Wow

From fantasy flight games website

"On the thirteenth day of Secundus, the bombardment began…

In the greatest betrayal the universe has ever known, the Warmaster Horus – once humanity’s greatest general, now corrupted by Chaos – has turned against the Emperor and hurled the Imperium of Man into ferocious civil war. The galactic conflict has risen to its climax. The Warmaster’s ruinous legions have assaulted Holy Terra itself, the Emperor’s seat. Here the fate of humanity hangs in the balance during the greatest military campaign ever seen...

Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce an exciting new board game set to bombard your tabletop later this winter!

In the Horus Heresy board game, the most legendary battle in the history of the Warhammer 40,000 universe unfolds across the razed plains of Terra and in the frozen orbit above. Deadly fighting ranges from the Emperor’s golden Inner Palace to Horus’s flagship, the Vengeful Spirit.

Taking the side of traitor or loyalist, two players control either fearless Space Marine legions or deviant Chaos Space Marines, mighty Titans, Imperial Armies both loyal and traitorous, and a fearsome array of other units, including the Emperor and Horus themselves.

An innovative order and initiative system forces each side to carefully consider the commands they issue to their troops. A dramatic, card-driven combat system incorporates escalating damage, gives players the opportunity to allocate resources between attack and defense, and brings to bear the unique special powers of each unit type, from fortification-destroying Titans to the perverse daemons of Chaos.

This legendary tale of treachery and heroism is brought to vibrant life with over one hundred magnificent sculpted plastic playing pieces. The stunning three-dimensional map of Terra brilliantly portrays the landscape immediately surrounding the Imperial Palace, from the magma-filled crevasses to the fortifications that offer the Imperial player protection against both enemy assault and orbital bombardments.

Each one of these structures, as well as the Imperial Palace itself, have been expertly sculpted, and rise above the landscape to create a truly immersive experience. The fortifications of Terra have never looked more formidable! Once the board is set up with playing pieces and terrain for your first game, it will be a wonder to behold.

Horus Heresy includes six scenarios that differ in both difficulty and style. The first scenario, titled Brother Against Brother, is recommended for all new players as it provides predetermined starting locations for both player's forces. It is a well balanced version of the Battle for Terra, and also presents a roughly historical recreation of the conflict's events.

Head over to our Description Page to learn more, then prepare yourself for a battle that will shake the Imperium to its very core!

Horus Heresy is a board game that pits two players against each other to recreate the most famous battle of Warhammer 40,000’s rich history, in which the Warmaster Horus’s betrayal of the Emperor comes to its climax. Taking the side of either traitor or loyalist, players control a fearsome array of units, including the Emperor and Horus themselves. Brother fights brother, and the universe hangs in the balance!"

Great file purge 2009

From doingdoing, "Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players' aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces -- many of these created for long out of print, well-loved games."

This isn’t the first time GW have attacked their fans, a short time back they had a go at Librarium Online (read about that here), that was a little different as they argued that Librarium was making money from GW copy righted stuff.

Thant not want I want to say thought, it this Games Workshop don’t you see that the vast majority of your fan are that fan the type of people that will give up lodes of their free time to come player aids, to help others, maybe Games Workshop don’t get it that sites like those they have attacked help then, take for example the mystery box when news of that broke I know someone that booked the time off work to get down to a GW and pick one up. I’m not saying that anyone should make money of GW copyrights (other than GW) but whit out the internet and the play aids it gives use a lot of people would fine GW games a lot less fun.

What can we as fans do well I’m not too sure, but maybe if we all sent an email explaining that play aids are a good thing and don’t hurt there biasness it would be a start.

A Scientist at War

50th post and time for something diffrent.



In June 1940 my grandfather volunteered for the forces. Chemists were too valuable to be put on the front lines, and thus he found himself supervising the very dangerous manufacture of Cordite and Nitroglycerine. In October 2009, my godfather Kirk and I[Glyn] set out to re-trace his steps, and took an HD movie camera with us. I've taken the footage along with period film, audio and recently discovered period photographs to make a short documentary which you can watch on youtube.



If anyone has their own family story they want to share then please email or comment.

Port Wander Play Aid and other tools

Any one that has been following this blog ove the past mouth or so will by now know im pretty much obsesed with Rouge Trader (there will be a review soon promise) for those that not know its set in the Koronus Expanse.Port Wander is on the right with the arow (click on the map to downlode a lager image). As you can see it is the Gateway to the Expanse and for that reson it very important. So a thread got stared on fleshing out the detial at the fantasy flight games fourm this I have now put togeter in to a PDF you can get here .

A few more useful RT downlods can be found here.

Will you take the Risk

Sunday Wargames

This Sunday mighty empires shall be forged, heroic armies clash and one General shall stand victorious.

At this Sunday Wargames there will be 2 copy of the board game RISK thus allowing up to 12 players to carve their own empire (no experience required).

So come along and play, if you think you’re hard enough.

It would be helpfully not essential if you could leave a comment on the blog or Facebook if you would like to come and if you have another copy of risk you could lend for the day.

Rouge Trader Door Lock

Here a door lock I came up with solve the puzzel open the door.

The Trading Post Begins

Lampeter Wargames like to think of itself as a community and part of this is the selling, swapping and buying that take part whit in it. So now for the first time we are trying to expanded this to the wilder world, the idea is to set up a places for all your wargaming needs, somewhere you can go to sell stuff for cash or maybe dust off that old MTG collation and swap it for a few tactical squads, or maybe you just want to let people know that your willing to paint there models for cash.

Whatever you want try the Trading Post