#White dwarf magazine 2014 full#
We end up with magazine articles that look like rule book extracts and rule books full of magazine articles because no-one is clear on what anything is for. So what we had was a design studio that seemingly did whatever it felt like, without any sense of how it would be published, and a White Dwarf magazine that simply helped itself to whatever it liked, because there wasn't anywhere better to put it. Its probable that the books only got that big because the designers kept churning out more content. What's left is an Ork preview, that looks like news, but acts as an introduction to over a years worth of Ork material that would eventually, after much re-editing, find its way into the huge Ork rule books. Add to that a painting guide and showcase that essentially looks at whatever the 'Eavy Metal team felt like working on without any reference to the rest of the magazine content. White Dwarf 121 contained preview material from Realms of Chaos months before its release, alongside articles for Space Hulk and Advanced Hero Quest that had no planned home in any supplement at all. It was a glorious mess and one from which White Dwarf benefited hugely.
This is why Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 were published as books and everything else as boxed games why Warhammer had a single slim volume of army lists and Warhammer 40,000 was divided into an odd mix of articles of White Dwarf compendiums why the Space Marines shared a book with the Imperial Guard and Squats while Chaos and Orks got two thick hard back volumes each.
#White dwarf magazine 2014 how to#
They weren't necessarily bad at writing them but there was very little sense of what they were for or how to deliver them to customers. I have written about this before, but back when White Dwarf 121 was published, Games Workshop was chronically inept at the business of producing and distributing rules. But to understand what that is, we have to go back to the start of our journey. So not so much a reinvention or redesign as the same thing further emphasised? Not quite, because if you take an even closer look, there is something else going on below the surface here. How much of this is article and how much is sidebar? Articles have huge, colour headings, expansive box outs and side bars (one article, on Warhammer 40,000 missions is more side-boxes than article) and huge coloured borders either side of the page into which content occasionally intrudes. Inside, the "red period" is still in full swing with everything painted in bright bold colours. This is exemplified by the replacement of the venerable old White Dwarf logo with a bigger, more angry and cartoony version by Wayne England. Visually, the magazine is much the same as White Dwarf 181 but turned up to 11. Of which more later.īeyond the immediate, not much else appears to have changed. So including a card section was adding a lot of value to the magazine.
The latter felt hugely valuable at the time, given how much of Games Workshops games were delivered in the form of cards of one sort or another, from board sections, to magic item cards, to vehicle datafaxes, to army cards, to counters, to wargear cards and on and on. On the surface the really big changes amount to an increased page count and the introduction of two pages of card pull outs. White Dwarf has absolutely changed over time, 181 looked nothing like 121, but this is the first time someone has consciously said "That thing we used to do? We're not doing it anymore, we're doing something else." This happened with White Dwarf 191, the second issue to be edited by Jake Thornton. We have reached a turning point in that this issue represents the first, and nearly the last, time that the magazine has consciously been re-designed. The cover comes from Codex Angels of Death, which covered the Dark Angels and Blood Angels, neither of whom are featured prominently in this issue
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