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Hi everyone

Here's the real story of The Lucky 13s, a Games Workshop US, year long, in-store, Apocalypse Campaign!

Like many of our hobbyists, we've become very excited about the freedom offered by the Apocalypse format. No Force Org chart, sweeping Battle Formations, and crazy datasheets like Brass Scorpions, Warlord Titans, and Ork Submersibles. To keep the enthusiasm rolling here in the US over the coming year we're proud to announce a pretty open and free-form promotion called "The Lucky 13s". Based around six story-driven Mega-Battles, the campaign is designed to give Apocalypse enthusiasts a chance to build on the story and inject their own efforts into making what is a national story into something local hobbyists will remember for years to come.

It is not "a Summer Campaign" and has no interactive web-based component or reporting facilities for individual games (nor will it). It is something quite different, an experiment that will hopefully simmer away on the back burner until we can bring it to a boil later in the year.

It isn't for everyone, some people just won't be interested. That's just fine. Our Hobby Centers and participating Independent Retailers will be running their usual events and schedules and club nights too.

It is intended for Apocalypse enthusiasts of all ages, basically a series of opportunities for pushing vast swathes of really cool toy soldiers across the rubble-strewn battlefields of the 41st millennium.

Just a bit of fun that we hope plenty of you enjoy.

http://us.games-workshop.com/Lucky13s/default.htm

Cheers
Dave Taylor
GW US Community Development Manager

Thanks Dave!

I'm having to pull teeth from my GW rep to get any info at all on the Lucky 13s!

The writing thing looks interesting. Pity the word-limit is so small. Just over 1000 words is tiny. I'm only half-way through the fluff for our next Apoc game, and I'm at 13,000 words...

BYE

I love this idea it gives me a reason to actually feild my super heavies more than once a year. So this will be cool

Your friends don't want to play Apocalypse casually,
morfangdakka?

Thanks Dave!

Is it possible to complete the stampcard entirely with hobby-related events or will you have to partake in apocalypse games as well? I'm in a hobby streak.

stonefox wrote:Is it possible to complete the stampcard entirely with hobby-related events or will you have to partake in apocalypse games as well? I'm in a hobby streak.

We're hoping that each participating location will run 20+ events and activities, only six of which would be the story-driven mega-battles. In that case it is conceivable that you could just participate in the hobby events (terrain & objective building, Iron Builder, Speed Painting, Painting Comp, Story writing, etc) and complete the card.

Cheers
Dave

There will be stamps???

Yeah if I did this, I wouldn't be doing it for the gaming
stuff.

Thanks Dave.

malfred wrote:There will be stamps???

Yeah if I did this, I wouldn't be doing it for the gaming
stuff.

It'll be like the old subway card promo!

Or any number of buy six get one free.

I have one for the ice cream shop.

Well I'm hoping they're real stamps and not just ink.

Found this on Warseer, from Dave:

Dave Taylor wrote:Sorry, I thought this had been answered earlier.

It is US only. Created by the GW US team, run only in US stores, found only on the GW US web site.

This is something put together as a bit of Apocalypse fun for the coming year. A very small amount of resources have gone/will go into this. It does to [not?] replace any other promotional events or activities that may be created by our Central GW team, or by other great events and activities planned by other GW teams around the world, it's just the GW US guys looking at ways we can have a bit of fun locally with the Apocalypse format.

Cheers
Dave Taylor
GW US Community Development Manager

My lonely Tanith 1st and Only patch needs a buddy! FOR THE MORDANTS!!


This sounds like alot of fun. I'm looking forward to this. And I hope it turns out well, it'd be nice to have an annual thing like this.

I'm a real easy customer though. All it takes to win me over is a story and the promise of a pretty badge. Of course, that's all it takes to inspire me to finish and paint my 9 Sentinels, 6 Basilisks, and 3 BaneBlades! I'm going to win that datasheet award dambit! If only by sheer volume of entries!

does this mean we'll still get a medusa-like summer-campaign anyway? not that I would care much....

Sounds fun. Any new stickers to go with the Medusa Campaign stickers?

kaiohx wrote:Sounds fun. Any new stickers to go with the Medusa Campaign stickers?

I'm gonna stop going to forums if you just FOLLOW me to every one like some creepy internet stalker.

Not to be a downer but Lucky 13 sounds like a cigarette and thus might lend itself to subliminally influence young people to smoke.

- G

The campaign picture could be a FW tallarn camel jockey riding that camel...thing* while it's wearing a backwards cap and jean jacket.

*you all know what it looks like.

glanced at it on my lunch break seemed interesting. DIdn't really have time to carfully look at it. I take it its not an indoctrinated guard though, is it?

The list of participating indy stores can be found here