Games Workshop Pre-Orders: ‘Pricing & Links’ – White Dwarf & Other Reading Material
It’s an actual slow week from Games Workshop which is a perfect time to pick-up some good reading material!
via Games Workshop
White Dwarf 491 $11
White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing monthly content – including new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests, and more.
Here’s what you can look forward to in the August issue:
Contact!
Letters, questions and pictures of miniatures sent in by you, our readers.
Worlds of Warhammer
What inspires the start of a Warhammer collection? Andy Clark investigates.
Inside the Studio
A look at the models we’ve painted and the games we’ve played in the studio this month.
WHITE DWARF BUNKER
Access Granted!
An introduction to this month’s action taking place in the White Dwarf Bunker.
Challenges
What will you paint for the Leaders and Heroes painting challenge?
The Combat Patrol League
The studio satellite’s Combat Patrol league is now running at full tilt. How is yours going?
Scenario of the Month
New scenarios for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar, plus a Warhammer Underworlds league. Includes the Amidst the Maelstrom Scenario for Warhammer 40,000 and The Battle of Black Skies for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Also includes guidance for running a month-long league for games of Warhammer Underworlds: Wyrdhollow.
Basic Training
Gaming and tactical advice. This issue: coming up with a battleplan in Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Features Jimbo Warth, a games developer in the Age of Sigmar team.
Hobby Hangout
Regular army painting advice. This time, we look at getting Space Marines ready for battle.
Satellite Uplink
News and painting challenge entries from Bunker satellite clubs around the world. Features Bunker of the Month: Etone College and Leaders and Heroes from staff and readers.
WARHAMMER 40,000
A Tale of Four Warlords
The warlords complete their Combat Patrols and get their first games in.
Galactic Warhosts: T’au Septs
Embrace the Greater Good and bear witness to this gallery of beautifully painted miniatures.
Crux Terminatus
A treatise on the ultimate in personal protection: Tactical Dreadnought armour.
WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR
Ark Arkana: Grand Enclave
A disquisition on the structure, traditions and personages of the Conclave of Hammerhal. A massive lore article with background on numerous individuals within Hammerhal.
Rules of Engagement
How does the background of the Warhammer settings influence the rules for the games? Louis Aguilar, a games developer for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, investigates.
Illuminations: Celestial Enlightenment
The studio artists explain how they approach illustrating the enigmatic Seraphon.
Harbingers of War
The miniatures designers share their insights on the Dawnbringers Harbingers.
Turn of the Wheel
A loyal soldier of Hammerhal brings news from the front lines of a Dawnbringer Crusade.
WARCRY
Might and Madness
Quests and campaign rules for Stormcast Eternals and Flesh-eater Courts in Warcry. Includes some of the rules content from Nightmare Quest, provides the Questor Soulsworn and the Royal Beastflayers, each with three Quests and associated Rewards and a collection of Background Tables. Also features the rules for the Realmshaper Engine Gnarlwood Terrain.
WARHAMMER: THE HORUS HERESY
Born of War
Introducing the Inductii – a gallery of new recruits for the Horus Heresy.
BLOOD BOWL
The Forge Bowl Continues
In part two of this series (or should that be season?) we find out the winners of the league.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Black Library – The Light of the Emperor
In this short story, Ultramarines fight to protect a band of zealots from rampaging Tyranids. Written by Darius Hinks.
Each copy of issue 491 also comes with card inserts, including a double-sided rules reference sheet for the new edition of Warhammer 40,000, two new Bunker scenarios – one each for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar – a set of cards for the Bunker Warhammer Underworlds League, and two Bunker achievement cards.
Godsbane (Paperback) $17.99
Warhammer Age of Sigmar Novel
The Mortal Realms are rich with history, ancient sagas, and mythical beings. Often, the events and objects of the past persist as stories, embellished for so long their veracity cannot be verified. The loreseekers of the Lumineth Realm-lords dig into these ancient stories, and sometimes discover them to hold a certain amount of truth…
READ IT BECAUSE
Settler’s Gain in Hysh is a fascinating place, and this story gives you insight into the complicated social networks of the Mortal Realms, as well as simple ways large-scale wars often begin.
THE STORY
In eldritch days long lost to memory, those desperate to escape the cruelties of the gods forged a terrible weapon. Capable of granting the humblest mortal the power to stand against the might of the divine, it came to be known as Godsbane.
For Thelana Evenfall, Lumineth loreseeker and tutor at the Lyceum Fundamental in the city of Settler’s Gain, the weapon is a footnote – the shadow of a rumour buried under mountains of long-forgotten lore. But when whispers of its whereabouts resurface, the vying factions within Hysh emerge to claim its power. From trusted allies to insidious cults, Thelana must navigate a treacherous landscape of clashing armies, political machinations and betrayals within betrayals, all in a desperate effort to defend the powerless from the all-powerful and to ask the unanswerable question:
Who is worthy to wield Godsbane?
Written by Dale Lucas
Realmslayer: Legend of the Doomseeker (Limited Edition) $75
A Gotrek Gurnisson Novel
The Slayer returns. Spat out of the Realm of Chaos after an eternity of battle, Gotrek Gurnisson finds himself in the unfamiliar surroundings of the Mortal Realms. With no axe, no oaths and no Felix, he sets out to find his place in this new universe…
READ IT BECAUSE
This is the novelisation of the Realmslayer audio dramas, spinning yarns of exhilarating adventure that take Gotrek across the realms and introduces him to new companions and enemies.
THE STORY
Gotrek Gurnisson was the greatest monster slayer of the age, who met his doom at the End Times. The heroic Slayer stepped forth into the Realm of Chaos to fight the daemons gnawing at the world’s ending and satisfy his death oath, leaving behind his companion Felix Jaeger. Now Gotrek has returned, having outlived the old gods and the Old World. Spat from the ruinous depths with his redemption unfulfilled, he emerges into the Mortal Realms, a strange new world where gods walk the earth and dark forces are ascendant. Nothing is as he remembers. His oaths are dust, and the lands are torn asunder by Chaos. Yet when Gotrek learns of human champions being elevated to immortality for Sigmar’s fight against this darkness, the so-called ‘Stormcast Eternals’, he knows why fate has brought him into this new age. To find Felix. For only then can he find the peace in death he seeks, but is there more to Gotrek’s apotheosis than even he can fathom? Has he truly been chosen by Grimnir, and for what purpose?
Written by David Guymer.
ABOUT THIS EDITION
This striking Limited Edition hardback celebrates one of the most beloved characters in Black Library history with loads of special features. Cloth covers and a leather-effect spine feature gold foil details, and the front cover also houses a metal medallion portrait of our hero. Runes are debossed into the cloth cover, and the page edges are coloured a rich orange-toned tan, complemented by a golden-orange ribbon bookmark. Inside, you’ll find full colour artwork, a signed cover page numbered from 1 to 1,250, and an author’s forward exclusive to this book. There’s also a short story, One, Untended, included in this edition.
Time to sit back and enjoy some light reading!
