Review: Ascent of the Goblin King – green, nasty and sneaky
A Tales of Pannithor novel whose hero is a goblin – and not a likeable one. How does it read, what does it tell us about the world of Kings of War, and who should pick it up? No spoilers.
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Review: Ascent of the Goblin King – green, nasty and sneaky
A Tales of Pannithor novel whose hero is a goblin – and not a likeable one. How does it read, what does it tell us about the world of Kings of War, and who should pick it up? No spoilers.
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The College of Warcraft – Wisdom Instead of Genius
A clock-towered hall in Eowolf, four companies of cadets, warmages and riverside workshops. How the League of Rhordia teaches officers to win wars without waiting for a genius – and how once a year it shows off its army.
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Faction overview: Ratkin – the rats that broke the chain
Bred in the pits of Tragar as the perfect slaves, they escaped through tunnels dug for years under their masters' noses. Where the Ratkin came from, how a seven-level nest lives under its Brood Mother, and who marches in their screeching swarm.
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Warhammer Armies Project – the 9th edition of Warhammer that Games Workshop never gave us?
One fan, sixteen years, around sixty books and not a single Games Workshop stamp. The story of the Warhammer Armies Project – from "I'll just do Dogs of War" to a full, unofficial 9th edition of Warhammer.
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Gastromancy – Magic You Can Eat
Golden bread that keeps an army marching day and night, courage pudding, and a tart that lets you see in the dark. Where the halflings' kitchen magic came from, who cooks it, and what a second helping costs.
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Halfling customs – Round houses, full tables
Why the towns of the Shires are round, what the smoke over the Assembly means, who really runs a family, how many sheep a troll costs and how to say goodbye when the gods have gone missing. Everyday life among the People.
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Goblin customs – from spawning pool to mound
How a goblin comes into the world, who sits on the mound in the middle of the warren, why gold ends up on the rubbish heap and where dead kings go. Everyday life among the green plague from below.
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Faction overview: Goblins – a green plague from below
Cousins of the orcs who make up in numbers, cunning and spite what they lack in size. How they live in their tangled warrens, who gets to call himself king, and why their machines are often deadlier to goblins than to the enemy.
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Faction overview: Halflings – small folk, big appetites
Wandering herders who settled the golden fields of the Shires and survived Winter's endless cold, the League of Rhordia's betrayal and the Riftforged invasion. Where the halflings came from, how they live and who fights in their armies.
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