Return of the Tripods: All Quiet on the Martian Front

Introducing the Return of the Tripods where you will fight mighty battles between invading Martian forces and the Earths human defenders in this fully revised 15mm tabletop wargame. The year is now 1917 and in the midst of the largest and most widespread conflict in human history the skies are once again lit up by pillars of fire heralding the Return of the Tripods. A fully revised game system developed by David Pearce and the team at Abby Normal. This Initiative based scalable game system allow players to start out with a few tripods and tanks with the ability to progress to play truly massive conflicts. Rules are designed to suit all previous versions models. In June 1904 Earth was forever changed when the skies were lit up by Martian drop pods streaking through pillars of fire into the ground. Emerging from these pods, Martian war-machines rapidly spread out destroying and killing everything in their path. Despite humanities best efforts, the Martian Tripods were unstoppable. It was not until the invading Martians succumbed to infections and disease was their rampage halted. The year is now 1917 and in the midst of the largest and most widespread conflict in human history the skies are once again lit up by pillars of fire heralding the Return of the Tripods™. Having learned from their previous incursion, the Martians have returned with improved war machines, new weapons, and biological immunities. Humanity has not been idle either. Scavenging the remains of the Martian's previous attacks humans too have learned. While most of the secrets of Martian technology remain unfathomable, human ingenuity have enabled mankind too to invent new weapons of war and improve existing ones. In this heroic 15mm scale tabletop wargame take control of either Human or Martian forces in a battle for control of Earth. Leveraging the advances in 3D printing technology and the increasing availability of 3D printers Abby Normal are making all of their models available to anyone with a printer to print their own armies at their convenience. For those gamer's who would prefer to not worry about diving into the world of 3D printing they will also offer pre-printed physical models. —description from the publisher