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Into the Gnarlwood: A New Edition

September 2022·pp. 90–99

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Sam Pearson introduces Warcry’s move to Ghur and the changes built around reactions, flexible quests and short linked campaign arcs. The development account explains revised resilience, damage, mobility and points calculations across the Compendium, showing how individual fighter adjustments and stronger original warbands aim to make old collections useful in the new setting.

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TacticsWD 480 · pp. 52–57

Operation Briefing: Into the Dark

Elliot Hamer explains how modular walls, hatchways and cramped rooms reshape Kill Team aboard the Gallowdark. Restricted sight lines reward area control, support operatives and appropriate weapons, while the Guard action interrupts familiar activation habits by letting an operative reserve a response to later enemy movement or combat.

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TacticsWD 480 · pp. 86–89

Rules of Engagement: Pitched or Casual?

The column shows how players can tailor the third edition’s numbered rules and battlepacks to their experience and available time. Removing or gradually reintroducing heroic actions, terrain effects, rampages and scoring layers creates a learning path, with sample sequences encouraging agreed experiments rather than assuming every game needs maximum complexity.

Age of Sigmar
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TacticsWD 524 · pp. 66–67

The Hive Volcanus Rapid Defence Force

Grant assembles an improvised Armoured Infantry defence around Commissar Graves, mixing Cadian and Krieg squads in Centaurs and Chimeras with Hippogriff armoured fighting vehicles. His plan uses transports and infantry to obstruct the Orks’ route, with a Rogal Dorn acting as a final goalkeeper against anything that escapes the line. The army is chosen to suit the story of delaying Wazdakka while Yarrick travels towards Death Mire, rather than as a detached competitive exercise.

Warhammer 40,000Astra Militarum
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