A War Transformed

WWI on the Doggerland Front: A Wargame

Frederick Silburn-Slater, Dimitris Martinos

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Osprey Games
03 January 2024

Monsters & legendary beings; Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports

The Great War meets the horrors of forgotten folklore in this occult skirmish wargame.

1916: A World Transformed. As the Great War raged, the Moon fell from its orbit. Seas shifted, uncovering new lands and revealing what tide and time had concealed. Long known as a potent occult power, the Moon’s descent also heralded the terrifying resurgence of magic. Long-forgotten gods and spirits began to stir in hidden groves and caverns and old traditions found new strength. Soon, stone circles echoed once more with the chanting of ancient rituals and menhirs were again bedecked with wildflowers and presented with offerings of honey and blood.

1918: A War Transformed. Rival nations battle on new fronts, seeking dominance with weapons of spell, song, and sacrifice. Thrust to the surface, Doggerland, the ancient bridge between Britain and Europe, becomes a crucial battleground in the conflict. In this alien landscape, raiding parties pick through the ribs of wrecks and the ruins of lost villages, war machines festooned with totems and fetishes roll over the brittle bones of long-dead giants, and cavalry charge across plains made verdant by the vegetation returning to this new land with unnatural speed.

A War Transformed is a skirmish wargame set in a world where World War I was utterly changed by forces far beyond human comprehension. Players command small forces of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and other… stranger… troops on the Doggerland Front. Fast-paced gameplay and a tense initiative bidding system are combined with authentic folk traditions and occult philosophies of the era – it is a game of rifle and relic, of bayonet and belief, of machine gun and magic.

By: Frederick Silburn-Slater
Illustrated by: Dimitris Martinos
Imprint: Osprey Games
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781472856258
ISBN 10: 1472856252
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Having achieved his MA in the History of Art with a research project on medieval imagery in commemoration of the Great War, Freddy Silburn-Slater now earns a living as a copywriter, specialising in tabletop gaming and historical subjects. He lives with his wife in rural Suffolk. Dimitris Martinos is an illustrator/comic artist born and based in Athens, Greece. He initially started drawing as a child around the 1980s, inking hundreds of black and white pages inspired by World War Two comics. He has worked for Modiphius on Achtung! Cthulhu, and for the French comic publisher Delcourt.