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SPECIALIST GAMES NEWS
News For Fans Of The Specialist Games Range
By Jervis Johnson
Psssst. No, no, don't look round. Keep looking at your screen and pretend
nothing strange is happening. Keep this to yourself, but have you noticed
anything mysterious going on recently? Or have you had an unpleasant feeling
that you are being watched all the time? I only mention this because it is
clearly the time for secret conspiracies, at least judging by what we have
coming out for the specialist games range this month. Just judge for
yourself:
Andy Hall, Fanatic senior editor on Inquisitor Magazine has been working
away on the very first 'Inquisitor: Conspiricies' book. Andy came up with
the cunning plan of producing a series of supplements for Inquisitor that
provided all of the information to run a campaign. The first book in this
series is Cirian Legacy. Within its 32 pages you'll find over 17 unique
scenarios, a detailed background and history section, a character section
listing the enemies and possible allies of the Inquisition that can be found
in the Cirian Sector, and details of the dreadful secret conspiracy that the
Inquistors must uncover.
Meanwhile Warmaster Senior Editor Steve Hambrook has been leading his
Warmaster Skaven army out from their secret tunnels below the Old World to
taste both the sweet fruit of glorious victory and the bitter dregs of
abject defeat. Top Citadel designer Colin Grayson has designed the Skaven
models that Steve has been using, and I have to say that they represent some
of his very best work yet, which is really saying something! Amongst the
skittering horde can be found Clan Rats, Plague Monks, Rat Ogres and Rat
Swarms, among many others. Colin has also produced a Screaming Bell and Doom
Wheel, both of which will be out in a couple of month's time. Rules and
background for the Skaven can be found in Warmaster Magazine 17
Finally, Battlefleet Gothic players with Chaos fleets will be elated to find
out that horrific spaceships possessed by Chaos have started to arrive from
deep, deep within the Eye of Terror. Full details of the new Daemon Ships
that are arriving to bolster the forces of Chaos can be found in Battlefleet
Gothic Magazine 15, along with a Chaos Black Crusade fleet list by 40K guru
Pete Haines. By a stroke of great good fortune this is just in time to allow
BFG players to take part in the worldwide Eye Of Terror campaign being run
by Games Workshop. Chance? Or perhaps something far more sinister...
Best regards,
Jervis Johnson
Head Fanatic
NEW RELEASES
This section lists all of the latest releases for the Specialist Games
Range. To find out about prices and availability you can visit your local
Games Workshop store, or contact your Games Workshop Mail Order department
or visit the on-line store at www.games-workshop.com.
Item Game Release Date
Town Cryer 25 Mordheim May
Skaven Rat Ogre Mordheim May
Human Warlock Mordheim May
Blood Bowl Magazine 7 Blood Bowl May
Blood Bowl Major Trophies Blood Bowl May
Necromunda Magazine 13 Necromunda May
Necromunda: Underhive Necromunda May
Goliath Gang Boxed Set Necromunda May
Goliath Champion Booster Set Necromunda May
Goliath Gang Booster Set Necromunda May
Orlock Gang Boxed Set Necromunda May
Orlock Champion Booster Set Necromunda May
Orlock Gang Booster Set Necromunda May
Hive World Battlezone Terrain Set Necromunda May
Secret Wars: Cirian Legacy Inquisitor June
Warmaster Magazine 17 Warmaster June
Skaven Clanrats Warmaster June
Skaven Jezzails Warmaster June
Skaven Plague Monks Warmaster June
Skaven Rat Swarms Warmaster June
Skaven Gutter Runners Warmaster June
Skaven Rat Ogres Warmaster June
Skaven Characters Warmaster June
Battlefleet Gothic Magazine 15 BFG June
Daemon Cruiser BFG June
SURFING THE WEB
All the specialist games have great websites full of free downloads,
resources
and up-to-date news. Here are their URLS:
www.BloodBowl.com
www.Mordheim.com
www.Epic40000.com
www.Necromunda.com
www.Warmaster.co.uk
www.BattlefleetGothic.com
www.Exterminatus.com
www.Specialist-Games.com
The websites now contain an article archive. This will tell you rules are
experimental, official or House rules. Some can be downloaded as free PDFs.
Check out the website for more details.
SPECIALIST GAMES MAGAZINES
Most of the specialist games have their own bi-monthly magazine, jam-packed
full of new rules, articles, letters and other cool stuff. Here's a list of
the magazines that are currently available:
Blood Bowl Magazine
Town Cryer Magazine (for Mordheim)
Necromunda Magazine
Warmaster Magazine
Battlefleet Gothic Magazine
Exterminatus Magazine (for Inquisitor)
Fanatic magazines are extremely popular and are always highly sought after.
The only way to guarantee your copy is to have it delivered to your door by
subscription! Subscriptions run for the next 6 issues, plus you get the
following benefits:
* Your copy delivered direct to your door
* You'll never miss an issue
* You'll save money on the postage
To find out about prices and availability you can visit your local Games
Workshop stockist, or contact your local Games Workshop Mail Order or visit
the Games Workshop on-line store at www.games-workshop.com.
LIFE IN THE BUNKER
Some highlights of life down in the Fanatic bunker over the last month:
* The Blood Bowl website now has a video of what happened at the Blood
Bowl tournament. Almost 200 Blood Bowl coaches and their teams arrived at
Warhammer World in Nottingham to vie for the chance of becoming the 2003
Blood Bowl champion. We had participants from all over the world - over
fifteen different countries were represented - and the final was won by
Marcos Tarrasso Ocana from Spain, with his team the Flatlined Annihilators.
Check out the video report at www.bloodbowl.com.
* The Epic: Armageddon rulebook is finally be finished and going into
it's production stage (that's when a team of highly paid editors and graphic
designers try to turn my badly spelled and incomprehensible text into
something that you guys can understand). If you want to find out more about
the Epic: Armageddon project than you can do so on the Epic website at
www.epic40,000.com.
* We've been having a lot of fun playtesting the Warmaster 'Mighty
Empires' campaign system. Veteran readers may well remember the first
version of Mighty Empires from waaay back when. In those days Mighty Empires
was a supplement for Warhammer that contained lots of hex tiles that could
be used to create a map, and then players fought games of Warhammer to
decide who controlled which bit of territory. The updated version remains
very true to the original, the main difference being that its for Warmaster
(well duh!), and that the tiles needed to play can be downloaded for free
from the Warmaster website and then printed out, rather than bought in a
box. You can find out more about Mighty Empires on the Warmaster website at
www.warmaster.co.uk.
QUESTIONS OF THE MONTH
Every month a message is plucked from the dozens sent to us to be answered
in the newsletter. This month I've decided to answer to commonly asked
questions.
"Most of the specialist magazines include experimental or trail rules. What
exactly are these? Are they official?"
We print experimental or trail rules to give players a chance to see what
we're working on in the Fanatic Studio and to have a chance to comment on
the rules, thus helping us with the development process. Fanatic is and
always has been a small team, and because of this we try to draw on the
experience of the players of our games to help speed up the amount of time
it takes us to play-test and refine the new rules we are working on. It also
has the added benefit of allowing us to bring out the models that go with
the rules slightly earlier, rather than having to wait for the finished
version of the rules to be ready, as players can made do with the
experimental rules until the finished rules are ready.
What the experimental rules do not represent is the final, polished version
of the rules - often they are very far from this stage when published.
Because of this they are not 'official' additions to the game. Instead they
should be seen more as a snap-shot into the rules as they stand at the stage
when the magazine comes out. Give them a try, and then send your comments to
us at the address below. Some of our websites now include 'play-testers
vaults' that have a forum where experimental rules are discussed and where
updated versions are posted that can be down-loaded for free. At present we
have vaults for Epic and Blood Bowl, but more are planned soon. You can find
the URLs for the specialist games websites in the 'Surfing The Web' section
of the this news page.
CONCLUSION
At that is all for this issue of Fanatic News. Please don't hesitate to get
in touch with us at fanatic@games-workshop.co.uk or write to us at Fanatic,
Games Workshop Ltd, Willow Road, Lenton, Nottingham, NG7 2WS, UK if you have
any comments, questions or suggestions about anything you've read.
Best regards,
Jervis Johnson
Head Fanatic
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