Article list:
-Painting Bone
-Graham McNeill interview
-From the Vault-Orcs
-Gehemisnacht (story)
-A Giant Problem (tactics)
-Gaming FAQ
-Intro: japehlio and ossai
-Lores of Magic
-How to build a Grey Seer from scratch
-Battle report: VC vs Woc:Nurgle

The order is random, things will tidy up quickly.

This isn’t to say we’re out of article ideas, but it’s no good to put out content that folks aren’t interested in. Make sense? Good!

Cheers all,
Mr C

Interested?   Good, read on:

The contest is a fiction one.  Now, as the issue has a theme of “Evil”, and so Im asking that entries are kept to a similar theme; Orcs, Goblins, Dark Elves, Vampire Counts, Ogres, Skaven and Tomb Kings are all valid races for use in your stories, and we’re looking for between 1500-2000 words here.

Deadline is April 1st, and all entries must be submitted to our email, “thefantasymag@gmail.com”

And yes, there is a prize!  Two for one, in fact, as first place scores a copy of Heldenhammer and Empire, both signed by Graham McNeill!

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Get writing!

-Mr C

With Issue 6 finally kicked out of the house, it’s time to focus on getting the 7th child out into the world.  The “day of reckoning” is March 15th, and we need your articles, pictures, artwork, commentary et al to make it a smashing hit!

With Issue 7, we are going to try something new with the theme, notably in that there isn’t one!  The shock, the horror, right?  With any luck, this will not make folks feel restricted with what they can send in.

We will also be trying out two new features: Homebrew and Letters to the Editor (Nomad’s idea, not mine!). Both are rather self-explanatory, but if you insist:

-Homebrew: House rules, custom campaigns, missions, units and even an entire army list all fall under this section. I have high hopes for this addition to the Mag.

-Letters to the Editor: this is to print feedback, questions, comments, etc that we get (sadly, we have gotten nothing in these regards other than unadulterated praise).

As always, submit your articles to by emailing them to theastromag@gmail.com.

Now, how can you help in other ways than submitting an article and other content?

We’ve got some snazzy signature banners! Use them in your signatures across the Internet to spread the word about the Mag!

-The Original Astro Mag (another another one!)
-Chronicles of the Old World

Also new is some social networking!  The Mag now has a Twitter account and a Facebook fan page.  Pretty cool, huh?

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Right-o, I do believe that’s all the news.

Cheers all,

Mr C

I wanted to throw up another sneek peek which shows how the battle report looks (hint: it’s awesome).  The maps were made with Battle Chronicler software, and the armies are two fully painted armies: Chaos Space Marines and Space Marines.   I’m very excited about this, as the format means battle reports will be something that can be done and look good!

Also included is some tinkering I did while waiting for Dow: Dark Crusade to load for Issue 7′s cover… or what I wish it could be!  The portrait style doesn’t mesh well with the landscape format of the Mag.  It’s hard to find good Warhammer art in a landscape format; if you know anyone who is an artist, see if they’ll do something for us.  With our ever growing readership, it’s a good way to get their name out if they’re interested in commissions and the like.

Oh, those Land Raiders with lights?  They’re part of the miniature showcase (another segment that will hopefully become a regular feature), and there’s more where that came from

Excited yet?

I need to mention the Fantasy edition of the Mag.  japhelio has told me he hasn’t gotten but one or two complete articles in.  I highly encourage any of you who dabble in Fantasy to any degree to write an article for Chronicles of the Old World.  If you have any questions about writing an article and the like, email me at theastromag@gmail.com or japhelio at thefantasymag@gmail.com.  Remember, the deadline is February 1st, which is fast approaching!

I am working on gather several Apocalypse Datasheets from the Astronomican community to provide another bundle o’ datasheets.  Send me an email with what you want to see in that bundle!  If we don’t have it, there are some folks who are capable of punching out rules with relative ease.

I think that covers all the new news.

Thank you for your continued patience,

Consadine

Some article titles, some datasheet previews, editing on the Homebrew.

For Issue 6 we’re introducing a homebrew section.  I’d love to see this take off to showcase the hard work of fans creating their own gaming material.

Jetbike article and piccies preview (lots of pics in this tutorial) and the cover for Fallen.

So soon…

Hopefully this is keeping you all intrigued (there is still a lot you all haven’t seen yet!).

Cheers,

Mr C

As much as I wish I were announcing the release of Issue 6 of the Astro Mag, such is not the case.  Fret not, it really is on the way… to be fair, I do feel like the boy that cried wolf.  The irony being that one of the sneak peeks is an editorial on Space Wolves.

Wait, sneak peeks?  Why, yes citizen!  It’s the least I can do for making you all wait this long.  Just two quick screenshots in between editing proofs…

Here we’ve got the Space Wolves editorial as well as one of the pieces of artwork I hope will find its way into the Mag.  Fingers crossed!

This is something I’m excited about.  It’s a shame these images are in a portrait style, which doesn’t fit too well into the landscape format of the Mag.  It’s still fun to see what we can do… perhaps even mesh two of these together?  That would feel like cheating, but it might work… if you are an artist or know someone who is, or can point us to someone who has posted a gallery of Warhammer pictures, please email us at theastromag@gmail.com!  We’ll be glad to hear from you.

There’s a quick update for the Fantasy edition of the Mag, now with a fancy sounding title: Chronicles of the Old World.  The deadline for articles has been pushed back through the end of the first day of February.  The email address has not changed: thefantasymag@gmail.com. Ideas are already being tossed around the Astronomican boards; one in particular about a campaign map sounds like it could be fun.  Don’t let that intimidate you from sending something in, though!  We really want to kick this project off with a bang.

Also, we’ve got another addition to our “List o’ Links”: a 40k podcast titled Imperial Vox Cast.  A biweekly show, the IVC crew pick an army for the episode and go at it.  The discussion is pretty solid; at the end of every show I know about more ways to run armies out of whatever codex was the subject of the show.  It’s free and makes for a good listen while you’re painting/gluing/sculpting/hobbying.  Check it out!

As always, please send all feedback (good and bad), articles, artwork, inquiries and issues to theastromag@gmail.com.  Is there something we shouldn’t do anymore?  Do you have an idea for an article or an addition to the Mag but aren’t sure on the specifics?  Is there anything blatantly obvious that we could be doing better?  What would you like to see in the Mag?  Do email your thoughts in; I check the Mag’s inbox at least once a day and I do read every email that floats on in.

With that, I bid thee well,

-Mr C

The title of this post might be a bit confusing.  Why’s that?  Well, I mentioned Fantasy because, well… read on, first there’s some Issue 6 to chat about.

We’ve been getting some articles and pictures for Issue 6.  The editorial team (only three of us now) is very excited about this uptick in submissions.  Yet, it’s never enough!  If you have an idea for an article and want to send it in but can’t make the deadline for Issue 6 (December 21st!), email it to theastromag@gmail.com and we can use it in future issues.

On that note, articles aren’t the only thing that we’re looking for!  If you have a miniature/miniatures that you want to showcase, send pictures to the email address given in the previous paragraph.  Same with artwork and fiction; we’ll review every submission!

Now, onto this Fantasy nonesen– er, I mean, business.

Japehlio from the Astronomican forums is heading up the Fantasy edition of the Astro Mag.  It’ll be like the current Mag, but all about Fantasy instead of 40k.  The same submission guidelines and the like apply to this project, and you’ve got until January 22nd to submit your article/picture(s)/fiction to thefantasymag@gmail.com.  Got questions?  Email them to thefantasymag@gmail.com and it’ll get squared away.

Right, I believe that is all there is new to share.  I’ll throw up another post when we get closer to the deadline for Issue 6 submissions as a reminder that, well, the deadline is coming up.

As always, if you have anything to say about the Mag, email me at theastromag@gmail.com.

Cheers all,

Consadine

The editorial team has decided to push the release back to early January and include a Christmas theme also.

Anybody who can knock together a Christmassy model or an article for the mag is invited to submit their work for publication by the 21st of December 2009. All efforts will be greatly appreciated and it will be your chance to see your name in the Webs best 40k Webzine!

Please submit the article/photos to theastromag@gmail.com between now and the 21st, the earlier the better.

Again, the new deadline is the 21st of December!

How is this good news?

We have had a good showing so far from the Astronomican forums in the short span of a day, and this Issue is looking to be a promising one!

Thank you all for your continued support and patience; it would be an injustice to deliver a subpar product.
Cheers all around,

-Consadine