GW-USA August Newsletter

Hi there, and welcome to the Games Workshop USA Newsletter for August 1999! As always, feel free to distribute this to anyone else who might be interested, or post on any relevant forums, Web pages, or BBS's. If you have any questions about any of the following items, e-mail me back or call our Mail Order people (1-800-394-GAME) and they can help you. You can also find most of this info, along with really cool pictures, at our web site (see below for address).

Tim Huckelbery
Customer Service Director & Net Chew Toy <g>
1-800-492-8820
Games Workshop USA
GW Web Site Address:
http://www.games-workshop.com

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As you may have noticed from our webpage, we're setting up a new "official" newsletter. We'll be building up our new one, and in a few months it will be taking over as the only one as this one fades into the sunset <sniff>.

What you can expect from this new mailing - more sneak peeks at upcoming rules & releases, links to pics of new figures, news of upcoming special deals, info on upcoming events like Games Day and the big Summer Battle Tour, as well as new release and other info you find here each month. Click here for full info on how to signup for the newsletter, plus more info on it too:

http://www.games-workshop.com/Newsletter.html

This is the very last issue of this newsletter, so if you haven't subscribed to the new one, do so quickly!

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Orks take over this issue, with the cover featuring the Ork Codex and lots of Waaagh! madness throughout!

Andy Chambers gives the designer's eye view of the greenskins and their new book, plus several pages covering their upcoming figure releases. He tells the epic tale of the Ork invasion of Badlanding and Rynn's World (home of the Crimson Fists Space Marine Chapter), with a set of campaign rules and stories that may be familiar to veteran players from the Rogue Trader days.

We'll also look at more of the Vampire Counts, with an article on another of the vampire bloodlines, the Necrachs. We'll also take a look at the new Zombie regiment set (with some great conversion ideas), plus Jervis Johnson has a new Undead scenario featuring Doomlord Deiter Helsnicht plus two new army lists for players to try out. Wrapping it up is an article with tips for collecting a Vampire Counts army.

Brace For Impact! Andy Chambers (busy guy this month!) weighs in with new torpedo rules for Battlefleet Gothic, plus the Space Marines get their own fleet listing too! Andy also adds some valuable Questions & Answers for the game to boot.

The Sisters of Battle also get some new rules and wargear in Chapter Approved, in a sneak peek at bits from the upcoming Codex. And to finish things off, Jervis adds in a 20 page battle report of Orks vs Crimson Fists using a new 40K mission First Blood.

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Many of you might remember the old Space Fleet game, and the promise to one day make it into a much bigger game - that day is here!

Set during a major Chaos incursion into Imperial space, the game includes full rules for the Chaos and Imperial fleets, plus rules for Ork and Eldar raiding fleets. You also get campaign rules as well, to stretch games into linked settings and work in ship & crew improvements (and damage!).

The game comes complete with Rulebook, counters, dice, range rulers, playsheets, and 8 incredible new plastic ship sprues which can be assembled into a variety of the large Imperial and Chaos Cruisers (including Gothic class cruisers, of course!).

We also have a full assortment of ships coming too, of course, for Imperial and Chaos fleets. We're planning to introduce even more rules and fleets in White Dwarf as well, so keep your scopes peeled for more there!

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More Undead rise to join the ranks of the Vampire Counts this month!

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Waagh! Da Boyz again take center stage, with some great new box sets (especially the Ork Dreadnought, full of cool new bitz for kustomizin' your dreadnought with propur Orky know-whats!). To defend against the green tide, the Praetorian XXIV are now out in blister packs by popular demand, including a cool Praetorian Sentinel. Plus in our latest Codex release, the Eldar appear along with their own plastic box set of multi-pose Guardians armed with Shuriken Catapults.

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Eldar Attack! Codex: Eldar arrives, with a special article plus two short stories as well by designer Gav Thorpe. We'll also look at the cool new plastic Guardians, with posing and converting tips. The Eldar will also be featured in this month's battle report, as the enigmatic ones take on the Imperial Fists Space Marines.

The Aristocracy of the Night grows, as the von Carstein bloodline takes center stage in the issue, featuring Manfred von Carstein. Tuomas Pirinen and Nigel Stillman weigh in with a Witch Hunter story too, as one of the Empire's most famous hunters of the undead shares him experiences with the foul creatures.

For Battlefleet Gothic players, we have an article on Chaos fleet tactics, plus for the Emperor's finest we spotlight the new Razorback tank for the Space Marines. And for da boyz, Greenskin Master Andy Chambers takes a look at Orky taktiks(with some comments from Adrian Wood too).

Not to be left out, Warhammer players get some tips for getting the most from your chariots. And as a special, we'll look over the Grand Tournaments  from this year, featuring an awesome Nurgle Chaos Space Marine army by Mike Butcher that knocked our socks off!

Fun for all, coming next month!

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For those in Europe, Games Day UK is coming up soon!

It will be Sunday 12th September 1999. Contact UK Mail Order For more information (such as buying tickets), or check out UK White Dwarf magazine.

Click here for more events news from GW-UK too:
http://www.games-workshop.com/stores/unitedkingdom.html

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And that closes out this newsletter. Looking back, I started this very informally in March of 95, shortly after I joined the company  in the Convention Support department (now Promotions). I really had a lot of fun doing it each month, and I hope it was of some use to fellow gamers out there. As we close out this newsletter, make sure to subscribe to the new one, as mentioned above. I'll probably be posting that up in newsgroups as it comes out too. The people doing the new newsletter very much want your input on it, so if you think of anything you'd like to see in it, let them know!

Cheers all, and happy gaming!
-Tim

For more info on any of the above, call 1-800-492-8820
or email us at:

<custserv@games-workshop.com>

I am head of the GWUS Customer Service Department, and our phone number is 1-800-492-8820. Give us a call if you have any problems with any purchases (missing bits, miscast metal, etc), want to offer suggestions or comments, or just want to chat about the hobby!

Tim Huckelbery
Games Workshop USA Customer Service
Give us a call! 1-800-492-8820
And visit the Games Workshop Web Site:
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