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EDITORIAL·WHITE DWARF 345

Standard Bearer: Specialist Games

September 2008·pp. 84–86

THE SHORT VERSION

Jervis Johnson explains how Specialist Games add depth to the settings and variety to playing, painting and modelling. Different scales and campaign structures reveal parts of the worlds that their main battle games cannot. He describes downloadable rules, web-based model sales and a planned full-colour catalogue as the support strategy, while acknowledging that new releases remain distant. The column is a contemporary statement of the range’s place in the wider hobby.

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