Score out of 5 to follow but I am finding this issue a struggle to read.
Including the front cover and the back side of the back cover this issue contains 156 pages. The page count and percentages don’t include the covers as they don’t fall into any category.
I think this is the least amount of AoS to be included in the magazine since the monthly White Dwarf was reintroduced.
At 25.5 pages long I think this is the highest page count yet for the new stuff.
Adeptus Custodes Munitorum Report, House Orlock info, tips on units to use in your undead Legion, advice on how to play the Chosen Axes and Spiteclaw’s Swarm in Warhammer Underworlds are just a few of the things that makes this section bearable.
MISCELLANEOUS: 49.0 pages 31.82%1 page of meet the team
1 page of editorial
2 pages detailing the contents
25.5 pages of stuff that is available to buy or available to pre-order in December
2 pages of letters submitted to White Dwarf.
17.5 pages of adverts
WARHAMMER 40K: 26 pages 16.88%A Host of Heroes: 6 pages of Designers’ notes on the new models and Codex for the Adeptus Custodes.
Battle Report: Mission: Xenopurge -
16 page Matched Play game between the Necrons and the Adeptus Custodes.
Tactica Hereticus: 4 pages of tactics for the Thousand Sons.
AGE OF SIGMAR 9 pages 5.85%Malign Portents: Designers’ Notes –
4 pages of Malign Portents discussion with Phil Kelly.
A Tale of Four Warlords: 5 pages detailing how the Warlords have painted their models.
MIDDLE-EARTH: 7 pages 4.55%New Rules: The Search For The Stone – Three new scenarios for evil warbands in the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game: Battle Companies.
SPECIALIST GAMES: 24 pages 15.58%Getting Started With Blood Bowl: 2 pages of why you should play Blood Bowl.
Hands of the Emperor: 5 pages of chat with the designers of video game Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor.
Match Report: 10 pages of a Blood Bowl match Report between the Elven Union and Chaos Rengades.
New Rules: Return to Hammerhal (Part 3)-
5 pages of White Dwarf exclusive rules detailing a new dungeon (Darkhold Garrison) and new rules for Red Yugol’s Revelrie.
New Rules: Scenario: The Gauntlet –
2 pages of White Dwarf exclusive rules for a Necomunda scenario that uses the Necromunda Badzone Delta-7 tiles that aren't available until the 17th of Feb.
MODELLING AND PAINTING: 26 pages 16.88%Golden Demon Classic 2017: 8 pages of winning entries from the Warhammer 40,000 Squad and Blood Bowl categories.
Battleforce Challenge: 4 pages showing off three armies painted as part of a Studio army challenge.
Realms of Battle: 4 pages of how to combine scenery kits and how to use vines, bracken and skulls.
Paint Splatter: 2 pages of how to use the Splatter guides.
Paint Splatter: 2 pages of painting guides for an Orlock Ganger and Underhive base.
Reader’s Models: 6 pages of photo’s featuring models painted by readers of White Dwarf.
OTHER: 13 pages 8.44%Temporal Distort: 2 pages covering White Dwarf from August 2001. This issue is a reminder of how good White Dwarf could be. T’au preview, Night Lords Index Astartes, background for three Inquisitor characters, Dark Shadow Battle Reports, Scenery Workshop for Inquisitor, Warhammmer Fantasy RPG info, Giant-fighting minigame, Cursed Founding Index Astartes, rules and kit bash for Lizardmen Saurus. Awesome stuff.
The Pen is Mightier: 6 pages looking back at twenty years of the Black Library.
In The Bunker: 5 pages of goings on in the White Dwarf bunker.
NEXT MONTH: On sale Friday 2nd March 2018 - Battleground, new gang rules for Necromunda, Golden Demon, Four Warlords, Blanchitsu, Hall of Fame, Blood Omens and more.