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EDITORIAL·WHITE DWARF 459

The End Is the Beginning

December 2020·p. 1

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The editor looks towards a new year through hobby resolutions and the pleasure of setting ambitious collecting goals. His plan to prepare a small force for every current Warhammer game leads into the magazine’s Hobby Bingo challenge, inviting readers to track progress and compare their achievements with the team throughout the year.

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EditorialWD 459 · pp. 34–37

Rules of Engagement: Player Feedback

Louis Aguilar explains how questions and play experience become designers’ commentary, errata and scheduled balance reviews. The Seraphon Realmshaper Engine provides a worked example of testing intended use against actual deployment rules, while practical submission advice helps players provide specific, useful feedback instead of leaving developers to guess the problem.

Age of Sigmar
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EditorialWD 459 · pp. 82–85

Echoes from the Warp: Nine Small Changes

Robin Cruddace examines less conspicuous ninth-edition changes whose effects spread through the whole game. Modifier limits, coherency, engagement range, fighting order and Combat Attrition illustrate efforts to make units behave plausibly and keep interactions manageable, while the new Command phase provides room for abilities in future army books.

Warhammer 40,000
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EditorialWD 524 · Inside cover

The Hobby Pillars

The editorial uses modelling, painting, gaming and reading as the four pillars that support the hobby. It introduces the issue through concrete examples of each, from converted Knights and Battlemages to Speed Freek painting, a vehicle-heavy battle and the concluding instalment of the Chronicles of Bain.

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