Warhammer: Orcs & Goblins 8th Ed 1.0 out now!

Clocking in at 216 pages, this is by far my longest book to date (though likely to be beaten by at least the Empire and High Elves when they are finished)! This book comes with plenty of new characters and units, extended information on all Waaaghs!, greenskin society, tribes and a bunch of short stories previously printed in various White Dwarfs throughout the ages. In short, this would be your ultimate tome of everything Orcs and Goblin related in Warhammer.

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New features/changes include:

• New Lord choice: Forest Goblin Warboss.
• New Lord choice: Forest Goblin Great Shaman.
• New Hero choice: Forest Goblin Big Boss.
• New Hero choice: Forest Goblin Shaman.
• New Hero choice: Orc Warchanter (from AoS)
• New Special Unit: Goblin Nasty Skulkers (stand-alone skirmish/scout unit).
• New Unit Upgrade: Goblin Jesters (from Citadel Journal).
• New Rare unit: Gore-gruntas (from AoS).
• New Special Character: Gorfang Rotgut (from 5th Ed).
• New Special Character: Morglum Necksnapper (from 5th Ed).
• New Special Character: The Black Gobbo (from US GW site).
• New Special Character: Borgut Facebeater (from Storm of Chaos).
• New Special Character: Badruk 'Eadsplitta (2000 Games Day model).
• New Special Character: Bigfeet Bonehead (from Citadel Journal).
• Characters may only join models of the same type (so you cannot have a Savage Orc or Goblin Warboss leading a unit of common orcs for instance).
• Great Cave Squigs have S6.
• Mangler Squigs are no longer Armour Piercing.
• Improved statline for Colossal Squigs.
• Nerfed statline and special rules of Squig Gobba to be more on par with Great Cave Squigs.
• Removed "extra boingy" since it's hardly ever being used.
• Changed "get 'em" result on Animosity table to only affect units within 3".
• Gorbad Ironclaw 335 pts, no longer auto-dies when fleeing like normal BSB's. 
• Azhag 460 pts, have Daemon Staff magic item that gives +1 to cast.
• Grimgor 320 pts, have MR(1) magic item.
• Wurrzag 330 points.
• Grom 240 pts.
• Skarsnik 265 pts.
• Gitilla 70 pts.
• Snagla Grobspit 90 pts.
• Snotlings 15 pts.

As you can see, I've included rules for both Gore-gruntas and Warchanters from Age of Sigmar, as requested. I decided to not include separate rules for Brutes and Mawkrushas as these can already be represented by Big 'Uns and Wyverns. So now Orcs and Goblins have both MC and a support character which adds something new to their roster.

I will leave to you guys to read it through and let me know of any bugs and other issues as usual. In 1-2 weeks I'll upload a new update as well as the 9th ed version. Cheers!

General progress update

Just a quick heads'up. Orcs & Goblins are almost finished now, and should hopefully be released this weekend if I'm not too busy at work. Currently working on adding all artwork and graphics to the book, and then I only need to finish the credits, summary and introduction before it will be all set.

This week I've also been going through all the WFRP books as well as other lorebooks and CCG's to make sure I don't miss out on any artwork not included in the normal army books. After sorting though some 30 books and 3000 pictures I think I got pretty much all of them.

In other news, I also found a way of speeding up the OCR process and lower the amount of manual editing needed, which will also save quite a bit of time for books in the future.

I have also been going through the Warriors of Chaos book and started to assemble their background section a bit to get a feel for how long the book might be. As it looks right now, it might not be too overbearing, thus making it possible that I will skip the Chaos Expansions and just include everything in one book instead. This remains to be seen though. 

Lastly, as many people are wondering how far along any book release is, I've added a "percentage complete" estimate to the update order so you will have a better idea how soon each book can be expected to be released. This can naturally still vary based on how much time I have to work on the books as well finding new material (the Empire book has been a bit of a pain in that regard due to the huge number of WFRP books set there, which means more material to go through).

Warhammer 9th Ed 1.053 out now!

This update changes the following:

• Fixed bug so Stone Throwers now have correct range, 12-60".
• Clarified that characters may fire multiple shots in a unit that fire single shots.
• Clarified that models with the Multiple Shots rule armed with weapons that also have the multiple shots rule (such as bows) only use the highest number of shots, as well as ignore the penalty for firing Multiple Shots. This has no effect on Tomb Kings, but will affect units such as Waywatchers.