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TABLE OF CONTENTS DISCLAIMER AND CREDITS ........................................................................................................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION FOR NEW PLAYERS ............................................................................................................................ 3 INTRODUCTION FOR OLD PLAYERS .............................................................................................................................. 4 BATTLE RULES .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 MOVEMENT PHASE .................................................................................................................................................. 9 TERRAIN ................................................................................................................................................................. 13 SHOOTING .............................................................................................................................................................. 17 MELEE .................................................................................................................................................................... 25 MORALE AND PSYCHOLOGY .................................................................................................................................. 29 VEHICLES ............................................................................................................................................................... -
Games Workshop Group Plc
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT GAMES WORKSHOP GROUP PLC For immediate release 26 July 2011 PRELIMINARY RESULTS 2011 Games Workshop Group PLC (“Games Workshop” or the “Group”) announces its preliminary results for the year ended 29 May 2011. Highlights • Revenue at £123.1m (2010: £126.5m) • Revenue at constant currency* at £122.8m (2010: £126.5m) • Operating profit - pre-royalties receivable at £12.8m (2010: £13.0m) • Operating profit at £15.3m (2010: £16.0m) • Pre-tax profit at £15.4m (2010: £16.1m) • Earnings per share of 36.1p (2010: 48.4p) • Year end net funds of £17.6m (2010: £17.1m) • Dividends per share paid in the year of 45p (2010: nil) • Proposed dividend per share of 18p (2010: 25p) Mark Wells, chief executive officer of Games Workshop, said: “2010/11 has seen satisfactory performance, driven by improved gross margins and good cost control leading to a healthy cash inflow. Although sales were down in the first half, Games Workshop delivered improved results in the second half as the focus on customer service training for Hobby centre managers and investment in new product development started to feed through into results. Games Workshop is in good shape. We know what we need to do to remain successful and to grow.” …Ends… For further information, please contact: Games Workshop Group PLC 0115 900 4003 Tom Kirby, chairman Mark Wells, chief executive officer Kevin Rountree, chief operating officer Investor relations website http://investor.games-workshop.com General website www.games-workshop.com The 2011 annual report may be viewed at the investor relations website at the address above. -
Liste De Jeux - 1/26 - Ambition Schmidt France G
N Nom editeur createurs An Num Lg Tr Min Max 1870 Descartes Jean-Pierre Defieux 1978 W 82 fr - 2 1806: Iéna, Campagne de Prusse (Jena!) Tilsit Ed Wimble 1997 W 71 fr - 2 1814: Six jours de gloire Tilsit Kevin Zucker 1998 W 61 fr - 2 1830 Avalon Hill Francis Tresham 1986 S 52 en fr 3 6 1862, The Battles and Leaders Series Simulation Design Incorporated Richard Berg, Thaddeus B. Kubis, 1990 W 99 en - 2 Robert G. Markham 1863: Chickamauga, la rivière de la mort Tilsit Gary Selrik , Stephen Rawling 1997 W 84 fr - 2 221b Baker Street: Master Detective Game Gibsons Games Sg 12 en - 2 6 2e D.B. 1 Normandie Descartes Jean-Jacques Petit 1983 W 32 fr - 2 4 7 Royaumes combattants (les) éditions du stratège Jean-Pierre Pecau, Jël Gourdon W 127 fr - 2 7 8th army: WWII desert campaign Attactix 1982 W 81 en - 2 4 A Game of Throne Fantasy Flight Games Christian T. Petersen 2003 S 305a en fr 3 5 A Game of Throne : A clash of Kings Fantasy Flight Games Christian T. Petersen 2005 S 305b en fr 3 6 A Game of Throne : A storm of Swords Fantasy Flight Games Christian T. Petersen 2006 S 305c en fr 3 6 Abalone Hasbro Michel Lalet, Laurent Lévi 1990 R 8 fr - 2 Accross 5 April Victory Games Eric Lee Smith 1992 W 48 en fr 2 4 Adel Verpflichtet FX Schmid Klaus Tauber 1990 S 92 de fr 2 5 Africa 1880 Tilsit Francis Pacherie 1997 S 28 fr - 3 6 Afrika: La guerre du Désert Oriflam Dean Essig 1994 W 134 fr - 2 Âge des dieux (L') Asmodée Edition Croc 2004 S 236 fr - 3 6 Age of Battles : the Battle of Marathon Zvezda W 122 en - 2 Age of Chivalry 3W Rob Markham 1992 W 65 en - 1 4 Age of Renaissance Avalon Hill 1996 S 142 en fr 3 6 Age of Steam Warfrog Martin Wallace 2001 S 259 en fr 2 6 Ages of Mythology Eagle Games Glenn Drover 2003 S 223 en fr 4 6 Aigles (les) Descartes J.m. -
Catalogue Download
Catalogue 168 pages of colour rich information with an introduction by writer Charles Singleton, this supplement for Pike & Shotte describes the history, armies, personalities and battles of the English Civil War. Included are detailed scenarios based on some of the most famous battles, complete with maps and orders of battle £22.50 SEASON OF BATTLE CARD FIELD OF BATTLE etc - One 54 card deck of wargames style battlefield maps. The FOB campaign System BUT USEFUL for ANY wargamer as a random Terrain Generator . £22.50 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SMOOTHBORE ARTILLERY (SMOOTHBORE ORDNANCE JOURNAL VOLUME 10) Summerfield, Dr S 143pp., 4to, fully illus., large format pbk 38 scale plans, 107 tables, 135 photos. of contemporary & surviving ordnance covers graphically & in detail every aspect of the vital smoothbore elements of ACW artillery. £20.00 AMERICAN REVOLUTION : THE FRENCH - COMMAND & COLOURS TRICORNE - COMPASS GAMES - - £82.50 Armies of the Medieval Italian Wars 1125-1325 - Ospery MAA 523- £10.99 ARMY OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1713-1772, PART I: INFANTRY FOR ORANGE AND THE STATES. THE - £17.50 BY FORCE OF ARMS - AUSTRIAN ARMY IN THE SEVEN YEARS WAR 2) Duffy Mint hardback £65.00 HANDBOOK OF THE BELGIAN ARMY 1914 Mint hbk facsimile of British General staff study £29.50 HUSSAR SERGEANT IN THE KING'S GERMAN LEGION: The Memoirs of Cavalry Sergeant Ebbecke, 2nd Hussar Regiment, King's German Legion 1803-15 - This short memoir of Sergeant Ludwig Ebbecke was published in German in 1851, but has never before been translated into English. He served at Stralsund, the Siege of Copenhagen in 1807, and was nearly shipwrecked on the passage back to Britain. -
Fictional Reality Issue 8
Fictional Reality June 2002 Issue 08 Table of Contents Ah, Summer in Texas. Actually, it’s not to bad right now, but by August we’ll be just dripping with sweat. I guess I’ll have to spend more time inside painting figures and Editorial / TOC 1 playing games. Well, that’s not all that will be taking up Standing Orders: Age of Battles 2 my free hours during the Summer. Baby Megan is Miniature Reviews preparing for her arrival and will join the rest of the brood Wizards of the Coast: Chainmail 5 sometime in late August or early September. That puts a Excelsior: Iron Claw 7 wee dent into my gaming and painting schedules, but also nixes any plans I had of attending Gen Con this year. If Rackham: Confrontation 8 anyone that gets to Gen Con this year would like to write Holistic Design: Fantasy Encounters 9 up a report I’d love to put it in the next issue. Next year Mithril: Lord of the Rings 10 may work out better for me anyway. My oldest son, Excalibur Miniaturen: Fearless 12 Bradley, has been gaming with my Dungeons and Pulp Figures: Lost Tribes / Personalities 15 Dragons group for a while now and has also been trying Reaper Miniatures 16 his hand at some painting. He’s getting the hang of things Larry Leadhead 11 and by next year he should be a pro. Ok, next year will be Game Reviews a go. We should actually start planning for it now. Road Games Workshop: Warhammer Skirmish 17 trip or catch a plane? Excalibur Miniaturen: Magic Challenge 18 Holistic Design: Fading Suns d20 RPG 19 Planning is a huge part of a rather large terrain building article this issue. -
Wohnzimmerkriege. Vom Brettspiel Zum Computerspiel 2008
Repositorium für die Medienwissenschaft Sebastian Detering Wohnzimmerkriege. Vom Brettspiel zum Computerspiel 2008 https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/1560 Veröffentlichungsversion / published version Sammelbandbeitrag / collection article Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Detering, Sebastian: Wohnzimmerkriege. Vom Brettspiel zum Computerspiel. In: Rolf F. Nohr, Serjoscha Wiemer (Hg.): Strategie Spielen. Medialität, Geschichte und Politik des Strategiespiels. Münster: LIT 2008 (Medien'welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur), S. 87–113. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/1560. Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer Creative Commons - This document is made available under a creative commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Weitergabe unter Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 License. For more gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Lizenz zur Verfügung gestellt. Nähere information see: Auskünfte zu dieser Lizenz finden Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Sebastian Deterding Wohnzimmerkriege Vom Brettspiel zum Computerspiel Wells könnte nicht rechter haben: Kriegsspiele wa- .»A game for boys from twelve years of age to one ren immer schon ›a boy‘s thing‹. Noch im Kinder- hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort garten schmiedeten ›wir Jungs‹ Stöcke zu Maschi- of girls who like boys‘ games and books.« nengewehren. Als Kinder schnippten wir Steine H. G. Wells, Litte Wars gegen Treibholz im Fluss und phantasierten da- bei von Flugzeugträgern und Kamikazes. Unser Taschengeld floss in Transparentbeutel gratiger Plastikheere in Grün, Braun, Grau (leicht entzündliche Heere, wie wir mit Freude und zum Unmut unserer Eltern bald herausfanden), und Playmobil gewann über Lego, weil es Gewehre und Pistolen hatte. -
Players Helped Develop Computer Games in Britain(Paul Mason)
A Case Study of the Influence of Fandom: How Role-players Helped Develop Computer Games in Britain(Paul Mason) A Case Study of the InÀuence of Fandom: How Role- players Helped Develop Computer Games in Britain Paul Mason Abstract Fandom is widely regarded as a form of excessive consumption, an essentially reactive activity. Work in the ¿eld of fan studies has drawn attention to its creative aspects, but these are still often deemed to be expanding on or embellishing the work of creative professionals. The present study explores the ambiguity of the boundary between fan creators and professional creators in order to illustrate how fans were instrumental in the creation of a new form of expression. It charts aspects of the history of computer games development in the UK, and shows how that development was driven by the interplay between fans and professionals in related ¿elds. Introduction In a basement room at a school in Britain in the early 1970s sits a strange machine. At ¿rst glance it seems to be a large typewriter, but closer inspection reveals it to be a teleprinter. It is connected to the mainframe computer of the city treasurer’s department. A schoolboy is operating the teleprinter, periodically typing in short commands, and then watching intently as the results of those commands are printed out: a grid formed of dots occasionally replaced by other symbols, with some terse accompanying text and data. The boy is playing Blake's 7, attempting to steer the spaceship Liberator and successfully defeat pursuing Federation craft. The teachers at the school are aware of student use of the computer terminal and its teleprinter, but allow it, perhaps because they are unaware that it is being used to play a game, or even because the whole concept of games using computers is so new that it has not yet been recognized as a bad thing. -
Campaigns of Legend Think ‘Battle of Legend’ but Even Bigger! by Ken South
Campaigns of Legend Think ‘Battle of Legend’ but even bigger! By Ken South With the Warmaster battles of legend series being a popular part 1 There will be no army definitive lists as such but there will be of the Fanatic literary arsenal I thought that it might well be notes of army sizes as well as sections covering special rules worth exploring the history of the Warhammer world and along with special units and special characters for each battle recreating some of the campaigns that have helped shape the in the campaign. Warhammer world, as we know it. 2 The battles and encounters featured in the col have all been Bearing that in mind I delved into deleted army books and referenced from existing Games Workshop material and as thumb worn copies of White Dwarf to find accounts of battles such was initially designed for Warhammer so although some long since forgot about yet so important to the world that is of the units mentioned may not be available you could convert Warhammer. or repaint existing models in the Warmaster range. The relentless wars of the Empire and the Orcs have been retold 3 The campaign system used to link the battles within the and reinvented since the earliest editions of the Warhammer campaign is the Warmaster adaptation of the Mighty Empires game so I thought that this would be a good place to start my that the late Steve Hambrook worked on. research and after reading trough many books now sadly out of 4 There will also appear army and allies rules this is to allow for print I came across the name Azhag. -
White Dwarf Index
NOTES ON THIS INDEX This Index lists the most important articles that have been published in White Dwarf from issue 68 to issue 251. There are several points that I would like to make about this Index. • The Index only lists the main articles published in each issue, it does not list the Games Workshop News, Mail Order or What’s Happening at the GW Stores (as features in these articles will be out of date and largely irrelevant). • From Issues 110 onwards all of the articles are categorised according to which game they are relevant to, there is a column for Warhammer 40,000 (commonly referred to as WH40K) articles, a column for Warhammer Fantasy Battle (referred to as WHFB or just Warhammer), one for Various Games (all of the other games WD features), one for Terrain articles (just terrain, not painting guides) and one for Miscellaneous Articles and Battle reports. For issues 102 and earlier there are only three columns. One for Various Games that are featured (including Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battle) one for Roleplay Games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (commonly referred to as WFRP) and lastly, one for Miscellaneous Articles and Battle reports. This is because, back then, there wasn’t always a WH40K and/or WHFB article. There was however, a plethora of other games produced by other companies as well as lots of Roleplay games that are just never seen now. If things carry on as they are, I might have to change the columns from Issues 248 onward to just include just WH40K, WHFB and Miscellaneous Articles, because that’s what White Dwarf seems to be completely dedicating itself to these days… • Since Games Workshop re-releases games every so often (generally Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battle), articles about such games are only relevant to the edition of the game that was around at the time when that issue was printed. -
WARHAMMER 40,000 in the DARKER MILLENNIUM by the Anonymous Screamer-Killer, Aka “Screaming ‘Nid Anon”
WARHAMMER 40,000 IN THE DARKER MILLENNIUM By the Anonymous Screamer-Killer, aka “Screaming ‘Nid Anon” Send all questions, comments, and playtest data via email “When the people forget their duty they are no longer to [email protected] . If you are sending human and become something less than beasts. They have playtest results, the more thorough you are, the more no place in the bosom of humanity nor in the heart of the useful they will be. Include the complete army lists, terrain Emperor. Let them die and be forgotten.” layout, and as much of a turn-by-turn breakdown as you — from Prime Edicts of the Holy Synod of the can manage. Photos would be excellent if you can provide Adeptus Ministorum them, but aren’t required! Welcome to the core rules playtest document for the Future changes to this document will be in red text , and Warhammer 40k remake project, Darker Millennium. What will be summarized here: began as a simple concept, to port newer factions and model lines back to the second edition, evolved into CHANGELOG something much greater. In the inal version of these rules, v1.00—Launch. I will include a full introduction here, but for now, let me summarize the goals I set out to accomplish: First, create a new Warhammer 40k that recaptures the deep lavour and immersive feel of the second edition, with support for newer models and factions that don’t have oficial rules from that era. Secondly, and this is where I must have gone insane, update the game’s mechanics to modern tabletop wargame design standards in terms of turn structure, activation and morale rules. -
The Newsletter Chief Muppet Managed to Survive Have Ended up Being Pushed As Always I’M on the Look out Christmas with My Sanity Back About a Month
The Sad Muppet Society presents... Issue 21, Winter 2005 T HE NEWSL ETTER THE MARATHON OF GLEBE THE SAD MUPPET SOCIETY G AMESDAY VI|NEWBURY NECRONS|CHEF’ S COOKER|THE LEAGUE 2004 O PEN TOURNAMENT II|GLEBE WARS|SQUIGGOTH 101 Page 2 Issue 21, Winter 2005 EDITIORAL Contents (THE RAT’ S RAMBLINGS) The Rat’s Ramblings 2 Happy New Year and Freeth for winning best I’m back! More rubbish welcome to the first sportsman in the 2004 from Chief Muppet Newsletter of 2005! league, and Matthew Pinto In order to work around a for finally claiming the Pixie Events Diary 3 few other things in my life Jam Trophy! Incoming 4 (Christmas, work, college, Well done guys! Regarding Retribution etc, etc), the publishing Richard Kerry and ASMOH 05 Despite everything, I’ve dates for the Newsletter Chief Muppet managed to survive have ended up being pushed As always I’m on the look out Christmas with my sanity back about a month. So the Muppet Army 6 for more articles so if you’ve intact, and Halo 2 finished! spring edition should be Got a painted army? got any new rules to test out, However, ten days away from rolling out in April, the Earn the kudos you want to review something, the office and I’ve managed Summer edition in July, and deserve! write a story, or have any to paint approximately one the Autumn edition in other interesting article in Gamesday 6 7 model. October. Sorry about that buts that’s the way the mop mind, email me and you Nick examines the Hum, that next army may might see it in here next flops. -
001 Dub Front Page
TM Da Uvver Book By Andy Chambers & Gavin Thorpe Rick Priestley & Andy Kettlewell Book cover: David Gallagher Artwork: John Blanche, Wayne England, Des Hanley, Neil Hodgson, Toby Hynes, Paul Smith & John Wigley. PRODUCED BY GAMES WORKSHOP Citadel & the Citadel castle, ’Eavy Metal, Games Workshop & the Games Workshop logo and Warhammer are all registered trademarks of Games Workshop Ltd. Codex, Digga, Digganob, Gorkamorka, Gretchin, Grot, Mekboy, Necromunda, Nob, Ork, Spanner, White Dwarf and Yoof are all trademarks of Games Workshop Ltd. All artwork in all Games Workshop products and the images contained therein have been produced either in-house or as work for hire. The exclusive copyright in the artwork and the images it depicts is the property of Games Workshop Ltd. © Copyright Games Workshop Ltd, 1997. All rights reserved. ‘Scatter’ dice are UK registered design no. 2017484 Sustained fire dice © Copyright Games Workshop, 1997. British Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. R UK US AUSTRALIA CANADA HONG KONG GAMES WORKSHOP LTD. GAMES WORKSHOP INC. GAMES WORKSHOP, GAMES WORKSHOP, GAMES WORKSHOP, WILLOW RD, 6721 BAYMEADOW DRIVE, 23 LIVERPOOL ST, 1645 BONHILL RD, 2002-2006, LENTON, GLEN BURNIE, INGLEBURN, UNITS 9-11, MISSISSAUGA, HORIZON PLAZA, NOTTINGHAM NG7 2WS MARYLAND, 21060 - 6401 NSW 2565 TORONTO L5T 1R3 LEE WING ST, AP LEI CHAU PRODUCT CODE: 60 01 04 99 001 PART NUMBER: 60 31 04 99 003 ISBN: 1-872372-55 4 INTRODUCTION Welcome to Da Uvver Book! In these pages you will find more information about Gorkamorka: its battling mobs and other denizens.