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Big News on the Warmachine Front!!
Feb 4th
What a way to start the weekend for all you war machine fans, 3 huge announcements from Privateer Press.
First up COLOSSALS!!!
PP announce their next BIG expansion for war machine, called Colossals, which introduces Massive new warjacks to the system. These warlocks will sit on battle engine bases & are 3 times the size of normal warjacks.
Next up is Iron Kingdoms
“It is a land like no other, a place where steam power and gunpowder meet sword and sorcery.
The Iron Kingdoms possess a rich history—and a tumultuous future—full of unique monsters, deities, heroes, and villains. Immerse yourself in the detailed world of gritty conflict and sorcery with the Iron Kingdoms RPG. Unleash the power of mechanika, the fusion of magic and machine. Take on the persona of unique character classes, like the gun mage who combines powerful magic with a deadly acumen for firearms or the steamjack-commanding warcaster. Travel through a fantastic world that takes classic fantasy concepts and gives them a new twist with a high-octane rush of steam power and industrial engineering.
Prepare yourself for an experience like no other.
The world of the Iron Kingdoms awaits!”
The role playing game that spawned Warmachine and Hordes, is relaunching this summer with a whole new rule set, based on 2d6 mechanic similar to whats used in the tabletop game. I for one can’t wait for this, there will be plenty of powder kegs for all!!!
Last but not least, War Room
PP’s new war machine app for building lists, tracking damage & keeping up to date with rule changes
- Army Creation Workshop: Players can select their faction and game size and then choose their warcasters and warlocks, warjacks or warbeasts, units, solos, and battle engines to create valid lists, all within the War Room application.
- Full Card Display: Model stat cards are shown exactly as they are printed, so players can reference them easily and with the same confidence as printed cards.
- In-Game Status Tracking: In-game damage and status tracking will give players immediate and easily accessible information on every fighting model in their command.
- In-Game List Sharing: Lists will be sharable between every player using War Room in the same game so they can quickly access each other’s model status and abilities, allowing players to keep their focus on the tabletop action.
- Turn Clock: This optional player-initiated feature allows players to keep individual turns fast but fairly apportioned.
The base app is a free download and contains cards from all current WARMACHINE and HORDES starter products.
Full faction decks for both WARMACHINE and HORDES will be available as additional downloads for $6.99. Every deck will include all currently released stat cards for that faction as well as new model updates for the life of the current rules set.
Very interesting idea about instant update to rules & errata! Cant wait to check it out
Upcoming Warmachine/Hordes Tournaments
2012 is of to a great start for Warmachine and Hordes, a great turn out for Warpcon’s war machine tournament & a big congrats to Neil Kettles & his Retribution of Scryah army for taking the win in his first Irish tournament, great stuff.
But whats next? Well the next 2 tournaments coming up for Warmachine are just around the corner:
February 12th in Gamers World – 50 Point Tournament, SR2012 – Starts at 10pm for registration & costs 10 Euro entry - Details
March 3rd nd 4th in Trinity College – Irish Masters – 35 Point Tournament (including 7Point reinforcements) – Entry from 15 Euro - Details
Looks like its going to be a busy couple of months, can’t wait!
Hope to see you all there!
Ciaran
Irelands First 50 Point Wm/Hordes Tourney Sunday 12th Feb Gamers World
Time to Man up and bring the Pain!
Less than 2 weeks to go!!!
Irelands First 50 Point Warmachine/Hordes Tourney Sunday 12th Feb Gamers World
50 points of metal crashing against beast!
Unleash the full might of your army on your foes!
This will be the first tournament of this size being run here & will run the finalised steamroller 2012 rule set.
When – 12th Feb 2011
Where – Gamers World, Dublin
Cost – Euro 10
Prizes – 1st, 2nd, and a variety of others/spot prizes
Players – Max 20
Rounds – 4 rounds
System – Steamroller 2012
Pre-booking available – email me/pm me and i will send on the details
35 Point Warmachine/Hordes Tournament 10th December, Gamers World
Nov 23rd
There will be a 35 Point Warmachine/Hordes Tournament on Saturday, 10th December in Gamer’s World Dublin. Full details are:
What: Steamroller 2012 Beta Tournament (SR2012 Beta Rules (PDF); NOTE – these rules are beta and subject to change. They will be removed from the site after the tournament.)
Where: Gamers World, Dublin
Date & Time: 10/12/2011. 11am hard start, registration begins at 10:15 AM.
Entry Fee: €10.
Points: 35 points, two lists (optional). Lists must be written. If taking a theme force, players are required to bring a copy of the theme rules. Note: Reinforcements will not be used in this tournament.
Restrictions: Models or Units with FA:C cannot be in both lists. For the purpose of regular versus epics, epic models are considered to be different characters than their regular versions.
Timing: 10 minute timed turns (standard for 35pts is 7 minute timed turns, but I’m relaxing it for this one)
Tie-breakers: For the tournament, if there is no outright winner, Control Points will be tiebreaker. Second tiebreaker will be Army Points.
Prizes will include best general, 2nd place and a few spot prizes.
See you all there.
Owen
Operation square-based-non-ork-though-still-has-ork-like-things-in-it-dweller-hammer…
Sep 3rd
…ok so maybe it needs a better name but it is what it is!
The Test model is done up for for my first venture into square hammer & I’m fairly happy with it so far.
What do you think?
Test Ogre
I’ll put more photos up as i go along
Warmachine Demo Days
Jul 28th
Warmachine Demo Days
Ciaran here, just a quick note to anyone thinking of trying Warmachine & Hordes, Owen Conlon (a fellow Pressganger) and myself will be running demo games in Gamers World, Dublin on the following days:
Tuesday 2nd August from 4pm
Wednesday 10th August from 6pm
We will have a mix of all the different factions, so you don’t need to bring anything. Though if you have a battle box already that you’d like to try, bring it along.
I have some copies of the Quick Start rules, which you can also get here -
Let me know if you’re interested. Spread the word!
Ciaran
Warmachine 101
Jul 27th
Hey Guys
Welcome to the first Warmchine 101 Blog. My name is Ciaran and I am a Pressganger for Privateer Press, basically a volunteer to promote the game, and run demo’s and tournaments. I was recently asked a couple of questions about getting into Warmachine and Hordes so i though i would put them up here for anyone else that may be interested.
Q1) Which book is used for building armies? We noticed there are several profiles for the same units in say the Forces books, the Wrath book, and the Prime MkII book (though there are some units in some that aren’t in the others). So which one do we use?
A1) Unlike 40k/fantasy, Warmachine & Hordes doesn’t use codex’s for armies. Traditionally all armies are updated at the same time with a major book release, ie wrath for warmachine & the upcoming domination for hordes. There are army books out for all the factions, but this was done to update all the mark 1 model rules to mk2 & to consolidate all the old books into easier to manage/transport books for players. With regard to what books to use, its quite easy as you can use any of them in any combination, as long as you follow the standard allocation rules found in Prime/Primal. For people starting off I would try to keep it simple and use either Prime or Primal for unit choices until you get to grips with how the system works & then you can experiment with any of them
Q2) What is the standard points people play? None of us are likely to play on the tourney scene any time soon but starting on the same footing as everyone else would be handy.
A2) Standard games are either 35 (most of the tournaments i run ~ 1500pt 40k game) or 50 points (larger & more toys ~ 2000pt 40k game). Best thing to do for starting off is play 15 point games – which conveniently is what the battlebox/starter sets are worth. After that try add in a unit or 2 & play 25 point games to build yourself up. The game scales quite well & there are tournaments designed around starter set size games
Q3) Where can we find the points costs for each unit? For all the profiles found across books, we didn’t see any points values or anything similar system.
A3) Point cost is on all the model cards & should be in all the books. Generally your warcaster is free & gives you free points to spend on warjacks/beasts (usually between 5-8 though there are exceptions). Units cost between 5-8 points, solos cost anywhere from 1-4 points, and medium and heavy jacks/beasts cost 4-12 points. If you have an iphone/ipad/itouch/android device, go to the app store and look up ibodger & you will get the free Warmachine/Hordes army building program
Hope this helps & anyone has any more questions about Warmachine or Hordes on the forums, my username is madrab
Talk to you soon
Madrab
