[Edit: The Domain cardmasters.de is back - you can now access the forum as usual]
Seeing this morning that the cardmasters.de still hasn’t returned (it had been flagged and put into transit - it should return any hour now) - you can access the forum at www.warcraft-shop.de/forum .
By now you should have heard of the Fall of Winterhold Side Event at KoHIT - and have a few questions.
Here’s how it will work and what the result will (or might) be.
The side event will be played continuously on a table set aside for it. On it will be a stack of 50 cards (including Siege cards like Defensive Wall, Ramparts or Castle Gate). When an attacker arrives (or more than one), a call to war will go out for a Dwarven player to defend.
The Dwarves have 15 minutes to respond to the thread, or the top card will be removed from the game. When a Dwarf player does respond, he places his deck against the attacker(s) and has a choice of drawing 1-3 cards from the deck and placing them in any rank in his army (before revealing them and without causing an illegal rank).
There may be several players to each side, but each side can only have one more player than the other (so if one dwarf comes to defend, only two of the attackers may attack, if a second dwarf arrives, a third one may enter the battle and so on or vice versa).
The battle is resolved much like in Strategic - any player can enter at any time (given the limit above) and any player can attack armies in front and on either side of him (on the opposite side of the table that is - all Dwarves are on one side of the table). Initiative goes back and forth between the Dwarven side and the opponent side (effectively giving a single Dwarf player against two (for example) Deverenian players two actions while each of them has one until he runs out of options).
When a Warlord is defeated, the next player in line moves up. A defeated Dwarven player has to remove all Winterhold cards in his army or his discard pile from the game. A Dwarven player having eliminated an opponent has the option to withdraw from combat, placing any remaining Winterhold cards under their draw pile. He has to wait at least an hour before he can rejoin the queue. Also there can always be only one of each Warlords in the fray (so not three Kruns against three King Alarics, for example).
If and when all 50 Winterhold cards have been removed from play, Winterhold has fallen. What happens then?
The Dwarves have suffered a dire defeat. They appear to be the least favored faction. There will be future tests to determine their fate. Ultimately it will be up to the players all over the world with their actions on the field of battle to decide whether the Dwarves are a dying race, bar of hope, or whether they are going to have a chance to thrive.
Dwarf players - rally to the cause!
Information for the 9th edition of the world’s largest international Warlord event is up!
The highlights this year include the first “melee championship”, which in effect is a point-based multiplayer “free-for-all” bash over several rounds and the continuous side event that is giving KoHIT 9 its motto:
All dwarven players are given the chance to prevent the Fall of Winterhold, the last dwarven bastion. Other players can attack the stronghold in order to gain riches - or simply to get rid of their nemesis.
For more information click here or on the banner.
[Edit: I have apparently solved the problem - the latest software updated accidentally uploaded an obsolete file tree, overwriting a more current one. If you still experience any problems, please report them to me!]
Some players have experienced problems with the new shop. While I look into it, please be aware that you can order via e-mail (that’s one of the features the new shop has over the old: We can add “telephone orders”).
In order to do so, please include in your mail your full address, what you would like to order, and the way you would like to pay (if it’s paypal, add the address I shall send a payment request to).
If you’d like to pay via Credit Card I have to put you on hold for a few days (do NOT send me your credit card information!).
Send me that information via Mail or to “Arven” in the Cardmasters-Forum.
For another preview, click below.
Today City of Gold has arrived from the printers:
Tomorrow a limited shipment will be sent express to GenCon - all orders coming in tonight will be serviced either there or be sent to the recipient the week after.
I got confirmation from the shipping company: The cards are going to arrive at my office within the next 20 hours. I am really looking forward to this!
Here are a few new previews I am sure you were looking for:
As part of our efforts to improve service overseas today I am opening the “beta 2″-version of the new online shop for North America!
There are still some pages to add, and I am looking to add a credit card payment option (if you cannot use PayPal, drop me a line). Much more importantly I got the message today that on Wednesday APS #20 and #21 are going to arrive at my warehouse in Germany!
That in turn means that we’ll be able to deliver pre-orders paid by Thursday, July 29th at GenCon. If you do not go to GenCon you can still take advantage of this early bird offer, including the promo card “The Conflagration”, which you get one copy of for each set (1x #20 + 1x #21) you pre-order now!
The remainder of the pre-orders are going to be shipped out the week after GenCon - still about 6 weeks before the bulk of cards has a chance to arrive at the distributors (and they will not be accompanied by promo cards).
As a reminder: The official street date for City of Gold (the first two APS) is September 30th!
The first two APS from expansion 4 are at the printers. The set is scheduled to be released September 30th.
Two new events have been added to the Gen Con schedule: the final Summer Campaign and a new format event. It was hoped to have these events announced sooner but Gen Con LLC has been slow to reply to the event submissions (they were submitted shortly after Kubla Con). In fact, at this point in time they still haven’t been officially added to their schedule, but I feel that I have already waited too long to announce them. I have fielded a few petitions to move the singles finals to Sunday, but I haven’t budged there. In fact, I haven’t changed any of the events that Arne submitted because his submissions should appear in the printed schedule of events and I don’t want to muck that up. The new Gen Con 2010 Warlord calendar is as follows:
Class is in Session is a new format devised by Rich Carter wherein you replace your Warlord’s class with the class of your choosing. Yes, this raises a lot of questions so feel free to start a thread on the Temple and we’ll have Kerebrus make an appearance with all of the answers.
The Rhode Island Summer Camapign event has been rescheduled for a different day and location. The new day is July 24, 2010. The new location is:
Stillpoint Comics
120 South Main Street
Fall River, MA 02721
Sorry for the exceptionally late notice. Somehow I never received the earlier notification of this change, just the recent panicky one. If I could, I’d shake a shark at myself for this blunder. 
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