WHFB: Skavenblight Gazette

Enjoying its second year of publishing Skavenblight Gazette has been going strong producing quality information about your favorite rat men. Each issue covers various topics from short stories to paint guides. Be sure to check them out. The current issue is #6

Skavenblight Gazette Issue 6

• Ask Seer Squeek
• Black Library – Grey Seer preview
• Cyanide Studio Interview
• Confessions of a Dwarf
  - Globadier painting article
• Do You Mind – Psycology tactics
• Clan Spotlight – Clan Sleekit
• Of Shadows and Death – Story

Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game

Fantasy Flight Games is  to release a new two person card game based off the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy Battle world.

The Invasion Begins…
The Old World seethes with ancient rivalries and boils in the cauldron of savage warfare. Enemies and allies alike face off against one another to settle ancient claims, and to live the glory of battle for themselves.

Brought to you by famed designer Eric M. Lang, Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game is a two-player card game of intense warfare, clever kingdom management, and epic questing. Players must carefully allocate their resources as they seek to build their kingdom, complete quests, and attack the enemy’s capital.

Will you play the indestructible grudge-bearing Dwarfs, the shrewd and manoeuvrable Empire, the savage and destructive Orcs, or the entropic and mutating forces of Chaos? Or will you cleverly craft an alliance, playing the combined might of the forces of either Order or Destruction?

Warhammer Invasion LCG Core Set contains:

• 1 Rulebook
• 220 Cards representing 4 factions
• 4 Capital Boards
• 35 Resource Tokens
• 60 Damage Tokens
• 4 Burning Tokens

40K: Planetary Empires

As a follow up to the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Mighty Empires, Games Workshop has released Warhammer 40,000 Expansion: Planetary Empires. Mighty Empires allows you to run a campaign using a click together map.

Planetary Empires allows you to create a complete Warhammer 40,000 planetary landscape that can be made and remade any number of times, and provides a way of playing campaigns and map-moderated games of various kinds. Designed to help you run evocative, narrative-driven campaigns, Planetary Empires gives you the chance to inject some character into your games of Warhammer 40,000.

This box set contains one Planetary Empires campaign set, including: 48 plastic snap-together hexagonal map tiles and a full rules booklet written by Rick Priestley and Jervis Johnson. Also included are: 12 Shield Generators, 12 Manufactorums, 12 Power Stations, 12 Command Bastions, and 96 Banner markers.

Note: This set is completely compatible with the Mighty Empire Campaign set

Army Builder V3.2

Army Builder V3.2 is in beta testing right now, and will be released sometime during July 2009.

New Features & Changes

• Save rosters to PDF – Email PDF rosters to tournament organizers or friends, to print out exactly like normal Army Builder printed output.
• Model list output – View the combined model list for your roster, including how many individual models of each type are required, and the equipment they need. Turn your roster into a “what-to-pack list” with a single click!
• Mobile friendly output – Save your roster to a “mobile friendly” output format, for viewing on your iPhone or other mobile device. Touch a unit name and it expands, displaying all the unit details – touch it again to hide it.
• Updated user interface – We’ve updated the user interface to take advantage of the larger monitors more prevalent today. Army Builder 3.2 is now optimized for viewing on a 1024×768 monitor, while gracefully scaling up and down to higher or lower resolutions as needed.
• Do more work with fewer clicks – The “New Roster” form, the starting page for all new armies, has been overhauled to make it easier to configure your roster. Choose a race or a predefined points cost with a single click. Ruleset information to configure your roster is displayed right there on the form.
• Added flexibility for common tasks – The Options list now displays every option in a tree structure, allowing you access to more options with fewer clicks. Any categories you’re not interested in can simply be collapsed and ignored.
• More information at your fingertips – Army Builder 3.2 gives you more information about your choices in several ways:
  • Composition group info windows now display the minimum / maximum counts for each category.
  • In the options list, right-clicking on an invalid option explains why it’s invalid.
  • Validation errors can now include more descriptive error messages.
• New interface design – Many buttons and other areas of the interface have been redesigned for a more modern, cleaner look and feel.
• New features for data file authors – Many common tasks for data file authors have been improved, reducing the workload for data file authors. Army Builder 3.2 also catches more common errors, resulting in quicker debugging time, and higher quality data files for the user.
• All this and more – Many other minor improvements are included, including validation icons at the top of printed output, improved text summary and BBCode output, optimized HTML generation, and more!

Other Details

Army Builder 3.2 will be a free update for users with an active Army Builder license. It will be released sometime during July 2009.

40K: Prayer to the Emperor

Games Workshop 40K fanfilm for Warhammer 40K, The Death Korps Trooper – Prayer to the Emperor

40K: New Today – Planetstrike

New Today: Planetstrike  Planetstrike is a new expansion for Warhammer 40,000, where attackers pour from the sky and defenders man guns on every rooftop. Desperate, frantic and bloody, Planetstrike offers a gaming experience like none before. Prepare for all out war where your actions will determine the fate of a world.   Warhammer 40,000 Expansion: Planetstrike Planetstrike is a brand-new way of waging war in Warhammer 40,000. This 80-page expansion book contains all the rules and information you’ll need to fight carnage-ridden planetary invasions where you can tear a planet from an opponent’s grasp or annihilate an army of invaders.   Spear of Sicarius 142 miniatures, one mission: overwhelm a defender and secure victory in Planetstrike. The Spear of Sicarius is the ultimate Space Marine set. Whether you want to add to your existing Space Marine force or start one, there’s no better set than this. Back to Top

Blood Bowl :Creator of Blood Bowl interviewed!

Creator of Blood Bowl interviewed
Jervis Johnson, the original creator of the boardgame, is interviewed by Gamespot about the video game re-creation of Blood Bowl by Cyanide!

Read the interview on Gamespot (in English)

 

 

 

40K: Advance Order IG

 

 

How To… The Citadel ‘How To’ books are comprehensive painting guides. Each filled with over 90-pages of advice, tips and practical examples; they are suitable for all levels of hobbyist and will improve your painting and modelling skills. Available to advance order now, the all-new ‘How To Paint Citadel Tanks’ is the latest addition to this range of hobby manuals. How To Paint Citadel TanksAlongside the personal tips of the Studio’s most experienced painters and modellers, this guide has all the information you’ll need to get the most from your tank kits. Advance order your copy today and learn the secrets of the world’s biggest treadheads. Citadel Spray GunAs you’ll see in the all new How To Paint Citadel Tanks book, the Citadel Spray Gun is an invaluable tool that will help you achieve a smooth finish on your vehicles. You can also use it to paint some great looking camouflage patterns. Back to Top

Tanks! Imperial Guard armies can field more tanks and fighting vehicles than any other army in Warhammer 40,000. Battle tanks provide your army with serious firepower and soak up enemy fire. Bolster your lines with the weapons and armoured bulk of these fighting machines that are now available to advance order. Hellhound Use the lethal inferno cannon of this vicious assault tank to incinerate enemy infantry: a high-strength template weapon, it allows no cover Save, and unless the foes in power armour they won’t stand a chance. This all-new plastic set also includes all of the bits to make the Bane Wolf or Devil Dog variant instead. Bane Wolf Even power armour is no defence against the poisonous gas cloud the Bane Wolf belches through its chem cannon. Devil DogThe powerful melta cannon mounted on the Devil Dog can tear through armoured battle tanks and even Space Marine Terminators in short order. Leman Russ DemolisherWhen you simply have to crack open a bastion or annihilate every enemy within range, you need the awesome firepower of the Leman Russ Demolisher. This all-new plastic set also includes all of the bits to allow you to make either a Punisher or Executioner variant instead. Leman Russ Executioner The Executioner plasma cannon fires multiple plasma bursts that can incinerate even the most heavily armoured infantry. Leman Russ Punisher No other tank in Warhammer 40,000 can spit out as much anti-infantry firepower as this Leman Russ variant. Back to Top

The Last Airbender – 2010

Dawn of War II: Map Editing Tool

Dawn of War II ‘There is Only War’ Update to include Map Editing Tool

There is Only War’ includes the official release of World Builder, the Dawn of War II map editor. Once the update is released, players can create, edit, and play on their own community-created battlefields.

World Builder lets you add victory points, power nodes, and requisition points under Urban, Desert, Tyrannoformed, and Jungle map tilesets. You can deform terrain, place cover objects, choose the weather, and define the size of the map. Maps can be released for two, four, or six players.