinksi and sculptors Gael Gaumon, Valerio Terranova led by Paolo Parente. The Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel launches today with Pledges, Stretch Goals and other exciting plans to expand the gameplay.
The original Siege of the Citadel was one of the first games of its kind to offer character development and the unique rotating Dark Legion player, amongst other groundbreaking ideas. Conceived by Sweden’s gaming powerhouse Target Games, Siege of the Citadel had television advertising in the US and hundreds of gamers still own much loved copies across the world.
LONDON, ENGLAND (September 8, 2016): Modiphius Entertainment, publisher of the Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, Conan, Infinity and John Carter of Mars roleplaying games, and Cabinet Entertainment (Conan the Barbarian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, Mutant Chronicles, Mutant: Year Zero, Kult) are thrilled to announce today the Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel is now live on Kickstarter.
Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel by designers Richard Borg with Eric M. Lang and Kevin Wilson, is an innovative reimagining of the original worldwide hit board game Siege of the Citadel, originally designed by Richard Borg and published by Target Games and Pressman Toys in the 1990s. This new edition reboots the classic with an A-List design team, balanced and updated rules, highly detailed miniatures and tiles.
Fredrik Malmberg, CEO & president of Cabinet Entertainment says, “Siege of the Citadel was groundbreaking for its cooperative campaign play and it launched a beloved franchise with tabletop games and spawned video games, collectible card games, comics and eventually inspired a feature film. The all-star team developing the new edition is spectacular and we can’t wait for fans to return to the Citadel!”
Set in the Mutant Chronicles universe, the story takes players on a full-throttle dieselpunk sci-fi ride through a solar system beset by corporate intrigue and the invasion of a terrible dark alien force. With technology failing due to the insidious effects of the Dark Symmetry, humankind must fight back against the Dark Legion hordes while dealing with mutiny and conspiracy within. Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel takes place during one of the great wars against the Dark Legion as humanity musters the greatest army under Cardinal Durand and the DoomTroopers of the Cartel to assault Alakhai’s terrifying Citadel.
“The making of Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel has brought together an amazing line-up of A-list designers who were chomping at the bit to create a second edition of this fan-favorite game,” says Modiphius’ publishing director Chris Birch. “We can’t wait to bring this classic game to a new generation of gamers.”
Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel will be a massive boxed miniatures board game featuring 40 new sculpts, new double-sided tiles, new rules and new creatures. This 2nd edition of the iconic techno fantasy board game returns with original designer Richard Borg (Memoir 44), with Kevin Wilson (Descent), Eric Lang (Blood Rage) and Jay Little (X:Wing), as well as artist Henning Ludvigsen (Imperial Assault, Decent, Mansions of Madness), renowned Bauhaus novelist Anders Fager, artist Stefan Kopinksi and sculptors Gael Gaumon, Valerio Terranova led by Paolo Parente. The Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel launches today with Pledges, Stretch Goals and other exciting plans to expand the gameplay.
The original Siege of the Citadel was one of the first games of its kind to offer character development and the unique rotating Dark Legion player, amongst other groundbreaking ideas. Conceived by Sweden’s gaming powerhouse Target Games, Siege of the Citadel had television advertising in the US and hundreds of gamers still own much loved copies across the world.
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The Liberation of Venus Continues Live with Capitol Radio One!
This is Capitol Radio One from Volksburg on Venus. The battle is on! At four o’clock this morning Cardinal Durand gave the order! “Tear down the castle of Alakhai! The liberation of Venus starts now!”
Cabinet Entertainment & Modiphius Entertainment have unveiled Stefan Kopinski’s cover for the epic Siege of the Citadel Board Game which triumphantly returns with a major Kickstarter this summer.
Can you hear me? Capitol Radio One. Live from the batteries. I can hardly hear myself think. Ten thousand guns sending our regards to Alakhai’s hordes!
New sculpts, New Double-sided Tiles, New Rules and New Creatures will bring the Siege of the Citadel core box screaming to life. This 2nd edition of the iconic techno fantasy board game returns with original designer Richard Borg (Memoir 44) once again on the frontline, with Kevin Wilson (Descent), and Eric Lang (Blood Rage) bringing up the troops.
Yes, we sure have a mother of a battle to talk about today and Capitol Radio will be right there and tell you all about it. Hear more after this message.
“Those shells where built by Bauhaus! And they sure strike where it hurts!”
With the original game engine rebuilt and growling to life, Siege of the Citadel has everything you need to recreate the famous battles of Alakhai's citadel – just imagine you can be Doomtroopers like Sean Gallagher or Big Bob! Get a FREE Plasma Carbine and armoured shoulder pads with every box whilst stocks last*
*Offer only valid with sales from Luna City's own Brotherhood store!
Sean D’Armatto, is out among our troops to give you listeners the latest from the battle. Now that it has begun Sean, how do the troops feel? Yes folks just imagine, one million of our troops just dying to give Alakhai hell!
Stefan Kopinski’s propaganda art will be seen by citizens across the colonies and celebrates Mitch Hunter and Valerie Duval’s greatest battle. Rumour has it he’s painted a stunning tribute to the Brotherhood’s stand in the great halls against the Behemoths of the Dark Legion!
Capitol Radio One, the war radio, live from the suburbs of Volksburg. An outwork of
Alakhai’s castle known as “Bald Hill” fell to six Imperial divisions this morning after a night of furious hand to hand combat. Not a single heretic escaped!
The terrifying insides of Alakhai's mind bending citadel are brought starkly to light from the memories of Doomtrooper Henning Ludvigsen (Imperial Assault, Descent 2e, Mansions of Madness) who single-handedly mapped the interior of the Citadel, often fighting off Necromutants with the stab of his mighty pen!
Under completely pain-free treatment from the Cardinal’s own Inquisitors, trooper Ludvigsen has been able to summon the will to paint the missing 8 forbidden halls that didn't make our previous release. Yes they maybe drawn in blood but these maps will see you through! Just don't speak the name Alakh....
Did you know that most health insurance don’t cover illness caused by the dark soul? Yes, that is true! Succumb to the symmetry and your kids don’t get a penny. Unless you have signed up for White & Anderssen Insurance! Because White & Anderssen Insurance has real survivor benefits. No matter what you do, your kids will get their share of the good-you.
Renowned Bauhaus novelist Anders Fager has been following the assault, writing up some of the most intense moments as our brave heroes lead the assault. Meanwhile, the heroes and monstrous forces of the Dark Legion have been captured for all eternity by Luna City’s greatest sculptors including Gael Gaumon, Valerio Terranova and others, led by impresarios Paolo Parente and Prodos Games, who together have the eye of the Cardinal himself on their great work!
We were just talking to a Cartel General near Bald Hill and it is official. The Doomtroopers are going in. Yes, it is official. We have a breach... and the Doomtroopers are going in - Capital Radio One told you first!
Get ready to face the devastating Praetorian Stalker, which now joins the existing forces of the Citadel’s Dark Legion including Undead Legionnaires, Necromutants, Centurions, Razides, and the terrifying Nepharite and Ezoghoul!
Sean D’Armatto! Capital Radio! We have Ezoghouls on the loose! At the west batteries. It’s a counterattack!
Sean? Sean, are you there? Sean? Tell us! What is happening?
Sean cannot come to the microphone right now. Sean is busy transforming. He would very much like you all to join him. Come on and transform...
New rules let you master the Citadel’s terrible machinery, the Dark Legion gain defensive and destructible terrain, whilst terrifying story based mission features and other exciting new developments will push you to the limit of your humanity!*
*Cabinet and Modiphius cannot guarantee immunity to Dark Legion corruption from over exposure to Siege of the Citadel.
Watch the doomtroopers file past! Thousands and thousands of them lined up charging towards the Throne room and….yes I can see him! Cardinal Durand is there with Capitals’ three time award-winning hero Mitch Hunter and Bauhaus’ Valerie Duval at his side – feeding the Dark Legion one bullet at a time!
Hello Alakhai, you’ve got visitors!
Mutant Chronicles Siege of the Citadel adds further depth to its team with the signing of leading artist Stefan Kopinski and renowned Swedish writer Anders Fager
Epic board game reboot acquires even more talent
Modiphius, is pleased to announce acclaimed Swedish writer and novelist Anders Fager has joined the Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel team, alongside epic fantasy artist Stefan Kopinski.
Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel is a reboot of one of the most epic miniatures boardgames of the nineties and Modiphius has assembled an all-star team to work on the new version. Fager and Kopinksi join a squad which includes Richard Borg, Eric Lang and Kevin Wilson, and a sculpting team of Prodos Games and Paolo Parente.
In Siege of the Citadel players control one of five corporations: Imperial, Cybertronic, Mishima, Capitol, or Bauhausm as they try to prevent the Dark Legion and one of its vile leaders, Nepharite or Alakhai, from conquering a solar system riven by war.
Modiphius will be launching a Kickstarter campaign next year to support the launch with special bonuses for early backers and plans are currently to launch the full game at the Essen show in 2016 and with a retail release following in October 2016.
Example art by Stefan Kopinsky who has drawn epic covers for Games Workshop.
Anders Fager is a renowned Swedish novelist and scriptwriter, whose modern urban horror style has been described as “what would happen if James Ellroy took on H.P. Lovecraft”. Fager's fictional universe, known as "The Cult's World", features mythos entities like Hastur and Dagon and has been adapted for a roleplaying game - he’s been hailed as ”the future of Lovecraftian horror”.
Fager is eager to start work on Siege of the Citadel and says: ”If Siege of the Citadel had been available when I was young I’d probably never left home."
New lead artist Stefan Kopinski will be illustrating Siege of the Citadel with a lavish full colour cover that perfectly captures the full scale war and unending conflict of Mutant Chronicles’ dark, techno fantasy future.
Having worked for Games Worksop, THQ, SEGA and Capcom amongst many others, Kopinski says he is very much looking forward to the challenge of working on Siege: "I always like the challenge of putting my visual slant on a good sequel and I'm very much looking forward to working with these chaps!"
Modiphius & Cabinet Entertainment have joined forces to re-boot one of the most epic miniatures boardgames, Siege of the Citadel.
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Originally designed by the team at Target Games in Sweden and then developed by Richard Borg at Pressman Toys, Siege of the Citadel became a worldwide hit with its lavish components, high quality plastic figures and innovative rules.
Modiphius & Cabinet Entertainment have assembled an all-star team of designers to work on the re-boot including Richard Borg, Eric Lang and Kevin Wilson, and a sculpting team of Prodos Games and Paolo Parente. Siege of the Citadel was a major release by Pressman Toys in the 90's and is set in the Mutant Chronicles universe, where players control one of five corporations: Imperial, Cybertronic, Mishima, Capitol, or Bauhaus. Each player begins with two of their own unique Doomtroopers who both benefit from their Corporation's special ability. The players must prevent the Dark Legion and one of its vile leaders, the vile Nepharite, Alakhai, from conquering the solar system. Each successful mission brings news monstrous foes and terrifying events as the heroes explore the modular Citadel whilst events can help or hinder their missions. Promotion give credits to access more powerful weaponry and abilities whilst secret missions can cause chaos for the heroes! Narrative led designs will build on the original gameplay mechanics. New campaigns based on major events from the Mutant Chronicles universe will expand on the much loved game. We will be unveiling more about plans for the game over the coming weeks and months, sign up to be the first to know! Grab a Punisher Shortsword and Plasma Carbine, strap on your shoulder pads and make your mark in the Mutant Chronicles! Siege of the Citadel will have a Kickstarter in the summer of 2016, with a retail release in 2017 Find out more about the original game on the BoardGameGeek Page |
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