Petitioner's City

Unless there is an unlikely time jump, it is still set hundreds of years ago (before the ghosts, even!)

I feel these are strangely unnoticed! Friend of Arbiter Ian, Mira Manga, does fantastic interviews with the BL authors. Thought I'd create an archive of these here! Horus Rising with Dan Abnett False Gods with Graham McNeil The Ghosts with Dan Flight of the Eisenstein with James Swallow Fulgrim with Graham (Not BL) But Sir Ian Livingstone on his autobiography Dan on Legion Dan on Titanicus Chris Wraight on Valdor Graham on Mechanicum, the Last Church and the Kaban Project Mike Lee on the often critiqued but still worthy Fallen Angels Chris on Bloodlines James on Nemesis Graham on A Thousand Sons Dan on its partner, Prospero Burns Dan on the short story "Little Horus" Then the volume's editor Christian Dunn James on his short in it, "Liar's Due" The wonderful if reclusive Matt Farrer on Crossfire Graham on the Outcast Dead Gav entering the series to discuss Deliverance Lost Dan on Know No Fear Christian Dunn again on the Primarchs anthology James on Fear to Tread Dan on Double Eagle and Interceptor City. Such a brilliant oral archive of BL - please do listen, as I think we'd all enjoy these!

Wonderful interview (as always) by Mira Manga of Dan about both Double Eagle and Interceptor City.

Yes because know no fear was entirely relying on FW? Mark of Calth was entirely relying on FW? Censure? Macragge's Honour?

That makes me think of comparing it to Wargames monthly, which is also a bit(?) of a company magazine, and which benefits from being much more open-ended and varied?

I think the biggest sign of how ... Poorly focused WD is was the 500th issue. Barely a peep about Fantasy, the core of Warhammer, and its revival in Old World - just really another month of well-meaning but limited content focused mostly on 40k and AoS. I found it such a bizarre, sad decision to not have anything of any depth, or more than a mention, about what was and is Warhammer. It was just such a weird lack of content. The timeline was nice ... But also just so vacant. I still can't get over how much of a missed opportunity this was.

They haven't been "pulled" - all the books up to wood elves are available still from Warhammer digital! https://www.warhammerdigital.com/WHD-LP-The-Old-World The change is that the Matched Play Guide and Cathay are not available as ebooks, having come out on Saturday. Hopefully they are just delayed, and hopefully the same here too!

Yes that's the point of points. If they don't balance things vaguely accurately, they aren't doing their real job. Now this is something we haven't seen anything of yet, beyond the saturnine profiles - we don't know what things cost. Also we don't know the majority of rules, we've seen so little - so let's see what the next few weeks bring :)

Thank you for explaining more, that's so fascinating - would love to hear/read more about this & your work on it!

So you are forgetting several people, as @Joe mentions, but also get your history right! The first IA book Alan led on was Badab, but the "historical" style was long established by this point under IA's innovator and lead writer, Warwick Kinrade. The historical feels was also the models, which also has much to do with Cottrell and the others involved, as well as their love of genuine military history. Honestly all it takes is a good to realize the way people put everything to do with Forge World on Alan is deeply offensive to the fact he really only joined it long after the format and style and quality was deeply established. Bligh, and French and Hoare, were so perfect for IA, and then heresy, because they could write FW's established historical style so well. A style that begin in the softbound 2000 book, and really was established from Taros on. I think Alan's first contribution was late in Vraks, then Badab - he was a great successor as lead to Kinrade. But the black books were also Bligh and French initially, also current heresy honcho Andy Hoare, also Neil Wylie, etc. Beyond this you had so much also that was just FW of old that gets weirdly tied to Alan. Yes, along with ... Owen Barnes, Andy Hoare, John French, Adam Smile, & many other familiar - and unfamiliar - names. At FFG they hired these wonderful creatives as freelancers. No BI was before Alan was really a games designer (his earliest publications were for Specialist Arms, in articles his bestie John French was writing); FFG hired various peeps as freelancers, including Alan. This was one supplement by Bligh and French as leads: And here's RT's core book: Lots of familiar names, that can be easily found by googling @jaxom you should watch the voxcast with Andy Hoare where he talks about this, including FFG Again I really agree, but it's also that we forget Kinrade so much, as well as everyone else who worked on and established what IA was in its first decade.

Thank you for being positive about them - not sure my friends appreciate them!

I would suggest borrowing some of necromunda's well established tools for drawing your 'force' from your larger list - I sketched this up tonight after being very inspired by the step 2 possibilities. This hopefully would be very narrative and get away from the often deathmatch-esque games we play at heresy events?

AT I believe, long long ago, on twitch I think? A more cursory search revealed, for example, this!

This is stunning work Anton, absolutely fantastic!

So im curious how this affects things which formerly had relentless - ie jetbikes, termies, etc. Do they retain this, and thus always benefit from the Heavy (x) benefit? Even though, arguably, it's very hard to shoot from a fast moving bike, for example? (And somehow shoot the pistol too, and the other guns attached). Whereas being able to move and shoot heavy weapons, and suffer a slight reduction in accuracy - it almost removes the need for relentless?