Battle for Vedros Website Spotted!

Miss the Assault on Black Reach sets such as the Space Marine Captain or the Ork Warboss? Don't worry anymore... GW is rolling out a brand new website with a new line of 40K products based in the old Assault on Black Reach starter set... aimed squarely at boys and girls! Take a look!

It used to be called Assault on Black Reach... but never mind...

So let’s get started…
First of all, go here: Warhammer 40,000 Battle for Vedros (And take a look at the new products and pictures...)

This new website is organized in four sections: Collect, Build, Paint and Play:

Collect

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war! In the dying years of the 41st Millennium there is no peace amongst the stars, only brutal warfare and planetary conquest. The Battle for Vedros brings all the action onto your tabletop. You command armies of models in a game of daring, cunning and untold slaughter.

The Battle for Vedros Starter Set allows you to fight out battles between the mighty Space Marines and feral Orks. As well as great models for you to build and play with, it includes the tale of the invasion of Vedros and all the rules you need to play.

How much I wonder...

Once you have the Starter Set, you can also expand your collection with the other models and vehicles available (all their rules are in the Starter Set), whilst the Paint Set allows you to individualize your favourite models.

You will find all these reinforcements at your local store.

Are the Space Marines Sprues the old ones or the new??

Build

Building and modelling your own forces is part of the fun. The Starter Set models are easy to put together and means your forces can get into battle straight away! The models available in the other expansions present new and greater challenges, more models, more variety, more firepower!

Duncan's back!

Paint

Painting models is an exciting and fun hobby in and of itself. Whether you choose to replicate existing color schemes, or create fantastic new ones of your own, is completely up to you.

Of course there is a paint set...

The Battle for Vedros Paint Set includes thirteen pots of paint, a paint brush (the paints are water-based acrylics, so you will only require water to wash the brush), and a step-by-step painting guide: everything you will need to paint your collection of Space Marines and Orks.

By following the easy steps listed within the painting guide, you’ll quickly achieve excellent results with your own models.

For the Space Marines Ultramarines ...

... and for da Orks!

Play

The Space Marines have arrived to crush an Ork invasion at the Battle for Vedros.

Outnumbered, they must fight for their lives if they are to stop the alien hordes. The Space Marines and the Orks are old enemies, and on Vedros a brutal battle to the death is about to erupt in which only one side will emerge alive and victorious.

Simple... right?

This is a gaming experience unlike any other: a social event, part game, part storytelling as you become immersed in the world, shaping its destiny by your choices, risking the fate of entire worlds on the roll of the dice!


Some Notes:

• These are reboxings of existing quick-assembly miniatures – aimed at newcomers to the hobby.
• The videos are designed for viewers with zero background and experience with GW products.
• The rules are DIFFERENT – this isn’t a set of 40K starter sets. The miniatures are identical, but the rules themselves are a super simplified version of 40k. (someting like Age of Sigmar?)

Come... Show me what passes for rules among your misbegotten kind...

• Note the example customers in the pictures, young boys AND GIRLS. GW looks to be trying to widen the appeal of thier customerbase.
• The store locator at the bottom of the Battle for Vedros site includes both GW Retail stores AND independent stockists – so this isn’t a GW-Internal project.
• This looks to be yet another initiative by GW to widen thier customerbase with very basic products aimed at young children. The difference is this looks to aimed at the existing GW retail and FLGS channels while the Gemran Toy Fair line was even more basic and aimed outside of GW current retail channels.

Will it work?

Not a bad concept for ramping newcomers up to be honest and and it's only natural from GW for dedicating time and money to a plan to increase fresh blood to their customerbase. More on this as it comes in (prices mostly!!!). What do you think of the new line and site?

And since today's Valentines day here's a treat for all of you... enjoy!

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Thank you for your time and hoping to write to you soon.

Joaquim de Oliveira

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