EditorialWD 393 · p. 2
Andrew Kenrick introduces Dark Vengeance through the mutual hatred of its Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines. His enthusiasm for the new push-fit Chosen and Helbrute leads into the issue’s designer interviews, campaign battles and hobby projects, with a Space Wolves parade army and rival Vampire Counts and Bretonnian collections broadening the coverage.
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InterviewWD 393 · pp. 22–27
Simon Grant talks to Jervis Johnson, Jes Goodwin and Phil Kelly about a starter set whose named characters and opposing forces were designed around a connected story. Goodwin explains how a small elite Dark Angels force contrasts with numerous Cultists and warped, ancient Chaos Marines, while unusually intricate push-fit models retain dynamic poses with few components. Johnson describes the teaching booklet’s progression from basic lessons and solo missions to battles using the whole box; Kelly presents Cultists as the expendable mass that releases Chaos elites to attack.
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FictionWD 393 · p. 31
C. Z. Dunn’s first-person extract follows Sergeant Constantin Raphael as a fight with apparently insignificant Cultists turns costly. Autogun fire kills Regulus and knives find the gaps in Selaphiel’s armour, forcing Raphael to confront losses that dwarf his squad’s previous decades of service. His heightened perception of the fighting becomes grief and anger, revealing how easily the Dark Angels’ pride and desire for vengeance can shape a battlefield decision.
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