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EDITORIAL·WHITE DWARF 318

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June 2006·pp. 48–49

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Jervis Johnson likens an expanding game collection to a child’s toy box: new pieces become more interesting through their relationships with the things already owned. Cities of Death exemplifies that principle through reusable buildings, optional stratagems and games that can begin with only a few ruins. He argues that the expansion’s lasting value lies both in the urban games themselves and in the terrain and modelling ideas it adds to ordinary Warhammer 40,000.

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Editorial: Cities of Death

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InterviewWD 318 · pp. 23–27

Cities of Death: Designer’s Notes

Andy Hoare explains how Cities of Death creates a distinctive urban game while retaining the existing Warhammer 40,000 rules. Unlike the earlier Cityfight approach, the predictable dimensions of the new plastic buildings let normal templates, coherency and movement do much of the work. Players then select a small number of stratagems to shape their own methods of fighting, from prepared positions to deployment tricks, with missions and hobby material supporting a themed battlefield without requiring an entirely new army.

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