Greetings, Deathwatch fans!

This week I have an exciting announcement: Litany of War , the 2010-2011 release schedule for Deathwatch, is available for download now! Enjoy!

Wow, I hope the schedule holds up! There's some neat stuff there.

Rites of Battle will be the quintessential sourcebook, it seems. (Which means Winter 2011 is a very long wait for a book that important.)

Alex

I am impressed!

I was expecting a GM screen soon and maybe, maybe an adventure before Christmas, but this promises a whole lot more

Good luck to FFG to keep to the schedule!!

DW

ak-73 said:

Gotta go with this. For such an important book, it seems a little strange to have it so terribly far away.

To be fair, it's only really in keeping with the template started with Dark Heresy, that first comes the corebook, then comes the GM Screen, then comes the 3 part adventure book, and then comes the player's handbook. Given that "Into the Storm" is only going to be out in the next month, a year after the release of Rogue Trader, it should come as read that it'd be that long until Deathwatch got the same treatment. Also, RT is perfectly playable without Into the Storm, so wouldn't it follow suit that Deathwatch is likely to be perfectly playable without "Rites of War"?

Still, it's a good line-up, and I look forward to getting hold of the books as and when they're released

Artemesia said:

Producing an RP sourcebook is not a quick process, and there's quite a long wait between writing and publication (several months at least, much of which is printing and shipping). It's preferable to write sourcebooks while referencing the finished rulebook (to avoid 'legacy' errors where rules changed by playtesting are referenced in sourcebooks), which places further delays on the process - you can't start until the rulebook is finished. It all adds up, unfortunately.

I'm hoping the release date on Rites of Battle is a typo. It just seemed odd to me that the release dates look like this:

Deathwatch Core Rulebook: August 2010

Deathwatch Game Master's Kit: Fall 2010

The Emperor Protects: Fall 2010

Rites of Battle: Winter 2011

Mark of the Xenos: Spring 2011

The Achilus Crusade: Spring 2011

Maybe it was placed in order wrong, but I'm really, really hoping that was a typo concerning the date. I'd much rather see a Winter 2010 release date (and I'm sure many of you are too!).

MILLANDSON said:

Unfortunately Deathwatch needs its player's handbook much, much more...

Um... just what season would, for example, January 2011 be?

Half a year between the core book and the "player's guide" sounds par for the course.

Cifer said:

I'd class January 2011 as having been in Winter 2010, personally. Given that, as I said, "Into the Storm" is only coming out this August, and RT came out (at Gencon) last August, that's a year between the two. Given the number of books being released for all the gamelines, a year for "Rites of War" sounds about right.

It's pretty obvious (At least to me) that "winter 2011" means Jan-Mar range.

MILLANDSON said:

Well, that's just odd.

Winter is essentially (roughly) the 1st Quarter 2011

cP

Dulahan said:

December is part of winter as well...

Only the last 10 days or so.

Traditionally, in business sense, "Winter" of a year means January to March.

Hell.

Yes.


This is awesome. Man... so many great books for all three RPG's coming out, and not a single sign of cards, counters or proprietary dice. Fantastic.

Are we assured to get the Carnifex in Mark of the Xenos? Ross already said that he didn't make the cut for the core rulebook (which is fine given how many Tyranid beasties we are getting), but will it be in this one? And will we get lots more squishy Tau to kill?




MILLANDSON said:

So FFG'd better start usind Q1, Q2, etc. instead of Fall, Winter, etc. in order to reduce the brain damage here

"Make your own Chapter" rules. THAT will make a lot of people really happy (and some people will probably spend months lying in anguish about the "is this really canon" question).

Kyorou said:

Simple clarification on the forum would suffice.

Alex

Kyorou said:

They did/do. The original Knowledge is Power for Dark Heresy was laid out that way, as is Profit and Plunder for Rogue Trader . Don't quite know why the switch in the new Knowledge is Power or in Litany of War .

Maybe someone wanted to be playful with the listings. I don't know.

-=Brother Praetus=-

It's also not fair for those of us in the southern hemisphere. You could get us all excited for nothing.



BYE

Expanded Power Armour Rules...

Nice

Atheosis said:

I reread the file again and it says the the following:

"This booklet is an overview of the Deathwatch release schedule for 2010 and the first half of 2011."

Yay. :-)

Alex

Winter= snow falls in feb-march.

Just a reminder that there's a reason that the tax year in US(ish)/UK essentially begins in April...

Kage