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Thinking Big!

July 2004·pp. 58–62

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Matt Keefe considers ways to create the feel of enormous battles without making every game impractically large. Multiplayer command, allied armies, divided deployments and expansive terrain each change the shape of the engagement. Contingents provide another option by breaking a normally selected army into subordinate forces with their own commanders and withdrawal conditions. The discussion links rules, collecting and scenery to a convincing sense of strategic scale.

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Mirkwood Errata

The correction supplies the Might, Will and Fate values omitted from the Mirkwood Captain’s earlier profile. It completes that optional hero entry with two Might, one Will and one Fate. The notice is short but necessary for playing the previously published force. It does not revise the captain’s equipment or the surrounding Mirkwood rules.

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RulesWD 295 · pp. 60–62

Contingents in Warmaster

The contingent system divides an army after selection into fixed groups containing troops and at least one character. Ordinary characters command only their own contingent, while the general can still issue orders across the army. Brigades cannot mix the groups, and losses can force one contingent to withdraw without immediately removing the rest. The rules represent a grand alliance whose component armies do not act as a perfectly unified body.

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ModellingWD 295 · pp. 60–62

Warmaster Terrain: Rivers, Villages and Forests

Tony Hardy’s scenery applies familiar terrain methods at a smaller scale. Foam banks and textured card produce rivers and fords, while buildings and trees grouped on shared bases suggest villages or woodland rather than isolated objects. A ruined house includes an interior and painted cotton-wool smoke. Smaller pieces such as carts, a forge and roadside remains demonstrate that reduced scale need not mean abandoning narrative detail.

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