Doomtrooper : Mutant Chronicles The CCG

Doomtrooper! So after the summer of 1994 when I got the Mutant Chronicles game I still looked at it but moved on the Magic The Gathering. Just after Christmas there was a new magazine at the local book store about M:TG called SCRYE (Issue #4 to be exact) and inside was incredible, it had pictures of Mutant Chronicles, there was a new game based on it, it was just released but I had not seen it anywhere in my small local area. The pictures were amazing, new Imperial people, Sunset Strikers, cool! but more then this flyer on the back page was a 5 page spread with all the rules and a full list of cards.

With cool stats so you compare your favorites characters and some big revelations. What there is a new faction the Brotherhood! It has some cool Magic with different styles called The Art. There's even a Cardinal! Imperial caused all of this with a plant Nero they went to, say it ain't so. And the rules felt they matched, actions, promotion points, different citadels, I know Algeroth who are these other names, 4 new apostles. I need a starter and some Necropaks (booster packs)! I don't think it was until 6 months later a few starters came to our local store, Wilkies, which was a regional chain of maybe 5-6 stores that's pretty well defunct. So they would split up starter deck and booster boxes and only send 2 starters and 6 boosters to each store. I only got to see the starters and Inquisition the first expansion sold there. So take a look, and think of how amazing it would be to see this when you never had the internet news like it is today. But the early internet is a whole topic for another day.

Mutant Chronicles: Siege of The Citadel

    With the 2nd Edition of Mutant Chronicles Shipping now it's time to go back to the my Beginnings with this game, and focus of attention for almost 30 years.

    When I was in Grade 8 (93/94) the big excitement was Warhammer 40K 2nd edition. Kids spent their hard earned paper route money on minis. I had received HeroQuest a year or two before but this was something new and exciting. The cost to get started with Warhammer 40K was way beyond my means. At the same Hobby / Comic shop they had a new board game on display, the box was open set up. It was Mutant Chronicles Siege of the Citadel but the cost was something like $50-60 Can (About $90 today), still pretty hefty. During the summer after Grade 8 I went to visit my family in Newfoundland. On one of our trips to down in Stephenville at the small Walmart I went to the toy section and there on the bottom shelf of the boardgames was stacks (maybe 20-30, I can still see it now) of Mutant Chronicles SoTC for only $9.99. I was so excited picking up this copy that you can see below. It's the Canadian Edition in both languages and has you call Playtoy Industries that produced the game here. I remember opening it up and tossing out all the French parts and spending the summer playing the game with my cousins and setting up battles with the minis.

With the Story / mini comic parts it seemed so much bigger then any one off game:

And all these Named Characters, What was Edward S. Murdoch's story. Who were the Blood Berets? Without knowing there was more to come, an RPG out there it was an exciting time for just this one game. Even the art, what amazing are with all kinds of stuff and equipment, so much detail you could feel you  were there.

At one point I sadly tried to paint them a little with Testors Paints, fortunately this was all I did. For some reason I still have the stickers I never applied hoping to one day eventually paint them up.

So that is the Origin story.. and in 1994 something was just launching that was crazy to the gaming community....

Mutant Chronicles: Clan Amis

 Greetings,

With the full release of the 2nd Edition of Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel board game I decided to look back at one of my favorite settings.

Clan Amis is a new Minor Imperial Clan featured in Mutant Chronicles: 3rd Edition RPG. Canada has been mentioned a few times in the setting, It was mentioned in the novel Frenzy as part of the founding of Capitol. Now a full clan (even if it's Minor) has been attributed. 

Amis has a home location of Amis Tower on Luna. It would be great if they expand the Luna Map at some point to show more minor details where you could Zoom in to different sections. 

In typical Canadian tropes the clan is centered around the Imperial Gendarmerie (aka Royal Canadian Mounted Police). Founded by John Paul Amis the family links back to old Earth before the exodus. Part of the clan is connected to Amis & Khan law firm. Also there is a current character mentioned Head Judge Sir Martin Amis. 

Building background stories around Imperial Security Command  protecting key Imperial Leadership, maybe even Her Serenity are very cool. Some Policing and Legal stories are also intriguing. 

Other Famous citizens mentioned are Detective Pete "The Shark" Amis - Yard Detective. He uses his violent tactics to make sure the street scum get what they deserve.  The ISC Gendarmerie Commissioner is Sir Rupert Amis-Dunsim.

ISC official motto is "Defending Imperial Law", popularized by the Radio show "Officer Gordon of the Gendarmerie" who always get his man.

Next time we'll take a look at Canada on Dark Eden (The Destroyed Earth Wasteland).