The links below are a recent interview with Alessio Cavatore about designing the new Kings of War miniatures game from Mantic Games. Before leaving Games Workshop, Cavatore wrote the current 5th edition of 40k, in addition to a number of the 40k and Warhammer Fantasy army books. In general he’s well regarded as a successful miniatures rules writer—5e 40k is widely credited with greatly improving and rejuvenating the game—so it’s sort of interesting to see what he’s thinking about as he writes a new ruleset from scratch.
The interview’s long, but does not require a lot of 40k/WH Fantasy or even general miniatures experience to be interesting. They also don’t really do anything you actually need to see, so you can safely put this on and then go do something else while listening.
I’ve never really watched the Beasts of War videocast crew before, but the interviewer here does a good job once you get past their ridiculous opening graphics.
- Part 1:General Approach
- Part 2:Units and Movement
- Part 3:Shooting and Combat