In 2005, Black Flame published a number of new novels as well as republishing some of the original GW and Boxtree novels. In 1993, Boxtree Books published a number of new Dark Futures novels, also written by Newman under the name "Jack Yeovil". In 1990, GW published an anthology of Dark Future short stories titled Route 666, and then published a number of Dark Future novels, supposedly penned by a Sanctioned Operative named "Jack Yeovil", but actually written by Kim Newman. Several more rules expansions and scenarios were also published in various issues of White Dwarf. Later the same year, GW also published a game expansion, White Line Fever, that featured more vehicles and weapons, and more tactics. At the same time, Citadel Miniatures released a line of metal miniatures that could be used with the game. The merger, featuring artwork by Tony Ackland, Dave Andrews, John Blanche, Mark Craven, Carl Critchlow, Colin Dixon, David Gallagher, Pete Knifton, Mike McVey, Tim Pollard, Bil Segwick, Andrew Wildman, and Nick Williams, was published by GW in 1988 as Dark Future. When Gascoigne's role-playing game project was shelved, his post-apocalyptic setting in the United States was grafted onto Halliwell's vehicular combat game. At the same time, Richard Halliwell was designing a miniatures vehicular combat board game using many of the rules he had developed for the Judge Dredd board game Slaughter Margin. In the late 1980s, GW game designer Marc Gascoigne was designing a post-apocalyptic role-playing game called Dark Future that was set in the United States. The book includes eight scenarios of increasing tactical complexity. Vehicles can move at their rated speed each turn, and can accomplish a variety of actions while moving including drifting, U-turning, accelerating, braking, reversing, regaining control, ramming, and firing weapons. three six-sided dice, one slightly larger than the others.4 plastic cars with interchangeable weapons.17 sections of interlocking laminated track.104-page 2-holed punched illustrated rulebook with perforated pages.The players take on the role of mercenaries called "Sanctioned Operatives" or "Ops", who are hired for a variety of missions on the unpoliced highways. Ecological disaster has overtaken the country as well, with the Great Lakes having shrunk to a fraction of their size, and the Midwest turned into a desert. The country has been divided into Policed Zones - mainly large cities - and Non-Policed Zones, mainly the highways and areas between cities. The game is set in a fictional alternate world United States in 1995, ten years after the American government privatised all police forces. Dark Future is a post-apocalyptic miniatures wargame published by Games Workshop in 1988.ĭark Future is a Mad Max-like game of vehicular combat set in an alternate world.
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