Warlord 4th Edition CCG - the epic fantasy card game

As you all know by now, the Ordo Phoenicis Ascendentis is the new Warlord Fan Club. Today I added a new perk: Those member who join (and pay) until April 30th will be named “Founding Members of the Order” and receive a reserved ribbon on the official forum:

- Knight Marshal

- Knight Commander

- Commander

- Knight

- Member

While this might not appear to be much, it is a harbinger of things to come.

Note: Obviously you cannot become a founding member of the Warlord Fan Club after 30th, but you can still apply before April 30th and pay (or update your membership) until June 15th.

Ok - we deliberately dodged April 1st here. Personally I never liked playing practical jokes on people. It’s just not my kind of humor.

The beginning of April does herald the end of the first quarter, though, and thus is important for bookkeeping and statistics.

For example in the first quarter 2008 over 1.5 GB of data was downloaded from this server by 3966 unique visitors (added the monthly uniques, sorry) in 11.257 visits. This specifically excludes bots and such. And we only started in February. The highest number of visits on a single day was 336 on March 27th, btw. It looks like we were able to fire up the interest of quite a few Warlord players that day.

In the same period 31 players joined the Ordo Phoenicis Ascendentis: 1 Knight Commander, 5 Commanders, 5 Knights and 20 Members. Thanks to all of you! I think it’s great to have that many already, considering you have until April 30th to sign up and until June 15th to pay your membership dues.

That’s pretty much the wrap-up for the first quarter and our first benchmark for success. The interest in Warlord is back and growing - and that’s the best news we could hope for at this time. Spread the news, guys!

Warlord is pure entertainment. That’s what it should be and that’s what I will strive to make it. And I would like the community – you – to be involved in it. Therefore I ask you to join the Order of the Ascending Phoenix!

In order to become a member, you will have to purchase one or more æris, valued at 50 EUR or $75, depending on where you live.

What do you get for that? For once you share the burden of getting the best customizable game off the ground again. You commit in much the same way I did when I acquired the license from AEG to publish the fourth edition of Warlord. There are artists and printers to pay and events to organize and support. The level of membership in the Order will help me gauge just how large the community is and how much they are willing to be involved. And keep my wife from considering me to be completely crazy. Just a little bit more crazy than the average member of the Order.

Beyond that you will reap a multitude of benefits, based on the number of æris you hold:

• At 1 æs, you will get a playset of exclusive promo cards at least once each half year for two years starting July 31st. Exclusive means for at least six months there will be absolutely no other way to get these cards.
  You gain the title Member.
  At 5, 9, 13 æris and so on you will receive an additional full playset of the same promo cards to trade or sell.
• You gain access to the secret hall of the Order – this is were competitions are run that allow the winners to name a card, request a side story, write an art description, design a card (in cooperation with the Design Team) or even possibly get your own Medusan Lord-level card. And more.
• You will gain member access to the visual card spoiler where you can search the database, build and save decks as well as print out decklists and proxies for testing decks..
• You are entitled to exclusive entry into special side events at GenCon and KoHIT, the two main events each year.
• At 4 æris you will receive a complete set (6) of the new starters free of shipping to your house. You gain the title Knight.
• At 10 æris you will receive a complete set (6) of the new starters as well as one fixed set of each of the following four expansions scheduled for two years starting July 31st. You gain the title Commander.
• At 20 æris you will receive 12 starters and two of each expansion sets mentioned above. You gain the title Knight Commander.
• At 30 æris you will receive a full playset: 18 starters and three boxes of each subsequent set mentioned above. You gain the title Knight Marshal.
• At 50 æris, which is the maximum allowed, you gain the title Knight Grand Marshal. In addition to a full playset of the base set and the first four expansions as outlined above, you will get one copy of every expansion set published between July 31st 2010 and July 31st 2013.
• Every member will carry a number of votes equal to his æris in order to vote three members of the Order into the Warlord Advisory Council to help steer the game and make sure the promises made are kept. These will get the additional title Envoy.
• There is more cool stuff, but I can’t tell you yet.

In order to apply, please first fill out this form and then use the payment options indicated on the confirmation page.