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The Battle of Black Skies

August 2023·pp. 22–23

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This historical battleplan recreates Archaon’s confrontation with Nagash outside Nagashizzar. When the two leaders engage, lesser units must clear their duel or be destroyed, while Shyish damages non-Death forces and slaughter strengthens the attackers. Victory ultimately requires killing the opposing supreme commander, making the huge personalities at the battle’s centre more decisive than ordinary objective play.

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CommunityWD 491 · pp. 4–7

Contact

Readers describe arriving at Warhammer through fiction, building an original Necron dynasty with family and expanding a Crusade campaign into several subsectors. Andy Muscarello’s Orks, Harry Spry’s Karmon Dynasty and a competition Contemptor illustrate different starting points. Replies also explain Realmscape stone and bronze recipes and why Yvraine’s bond to Ynnead cannot simply be taught as a psychic technique.

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PaintingWD 491 · p. 6

Painting Question: Realmscape Terrain

Nathan Trolley explains the studio Realmscape buildings’ pale stone and bronze cladding. Diluted washes over Grey Seer shade the masonry before drybrushing and matching edge highlights restore definition. Bronze receives layered recess colour and bright metallic highlights; the answer specifies heavily diluted paint-medium washes, with the cladding glaze instead feathered out using water.

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RulesWD 491 · pp. 20–21

Amidst the Maelstrom

A warp storm makes armies unusually dependent on their characters: leaders resist its horrors better, while losing a warlord forces widespread Battle-shock tests. Players score for occupying several objectives and for destroying enemy characters, with a further reward for leaving none on the battlefield. The mission turns the protection and elimination of command figures into a parallel contest alongside ordinary territorial control.

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