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What Is Dystopian Wars? New Player Primer For The Dystopian Age
October 27, 2025 by crew
We sit down with James and Parker from Warcradle Studios to give you a new player primer for just what is Dystopian Wars?
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Learn about the world of the Dystopian Age and just what you’re going to be getting stuck into when you explore it as part of the naval wargame, Dystopian Wars.
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Yay! More Dystopian Wars!
More boats than you can shake a boat at!
Do the boats come with mandatory rigging?
Just enough for Gerry to be ok with it
Lots of pics of some nice new ships.
Nice one 🙂
Love the lore and design of the ships. We need more Dystopian Wars.
I do love a good boat game. Esp ones that involve more excitement than some of the more historical games.
😁🤞🏻
Interesting thought on how you get an historical player into something weird. I usually have the opposite problem getting the weird to do the historic
I can see why you’d have that problem – I have no interest in historic gaming, but add something weird to it and its like catnip. its bizarre!
I’m sure the dystopian age was ok for some people. Like not 99.9999987% of people, but some! They probably had a blast!
Ahoy
Any mechanical Whales? Asking for a friend.
Haven’t seen much on the game in awhile, good to see it’s still going strong!
Looking forward to seeing Lets plays on this system and setting.
Will be grabbing myself the gubbins box at some point in the future and giving the new edition a go.
any submarines in this one ?
James Em Hewitt! The Man, the Myth, the Legend.
I loved playing the old edition, and am eager to see what the new edition brings. All I need now are more players in my area!
looking forward to more content
Deep into Armoured Clash switch this new edition is piqued my interest. Plus the Warcradle plastic kits are really high quality for AC so I can imagine the DW ones are just as much of a delight to built
I’ve been playing DW in the last edition too and the plastics are fantastic so I expect the same quality in the 4.0 kits!
I do love the boat game.
Really hoping the new rules bring in some new players. It’s a solid game.
I’m looking forward to reading the new rules; they look really good.
Helpful update
Boats and guns, and more!
i need to get back into this game…
Knowing james M Hewitt is working on the game makes me definitely want to jump back in!
Tell me everything!
Worth checking this out?