EditorialWD 480 · pp. 36–39
Richard Butler considers how readable models and believable interactions help players make decisions without continually breaking their concentration. Examples of silhouettes, armour, movement, interventions and Overwatch connect battlefield rules to expectations, arguing that a comprehensible game can remain tactically rich while supporting the absorbed state described as flow.
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EditorialWD 524 · Inside cover
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.
EditorialWD 523 · Unnumbered editorial
The editors introduce an issue devoted to Imperial and Chaos Knights and the new Iron Warriors releases, including the redesigned Defiler. They also explain the decision to publish Jamie Farquhar’s Iron Warriors collection as a tribute following his death in 2024: his conversions had already appeared throughout the magazine’s Arks of Omen storyline, but his whole army had never received its own feature.
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