Inside No Quarter #19 July 2008

Wondering if the new No Quarter is worth purchasing? The table of contents below tells you what issue #19 covers. There’s great Metamorphosis coverage plus tons of modeling articles.

Over 90 pages of Privateer Press goodness all for just $5.99. It is nice to see more Hordes coverage. We are very excited about that game.

  • Fire in the Hole p. 2 “Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.”
  • Bosun’s Call p. 4 “Letters to the Editor and general shenanigans.”
  • News From the Front p. 5 “Events and important news from around the world.”
  • New Releases p. 6 “The latest Privateer Press products for July and August.”
  • Epic Proportions p. 9 “A first look at Metamorphosis and the warlocks who have gone epic.”
  • Full Metal Challenge: Weather the Storm p. 19 “Think you have the Warmachine chops to figure out this challenge?”
  • Battle Report: Blood Harvest p. 20 “The Privateer Press staff takes two of the new epics out for a little spin.”
  • 2008 Privateer Press Invitational p. 38 “A few dozen of our best fans came over for a friendly couple of games.”
  • Modeling & Painting: Speed Painting Worldwatchers p. 40 “Ron Kruzie shows how to paint wood and stone – super quick!”
  • Painting Challenge: Knock on Wood Challenge p. 43 “Bust out your table saw and make your ‘jack or beast look like wood.”
  • Summer Rampage 2008 p. 44 “Get your fury and focus on with a new Summer Rampage campaign.”
  • Shifting Gears p. 49 “Things change.  Rework your tactics for these classic warcasters.”
  • Sign & Sigil: The Greylord Covenant p. 54 “New Paths of Power for the Greylord Ternions.”
  • The Gamers’ Journal: Studio Showdown, Part 3 p. 59 “The studio is up to 750 points. Now the real mayhem begins.”
  • Secrets of the Wild: Might of the Kriels p. 68 “Big, bad, and blue.  Tactics utilizing the mighty Trollbloods.”
  • Monsterpocalypse: Agendas and Factions, Part 3 p. 76 “The last two factions and a sneak peak at the Monsterpocalypse comic.”
  • The Gavyn Kyle Files: Ashlynn d’Elyse p. 78 “By blade and pistol, Ashlynn fights to restore Llael’s sovereignty.”
  • Secrets of Five Fingers: Disease Name Generator p. 82 “PCs have a mere cold?  Think again with this disease name generator.”
  • Guts and Gears: Tharn Ravagers p. 84 “Vicious, deadly, and cannibalistic.  What’s not to love?”
  • Parts Bin p. 91 “A look at individual parts available in the Privateer Press Store.”
  • Drawn & Quartered / Player Gallery p. 93 “IK inspired comic and some of the best fan-based paint jobs around.”

War at Sea: UK vs Germany Battle Report

Wednesday evenings are War at Sea night at Battleground Games in Abington.  Tonight I thought it’d be fun to record my game and write it up as a battle report.  I brought my digital camera with the hopes of taking pictures.  For some reason it wouldn’t work at the store.  Either the battery died or squigs were playing a game of Blood Bowl with its innards.

Thankfully I took some pictures of my fleet before I left my house and I have peppered those throughout the battle report.  I played a 200pt game against my gaming buddy Rick.  Below is the breakdown of our two fleets.  Mine is accurate and his is as best I can remember.

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Combat Storm Free Download Terrain Building Pack 2

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Back in January we shared information on a new FREE building pack for Combat Storm. We even shared a video tutorial, crafted by Dave Reiter, to show you how to construct the buildings in the pack.

Today I received another e-mail from Dave Reiter, one of the geniuses at Strategy Wave Studios that makes the game, about a new FREE download. You heard that correctly. Combat Storm players and would be players can download the free building pack. This pack lets you make one middle eastern building and two dumpsters crafted in four colors. Print it out a bunch of times and you have a small town.

Before you download the building pack be sure you have Adobe Acrobat Reader as the pack is a pdf file. You can get Acrobat Reader, for FREE, at Adobe Acrobat Reader. I have version 8.1.1 for Mac OS X Leopard and the building pack shows perfectly!

Combat Storm Middle Eastern Building with Dumpsters Combat Storm Building Pack 2 Layout

According to Dave 

In future news, we also have artists currently working on some more new papercraft buildings, as well as some papercraft cars and trucks. I think you guys will really enjoy the vehicles as they really add so much to the battlefield both visually and strategically. Vehicles offer good cover for your squads and really bring street fighting to a whole new level.

New Blog Layout: i3Theme 1.6 Classic (Center Edition)

For almost two years now we’ve been using the same old setup.  All the major content is at the left and all the sidebars are on the right.  We’ve used one sidebar, two sidebars, one sidebar, and finally two sidebars.

After two years change has spread to the CWF Game Cast.  We have adopted the i3Theme 1.6 Classic (Center Edition) as our new official, shiny, and aesthetic layout.  The theme bares an uncanny resemblance to our previous layout, the i3Theme 1.6 Classic (Right Edition), with one major change.  We now feature a left and a right sidebar with the main content in the center.

This is a layout comfortable and familiar to most users and is one of the most requested changes by visitors.  This past July we celebrated our 3rd birthday, under the blog setup, without fanfare.  Changing layouts is a birthday gift from us to all of you.

We believe you fill find the blog more intuitive to use than ever before.  Despite the change you should still fill at home.  We kept as much as possible in the same place and working the same way as before.  You can still rate articles at the top of articles.  You can still find related content at the bottom of a post.  You can still leave comments the way you used to.

This, we hope, will herald some new advances in functionality.  We are unhappy with WordPress’ so called improvements to adding media into posts.  The gallery merely creates a jumbled version of pictures as evidenced by our War at Sea Task Force Picture Gallery (don’t open unless you have broadband).  We like what we see at Battlestar Last Supper ‘Mind’ Photo on my friend’s blog.  Click the picture in that blog post and you’ll see what we mean.  He’s using a plugin called Lightbox to get that to happen.  The official Monsterpocalypse website has a similar setup that we enjoy.  As does the blog of WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and to our knowledge he’s only using the basic gallery setup from WP 2.5.

Some old friends have been removed and some will hopefully return.  Upgrading to WP 2.5 caused a lot of problems and we removed some features to maintain functionality.  One such feature is WP-Polls, which we hope to return in the not too distant future.

In the meantime we’re continuing to provide you with the best gaming content we can.  We’ve been spending a lot of time on War at Sea and its new release Task Force.  Coming around the bend in the beginning of 2009 is Monsterpocalypse.  Plus, there’s always a slew of 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Warmachine, and board gaming news.