Wintermute  05/03/2010 - 17:26  Games News   

Bör Dragonbane, celebrity Avatar of War is ready to join the fight!

Bör comes with optional mohican hairstyle, optional back banner and a dragon skull ... a "souvenir" from his last trip!

This model has been sculpted by me (Felix Paniagua)

I really hope it will be to your liking!

You can click this link which will lead you to the AoW online store

Thanks for looking!

Felix Paniagua

Wintermute  05/03/2010 - 11:23  Event News  Hordes  Privateer Press  Warmachine   
The Official European Hordes and Warmachine Team Challenge, takes place on July 3rd & 4th 2010, at “The Eye of The Storm”.

Our new national gaming venue is located in Mansfield, England which is right in the centre of the UK, and easily accessible from Europe via several major airports, as well as all road and rail links from entry ports on the east and south coasts of the country.

The event brings teams of 4 players working together to compete for the title of 2010 Hordes and Warmachine European Team Champions. Each member of your team plays 5 games over the weekend and at the end of each game the scores are added together to get a ‘team’ score. Teams then get drawn against each other using the Swiss system. Members from the UK tournament scene Team Octopii are to be thanked for the concept and their hard work creating a working rules pack.

The tournament is open to teams from all over Europe and is expected to be hotly contested as teams battle it out to see exactly who does “have a pair!”

This event has been sanctioned by Privateer Press as their official team event for Europe, and there are a lot of very experienced people working hard behind the scenes to bring this event to reality.

There are tons of fantastic prize support throughout this event and Privateer Press themselves are providing some really cool and unique prizes for the winners.

More details will unfold as the weeks pass by, in the meantime follow the links on the Maelstrom site to get your team tickets. They are on sale from tomorrow Friday March 5th.

Wintermute  04/03/2010 - 12:42  Event News   
Hello,

As I'm sure you know by now, I will be attempting the Welsh 3000s Challenge in late June with Siobhan, my better half, to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. The Welsh 3000s Challenge involves ascending all of Wales' 3000ft mountains within the space of twenty-four hours, which should take us just over seventeen hours to complete. We will be attempting the Welsh 3000s Challenge in memory of my uncle Stan, who passed away earlier this year after a long struggle with cancer.

I have set up a Just Giving sponsors page for anyone who would like to sponsor our attempt of the Welsh 3000s Challenge. You will need to quickly register with Just Giving, which should only take a few minutes. If you have already sponsored, then please forward this email on to other people, as any and all donations will be greatly appreciated by Cancer Research UK.

If you would like to promote, provide support, help out in any way, or even take part in any of the trial hikes we will be undertaking in the next few months, then please let me know as I would be most grateful for any form of support. A thread to discuss the Challenge on WarSeer can be found here.

Thank you,

Simon Tull
aka Lavfluris

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Simon & Siobhan’s Welsh 3000s Challenge
Fifteen summits in one day

Donations - www.justgiving.com/welsh3000s
Blog - www.welsh3000s.wordpress.com

Wintermute  04/03/2010 - 10:03  Games News   
Wayland Games are proud to announce the following:

Wayland Games are now the exclusive European distributor of Armorcast products, the first order is about to be placed and should be with us for Salute on 24th April. we hope you are as excited as us at the prospect of getting these brilliant ranges into Europe where they deserve success.

On another note, Wayland and Mantic have teamed up again to bring you free samples of Mantic figures.

If you go here: Fill in your details, you will be subscribed to both Wayland's and Mantic's mailing lists (of course you can unsubscribe at any time) but will also be sent a free Undead Ghoul sample by us.

More information about Wayland Games can be found here on WarSeer.

Wintermute  28/02/2010 - 12:18  Battlefleet Gothic   

Hello everyone,

and finally it has gone online: Warp Rift 27 !

In this rather long awaited issue we bring you articles about Admirals & Commanders with special rules, modified fighter & bomber rules and a Battlefleet Gothic related review about the Rogue Trader Role Playing Game by Fantasy Flight Games. Furthermore this issue has some large and special additions to the Tau fleet to see in the showcase section. Warp Rift 27 is rounded by the final part to 'the Ship' and a very useful campaign setting.

We can also report that all previous issues are available again.

Happy gaming, painting & converting,
Horizon

You can dowload Warp Rift 27 : here
(press F5 to update the page if issue 27 doesn't show immediately).

The WarSeer discussion on Warp Rift 27 can be found here

Wintermute  07/02/2010 - 12:42  Games News   
What is Geek Nation Tours?

Geek Nation Tours is a tour company dedicated to the geek in all his and her multifaceted interests. It creates holidays by Geeks for Geeks. GNT’s goal is to provide tours for like minded persons who, as defined by Wikipedia, have “a devotion to something in a way that places him or her outside the mainstream”. We want to give people the opportunity to revel in their Geekiness and to travel the globe seeking those things that they love to do.

Our tours include geeky conventions, tournaments and tours to places of historical significance to the geek. They will be joined by others just as interested in the tour, so not only would they have a holiday but also the chance to develop long lasting friendships. Geek Nation Tours will always include a tour coordinator travelling with the group to ensure everyone has a fun, safe and worry free trip.

What is Geek Nation’s “Geeking Out with Miniatures in the UK” Tour?

Every miniature wargaming geek's dream is to visit the United Kingdom. Here one can find a multitude of gaming related destinations plus they have really really great beer too. The tour will be focusing on all things the tabletop miniature Geek would love - miniatures, war memorabilia and history. Geek Nation Tours is proud to announce that we will be joined by the 40K Radio crew from www.40kradio.com.

Everyone is welcome no matter where you are. The group will meet in and leave from Toronto but Geek Nation Tours can arrange air from any destination in the world to there. We will also be posting “Land Only” prices shortly.

What is more, all of our tours include promotional draws that give the participants the opportunity to win great prizes prior to and after departure.

Join the Geek Nation as we explore all the miniature goodness the UK has to offer…

Where can I get more information?

We can be found at www.geeknationtours.com. The full itinerary and more details can be found there. Further if you have any questions about Geek Nation Tours please contact us anytime at headgeek@geeknationtours.com or post a comment here on WarSeer.

All the Best

Teras I. Cassidy

Wintermute  31/01/2010 - 11:35  Event News   
Maelstrom Games are pleased to announce the launch of our very own Event Forums. They are for the discussion of Maelstrom Events only, and allow us the opportunity of keeping players and hobbyists informed of all the exciting events which take place at The Eye of The Storm.

As our new venue becomes more and more established, we are conscious of the potential for our ever increasing range of events to start dominating the discussion forums of the independent websites. This is something which we do not want to happen so, for obvious reasons, we have decided to set up a separate location.

Wintermute  30/01/2010 - 10:18  PDF Magazine  Games News   

Hello all,

Once again the Dawi Zharr release another issue of the Word of Hashut, this time Issue #7 takes the Warhammer World by storm. Inside you will find the usual: awesome articles of chaos dwarf lore and other assorted sundries.

- Interview with Matt Bird and Kevin Coleman, creators of the Dwarfs of Chaos army book.
- Shadow and Flame the Graphic Novel of the Word of Hashut.
- Amazing minis
- Member Fiction
- A great tutorial on how to make your own bolt throwers.
- Golden Hat X
- Warhammer Quest Expansion Part I
- A great Battle Report featuring dwarfs vs chaos dwarfs in a Grudge Match.
- Creating your own Blood Bowl team

This is but just some of the articles and lore you will find. SO why don’t you stop by and download our free ezine dedicated to keeping the cause of the Chaos Dwarfs alive.

Willmark

The Word of Hashut Issue 7 can be downloaded from here

Wintermute  30/01/2010 - 09:22  Warhammer 40,000  Warhammer 40,000 Tactics  Games News   

The Starblade story started back in 2005 when I acquired my first Corsair Eldar Battlefleet Gothic models. Among them was the Flame of Asuryan, Yriel's Flagship. As I did not want to use an Iyanden or otherwise Yriel-led fleet I created my own admiral going by the name of Akaeris Starblade. Before the Spirit of Arina got its current name it went for a time by the name Cerulean Dream. But at the very beginning I created a background for Akaeris, which I wanted to tell in a linked set of scenarios. For some reasons, mainly because my skills in writing 'Eldar', the story never really progressed.

On dozens of papers I wrote tidbits and ideas for scenarios, the story itself only changed slightly from its original inception, but it was always more a lingering state then an active one. There have been times I did not touch the project for many months. At moments when I went back I only re-arranged scenario set-ups for most part.

It was only after Chris Lautermilch and I wrote the Art of Command and Distant Sun, the two supplements to Project Distant Darkness, I finally felt the click for Starblade in 2009. What also helped was the fan community at the Black Library forums (currently under construction, meanwhile you can go here). Through them my skills at writing (hopefully!) improved and suddenly I knew how I would want Starblade to take form: in the manifestation of a poem. Inspired by the Elves poems in Tolkien (I would never dare to say rivalling them) I wrote the Starblade poem within two weeks from the beginning to the end.

What is left to tell about the poem is that a small addition, maybe the final click, has rooted the story within the storyline Chris and I created for Project Distant Darkness. An ever-growing storyline, which gets more and more life into it, the upcoming supplements will finally reveal more about the direction we took within this storyline.

When the poem was completed I finally had the motivation to finish and clean up the scenarios I had in mind. And now it finally all came together. Starblade has been finished. I hope you will enjoy this piece in its finest essence as I have intended.

The Art
After the poem was written I felt it needed some fine crafted black and white art to make it come to live. On Deviant art I found some images, which I could use, but no Eldar ships. But on Deviant Art I also approached Karneth if I could use a picture from his gallery. His response was more then I could hope for! He offered to draw various new pieces for Starblade as well as Distant Sun, the sophisticated page design is also from his hand. In the end these new pieces, including various drawings of the Spirit of Arina, were so good and useful only two additional drawings by other artists, which I really liked, have been used in addition to Karneth's work.

In this Starblade publication I tried to give the art a fine treatment and prominent role. All in all I can say that I must thank Karneth immensely for his work, as this publication would only be a glimpse of what it now is.

Enjoy!
Horizon

You can download Starblade here

note: I advice to download the document and view it as a book. Thus start page 1, then page 2-3 next to eachother, then 4-5, etc.