The thing about these dice is you probably don’t need them. On the other hand, if you’re a fan of the games they go with, you’re really going to want them.

Available now from Q-Workshop are BattleTech Dice with individual sets at $15 for Houses Kurita, Davion, Liao, Marik, and Steiner. Each set with two house dice plus one die for each of four combat commands.

Coming soon from Q-Workshop are dice sets for Cubicle Seven’s roleplaying games, Doctor Who, The One Ring, and Lone Wolf.

And direct from Games Workshop, a set of Ultramarines Dice, 20 for $20.

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Games Workshop ships this week a new aerial combat game, Stormcloud Attack, set it the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Rules for the game include a variety of specific dogfight maneuvers as well as campaign play with mission records and skill improvement for individual pilots.

Three standalone boxes available at launch will include two flyers each for $100:

• Faith & Heresy with a Space Marine Stormtalon Gunship and a Chaos Space Marine Heldrake.
• The Ancient & The Greater Good with a Necron Night Scythe and a Tau Empire AX38 Razorshark Strike Fighter.
• The Eldritch & The Beast with an Eldar Crimson Hunter and an Ork Dakkajet.

The rules—which along with additional missions and pilot record sheets are also available separately in the My Pilot mobile app (Android and iOS)—will support, though, 21 different flyers from 10 Warhammer 40,000 armies.

Plus there’s a Flyers of the Dark Millennium guidebook ($35), a Medusan Wings novel (bundled with The Ancient & The Greater Good for $124), and a Deff Skwadron graphic novel (bundled with The Eldritch & The Beast for $124).

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After 2½ years on a weekly schedule, Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine is returning to a monthly format. At 156 pages and a $9 cover price, the new publication will include news, battle reports, painting advice, designer notes, lots of figure photographs, and exclusive games and rulesets.

The first issue of the new White Dwarf will release September 2nd. A normal annual subscription will run $90 but purchased before August 14th is just $80.

Warhammer Visions, the photo-focused monthly, will move to quarterly releases.

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Games Workshop has released two new supplements—one for Warhammer 40,000 and one for Warhammer Age of Sigmar—that are reprints (of a sort) of material recently featured in the 2015 Warhammer Digital Advent Calendar. Both are campaign expansions centered around Chaos warbands seeking favor from the Dark Gods. The Path to Glory ebooks include all necessary rules, scenarios, and painting guides in ePub format for $33 each (40,000 and Age of Sigmar).

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As an alternative to its high-end, limited-edition codexes and rule books, Games Workshop has put out a new line of 40K digital reference material for iPads and iPhones. Warhammer 40,000: The Rules ($40) and 20 different Gamers Edition Codexes ($24 each) are available through Apple’s iBooks and contain all the rules and datasheets, cross-linked for easy reference during play.

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Games Workshop has begun taking orders for a Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth board game. Not that the previous namesake board game, published by Fantasy Flight in 2010, was short on plastic figures but this version, direct from GW, is more of a traditional miniatures combat game played on a modular board.

Included in GW’s Horus Heresy are 38 miniatures (a Captain, a Chaplain, a Contemptor Dreadnought, five Legion Terminators, and 30 Legion Space Marines), four double-sided boards, a book of rules and scenarios, command and reference cards, various tokens, and 12 custom dice (taking a lesson, it seems, from FFG).

The game sees two groups of Space Marines (Ultramarines and Word Bearers) duking it out in the restricted space of the caverns under Calth.

Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth is priced at $150 and ships November 14th.

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Games Workshop is in the process of rebranding its brick-and-mortar retail shops to “Warhammer” stores. It’s also expanding, opening new stores worldwide. A search of the website CareerBuilder.com tells us to expect new U.S. Warhammer shops in:

• Pooler, Georgia (Savannah area)
• Boise, Idaho
• Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Des Moines, Iowa
• Portland, Maine
• Albany, New York
• Syracuse, New York
• Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Colleyville, Texas (Dallas-Ft. Worth area)
• Salt Lake City, Utah
• Richmond, Virginia
• Spokane, Washington
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Madison, Wisconsin

Store manager jobs are available at each of these locations, as well as at an existing store in Columbia, Maryland, for $33,000 annual salaries plus bonus.

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Based entirely on what looks cool to me…

For Warhammer 40,000, the KV128 Stormsurge ($150) from Games Workshop holds two Tau crew and features ball-and-socket joints for a range of posing options.

From Privateer Press, the gargantuan Trollbloods Glacier King ($135, November) for Hordes freezes lakes, streams, and enemies with its passing. The heavy warjack Hand of Judgement ($60, December) for Warmachine wields an immolator cannon and mace for the Protectorate of Menoth.

Among the Wyrd Miniatures releases for Malifaux 2nd Edition, there’s the pre-colored Swamp Cottage ($21) and the gun-toting Abuela Ortega ($16) in steam-powered wheelchair.

Gale Force Nine’s resin minis for the Dungeons & Dragons Rage of Demons campaign includes a five-piece Orcus figure ($75) seated on a throne of bones.

In Reaper Miniatures’ Dark Heavens series there’s a new Temple Dragon ($33).

And for a very limited time, Reaper’s Bonesylvanian series includes the better-look-at-the-pictures-than-have-me-describe-them Jacques ($8), Howie ($8), and Lou ($11).

Spartan Games adds two new forces to Firestorm Armada this month, including a Terquai Dreadnought Group (£25) and a Xelocian Imperium Dreadnought Group (£25).

And last-but-not-least, Dark Sword Miniatures recently released a Cat Paladin ($10).

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So, if you’re at Gen Con and were passing by the Games Workshop booth (772) on Thursday, you may have had some questions. Such as why there’s nothing from Games Workshop for sale at their booth, why it’s staffed by the people at Forge World instead of GW, or why you had to go to the other end of the hall to Forge World’s booth (3033) to make any GW purchases.

Reports of all Games Workshop staff denied entry to the United States and deported back to the United Kingdom are a bit exaggerated, said the UK-based Games Workshop employee Purple Pawn spoke to at the booth yesterday. Although some employees from GW’s headquarters did not gain entrance to the United States, some did as did all the product they brought over. Games Workshop products are for sale at the Forge World booth. The majority of the (admittedly small) GW booth is taken up by an Age of Sigmar diaorama.

“Someone at head office messed up the visa application,” writes the GW-fan site Faeit 212. “Rather than travelling on a Business Visitor Visa they travelled to the US on a [non-Working] Visa.” Apparently, one of the UK employees mentioned that the were going to be working at a convention, which is prohibited under the visas they were travelling with.

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Early this morning, Fantasy Flight Games briefly posted a page on their website about a Fury of Dracula reprint. Like the titular vampire, the page soon fled away and investigators were left trying to determine where they will find the game next, speculating the game will show up at Gen Con 2015. Fury of Dracula was one of the earliest hidden movement games, sometimes described as “Scotland Yard with Vampires”. Originally published in 1987 by Games Workshop as The Fury of Dracula, and in 2005 by Fantasy Flight Games, the game has been out of print since 2008.

Fury of Dracula is a one-against-many hidden movement game with one player as Dracula travelling through Europe, expanding his vampire family, while up to four other players hunt down the villain and try to put an end to him.

The new version of the game, listed as in development, features new art and graphic design and some changes to game play: “Rounds are now broken into day and night: hunters take actions during both, but Dracula can only act at night. Combat is now more streamlined and decisive, and new rumor tokens allow Dracula to mislead hunters and extend the terrible reach of his influence,” read the game description. Rather than winning the game if he sires enough vampires, “Count Dracula triumphs if he advances his influence track to thirteen; if the hunters can defeat him before then, they save the continent of Europe and win the game.” Playtime is estimated at 2-3 hours.

Fury of Dracula will retail for $59.95.

Edit: Fantasy Flight Games has relaunched the Fury of Dracula page at their website. “Mina, we’ve spotted him,” I cried out. “He’s heading to Indianapolis!” At Gen Con, demos of the game will be run in FFG’s city within the exhibit hall. The game will be available in Q4 of this year. More information at https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/7/23/fury-of-dracula/

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