New Tabletop Game Armoured Syndicate Gets Its Own Comic

By John Freeman on May 17, 2016

Armoured Syndicate: The Offer © Megaton

Games company Megaton has just released the first page of a 10-page comic via Facebook to promote their forthcoming tabletop game, Armoured Syndicate, which will then run on the company web site (www.armouredsyndicate.com)

Armoured Syndicate, created by Ben Jarvis, is a new 32mm scale miniatures range and tabletop game of mechs, gangs and corporate suits fighting for resources in the new “Wild West”.

Set in the global-warming ravaged desert wastelands of the 22nd century, Armoured Syndicate draws on themes including sci-fi, western, post-apocalyptic and traditional mech-warfare games. Armoured syndicate focuses on the robots, mechs and droids of this universe, they are the main characters with humans providing a supporting role.

The promotional comic is written/edited by Rik Hoskin (Star Wars, Mercy Thompson, White Sand), drawn by Tom Crielly (The Big Book of Urban Legends), coloured by Brazil-based Tom Garcia (Mercy Thompson, Pathfinder) and lettered by Simon Bowland (The Incredible Hulk, 2000AD)

Armoured Syndicate: The Offer can be found on the game’s Facebook page and will gravitate to their homepage this week at www.armouredsyndicate.com

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.