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EDITORIAL·WHITE DWARF 339

Editorial: The Vampire Counts Rise

March 2008·Inside cover

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Grombrindal introduces a month devoted to the renewed Vampire Counts and promises investigations of their rules and visual identity. Their invasion supplies the narrative battle against the Empire, while other features revisit the earliest Warhammer 40,000 scenario and explore fast vehicles. The introduction also points Middle-earth collectors towards upgraded Mûmakil and the Studio’s Elf collection, maintaining its Dwarfen suspicion of both undead ambition and elegant pointy ears.

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CommunityWD 339 · pp. 12–13

Legions of Chaos

The preview announces simultaneous Daemon army books for Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, presenting the creatures as fragments of their gods’ wills released into the material world. Photographs introduce plastic Bloodletters and Daemonettes alongside a Beast of Nurgle. The shared release is framed as a major expansion of the Daemons’ independent identity in both settings, with the new books and miniature range scheduled for May.

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CommunityWD 339 · p. 14

Dawn of War: Soulstorm

Soulstorm expands the real-time strategy series with nine playable armies, new units for existing factions and airborne units able to cross previously impassable ground. Its campaign extends Dark Crusade’s territory system across a star system, while multiplayer medals add another measure of progress. The illustrated preview highlights Dark Eldar and aircraft, emphasising how the expansion changes movement and campaign scale as well as increasing the available forces.

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InterviewWD 339 · pp. 18–33

The Undying Lords

Andy Hall questions Gav Thorpe about giving the Vampire Counts a stronger identity and freeing players from rigid Bloodline categories. The new army treats its troops as a unified undead host, spreads marching support through Vampiric units and makes repeatable necromancy central to replenishing losses. Sculptors explain the archaic equipment and monstrous armour, before a sample army and painting advice translate those ideas into a collection. The result stresses powerful individual vampires directing a distinctive, magically sustained horde.

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