BrookM wrote:
Hoping to attend myself this year. Don't have any companies in particular I'm looking forward to, as the one I wanted to see is sadly not attending.

 endtransmission wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Hoping to attend myself this year. Don't have any companies in particular I'm looking forward to, as the one I wanted to see is sadly not attending.

You mean you're not rushing to the Crooked Dice stand to play on their demo tables, or the Spiral Arm stand to talk to our overlords?

Sphere Products

Sphere Products will be there on Stand TE19 with our usual array of burnt wood storage racks and workstations as well a selection of paints, tools, Broken Toad and W&N Series 7 paint brushes. We will be giving away the Sphere paint brush rests away again this year whilst stocks last.

 BrookM wrote:
Dunno if demo games will be an option, there may be little kids in tow and I don't want to bore them too much with having fun while they're waiting.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Anyone know if anyone will be showing off modern building terrain with proper interiors?

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Dunno if demo games will be an option, there may be little kids in tow and I don't want to bore them too much with having fun while they're waiting.

I took my son to the Bovington wargames show a couple of years ago where he sulked the whole time and dragging him round behind me ruined it for me.

I hope I can go this year although I have an exam around that time.

 Pacific wrote:

Saving money for this year and going to go mental

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
Oh good prodos games will be there, I'll be sure to take all my outstanding kickstarter stuff from their stall as I'm sure nothing will have been delivered by then.

SALUTE 2016 TICKET PRIZES

Last year the South London Warlords gave out major cash prizes for several lucky people that found Golden Tickets in their Salute 2015 carrier bag. We are doing the same this year as well as adding some ‘extras’!

CASH PRIZES FROM THE SOUTH LONDON WARLORDS

There will be four golden tickets in four Salute 2016 carrier bags this year for ADVANCE TICKET HOLDERS ONLY.
One ticket is worth £250, another £150 and two £50. These will be CASH PRIZES given on the day to the lucky finders.

Also this year KR MULTICASE have given us 150 prize tickets to hide amongst the Salute 2016 carrier bags. These will be for items that can be collected from their stand on the day of the show.

And finally WARPLOQUE MINIATURES have let us hide a single special ticket in one of the bags to win a copy of their ARCWORLDE game box set, ‘The Battle of Troll Bridge’.

Fantastic prizes to look out for in your Salute 2016 carrier bag. Remember, these prize tickets will ONLY be in the ADVANCE TICKET HOLDERS carrier bags….so get your tickets now from the SALUTE website!

Sally 4th will be at Salute 2016 on 16th April 2016. Our stand is TH22, located against the far wall.



We will be bringing the following lines with us:

New Release: 28mm Normandy Building Range

A new range of 28mm building kits ideal for WWII Normandy gaming. Range includes Mid Terrace, Left End Terrace, Right End Terrace, Detached House, Corner Shops, Church and 'The House at Dead Mans Corner' together with lots of accessories, including a range of 5 ruined roofs, ruined first floors etc.

Combat Patrol

Innovative, streamlined WWII Skirmish gaming. All the detail and challenges with out the need to check charts and rulebooks mid-game due to its revolutionary use of card based mechanics.

28mm British Building Range

Great for Very British Civil War, Winter of '79, and Operation Sealion or The Eagle has Landed scenarios.

New Release: Terra-Block – URBAN

300mm square road and pavement tiles with recesses to take Terra-Blocks enabling a board to be put together for modern urban or zombie-based games where the building layout can be changed for every game.

Terra-Block Starter sets

Dungeon, Tomb, Starter, Deluxe Starter and Fothrington Hall.


Pulp Alley

All the rules, supplements, cards and accessories for this great character based game which supports skirmish gaming in pretty much any genre: Pulp, Gangster, Western, Sci-Fi etc.

We are happy to bring along anything else from our ranges that has been pre-ordered, but that is about all we can fit in to display.

We have set up a Salute Pre-Order discount scheme on our website. Select Collect at Salute as delivery method, and enter Salute16 as Coupon Code for 10% discount on orders over £50.00 GBP placed before 10th April.

As always, the Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy team is going to be visiting Salute, the biggest wargaming show in the U.K. (held in the ExCeL Centre in London on April 16th). We'll be there with a stand (TK02), selling all current and back issues of WS&S, along with all the other products from Karwansaray Publishers (Ancient Warfare, Medieval Warfare and Ancient History Magazine). If you are planning to attend the show, this is a great shopping opportunity, as most of our products will be discounted for the occasion. If you already know what you'd like to buy, you can already order items through our webshop, with a 'pick up at Salute' delivery option at check-out. This will not only save you on shipping, but guarantee you get exactly what you want (due to space concerns, we can't always bring large stocks of every product, so by ordering ahead, you guarantee availability). Even if you aren't in a buying mood (why are you going to Salute exactly?), you are still more than welcome to stop by the booth and chat with our staff: editor Guy Bowers and Christy Beall (of YouTube fame) will both be around to answer your questions.

Blogs, Videos & More!

As always, we've been adding new content to the Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy website. Guy, Jasper and several others have recently added new content. And of course, Christy is always busy with new painting videos!

Hammerhead 2016, by Guy Bowers
AWI updates, by Jasper Oorthuys
WS&S 83 editorial, an apology, by Guy Bowers
Adding structure: Painting a WWII French stable (YouTube), by Christy Beall

Once again, we will be attending Salute at ExCel, London, on Saturday, 16th of April.

You can place pre-orders via our webstore by using Salute Show Collection as your shipping method. This will be available until Wednesday, 6th of April.

We will also be carrying a selection of Lancashire Games 15mm figures. If you wish to pre-order any of the Lancashire Games ranges, please contact them.

Warlord Games

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Pre-Order for Collection at Salute

We often have calls come in about picking up orders at show or events we attend and with Salute 2016 just around the corner what better time than to tell you how!

Place an order for collection at Salute

For Salute 2016, if you would like to pick your order up from us at the stand on the day, we will only accept orders placed and paid in advance. Please make sure your emailed order, or your order placed on our web store, reaches us no later than Friday 8th April.

Orders via the web store need to be placed using this code COLLECTATSALUTE

When checking out please replace the shipping address with the words – COLLECTATSALUTE

Once you click Continue the code will remove any shipping costs.

Please note that to ensure your order can be taken to any event we will need the order in by the Friday of the week prior to the event (i.e. 6 working days prior). We may not be able to take orders to the show placed after this time due to casting times for models.

Collection at other shows

You can indeed place an order for collection at any UK show! Please email us at info@warlordgames.com with a list of the items, which event you would like to collect them at, and if you would prefer to pay now or at the event. Just make sure it’s in 6 working days prior.

Questions?

As always, if you have any order related questions don’t hesitate to call our customer service team on: 0115 978 0386.

All Steam Ahead for Salute!

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So, as mentioned last week, everything here is like 40% regular work, 60% Salute prep, and that percentage will swing slowly worse as we get closer to the date!

On the positive side, this is the time of year we we buy in more products to try out and get new moulds done etc. So for all of you who aren't making it to the show then there's still a lot of good happening that you get to benefit from

You can keep up with events on a more regular basis via our FB page as usual, but there'll be weekly newsletters for the next month, just to keep track of happenings

Salute Pre-Order Code


As always there's a nice freebie on offer for those of you who order your Salute goodies in advance. You can pick from an extensive list of items (over 40 different codes from across our entire range!)

The code this year is the highly original 'SALUTE2016', and please remember you enter it on the 'confirmation' page, which is the last one before payment details. There's a box at the top of the page.
(Every code we get people writing it in the comments box, other than making me smile, that does absolutely nothing! )

Also if your order is over £60 then the chosen freebie will be dropped into a lil Steampunk-themed goodie bag, if you order over £120 it'll be a double sized bag and so on!

The code wil be active until Tuesday the 12th of April!
We aren't packing any pre-orders after that date, you'll just have to bring your lil scrappy piece of paper with you and we can both struggle to read your writing

FOR ANYONE NOT GOING TO SALUTE!

This is 'not' a free delivery code, this is a 'collection' code. If you use it to try and get free delivery it won't work as we do 'not' see your address. Collection codes blank that for us so we couldn't even accidentally send it to you

Any orders coming through this way will sit in a box until we get back from Salute and then we'll email you to invoice for postage, it's really not a good idea

Why Pre-Order?


Well, it's a good idea in general, you get a freebie and your particular goodies won't slel out but there are two specific groups of items that you really should consider pre-ordering if going to Salute.

1. Resin Masters. We do 'not' take Resin Masters to the show* unless they are in a pre-order bag.
Don't turn up looking for an Apprentice Raisa or an Eamond, they won't be there!

2. Red Box (or other non-HF items). Our retail stock is far more limited than our HF stock. If you don't pre-order and you aren't one of the first to reach us then you could easily find yourself out of luck for that special Njorn Ravager or Aenglish Thug!

*See the one exception in the 'And Finally...' section at the bottom of this newsletter.

Where are We?


If you've been to Salute at the Excel before, then you know where we are

Once again we are in 'Hasslefree Corner', with the new queueing and entrance system in the next hall (represented by the two arrows on the right) then we are at the back left corner after entering the hall.

Our stand number is TM03 and we are also running a game, ably manned by Matt 'McFonz' Canning, on GM04.

If you click on the map, it'll pop-up larger, in case you can't see the red circle at the bottom left

As with previous years, you may want to make a beeline for us early as...

Salute Pre-Release Metals


I'm afraid we are at the mercy of our, most excellent, casters as to how many of our April, May and June releases show up in time to be pre-release metals for Salute.

What I can tell you is..

a) You can't buy them through the site or pre-order them, you have to come see us and pick them up in person,
b) they will be limited in stock, so first come, first served and...
c) we will be 'trying' to have the following available...

Haleth & Ulfred
Dynamic Lenore
Iona Starkiller
Elite Gaia
Rowen
The Elite Penn State Five
The Nola Five

.. and maybe even more! Whatever we can get moulded we will have with us at the show and some of them will not be available through the site until June.

[spoiler]Resin Master - Dynamic Boudi Skyclad


Queen Boudi of the Iceni, seen here naked as the day she was born, but chagring into battle with her trusted spear anyway.
A variant of the original Boudi, based on artwork by Matt Dixon for the Diceni trade show.

This version will be Resin Master only, she will have to be cut up slightly for metal, in which case she will need some additional bangles or strips of cloth to cover the joins. This version is 2 pieces, main body and spear/hands.

Barbaric Kayden, Resin-Only Slayer

Kayden, slayer-sister of Hayden. Caught in the middle of an overhead chop with her two-handed runesword.

This is a resin-only version, she's a little too... dynamic for metal without cutting her up too much. Variants fit for metal will be coming but this one will only ever be in our production blue/grey resin!

Resin Master - Eamond Skyclad


Eamond the Badgered, a Celtic Shaman, here practising his magical craft as nature intended!

Another of Kev's finished dollies, it may or may not be modelled on me. And when I say 'modelled', I shall leave the details of that up to you.

Resin Master - Grond


Grond is a half-Ogre, lost in the HF world after being caught in a rift in the Veil. Arriving through the Veil completely naked he is seen here a couple of years later having 'acquired' pretty much everything an adventurer needs. Armed with an old beat-up sword taken from an Orc and a similarly battered buckler taken from a follower of the Dark Gods.

Already released, we just have a beautiful new paintjob so thought we'd remind you of him

Resin Masters - Individual Nola Five


The Nola Five are now available for individual ordering as Resin Masters. You can find them below the Multi-Pack Listing.
(If they aren't there, try again shiortly, we are literally adding them as this newsletter goes out

Resin Masters - Individual Post-Apoc Gang


The Post-Apoc Gang are now available for individual ordering as Resin Masters. You can find them below the Multi-Pack Listing.

(If they aren't there, try again shiortly, we are literally adding them as this newsletter goes out

Metal Re-Release - Sana

Sansa
is a queen of the barbarians of the 'edge', the strip of land bordering the Darklands. Seen here in a full-length bear-skin cloak but sparse armour, as befitting the perpetually changing weather of the Edgelands.

(Rumour has it, the necessary re-mastering of the green may also lead to a variant Sana or two in the near future. Shhh!)

And Finally...

More metal restocks have arrived, mostly of our older minis but a lot of those are still popular (As I can tell by the constant badgering of when they are coming back! ). So if you were waiting for something then best to have another check, it might be back in.

Only a couple of the minis currently out of stock are just 'out of stock', Alicia and Ceril come to mind, anything else out of stock is 'in the mould queue', which means it needs remoulding and we are working on it.

In the run up to Salute, Resin Masters will be the most last-minute releases. If you want to keep up to date with any of those last minute creations, then keep an eye on Kev's artist page on FB. Anything he gets finished before the show stands a chance of showing up, and in fact these last minute minis will be the 'only' Resin Masters we bring!

We are changing our emails next week, we won't do it before the newsletter informing you of the change so don't worry about that. Our existing ones have been going for so long now that the spam is untenable. 50+ a day, every day, minimum. We are even missing emails from people who use caps or have images as signatures or even if you just looked at it wrong before sending it!

Daredevil season 2 was great, not quite as good as season 1, but still some of the best tv available. Not relevant to minis but we had a day

I hope that's it, that was a long ass day!

'til next time,

Arty.

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Eureka Miniatures: Limited Free Kangeroo Miniature at Salute London
Eureka Miniatures: Eureka Miniatures will be at Salute on Saturday April 16th 2016. Come and say G'day for a free kangaroo miniature (while stocks last).

Victrix: Salute 2016 - Order Collect Shop Code
Victrix: Use code Salute2016 to get postage removed for orders to collect at Salute 2106. Multi box discount still applies.

Warbases: Salute 2016 Releases and Weekend Discount Code Inside
Warbases: Salute Information! Don't forget to receive your 10% discount input coupon code: SAL10. Expiry Midnight 1st April.

The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare: Blood Eagle, Skirmish Wargaming in The Viking Age!

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The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare: There are few genres in wargaming that quite get the blood racing like the 9th-10th centuries in northern Europe, the notorious 'Viking Age'. Up until now you could march across those blood-soaked fields with big armies or with little armies, but there were no games that really captured every bone-cracking, skull-splitting, gut-spilling, heroic moment of the period. No game that really allowed you to play Jarl Ragnar Loðbrok and his close companions, Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburgh, the dark Picts, the wild Irish or the stalwart Saxons.

Well good news, Blood Eagle is on its way. Based on the same core rules as In Her Majesty's Name and Daishō, this is a narrative skirmish wargame that is played with 5-15 figures per side on a 1m square board. The core rules have been proven in many thousands of encounters across the world and have been fettled to make them truly suitable for the heroic and grim nature of the period.

Like Daishō, we have set the rules so you can play it as a straight historical game, at a heroic level or go full legendary with monstrous warbands such as the Jotun, Svartalf/Sidhe or Draugr. You will never be stuck playing the same dozen scenarios over and over again because our unique Scenario + Complications + Landscapes system ensures that you will have over three thousand possible game combinations to choose from. These feed into a campaign system that gives you the ability to create and play totally unique sagas of your own.


We have also included the very popular system that allows you to research and then create your own unique warbands. The entire points system is open and there shall be a guiding article on the blog helping you to build it.

There is already a community of over three hundred gamers discussing and preparing for this game on Facebook and we have just launched the supporting blog here. This game shall be launched by us at Salute 2016 under our own imprint - The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare. Like our other book, Daishō, it will be about 96 pages, full colour A4 and cost under £15.

Salute 2016 - Discount Code 20%

Pick up you order at Salute 2016 to get 20% discount!

Oshiro Model Terrain: New Chinese Round Gate Way and Village Headman House
Some of the new Chinese releases due at Salute 2016 round gate way and village headman's house.

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Spartan Games Halo: Ground Command Miniature Wargame Announcement

Spartan Games is pleased to announce that the much anticipated Halo: Ground Command tabletop wargame, which is set in the hugely popular Halo Universe, will be shipping in Summer 2016.

Come and check out the Halo: Ground Command game and models which will be on display at the Salute 2016 wargames show in London. And keep an eye out for some exciting news about two of our coolest [and largest] Halo flying models: the UNSC Pelican Dropship and Covenant Phantom Dropship.

The initial release of Halo: Ground Command will see a 2-player Battle Box launched, along with the first upgrade boxes for the UNSC and Covenant.

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The first iteration of the game is set in the year is 2552, with humanity forced to the brink of extinction by the fanatical alliance of alien races known as the Covenant. These human forces have fallen back to the fortress world of Reach, prepared to give their lives to protect Earth and buy time for a desperate gambit that could change the outcome of the entire war. This last bastion of humanity will see countless bloody engagements take place, and you will now be able to command these ground forces in titanic conflicts.

Halo: Ground Command is a massed battle game using highly detailed 1:100th scale infantry, armoured and aerial models and has been developed in close cooperation with 343 Industries.

“We’re pretty stoked about the arrival of Halo: Ground Command and we can’t wait for players around the world to experience the fun we have been having as we created the models and core rules,” explains Spartan Neil Fawcett, Creative Director of Spartan Games. “Halo fans are used to seeing ground warfare from a first person perspective, but with this game we step back and embrace the whole battlefield where we see entire Battle Groups engaging with each other. Players can deploy units of Troopers, Grunts, Elites, ODST, Elite Rangers, Warthogs, Scorpions, Wraiths, Ghosts… the list goes on!”

Expansion plans for the game will see some of the most iconic vehicles from the Halo Universe realised in superb detail at 1:100th scale. “UNSC Pelicans, Covenant Phantoms, anti-air variants of the Scorpion and Wraith tanks, Banshees, Falcons and even giant machines like the Covenant Scarab. At 1:100th scale we have been working with the actual video game assets to make our models as accurate as possible. They are still designed to be gamed with, but we are sure fans of Halo will see just how much attention to detail we’ve lavished on these models,” explains Spartan Chris Peacey, Lead Designer for Spartan Games.

The Game Engine

In much the same way as our spaceship combat game, Halo: Fleet Battles, was created to allow Halo fans to readily embrace wargaming in the Halo Universe, so the ground game is built around smooth and intuitive game mechanics. “This is a true wargame that brings together tanks, soldiers and flyers in a hobby format we are sure will see gamers create stunning battlefields upon which they can fight epic games using their stunning armies,” added Spartan Neil. “As we created the rules we made sure that the Halo canon was adhered to, generating those cinematic moments of excitement, and always looked to keep the gameplay fast, intuitive and bloody.”

A key part of the game play is the Reaction Engine, which means a unit is never safe from harm by an enemy unit. Players will need to keep their wits about them when deploying their forces and constant vigilance as a battle unfolds will be rewarded by victory!

Wayland Games: Wild West Exodus Salute Exclusive Outlaw Starter Set
We will start with Wild West Exodus, and it's a big one! We have an exclusive mini starter set from Outlaw that will be given to customers who spend £40 or more on WWX while stocks last. In the mini set you get 2 exclusive alternate models which look stunning plus you get everything you need to start playing.

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Studio Miniatures

We will be attending Salute again this year and are now taking pre-orders for collection at the show.

Spoiler:

All pre-orders over £50.00 GBP will receive a 5% discount, all pre-orders over £100.00 GBP will receive a 10% and all pre-orders over £200.00 GBP will receive a 15% discount.

To place your pre-order, simply email your wish list to salute@studiominiatures.com no later than Monday, 11th of April, 2016. Payment will be taken at Salute.

We will have lots of goodies on offer on the day, including:

The Full Range for Medieval Mayhem
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Our Full Z-Clipz Zombie Range

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The Northwest Frontier

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Resin Street Furniture

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We Will Also Have the Full Range From Antediluvian Miniatures

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Claymore Castings

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…and selected ranges from Sgt's Mess Models[/spoiler]

Lancashire Games
The next big show coming soon, so it's time to put in any pre-orders.

Our show stockist is S&A Scenics. He will be carrying a limited stock of these Battle Packs: 15mm Biblical, Ancients, Dark Ages, Medieval, Samurai, ECW, Eastern Renaissance, Napoleonics, ACW and WWI, plus a small selection of 7yrs War and 19th Century, but you can pre-order these and all our 15mm, 20mm and 28mm standard packs, Battle Packs, and Army Packs, Blaze Away 10mm and 28mm, or Piquet rules – all available for pre-order before the 13th April.

Email pre-orders to mail@lancashiregames.com.

These are 10% discount on orders over £75.00 GBP, and 15% on orders over £125.00 GBP.

Due to Salute being a rollercoaster of a show, to speed things up on the day, all pre-orders must be paid for in advance.

[url=http://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/shop/products-cat-16.html]Warfare Miniatures at SALUTE 2016
Warfare Miniatures will be trading at Salute 2016 and you will be able to find us on the Victrix stand. Toggy Bob and I will be manning the stand with Julian and the lads.

We will be carrying the full range of Warfare Miniatures codes, Quindia Flags and WordTwister books.

We are offering a 10% discount for pre orders received up to Wednesday April 13th. Just order through the shop and choose the £0.01 POSTAGE OPTION. We will refund the 10% at the show.

Alternatively, email us at wordtwister@hotmail.co.uk specifying what you want and we'll send you a paypal invoice for the discounted amount.

See you at the show!

Special Introductory offer - The first 100 Blacksmith miniatures are just £5 each! When the first batch is sold out, the regular price will be £9 (which we still think is excellent value).

Please note that depending on how many we sell, orders containing the Blacksmith may take a few days longer than usual to ship out, and will start shipping from Wed 30th March.

The Blacksmith will also be available to purchase for £5 at the SALUTE wargames show in London on April 16th (limited quantities).

To celebrate an incredible milestone - Five Years in business! - we have created this very special miniature, based on the Blacksmith character featured in our company logo.

The Blacksmith is a high quality, multi part resin miniature, standing an impressive 37mm to the top of his head (making him almost 8 foot tall in standard 28mm heroic scaling).

The Blacksmith is ideal for painting up as a display miniature, and is also suitable for use in a huge range of fantasy table top games, dungeon crawlers, board games and similar, with a number of different weapon and equipment options depending on how you want to use the figure.

The set includes -

Blacksmith miniature

Choice of 2 different poseable heads - bare head or with barbaric spiky iron plate armour

Choice of 2 different right hand melee weapons - blacksmiths hammer or flaming sword

Choice of 3 different left hand options - knife, shield with Anvil Logo, or section of rough metal being worked into a blade

30mm base with scenic base topper.
[list]Anvil, Tongs and wooden debris

We hope you will enjoy painting our 5th Anniversary miniature!

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Maelstrom's Edge / Spiral Arms Studios




We hope everyone has had a nice, relaxing Easter Weekend, and with all the chocolate eggs eaten, Superhero movies watched and games played it is time to turn our attention to the upcoming Salute 2016 event in April.

Probably the biggest UK Wargaming show, Salute is packed with games companies showing off their latest releases: models, games, gaming accessories it is all there, and Spiral Arm Studios will be there too at stand TD01.

The whole team will be there to talk to:

* Tomas and Stephen who wrote the fantastic Maelstrom's Edge novels Faith and Sacrifice.
* Jon Regul, the man behind the Maelstrom's Edge gamerules.
* James, our head honcho and overall master of the ship.
* JP - if you want to talk about stocking the game in your shop or featuring in your magazine/podcast/Youtube show.

We'll also have plenty of models to look at:

* the pro-painted studio models featured in the rulebook
* examples of terrain made using our fantastic terrain sprue
* a small demo game with freshly painted gaming models

And yes, you'll even be able to buy some Maelstrom's Edge products:

* the boxed game
* the new terrain sprue
* Physical copies of the novels (these are limited numbers)

It promises to be an exciting day, and everyone who attends will get a free Epirian Foundation bot handler in the goodie bag handed out to all attendees.

Tickets are available now from the Salute website. http://www.salute.co.uk/salute/salute-2016/

We look forward to seeing you on the day and chatting all things Maelstrom's Edge.


The Maelstrom's Edge free Epirian Handler models, to be given out to all Salute 2016 attendees in the goddie bag.

This is a mock up of the actual packet, so forgive the slightly blurry image.