Description

White Dwarf 493 is Games Workshop’s premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing monthly content – including new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests, and more.

Here’s what you can look forward to in the October issue:

• Contact!: Letters, questions, and pictures of miniatures sent in by you, our readers.
• Worlds of Warhammer: We hope you like hot weather because we’re taking a closer look at the Realm of Fire with Phil Kelly.
• Inside the Studio:A look at the miniatures painted and the games played in the studio this month.

WHITE DWARF BUNKER

• Access Granted!: An introduction to this month’s action taking place in the White Dwarf Bunker.
• Challenges: Join in with our ‘Psykers, Sorcerers, and Supernatural’ painting challenge.
• The Slidecrown Sundering: Join us on the Slidecrown Isle for the start of this Age of Sigmar narrative campaign!
• Scenario of the Month: New scenarios for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar, plus new gaming content for Warcry players.
• Basic Training: Gaming and tactical advice. This issue is all about learning from your mistakes. Hopefully!
• Hobby Hangout: Lewis Collins shows off the Tyranids he painted from the Leviathan box set. Spoiler Alert – They’re very green!
• Satellite Uplink: Lyle Lowry rounds up the studio’s Combat Patrol league, and we show off your wizards.

WARHAMMER 40,000

• A Tale of Four Warlords: The warlords get creative with conversions as they add to their new forces.
• Strike Without Mercy: A new short story about jump pack deployments that get you from space to planet in 60 seconds.
• Book and Blade: Crusade Rules for White Dwarf’s own Space Marines Chapter – the Tome Keepers.
• Wings of Vengeance: An in-world treatise on the history, design, and application of Space Marines jump packs.

WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR

• Traverse the Forests: A new battlepack set in the forests of the Slidecrown Isle.
• The Vinters Mance: Claret has been spilled in this short story featuring Armand Callis and Hanniver Toll.
• Fantastic Warhosts: Idoneth Deepkin Grab some flippers, because we’re heading under the sea for this issue’s painting gallery.

WARCRY

• Courage and Cruelty: New Warcry quests and artefacts for Vulkyn Flameseekers and Kruleboyz Monsta-killaz.

WARHAMMER: THE HORUS HERESY

• Full-scale War: Rules for tying different-scale games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy into one narrative campaign.

WARHAMMER: THE HORUS HERESY – LEGIONS IMPERIALIS

• Battle Report: The Garmon Purge: The Blood Angels battle the Death Guard in the inaugural Battle Report for Legions Imperialis.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Black Library – The Garrulous Saint: A wholly disturbing short story written by J.H Archer. We recommend reading this one on an empty stomach…

Each copy of issue 493 also comes with card inserts, including a dial card to represent the balance of power in The Slidecrown Sundering club campaign, Bunker achievement cards, a paint recipe card and a double-sided card featuring the Bunker scenarios of the month for Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000.