Warlord 4th Edition CCG - the epic fantasy card game

Derek McConnell contacted me through Facebook with this question:

Will Atu continue to make appearances with your retirement from the running of Warlord?

My Answer:

In general all Medusan Lords will continue to make appearances - as usual it depends on their runners, of course.
In the case of Atu (and Queen-Mother Nyssara, which I am playing in lieu of Oliver Schaaf as well) I am certainly making that available, but due to time and money considerations, this will likely mean that it will be in central Europe only for the foreseeable future.
I’d love to travel to another GenCon, but right now I simply cannot afford that.

Of course the same applies to all 4E Dragonlords and Daemonlords. And there will be another, yet unrevealed (I hope ;-)) Overlord!

Hi guys!

The team behind Warlord is still there - and here are two rules addendums that will help clarify the rules a bit better:

Glossary - Add the following after the last sentence of On-Going Effect,
“If a duration is not specified, the effect lasts until end of turn.”
so that the entry reads,
On-Going Effect: A ‘continuing’ card effect that is generated by an action. The duration of an on-going effect is set when the action is performed. It may last as little as the duration of another action, or as long as the rest of the game. If a duration is not specified, the effect lasts until end of turn.

Bonuses and Durations - add the following after the first sentence,
“Changes to a character’s traits (including feats) similarly last until end of turn unless the effect says otherwise.”
so that the paragraph reads,
Bonuses and penalties to ATK, AC, Skill, HP or level last until end of turn unless they say otherwise. Changes to a character’s traits (including feats) similarly last until end of turn unless the effect says otherwise. All permanent or on-going effects on a card, including wounds, end when it leaves play.

With all the changes going on in the websites, I am sure you all have been wondering what will be going on with Warlord in 2012. Here is the answer:

Basically starting March 1st, 2012 I will continue to support Warlord play and sales as a continued commitment to the community, but I have not renewed the license for PHOENIX Interactive to publish new Warlord brand product.

Anticipating this as one of the possible outcomes I printed a number of interesting promo cards with the recent printing (including additional Warlords). I will continue to work with the Player Design Team to come with official ways to play 4E and I will continue to provide prize support for events.

This means if you love the game, you will find ways to enjoy the game in 2012 and beyond!

Publishing Warlord for the past three years has been a rollercoaster ride of immense proportions. There was a chance with the new distribution scheme to make it work again. Due to a multitude of reasons the best case didn’t come to pass and now I don’t see a way to publish a niche game like Warlord professionally in today’s marketplace. The odds are stacked against it and Warlord has already been the odd child that survived 10 years where the average age of a TCG is closer to 2 years.

Of course one of the reasons for the continued success of this game has always been the great community and I would like to thank all of the movers and shakers who have stood by the game, motivated others to play and went beyond the call of duty to support the game.

During the 4E arc of the game, there once again were a host of motivated people who helped me out a lot.

Warlord 4th Edition would not have been possible without the Player Design Team, the Rules Team and the Playtest Team. Lead Designers Oliver Schaaf and Tommy Pistole did a huge amount of work, along with Richard Carter, Chris Dyer, Florian Hüpper, Jeremiah Uselton, and Chris Vaccaro as well as Jeremy Harris, Vann Lee, and Vic Polites. Thank you and the Playtest Team for all your help and time!

Most notably I’d like to thank Don Tsuchiyama as the self-styled “shipping thrall”. He was the one guy who has tried to keep track of who in North America should still be getting what cards when I was too overload with all the other tasks. Don - Warlord would have folded a lot earlier if it hadn’t been for you.

In Europe of course there was Manolis Trahiotis who despite his own serious troubles has been stalwart in support Warlord events, assisting every KoHIT and keeping Warlord alive in Greece. Manolis’ support was invaluable! Thank you, Manolis!

Lastly I would like to thank John Zinser for giving us as a community the opportunity to give Warlord a second life. John has been great and supportive all the way and has proven a true friend and fan of the game through the difficult process of devising and executing an exit strategy. Thank you John!

If you live in Central Europe, here’s your first chance to earn your shot at the Plague Ship (Utnapishtim):

The first European Winter Campaign event takes place in Weißenburg, Germany (near Nuremberg) March 2nd to 4th, 2012.
The schedule:

• Friday, March 2nd: Ancients Singles
• Saturday, March 3rd: 4E Singles
• Sunday, March 4th: 4E Doubles

All current Overlords, Dragonlords and Daemonlords are available for challenge.

If you’d like to attend or have any further questions, please contact Mario Strebakowski.

It always starts simple: Let’s move all those websites to a new server.

Then the troubles start, links and paths don’t work, or a software won’t even operate at all (so far that happened only with the forum, that’s up for heart transplant next ;-)). Then you decide, “while I am at it, I could transfer the old misnomed “warcraft-shop.de” into the much newer shop software I have been using for the US Shop. Suddenly the “few days” allocated for the entire move have turned into a “few weeks”.

Now, though, a new milestone is reached: The new Warlord Online Store for Europe and the World (that’s basically everywhere except North America, which is covered by the old store) is ready!

http://eushop.warlordccg.de

To celebrate this I have pledged out 20€  gift certificates for the first 20 orders of 40€ or higher and till end of March every order will receive a copy of Phoenix Rising, too.

So - I dare you to use the new store. If you still find anything hinky about it, please let me know.

In trying to get the new EU shop up I accidently overwrote an innocuous piece of the configuration that stopped the US shop.

Thanks to Don for alerting me to that (Don, I really appreciate you going through all that trouble!).

It’s fixed now (for the US-Shop at least).  The EU-Shop basically works - but right now buying in there would have everybody pay in USD instead of Euros (Euros are shown in the shop, but it’s not the currency that is used for the link to PayPal etc.).

Also on the way is a new restock to Don, but it’s going to take a few days to arrive.

Just to let you know - as usual the server change has thrown up more questions (and work) as anticipated.

One of those has been e-mail connection (the mail server changed to). AFAICS no mails were lost, but currently I am getting all e-mails filtered in triplicate (is there a word like “multiplicate”). Makes it very hard to sift through all messages in a timely fashion - and coordinating with Don and Rich on the upcoming Campaign events.

I hope to get that done asap to let you know more about dates and locations.

Currently I am working on getting the EU Shop integrated into the same system as the US Shop and getting the Forum up again.

Hello!

After getting some of the graphics links corrected here (they were hard-coded in the database) I got the US-Shop up. The new short link is www.warlordccg.de/wld/us-shop - I haven’t gotten around to superimposing pretty links yet.

There are two new products up, as well.

First of all is the Phoenix Feather. It can be used in place of a Limited Wish in any deck and works the same way. Yes, you can combine it with Limited Wish, but the sum of both cards can only ever be three.

Another new - or rather enhanced - product is the Warlord Gift Certificate. You buy a $50 gift certificate in the shop - which you can use for any product including the Phoenix Feathers above - and you get the four retooled Warlords Kestrel the Deceiver, Rabinus the Elder, The Bloody Countess, and Warmaster Sceth as a bonus.

Now I am off to get the forum back online.

Just to let you know: As usual, transferring a whole server holds its own challenges. This site is now on the new server, but required a few… tweeks.

Next up is the US-Shop, then the forum and finally the EU-Shop.

I’ll keep you posted.

In trying to put some additional promo Warlords on the print sheet at the last minute we all overlooked an OPT statement (on each) that were apparent to and intended by all involved in the creation.

Therefore both Rabinus the Elder and Warmaster Sceth receive immediate errata:

Rabinus the Elder should say: “React: Once per turn, before target character you control…” and

Warmaster Sceth should say: “Order: Once per turn, ready target non-stunned Siege.”

Both these Warlords are not legal in official tournaments at this point, therefore the errata effectively only apply to challenges for now.