Crusaders,

Today is a special day: We are officially moving the game away from its “playtest” state and into the official 1.0 release! You can find them on the rules page of our website.

The new rules are, more or less, the same Trench Crusade you all know and love. Whilst there are minor changes the bulk of the work here has been centered on transforming the playtest ruleset into something modern and robust. If you’ve been following along with the preview articles you’ll know what we mean.

Additionally, this is not just a simple copy/paste of the physical rulebook.…

Here at Trench Crusade, we recently released our very first plastic kit: The Prussian Stosstruppen Warband Box. This article will go into detail about the plans for the future of our plastic range, including the different types of boxes and how we plan to structure our future releases.

The Plastic range

The core plastic range for Trench Crusade includes 4 different types of boxes, as detailed below.

Warband Boxes

Warband Boxes are the keystone of the plastic range, designed to provide the ideal entry point to each Faction and Variant for both new and experienced players.

A “Warband” is what we call a player’s forces in Trench Crusade. So as to live up to this title, Warband Boxes are a ready-to-play, 700 Ducat force (the starting points value for a campaign) composed of around 6 - 10 models. Of course, you need more than just minis to play a wargame,…