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It's my first short story for Black Library, but it's not the first short story I'd ever written before

My debut Black Library fiction, and the last short story in the Dawnbringers eshort week, is now up! https://www.blacklibrary.com/prod-home/new/false-dawn-eshort-eng-2023.html

Damn you, linear passage of time!

Today's Dawnbringer eshort is out! Looks like an interesting twist with the perspective of a dwarf in the way of a crusade. Black Library - Grimnirsson (eShort) I'm starting to vibrate with excitement because tomorrow is my turn

The next Dawnbringer eshort is out! Looks like this one features some witch aelfery. Black Library - Heir Of Shadows (eShort)

According to the subscription bundle page, it's available until the 24th of April, which I presume means it also keeps the discount til then as well! Speaking of which, the next short is out - Past Returns! Sounds like it could be an interesting one, focusing on the effort to launch a crusade in the first place. Black Library - Past Returns (eShort)

I don't know if they'll announce it on the website, but it looks like the first of the Dawnbringer eshort stories is up: Black Library - The Road To Helsmarch (eShort) It's not mine, so no idea what it's like, but I can't very well push my own work without giving my fellow authors a bit of a bump as well - that'd just be impolite! According to the eshort subscription page, mine'll be the last in the series, releasing on Saturday: Black Library - Dawnbringers 2023 eShort Subscription

Sure - mine is False Dawn!

Thank you, that's very kind! I haven't been super active on TGA for the last year due to moving overseas (and hence losing my usual AoS opponents) - and due to writing for Black Library! I hope to do my part to fill out the setting

Hurrah, my first short story with Black Library is about to come out! 😀

I probably won't have a chance to play the expansions - would you mind telling which god it was?

They're just as 'historically accurate' as old Empire models were, inasmuch as the phrase is worth anything; they're drawing more heavily from the 14th-15th Century Burgundians, by the appearance of things, with bits and pieces influenced by other regions and centuries. Only their shield designs really throw things off.

I'm not sure why people think the Collegiate Arcane is going anywhere.

I strongly suspect the next Lumineth update will add phoenixes and related troops as part of Tyrion's lot, yeah.

Huh, I really like them. I wasn't expecting that, from the earlier previews of the 'bits' that we'd seen, but these really are great, and with a nicely distinct aesthetic from the old Empire style.

Might be a Harrowdeep Underworlds warband for Nighthaunt, but I definitely hope it's heralding cool stuff for a new Nighthaunt tome instead.

So, count how many of those 16 dice rolled a 5+, then add 2 to that number - so let's say 6 of your dice came up a 5 or 6, that'd be 6 + 2 for a total of 8 damage. If that damage total would be over 12 (because you rolled really well) then you reduce it down to 12. If you rolled a 6 to hit on the attack roll, that damage all becomes Mortal Wounds instead. So in this case, you'd have hit for 8 MWs.

Yeah, if you roll a 6 you calculate the damage as normal, it then all becomes Mortal Wounds.

Having a big dwarf throw-down would be pretty great.

I'd put IDK as likely; they're a very old tome and limited range.

That comment re Deepkin comes from a previous /tg/ 'leak' that is almost certainly nonsense, although we'll find out soon enough if the next Chaos battletome is what they predicted it would be.

Speaking of mount traits, while Fast 'Un seems so strong in general, my opinion of Mean 'Un went up a lot after my last battle. Consistently slamming in a larger number of mortal wounds before the enemy actually get to fight really helps even out poor dice rolls overall, and if you're rolling well, it turns the Sludgeraker into a bit of a bulldozer.

The section in the Warclans book about Mount Traits specifically says you only get to pick one hero to have one of the traits. I'm pretty sure the core then classifies them as an enhancement, ie you can get extras via the usual ways of adding enhancements through the relevant battalions.

My experience with Gutrippaz has been honestly pretty positive. Overpriced? A little. But they've got serious punch just while hanging around within 12 of a Sludgeraker, no need for a shaman babysitter as well (though it's nice).

Started a 1000pt Path to Glory campaign today, and got in our first battle; rolled up the Breakthrough battleplan. Noisy Racket definitely helped take the bite out of the enemy's first turn, and the 10-man Gutrippaz did some serious work while keeping within 12" of the Sludgeraker, mowing through a 20-man Mortek Guard unit and its attendant Mortisan. The poor Sludgeraker just couldn't catch a break though. Never rolled so many 1s on attack rolls, and didn't roll a single 6 on his attacks all game