Imperial Glory on sale
Richard's latest novel Imperial Glory is now available. It's bayonet versus choppa in this 40K Zulu as the exhausted twenty year veterans of the Brimlock Eleventh undertake one final campaign to rid a secessionist colony world of a plague of feral orks.

   

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The Great Devourer 2009

Sunday 29th March - Newbury Racecourse
Little could anyone guess how inconvenient the public transport is to Newbury Racecourse on a Sunday morning when you're out of season. Yet nevertheless, over 500 gamers and GW staffers made it there at the start of the campaigning season to embark upon the largest one day GW tournament this country's ever seen!




In the crisp, clear and *cold* morning, gamers from all over the region waited patiently with their armies, readying for battle.


The scale of the event was immense, the columns of tables filled the entire ground floor of the grandstand... and that wasn't all...


There was more...


And even more.


As well as signing, Richard embossed every copy with the Reiksguard seal, custom-made from the Order's heraldry within the novel.


The gamers played three battles, virtually back to back, often against complete strangers, yet the atmosphere, while intense, remained good-natured throughout. And as gruelling as it could be on the players, it was even harder on the staff who had been awake hours earlier carting scenery and boards from as far distant Scotland and also bringing this little fellow...


'He ain't heavy... he's my battle-brother' (had to be said :)

"This was my first major tournament and, boy, was it bigger than I expected. The logistics are just staggering, but the experience of being in the midst of such concentrated gaming can't be replicated anywhere else. I met an amazing cross-section of hobbyists, from people at their first tournament to long-serving veterans. Gamers who'd just managed to slap a basecoat on their army the night before, to those who had spent months painting, converting and building army presentation bases (a certain Necron player knows who I mean!).

We blew through the remaining stock of Reiksguard before lunch. I then brought out my special reserve, my own author's sample copies, to replenish our stock and they went just as quickly. Hopefully, anyone who missed out will be able to get to Black Library Live and pick up a their freebie copy there.

What I found most interesting were the armies. Authors express themselves in their books, hobbyists express themselves through their armies. And for all that we authors kid ourselves that it's the quality of our writing that sells the books, we know deep down that every player hankers after a tale of the army that they play."




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