Fallout gets a new edition, Konflikt ’47 gets a rules update, Conquest overhauls the Hundred Kingdoms. There’s plenty happening beyond the Games Workshop bubble.
Welcome to This Week in Wargaming, an attempt to sort through the last seven days of releases, rules updates and announcements and pick out the things actually worth knowing about.
There’s a lot of wargaming news and nobody should have to spend their Friday evening reading all of it. Except apparently, me.
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare gets a new edition
One of the biggest stories of the week comes from Modiphius, where pre-orders have opened for the new edition of Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.
There are two routes into the new game.
Into the Wasteland is the £60 solo starter set, while the Warbands Starter Set costs £120 and contains Survivors and Super Mutants for players wanting to fight against one another.
Both are currently expected to ship in November 2026.
The new edition also appears to lean heavily into something Fallout is particularly well suited to: campaigns.
Players can create their own survivor, gather a warband and head out into the Wasteland, with the results of encounters affecting their hero and followers as the campaign progresses.
Modiphius has even taken advantage of the game’s increased focus on solo play to expand mechanics such as stealth, allowing players to sneak past enemies rather than resolving every encounter by repeatedly shooting things in the face.
Although presumably repeatedly shooting things in the face remains an option.
Konflikt ’47 gets an August rules update
Warlord Games has released an August rules update for Konflikt ’47, including updated PDFs incorporating material from Invasion Amerika.
That’s particularly interesting because Konflikt ’47 (Affiliate link) continues to receive development rather than simply new miniature releases.
Earlier this year Warlord introduced new Special Platoons, including the British Commonwealth Automated Platoon, bringing new units alongside changes to existing ones.
For a game built around alternative-history Second World War forces, the ability to keep introducing increasingly strange battlefield technology gives Warlord rather more room to play than historical Bolt Action.
Conquest completely reworks the Hundred Kingdoms
If you’re playing Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, this is probably the week’s biggest story.
Para Bellum has released what it describes as a full rework of the Hundred Kingdoms.
The update introduces new regiments, synergies, items and Supremacy Abilities, with the updated army list now available through Para Bellum’s rules downloads.
First Blood players have received something substantial too. The Might of the Orders is the game’s first Warband of Legend, allowing players to field an entirely Orders-themed warband with its own composition options, upgrades and Army Special Rules.
With the Order of the Sword and Lazarite Warriors now available, that means an entire force can be built around the Orders.
Para Bellum makes a push for First Blood
There’s another interesting story sitting underneath the Hundred Kingdoms changes.
August is effectively First Blood month for Para Bellum. The company is currently providing free access to its rules PDFs for the rest of August as part of the new edition’s launch.
From September, Para Bellum says unlimited access to the rules and app will instead be available using licence codes included in its products.
There are also new First Blood Reinforcement Sets coming for the factions on 28 August. This looks like an attempt to establish First Blood as a substantial game in its own right rather than merely Conquest, but smaller.
That’s potentially useful for players attracted to the Conquest universe and miniatures who aren’t ready to buy another mass-battle army. Because some of us already have enough of those. Apparently.
A new skirmish game lands in the Woehammer inbox
Not everything interesting comes from one of the established manufacturers.
This week Woehammer was contacted by Chris Mooney of Wargame Geeks Ltd about Thrackdown, a new miniature-agnostic skirmish game currently in open alpha.
The rules are free and, according to Chris, will remain free.
There’s already an online Warband Builder, while being miniature-agnostic means players can use models they already own rather than buying into another proprietary range.
Free doesn’t necessarily mean good, of course, so we’re going to take a proper look before deciding what we think.
The French Revolution arrives in hard plastic
Historical gamers get something rather nice this week from Perry Miniatures.
The new Revolutionary French Infantry 1789–1802 set has arrived in 28mm hard plastic.
It’s a particularly flexible box, capable of representing Line Infantry, National Guard, Volunteers, Conscripts, Grenadiers and Light Infantry.
There are 45 figures in the box, with enough arms to produce a complete 36-man unit while leaving another nine figures to form the beginnings of another.
The set is £28 direct from Perry Miniatures. Which works out at roughly 62p per miniature. Games Workshop players may wish to sit down for a moment.
Rifleman Harris joins Sharpe’s Rifles
Wargames Atlantic has meanwhile released Rifleman Harris 1809, the third miniature in its officially licensed Sharpe’s Rifles range.
The hard-plastic set contains both a 54mm display version of Harris and a 28mm gaming miniature, with the latter having alternative head and arm options.
Wargames Atlantic describes him as The Scholar of the 95th.
We’re not going to pretend this represents a seismic change in the wargaming industry. It’s Rifleman Harris. That’s enough.
“I’ll trade you a Voltaire and a filthy book by the Marquis de Sade for yours by Sir Augustus, sir” – Rifleman Harris (Sharpe’s Havoc)
Mantic fights for Samarik
Mantic’s Siege of Samarik community campaign is also reaching an important point this weekend.
Its Friday newsletter describes this as a crucial weekend in determining whether Samarik holds or falls, while Mantic’s Kings of War Slow Grow is also receiving its community send-off.
Mantic originally announced that the Siege of Samarik campaign would begin in August as part of its summer Kings of War programme.
Community campaigns aren’t necessarily headline news, but they’re exactly the sort of thing we’d like to highlight occasionally. Anything that encourages people to actually play games with the armies they’ve spent six months painting is probably worth supporting.
Around the tabletop
Wargames Atlantic has also released Villagers (2): Elves & Dwarves, a 24-model hard-plastic set of fantasy civilians.
It’s the sort of release that sounds completely unnecessary until you decide to build a village for a narrative campaign and suddenly realise every resident appears to be carrying a halberd.
Modiphius has also opened pre-orders for two new Discworld games, Kill Sam Vimes and Readers Digested.
They’re board games rather than wargames, so we’re not giving them acres of space here, but Discworld entering the Modiphius tabletop catalogue is enough to grab a mention.
What about Warhammer?
Yes, Games Workshop has been busy. It’s always busy.
Rules updates, new editions, significant army releases and genuinely interesting developments from Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40,000, The Old World, Horus Heresy and the specialist games will absolutely appear here.
We’re just not going to include something because Games Workshop published an article about it. There are plenty of places to get your daily Warhammer fix already.
The reason for this column is to show you everything else that’s happening.
That’s it for this week
For us, Fallout: Wasteland Warfare’s new edition, the Konflikt ’47 rules update and the Hundred Kingdoms rework for Conquest are the three stories worth paying particular attention to.
There is an loads happening in miniature wargaming outside Games Workshop.
See you next Saturday.
And if you’re a designer, manufacturer or publisher doing something interesting, feel free to get in touch. Preferably before we go to bed next Friday.