DoomTrooper
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Publisher: Target Games
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Game Type: CCG
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| Project Lead(s): nipa
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DoomTrooper is a fast and furious card game designed by Bryan Winter. You and your opponents use warriors to attack and gain either Promotion Points or Destiny Points. Promotion points can be used to win, while Destiny Points are used to purchase more warriors and equipment. There are 12 different card types and over 1100 different cards in the official sets to make this game rich and detailed, with myriad different strategies to win.
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Expansions
Official Expansions
1994 - Doomtrooper
1995 - Inquisition
1995 - Warzone
1996 - Mortificator
1996 - Golgotha
1996 - Apocalypse
1997 - Paradise Lost
1997 - 2nd Edition
1997 - Ragnarok
2nd Edition and Ragnarok were never released. They are, however, available for online play on the gEngine.
The base set was released in limited and unlimited editions in 1994. The unlimited edition changed some card texts and commonalities and added a few completely new cards. A 'revised' unlimited edition was printed too, Gift of Fate and a few other cards can be found in three different printings. Limited edition cards are hard to find these days, unlimited should be easy to find cheaply.
Inquisition, the first expansion focused on the Brotherhood, Dark Legion and Heretics. It added the Relic card type. Relics are usually not favored by the players due to their uniqueness, only one copy of each may be in play at a time. The base set alone wasn't very well balanced, after Inquisition the factions are about equals. Inquisition is still easy to find due to the huge printing it had. Inquisition boosters will occasionally have an artist signed card in them, it will be an uncommon and signed in gold ink. The signed cards are very rare, it is assumed the ratio is about one in 300 boosters.
Warzone introduced Commanders to the game. Commanders will boost some subset of Warriors, which makes them very handy in combat decks. The expansion also added the Warzone card type. Again the cardtype's not a player favorite, you won't see many of them played. The Warzones don't work with Fortifications and they're only useful when defending. A succesful deck will spend more time attacking and defenses, especially as limited as the Warzone, won't usually be considered when building killer decks. Warzone had an unadvertised bonus, all of the uncommon cards were printed in 'glossy' variations too. The glossy cards have a special coating on the picture and logo areas of the cards. Glossy cards were inserted in 1/10 boosters or 6 per box. Warzone is becoming hard to find these days, but it's still regularly available and relatively cheap.
Mortificator is generally regarded as one of the best expansions. It features some solid Warriors and Specials. Joker, Pound of Flesh and Repudiate alone would make this set stand above the rest, but it has much more to offer. The new subtype of Equipment, Poisons, was generally ignored by the players. It's too limited to be really useful and the effects are usually found more easily in regular, non-poison, cards. A PAP Mine is always more useful than a Death Maze. Mortificator, like all the expansions after it, is very hard to find.
Golgotha is another solid expansion. Many of it's cards are good enough to build decks on and it offers some cards found in almost all decks. Stolen Paperworks should be a common sight in games, a testament to the expansion's value. Golgotha also introduces a new cardtype, Alliances. Most of the Alliances are quite useful and widely used despite their uniqueness. Golgotha was the first of two 'mini expansions' distributed in 20-booster boxes with only two card commonalities, Common 1 and Common 2.
Apocalypse continues the golden age of DoomTrooper offering a wide variety of useful cards. A Nasty Suprise, A Second Chance and Boot Camp are probably the most often seen cards from Apocalypse. The new card type, Ki Powers, is useful only for Mishima Warriors. Ki Powers will give you an advantage, they're very hard to get rid of unless you remove the Warrior carrying them. Apocalypse was the 2nd and last mini expansion.
Paradise Lost introduces Dark Eden to Doomtrooper. It features four new affiliations, the tribes of Europe on old Earth. It makes the game a bit more complicated by adding another combat area, the Outpost. Paradise Lost introduces the new Beast card type, which is really Vehicles in disguise. They have a nicer, Warzone-like, layout, but their effects are pretty much the same as a Vehicle's would be.
2nd Edition was announced in August 1998, with a release date of 'later this year' or 'this fall'. The set has about 70 new cards, about half of them beefed up versions of old 'coasters'. Commonalities of many cards were changed, some of the essentials like Positive Karma and Miscommunication changed to common, while some restricted cards like Expedite Request were bumped to rares. Overall the set is nicely balanced and had it been printed it would've been really player and collector friendly. 2nd Edition was never released, Target decided to drop all of their CCG's and concentrate on the Warzone miniatures game.
Ragnarok was originally announced with a release date of November 1997. It was delayed indefinately while Target 'awaited orders from around the world' and later canceled when Target dropped their CCG's. The expansion features many new Missions as well as a new Tactic subtype of Missions. The other major theme is Dark Symmetry, especially Gifts of Ilian, and Dark Legion Warriors - about a third of the cards are affiliated with the Dark Legion.
Promos
Luna
Nepharite Warlord
Nicholai
Ragathol
Golgotha - The Warrior Princess
Hunter - Special Forces Badass
Wolfe in the Heat
By the Throat
Primal Bitch
The 9 promos available in English. Luna, Warlord and Nicholai were distributed via game stores. Ragathol was offered when you mailed Heartbreaker an Inquisition booster wrapper. Golgotha was distributed in Inquest #10 (?). Hunter, Wolfe, By the Throat and Primal Bitch were distributed with the Golgotha comics, one per issue in that order and a random card in the Sourcebook. The first four promos would've been reprinted as a part of the 2nd Edition.
There are also 11 additional promos never printed in English, these were available in various languages in Europe.
Unofficial Expansions from Doomtrooper Underground
1998 - Heresy
1998 - Corporate Wars
1999 - Skullseekers
1999 - Dementia
2000 - Revival
2003 - V Tribe
2006 - Armageddon
V Tribe and Armageddon are not available on the gEngine.
Publisher
Doomtrooper was originally published by Target Games AB, later known as Paradox Entertainment. The US distribution was handled by Heartbreaker Hobbies.
Resources
Rules
Doomtrooper on the gEngine
Articles
- Errors in Official Checklists by nipa
- Misprints and Card Variants by nipa
- Building an effective Deck by Cacchiele
- Fighting cheesy decks by Stormcloak
- Better Sidebaring by Cactus
