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In 1980, Games Workshop acquired the rights from Hayes and revised the game, simplifying the rules, removing hydrogen bombs, reducing the number of players to 4, allowing radioactive areas to be cleaned, and cutting the board map in half (eliminating Eastern Europe). This revised game was released as Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation. [3]
The games had the United States striking back, which resulted in all-out nuclear Armageddon, with more than half a billion people killed, leaving a great part of the northern hemisphere uninhabitable. This strategy scared everyone and was abandoned. [12] The results of the game were disturbing to all of those involved.
The game was originally released as a boxed game, while the expansion, Chaos Attacks focused on the first war for Armageddon that takes place 300 years before Ghazghkull made his first foray into the Armageddon system. Both games were later released for free in pdf format by Games Workshop to promote their 3rd War for Armageddon Warhammer ...
Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 — India/Pakistan War Variant (1999) Combines the Nuclear War game with the India Rails game. Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) More cards for the game including new cards usable as either a missile or a warhead and a Deluxe Population deck featuring characters from Nodwick, Kenzer & Company and Dork Tower.
Hayes republished the game in 1978 in a blue box. In 1980, Games Workshop acquired the rights from Hayes and revised the game, simplifying the rules, reducing the number of players to 4, removing hydrogen bombs, allowing irradiated areas to be cleaned up, and cutting the board map in half (eliminating Eastern Europe).
Iran's ballistic missile attack against Israel on the eve of Rosh Hashanah was a stark reminder of the growing nuclear threat in the Middle East, and Israel is preparing to respond with a ...
The computer game version was published by Red Shift under license from Games Workshop. [2] It was released in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. [3] Apocalypse was the first Spectrum game from Red Shift, and David Kelly from Popular Computing Weekly described the board game as "ideal material for conversion to the computer". [4]
W80 thermonuclear warhead, photo published in Hansen's The Swords of Armageddon. Chuck Hansen (May 13, 1947 – March 26, 2003) was the compiler, over a period of 30 years, of the world's largest private collection of unclassified documents on how America developed atomic and thermonuclear weapons.