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Trench Crusade v1.0.0/1.0.1 Changelog – Part I
Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay. I’m finally back at work on the Trench Crusade rules. And really, there’s much work to be done! In the latest 2 weeks alone we got not one but two versions of the rules. I originally planned to showcase the changes from Playtest Rules v1.6.3 to Final Rules v1.0.0…
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Final Rules are here! The Troll is working for you
Hi everyone! Between the release of the Prussian plastic kit at SPIEL, the rules previews and the Trench Crusade European Open Championship it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, culminating in yesterday’s digital rulebook release (you can get the Trench Crusade Digital rulebook v1.0.0 and the Warbands of Trench Crusade v1.0.0 documents from the Trench…
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Warband Creation – Playtest v1.6,
ARTICLE BASED ON THE v1.6 PLAYTEST RULES – SEE THE UPDATED VERSION HERE Hello again! With our last article about Keywords we’ve covered everything you need to play a Trench Crusade game. Now we just have to assemble our forces and lead them to the battlefield. In a Trench Crusade game each player brings their…
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18 Sep. 2025 Community FAQ Update
Hi everyone. Just a quick heads up to notify you all I’ve updated the Community FAQ in the House of Wisdom page. As always the new Q&A are marked with “NEW!“. You can download a pdf version of the page by clicking on the link below: DOWNLOAD [ENG] This will likely be the last update…
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Welcome to the Trench Companion!
Hello folks! For over a year, the Trench Compendium created by Bob The Seagull King has been a valuable asset for all Trench Crusade players, acting as an online rules reference, random scenario generator and most importantly, as a tool for warband building. As useful as it is, It’s not without flaws, however: the warband…
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Keywords – Playtest v1.6
ARTICLE BASED ON THE v1.6 PLAYTEST RULES – SEE THE UPDATED VERSION HERE Hello folks! Forgive me if I haven’t been around in a while, I was forced to take a small break due to life and other stuff getting in the way, but now I’m back at the desk. In the meantime we’ve had…
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The Trench Crusade FAQ is here!
Hello everyone! The first Trench Crusade FAQ document has been recently published on the Discord server. You can download it from the link below: Trench Crusade FAQ 1 Due to Tuomas Pirinen’s commitment towards completing the rules and preparing the manual for printing, rules Q&A are scheduled to be released slowly but at regular intervals…
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Combat: Shooting, Melee and Injuries – Playtest v1.6
ARTICLE BASED ON THE v1.6 PLAYTEST RULES – SEE THE UPDATED VERSION HERE Hello folks! A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks, with the release of 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 playtest rules updates, the brief but intense parenthesis at PLAY Bologna and the 1.6.3 Campaign Rules update. We’ll get to the last…
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Chronicles from the Trenches: The Troll at PLAY 2025
Disclaimer: I’m fully aware I have a tendency to ramble. For some of you the introduction to this post could be too long, I know. If that’s so, feel free to skip it. I won’t judge. Just don’t expect covering fire from me afterwards. Prologue I haven’t been playing a wargame in several years. In…
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Playtest Rules Changes – v1.6.3
Hello again! As announced last week when we tackled the changes for the playtest rules v1.6.2, a further updated was already scheduled for release shortly thereafter. Not all changes Tuomas Pirinen intended to make in the previous update were included, therefore during the weekend v1.6.3 (available, as usual on the Trench Crusade website) was released.…