Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars

Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars is a fast-paced, tabletop miniature skirmish game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where players fight to scavenge powerful artifacts. The game focuses on chaotic, emergent narrative and quick gameplay over rigid rules.

Core Gameplay Mechanics

Objective-Driven Scenarios: Players do not just fight to eliminate each other; they primarily hunt for valuable Ancient artifacts while navigating a hostile environment.
The Environment Fights Back: The “Zone” itself acts as an active threat. Players draw Zone cards that trigger environmental hazards, wild creature attacks, or deadly acid rain that acts as a match timer.
Bag-Pull Activation: Turn order is completely unpredictable. Faction and event tokens are pulled randomly from a bag to determine who activates next.
Pushing Your Luck: The dice mechanic relies on rolling sixes for success. Players can choose to “push” their rolls by rerolling, but rolling a one can damage their own weapons or characters.
RPG Compatibility: The game includes character generation rules and is fully compatible with the Mutant: Year Zero tabletop RPG, allowing players to bring their roleplaying characters directly to the skirmish board.

Factions

The game supports 1 to 4 players across four distinct, stylized factions:

Ark Mutants: Humanoid wasteland survivors utilizing diverse physical and feral mutations.
Genlab Tribe: Fierce, anthropomorphic mutated animals fighting for survival.
Mechatron Hive: A collective of newly self-aware robots searching for their place in the ruins (Available in the Robots & Psionics expansion).
Nova Cult: A secretive cabal of human mutants possessing powerful psychic and psionic abilities (Available in the Robots & Psionics expansion).

Genre: Apocalypse

Scale: 32 mm

Average Models per Side: Less than 10

Number of Players: 2, 2+

Miniatures: Dedicated

Rules: Purchased Hard Rulebook

Availability: In Print

Publisher: Free League Publishing

Designers: Andy Chambers, Tomas Härenstam

Year Released: 2024

Website: Zone Wars

Additional Information:

The starter box includes everything you need to play including miniatures

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Robots & Psionics Expansion – This expansion set expands the game with two more factions, allowing up to four players in a multi-faction mayhem! This boxed set includes ten detailed 32 mm miniatures (five each for the Mechatron Hive and the Nova Cult), cards, tokens, dice, a game mat, cardboard terrain, a ruler, and a scenario booklet including five full scenarios.