Amazon Pitch – Double-sided Pitch and Dugouts Set

The majority of stadia belonging to the Amazonians are located deep within the Lustrian jungle, concealed within clearings or hidden groves. However, the jungle climate is unpredictable at best, and the sweltering heat can be replaced by a torrential downpour at a moment’s notice. When the rains arrive they are likely to rouse various jungle creatures – these saurian spectators seldom pay for tickets, and are prone to attacking any unsuspecting Blood Bowl players that stray too close to the treeline.

One side of the pitch is a dense jungle floor littered with poisonous serpents, featuring a prominent Amazon Team icon in the centre. On the other side, torrential rainfall has flooded the pitch, attracting the colourful birds and great scaled beasts native to Lustria.

You’ll also find a pair of matching double-sided dugouts to complete the theme. Redesigned for the latest edition of the game, each dugout features score, turn, and re-roll trackers, plus Reserves, Knocked-out, and Casualty boxes.

Amazon Blood Bowl Team: Kara Temple Harpies

Highly skilled and agile, Amazons are among the very best players of Nuffle’s sacred game. These warrior-athletes possess an exceptional blend of agility, tactical prowess, and violence that makes them thrilling to watch on the pitch, with an acrobatic style of play honed by years spent darting through dense rainforest and evading apex predators. With tactics moulded around the deadliest animals of their jungle home, these players unleash vicious hit-and-run moves that dazzle Blood Bowl fans and opponents alike.

On the pitch, Amazon teams are a force to behold – though relatively lightly armoured, their agility allows them to dance around sluggish teams, while raining down blows on the Old World’s complacent weaklings. With a fearsome reputation as both warriors and players, it’s no surprise that these explosively agile teams regularly crush competition at the very top of the sport.

The multipart plastic kit allows you to assemble the Kara Temple Harpies, an Amazon team for use in games of Blood Bowl. The team is made up of 6 Eagle Warrior Linewomen, 2 Piranha Warrior Blitzers, 2 Python Warrior Throwers, and 2 Jaguar Warrior Blockers. In addition, the box includes 2 double-sided Blood Bowl coins, 2 turn and re-roll markers, 4 balls, and a transfer sheet with 292 decals, all themed around Amazon teams.

Rules for using Amazon teams in your games of Blood Bowl can be found in Spike! Journal 15.

This kit comprises 102 plastic components, and is supplied with 12x Citadel 32mm Round Bases and 1x Amazon Team Transfer Sheet. These miniatures are supplied unpainted and require assembly – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel Colour paints.

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City – Nightwars

The Curse of Night Unending shrouds Ulfenkarn’s streets in choking darkness. The survivors’ enclave of Haven stands alone as a light in the darkness. In the Ebon Citadel the Wolf’s throne stands empty, but three new vampiric pretenders have arisen to stake their claim to the city. Each brings their own brand of evil to bear, turning the districts under their control to hellish reflections of their personalities. Only the band of disparate heroes who cast down Radukar stand any chance of pushing back the darkness, and reclaiming Ulfenkarn for the living. Their task will not be an easy one, for with each vampire they cut down, the others will increase their territory and power. And around campfires and candles, rumours claim the Wolf still stalks the night…

The first expansion for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City has arrived. Use your collection of Soulblight Gravelords models to represent new vampire lords trying to fill the power vacuum left by your Heroes after the first quest. You’ll find three new journey types, new missions, even more challenging enemies, and new Elite Classes to empower your Heroes.

Inside the box you’ll find:

– 48-page Nightwars rulebook, packed with the continuing story of Ulfenkarn, rules for using new enemies, two Elite Classes for each of the four base classes, rules for the Haven settlement, three new journey types plus four Decapitation journeys, and more perilous Crisis tables
– 2x double-sided board tiles
– 53x game cards, including encounters, Elite Class traits, empowerments, discovery cards, vampiric power cards, and a Nightwars quest card
– 2x vampiric power secret envelopes, to open as you hunt down each vampire
– 30 double-sided tokens, including new lurk, hunted, and blood point tokens

Empire at War (Paperback)

A Warhammer Chronicles Omnibus

A collection of novels and short stories telling the story of the Empire – seat of power in the World-That-Was.

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This omnibus edition collects together tales of heroism and sacrifice – focusing on the dour but courageous Winged Lancers of Kislev, the doughty rank and file of the Imperial halberdiers and the pious warrior-priests of the Sigmarite faith. Also included are an array of short stories, focusing on the many defenders of the Empire.

THE STORY
The Empire is the largest and most powerful realm in the Old World. Founded by the warrior-god Sigmar, it is built up of city-states and provinces that are now bound together under the rule of Emperor Karl Franz. Only through the actions of its valiant heroes has it repelled the numerous invasions brought against it. And in the far north stands Kislev, one of the Empire’s staunchest allies and the first bastion against the rampaging Chaos hordes beyond…

CONTENTS
– Riders of the Dead (novel) by Dan Abnett
– Grimblades (novel) by Nick Kyme
– Warrior Priest (novel) by Darius Hinks
– Swords of the Empire (anthology) by Various Authors
– The Vampire Hunters (short story) by Robert Earl
– Meat Wagon (short story) by C L Werner
– The Case of the Scarlet Cell (short story) by Gordon Rennie
– Rest for the Wicked (short story) by James Wallis
– The Nagenhof Bell (short story) by Jonathan Green
– Swords of the Empire (short story) by Dan Abnett
– Shyi-Zar (short story) by Dan Abnett
– As Dead As Flesh (short story) by Nick Kyme
– Dead Man’s Hand (short story) by Nick Kyme
– Sanctity (short story) by Nick Kyme
– The Miracle of Berlau (short story) by Darius Hinks

Blood Bowl Spike! Journal Issue 15

This issue’s Guest Editor Meghera Lafes ventures out of the thick and steaming rainforests of Lustria to bring you a Spike! Journal packed with scrimmaging serpents and tropical touchdown gameplay. That’s right, this issue brings the Amazon team to your games of Blood Bowl!

This journal covers the history, rules, and rosters of the Amazon team. As well as stories of mysterious relics, acrobatic antics, and some truly spectacular ritual sacrifice shows at half-time, you’ll find all the fantastic fun and essential commentary you’ve come to expect from Spike! Journal. As such, this magazine is the perfect companion for any jungle-dwelling coach.

This issue includes:

– Warriors of Legend: background on the origins of Amazon teams in Blood Bowl, and how they play on the pitch. Includes information on their team positions, Star Players, and a team roster.

– Famous Amazon Teams: descriptions and background on some of the more famous Norse teams, including the Feathered Jaguars, Patraxi Pythons, Skywatch Sentinels, and Great River Wardens.

– Kara Temple Harpies Team Spotlight: an in-depth article focusing on the Kara Temple Harpies, the most recent Amazon team to have taken the Blood Bowl pitch by storm. Includes details of their history, team profile and colours, honours, Spike! team rating, as well as the roster of their triumphant 2499-2500 squad, and loads more.

– Star Player – Estelle la Veneaux: a profile on the Baroness of the Bayou, said by some to an embodiment of the Amazonian goddess Rigg – and by others to be a half-crazed Amazon covered in frogs – detailing her uncanny powers and vengeful career.

– Dirt from the Dugout: this time Mindy Piewhistle investigates the scandalous rumours surrounding the Genaina Javelins and their new, beautifully-scaled fashion brand.

– Star Player – Glotl Stop: a profile on this infamous Kroxigor Blocker, known to many as the Primordial Nightmare – or the Scaled Slasher. Though he often has trouble distinguishing friend from foe on the pitch, that’s only added to the impressive body count Glotl’s racked up in his explosive career.

– Amazonian Temple Leagues: brand new rules and advice for running the Amazonian Temple Leagues – a variant on the standard Blood Bowl league season, allowing players to compete in the Jungle Bowl – open to all teams with the usual budget of 1,000,000 gold pieces – for the mysterious Jungle Bowl Cup. Also includes unique tables for Sweltering Jungle Weather, Temple-City Kick-off, Lustrian Locals, and the effects of Ancient Artefacts.

– Overgrown Jungle Blood Bowl Pitch: includes rules for using the Overgrown Jungle Blood Bowl Pitch in your games, including special rules for the Jungle Floor and Torrential Downpour. These rules are also included with the Amazon Team – Double-sided Pitch and Dugouts Set.

– Coffin Corner: Spike! Journal’s obituaries column commemorating those players who are no longer with us, whether trampled on the pitch, torn apart, or possibly eaten.

– Chat with the Rat: ace Skaven reporter Hackspit ‘the Scribbler’ Quillchewer meets with Klara Vytis, Groundswoman for the Obsidian Ocelots, to discuss the many, many challenges of maintaining a game-ready Blood Bowl pitch in the depths of the Lustrian jungle.

– Amazon Balls: includes background and rules for two unique Amazon Balls – the Crystal Skull Ball and the Snake-Swallowed Ball.

– Secrets of the Amazons: a detailed introduction to coaching Amazon teams. Includes an overview of the strengths of their team, positions, tactics, and more.

– Star Player – Boa Kon’ssstriktr: a profile on the ‘Scheming Serpent’ himself, detailing how this mysterious and hypnotic Snakeman rose to prominence by tripping up enemy teams.

– Dungeon Bowl Update – Amazon Teams: provides a narrative and rules update for players to use their Amazon team miniatures in games of Dungeon Bowl.

– Mighty Blow! – Jungle Fever: a look back on some of the tall tales from the career of Bob Bifford. Includes a comic strip Bob Bifford reminiscing about his time in Lustria.

Gotrek & Felix: The Sixth Omnibus (Paperback)

A Warhammer Chronicles omnibus

As the world burns around them, Gotrek and Felix are reunited to face enemies old and new. The truth of Gotrek’s ancient shame is revealed, and he faces his true destiny as Grimnir’s avatar in the mortal world… but tragedy awaits these heroes.

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All good things must come to an end… even the adventures of the Old World’s most infamous wanderers. Experience the last battles of Gotrek and Felix, packed with revelations, betrayals, and the end of the world!

DESCRIPTION
For many long years, Felix Jaeger has followed the Slayer, Gotrek Gurnisson, across the world. Their adventures have been extraordinary, their heroic partnership the stuff of legends. Now it ends.

With their friendship in tatters after a series of betrayals, the pair march south at the head of a ragtag army, intent on driving the forces of Chaos out of the Empire and returning Felix to his wife. But Gotrek’s doom is at hand, and great powers are at work to ensure that he meets it. With enemies on all sides and destiny calling, Felix must make a choice – to follow Gotrek into the darkness that awaits him or to abandon his oldest friend once and for all.

Collecting the final adventures of the wandering heroes across three novels and a short story, Gotrek & Felix: The Sixth Omnibus is packed with fantasy adventure.

Written by David Guymer