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INTERVIEW·WHITE DWARF 339

The Undying Lords

March 2008·pp. 18–33

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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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Editorial: The Vampire Counts Rise

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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TacticsWD 339 · p. 21

Starting a Vampire Counts Army

The thousand-point example begins with the infantry supplied by a battalion and two Vampires whose powers support different units. Dire Wolves provide speed, Grave Guard add a tougher fighting element and the Zombies supply cheap numbers. Gav suggests replacing one Vampire with the battalion’s Corpse Cart as an alternative. The list illustrates his broader advice to combine fear-causing infantry with enough Vampires to sustain both its magic and movement.

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