Games Workshop is back to paywalling Warhammer 40k rules inside White Dwarf issues again, but thankfully not indefinitely this time.
At the beginning of 10th Edition, all the rules were free, but as the days march on and more codexes get released, the free rules are becoming harder to find. However, it also looks like an old paywall is making a comeback, as GW has locked some new rules inside White Dwarf again.
Games Workshop Just Bought Back an Old Paywall Again!
Here is the latest from Warhammer Community, on the old paywall Games Workshop just brought back again.
Eidelwynne VanTarrion is the first Rogue Trader to get stuck into Combat Patrol, at the head of VanTarrion’s Voidsmen – putting the Rogue Trader retinue and Imperial Navy Breachers from Kill Team to good use in this fast and accessible Warhammer 40,000 game mode – datasheet cards included!*
There are also rules for three and four-player games of Combat Patrol, and six missions designed to work with these increased player counts. Warhammer 40,000 coverage this issue extends to the deeds of Lieutenant Titus, and Kill Team rules for the Blades of Khaine.
While they are just Combat Patrol missions and rules, they are still 40k, and they previously were all available for free o Warhammer Community’s downloads section! If you’ve been playing 40k (or any GW game) for a while now, you may remember just how many rules they use to release exclusively in White Dwarfs. For a while, we’ve had a lull of paywalled rules in something like White Dwarf; however, this seems to open the door for them to come back.
They used to put more unknown Space Marine chapters, different detachments, and Regiments in them, and it looks like they might bring it back. This is also on the heels of the Epic Titan Death game mode paywall (we’ll have the details below.)
* These rules will remain exclusive to White Dwarf for a few months before becoming available later on Warhammer Community and the Warhammer 40,000 App.
At least this time around, they will be free eventually. However, it’s still not what many people want to see in these challenging times.
Thier Most Recent EPIC Paywall
It’s honestly just a little funny that GW already had a game to fight epic battles with the biggest war machines out there and then decided to put them in a game with infantry and tanks, only to take the tanks and infantry back out of that game at the first opportunity, which has just left basically the game of Titanicus all over again.
Wait wait wait…wait.
You made a game in which titans kill titans,
Then took the titans out of the titan game and into the infantry and tanks game.
Then took infantry and tanks out of the game to leave
Titans killing titans? Titan death mode? You mean Adeptus Titanicus?
— Gonders (@Gonders) January 4, 2024
While we had a bright period without too many paywalls, it looks like Games Workshop is bringing them back in a lot of the classic forms, even in White Dwarf.
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