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**syr8766**

Announcement here
From TGN

WARHAMMER HISTORICAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Warhammer Historical Wargames will be 10 this year, and we are currently planning the next 15 years.

We have exciting plans for our original game system Warhammer Ancient Battles over the next few years, with plenty of exciting releases planned in support of our flagship series.

Having also had great successes for the popular Legends series and Warmaster Ancients we now have plans for more historical rulesets and supporting supplements and products.

The first of these will be The Great War, due mid year.

Keep watching this space for more details as they become available of release dates and some exciting ways for you to join in the celebrations.

UPCOMING HISTORICAL GAMING EVENTS
We have news of many upcoming historical events happening throughout the next few months.

Check out our Events Page for news about Crusade at Penarth, Warhammer Ancient Battles Grand Tournaments, Cold Wars in PA USA, Adepticon, Military History LIVE! and our very own Warhammer Historical Campaign Weekends.

LEGENDS OF THE HIGH SEAS
The latest Warhammer Historical book by Tim Kulinski is shipping January 2008, on sale February 2008. Legends of the High Seas is a tabletop miniatures game set in the Golden age of Piracy and you take control of brave Royal Navy Captains, brutal Pirates, or greedy Privateers who sailed the Caribbean Sea. The full colour manual contains all the rules you need to gather your crew and set sail on the high seas! A series of scenarios enables you to steal a ship or hunt for buried treasure on your way to fame and fortune!

My grognard-y heart says

My wallet says

**malfred**

Oh please. Your wallet says, "Thank you sir can I have another!"

**Death By Monkeys**

Arrrr! I always thought there weren't nearly enough pirates in WHFB - good on WHAncients!

**grey_death**

I wonder if they're going to head in the WWII direction in the future...

WWI battles sound like a hell of a wallet sink....but awesome at the same time.

**Miguelsan**

WWI isn´t that what we play with 40K?

M.

**Whitescar**

Where do I sign? Looks like gonna have to have a long talk with the wife

**syr8766**

What I'm curious about is what types of scenarios is this game going to be set up for? Is this going to be an 'over the wire' type situation (i.e. trench warfare breakouts) a la the European Fronts? Or is it going to be more Middle East/Africa? Or will there be elements of pre/post (Balkans war, pulp stuff/Russian Civil War, etc.)?

Fortunately, whichever direction it goes, there's a pleathora of options in terms of figures (and this doesn't even include more pulpy lines like England Invaded!).

**H.B.M.C.**

Yeah... how do you do a WWI game?

First one 'Over the Top' loses?

Will the English have to have Military Police units that shoot their guys whenever they run away?

BYE

**stonefox**

It'll be just like playing 40K: Overwatch, HB. Which means oodles of fun.

**Kilkrazy**

I would like them to do another book of lists for Warmaster Ancients.

**Pariah Press**

Will there be rules for shelling your own men to force them to advance?

**Wolfstan**

Will there be a WWI reserves supplement that allows the US to turn up once all the hard work has been done!

**Wolfstan**

As an aside, since having read D-Day and Citizen Soldiers by Steven Ambrose I have a deep respect for the sacrifice made by US soldiers... however it would of ruined the leg pulling if I'd put this in my original post

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**Gitkikka**

This game will be full of fail if there is no special character named "Captain Edmund Blackadder".

I mean it.

**Platuan4th**

Those Great War Miniatures by Aly Morrison and Dave Andrews are full of win. I may have to get into this.

**Zad Fnark**

Before the trench building began, WWI played out in a reasonably fluid manner, and probably resembled late 19th century warfare with colorful uniforms and the like. Cavalry would be more prevelant early on, too -- especially against the Russians.

Once trench warfare started, the war took on a whole new character.

ZF-

**Death By Monkeys**

Gitkikka wrote:This game will be full of fail if there is no special character named "Captain Edmund Blackadder".

Quoted for truth.

I wonder if we'll be lucky enough to get Mustard Gas rules.

**Kilkrazy**

Trench warfare was the Western Front and Gallipolli. The Eastern Front and Palestine had some fast moving campaigns with cavalry and aircraft involved.

**Savnock**

And let's not forget old Lawrence. Biplanes versus cavalry would be fun.

Man, if they come out with Perry Plastics WWI figs in support of this release, it'll be a converter's dream.

**H.B.M.C.**

I wonder if they'll let you use WWI tanks. You'd have 100 of them, but you'd only be allowed to use 40 of them as the rest'd break down before deployment.

Then only 39 would start the first turn active, and by game's end you'd only have about 8 of them but the enemy would've only killed about 3.

Then they could do a 'Red Baron' expansion for aircraft in WWI, with hand-dropped bombs and where all your pilots have a life expectancy of 11 turns.

BYE

**stonefox**

Every turn, roll a d6 and that many of your troops die to trench-related sickness.

**George Spiggott**

What system will this WWI supplement use?

**hands_miranda**

Kilkrazy wrote:I would like them to do another book of lists for Warmaster Ancients.

Both Successors and Divine Wind are in development at this point. Divine Wind's a bit father along, but both are a good ways in and could probably come out this year. I'd expect 25+ lists for Successors (also covers later Greeks, Pontics, Skythians, Galatians, and Maccabees) and 10 ish for Divine Wind.

**Kilkrazy**

I thought those books are for Warhammer Ancient Battles.

**Blackadder**

Platuan4th wrote:Those Great War Miniatures by Aly Morrison and Dave Andrews are full of win. I may have to get into this.

If I remember correctly, last UK Games Day I had a chat with Dave Andrews who had made the most fantastic display table I have ever seen. Off course using those miniatures.

**H.B.M.C.**

stonefox wrote:Every turn, roll a d6 and that many of your troops die to trench-related sickness.

Then they introduce a Codex: ANZACS. Basically they're designed to win every battle, but auto-lose at the end because the English never follow up their advances.

Then they can have an expansion called 'When Gas Attacks!', and you get to shell the enemy with gas... and then they get to ignore it with gas masks and it makes no difference to the war effort.

I also hear that one of the Strategems for the Germans is the Shlieffen Plan. It automatically fails.

BYE

**Kid_Kyoto**

Mud-splattered men in mud-colored uniforms fighting in the mud?

Sign me up!

**Wolfstan**

It's amazing that GW have taken so long to realise that there is a market for this sort of stuff. As I said before, they have the experience and materials to produce a good range of 28mm WWI & WWII models.

**Death By Monkeys**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Mud-splattered men in mud-colored uniforms fighting in the mud?

The paint schemes are nigh-endless!

**skullspliter888**

two army actting like IG stand and shoot charge and get guned down and start all over again.

sweet LT bring up the storm troopers we need a hole