Warmuster issue 1 - Summer 2009

In a bit of flashback reviewing, I'm tackling Warmuster issue 1 today.

Now, this magazine is over 11 years old, but it can be freely downloaded from the internet.  I came across it by accident earlier this week while looking for fanzines of all sorts to read, as I didn't know about it before.

Co-created by Lex van Rooy, a dutchman I had the pleasure of meeting over a decade ago in the convention circuit, this was a fun thing to see.  I knew he worked back then on the "Warmaster Trial Armies" volume of unofficial forces for the game, but never knew there was an accompanying fanzine.

So let's jump in and see what we had missed out on!

The theme of the magazine is "modelling Fantasy armies", and it is basically one glorious showcase for tiny 10mm forces, created for the Trial Armies book.  This means a lot of full colour eye candy, but also some in progress shots of models being sculpted especially for that goal.

The first force we encounter is a fantastic Dogs of War force, including pikemen, birdmen, Voland's Venators... truly a magnificent sight to behold.

But here are so many more eye candy articles and armies in the 17 page publication, like the Ogre Kingdoms, Albion, Goblins, Daemon Hosts, Wood Elves, Bretonnia,...

It certainly is a good magazine to get from the Warmaster community website, where the game (like epic on NetEpic) is held alive...