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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Nomad Games is making a Warhammer 40,000 version of Talisman Digital (PC and Mac). With Talisman: The Horus Heresy, the game is scaled up so that players are competing for control of the galaxy. It’ll feature both against-AI and online multiplayer modes at release next month.

Another 40K game, Space Hulk, is seeing release on Nintendo Wii U courtesy of HR Games.

Accentuate, the game of imitating and guessing different accents, now has an iOS version. Keep in mind, though, that the app doesn’t speak; it’s just providing quote and accent cards, so you can play on-the-go.

Square Shooters, the dice as playing cards game, is being developed as a free-to-play mobile app. A version for online casinos is also planned. Development is being performed by students at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a class project.

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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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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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Splendor is now available for PCs via Steam. And Days of Wonder has upgraded the game (iOS and Android) with a fourth challenge pack, Saint Petersburg, based on Russia in the 13th-17th centuries.

Orchard Toys has ported some of their games for preschoolers to iOS.

Reiner Knizia’s Lost Cities card game is getting a virtual reality edition (Samsung Gear VR and VRFocus).

Dr. Knizia is also the designer of Dice Monsters, being brought to iOS by Timecode.

Hammerfall Publishing has launched Warhammer 40,000: Regicide on Steam. The game combines 40K, Chess, and gore.

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Games Workshop unveiled this weekend a new Warhammer 40,000 board game, Assassinorum: Execution Force. It’s a cooperative game in which players take on the roles of four imperial assassins—Eversor, Vindicare, Callidus, and Culexus—working to prevent the schemes of Chaos Lord Drask.

The box includes 20 Chaos miniatures (cultists, space marines, a familiar, and a space marine terminator sorcerer) and four exclusive assassin figures. Rules for using the assassins in 40K can be found in the latest issue of White Dwarf.

Assassinorum: Execution Force is scheduled for release May 2nd (that’s this coming Saturday). The price for the boxed game is $125, and the boxed game plus White Dwarf and paint set $249. A novel and audio drama will also be available.

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Supporting Adeptus Mechanicus, the new Skitarii army for Warhammer 40K, Games Workshop releases this weekend an Onager Dunecrawler and Plasma Obliterator.

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