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5 days ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
Is Warhammer 40k’s Emperor of Mankind actually Jesus? In a sci-fi setting packed with utterly bizarre bits of deep lore, this might be one of the very weirdest – but there is, in fact, a tiny hint that it could be true. We’ll emphasise that, to the best of our knowledge, no Warhammer 40k Codexes, rulebooks, or tie in novels ever suggest that the Emperor of Mankind is connected to the Christian messiah. There is no Abrahamic creator god in the Warhammer 40k universe.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
Star Wars: Battle of Hoth is a brand new strategy board game that will use the same popular Commands & Colors rules system found in the evergreen hit Memoir ‘44. Publisher Days of Wonder has spent days teasing fans with cryptic images on social media that hinted the game might be coming – on Thursday it uploaded crystal clear images to specialist site Board Game Geek that confirmed what fans had hoped.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
If you’re a fan of massive computer RPGs, or the grim darkness of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, then we’ve got a treat for you.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
If you’re a dedicated Warhammer 40k player who doesn’t have the time to get into another wargame, you may have looked on with longing in your heart when Games Workshop revealed the truly gorgeous forces of Grand Cathay at Adepticon last month. If so, you can stop your pining now – a fan creator has written an entire Codex dedicated to using those models in games of Warhammer 40k. The premise for translating the army to the Warhammer 40k universe is pretty simple.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
On Tuesday we felt a great disturbance in the Star Wars Legion fandom, as if thousands of Empire players cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. The finalised rules for the new edition of the Star Wars miniature game have been published, and Emperor Palpatine and the Imperial Royal Guard are no longer part of the game. Atomic Mass Games released the updated version of the rules for Star Wars Legion on its website on Tuesday – we covered the changes to the core rules in this article.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
Star Wars Legion has finally made the leap to a new edition after a long period in limbo, with the finalised version of the core rules and updated unit cards now available to download from publisher Atomic Mass Games’ website. AMG detailed some of the most pressing changes in a Developer Update: here’s what you need to know about the changes to the core rules. Star Wars Legion has been experiencing growing pains as it makes the transition to an upgraded rules set.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
Unfathomable, a cooperative board game about surviving an attack by eldritch horrors while hidden traitors lurk in your midst, is currently on sale for just $44.99 on Amazon.com. It’s a fantastic game, taking the rules engine from the out of production Battlestar Galactica board game and moving it into the Lovecraftian Arkham Horror setting.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
Why didn’t the eagles just fly the One Ring to Mount Doom? They were too busy dominating the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game tournament scene, trouncing all comers in the Warhammer-style miniature wargame set in the Tolkien legendarium. Eagle armies have become extremely powerful thanks to changes in the latest edition of the rules, which make them a force to be reckoned with in tournaments.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
Games Workshop has, unexpectedly, revealed an updatedmodel for the Space Marine drop pod, replacing a kit that entered the Warhammer 40,000 range in 2008. The new drop pod will be sold in a pack of two vehicles, and is now fixed in its ‘open’ position. The drop pod is one (among many) bits of technology that Warhammer 40k cribbed from Starship Troopers – a metal casing complete with rocket boosters used by the Space Marine chapters to deploy their forces directly into battle from orbit.
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1 week ago | 
wargamer.com | Timothy Linward
On Thursday April 10, Days of Wonder shared a sneak peak of an upcoming game on its Facebook channel, a single picture of a game board divided up into icy hexes and a few cards backed with the logos of the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire. Fans were immediately excited: could this be a new Star Wars game using the hugely successful Memoir ‘44 rules system, set during the battle of Hoth? If it is, this could immediately be one of the best Star Wars board games ever.
