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Things are looking a little different around here, aren't they! An explanation is incoming, but first, some important points: If you've got an outstanding order on the old site, don't worry, it h…

Hello one and all: Welcome to The Drowned Earth Winter “Slow Grow” Campaign!Are you eager to get your friends involved in TDE? Are you looking for a reason to paint up those beautiful models that have…

Of course, quite a few hardcore TDE fans have all four factions, and were eager to pre-order the entire set, at a discount. I decided that the best way to reward those players was, not only to apply a…

Hello and welcome to the first TDE Community Showcase! Every month or so we are going to have a look through some of the community participation and creative endeavours, and showcase a particular pers…

Recently on our Facebook Page we asked the community which of our exciting new releases they were most looking forward to. Although the Troodon gave him a run for his money, the clear winner was the n…

TDE Official Mat!!As many of you have probably seen, I’ve been working with DEEP-CUT STUDIO on an awesome, custom, mousemat material 3×3 mat. It’s an ideal playing surface for our game, replete with s…

As the Q3 announcement period continues please allow me to introduce you to the fourth of our five releases billed for this quarter, Ravanna of the Bondsmen!Ravanna hates Limossk almost as much as Ger…

Healthy Competition!Our first ever The Drowned Earth Painting Competition was, I must say, way beyond my expectations. In total we had 17 entries and 15 entrants. In the interests of fairness we decid…

During the Kickstarter we managed to unlock the mounted versions of both Nix, leader of the Artefacters, and Kaneda, the leader of the Firm. However, the Militia and Bondsmen weren’t so lucky. However…

New Artefacter: Ando!Dino-hunting is a tough business, but Ando the Artefacter is certainly the Dverg for the job! Ando started life a Dverg for hire, but now works exclusively with the Artefacters. M…

The BackgroundOrganised Play has been something I’ve been excited about from the very beginning. For me a game is about much more than dice and miniatures- it’s about the people you game with, and the…

List building and Tactica has been a theme of late, and so after looking at the Wayfarers and the various ways they can improve your list building and tactical possibilities we now turn to the Dinosau…

A closer look at the Wayfarers Faction ModelsIn the last blog article we looked at the Wayfarers faction Tactica, closely discussing the first two models of the faction boxed set. Now, to celebrate th…

At this early stage list building opportunities would be quite limited without the addition of the Beasts (which we will cover in a blog article or two next week) and the Wayfarers, which we will look…

Well, this one has been a long time coming, hasn’t it? It’s been more than a month since I sent out the last The Drowned Earth parcel, and so much has happened since then. I’ve been meaning to sit dow…

Who are the Wayfarers?Rogues, misfits and wanderers, the Wayfarers are a loose alliance of mercenaries and guns for hire united by nothing more than a mysterious benefactor who sends them contracts fr…

I know a lot of you have been quite eager to read about the specific Faction Playstyles of the four factions, and so in this article we will look at the strengths and weaknesses of each faction in tur…

As we have seen, The Drowned Earth is a racially diverse place, which is an interesting fact in itself, when one considers that the pre-fall civilisation was almost exclusively human. The other sentie…

This is probably more of a picture update than a blog entry, but I hope you'll enjoy it nonetheless!As some of you may remember I have been making scenery for Salute, a big wargaming show in London on…

From a very personal point of view, world building was one of the aspects which most excited me while considering designing a game. I’ve tried to world build a number of times in the past, having made…