Konflikt 47: Vorbestellungen

Stalemate. Since the opening of the Dresden Rift, new and unspeakable horrors have poured forth from the heart of the newly emergent Neu Republik. The Allied plan to end hostilities in Europe is in tatters. The world now pays the price of their failure.

Technological development, already in overdrive in the fever of war, has escalated further due to the power of the Rifts. Weapons of unprecedented destructive capacity are being deployed with increasing frequency by all the belligerent nations, leaving Europe in utter ruin and no-one able to gain an upper hand.

It is now beyond any doubt – control of the Rifts is the path to victory. Dresden is the heart of Axis power, the heart of Festung Europa.

Festung Europa is the first in a series of supplements for Konflikt ’47 detailing the background, history, and characters of the Rift War. This volume is centred on the European theatre, and the concerted effort of the British-US alliance, and the Soviet Bloc, to oust control of the Dresden Rift from the Axis.

Within its full-colour pages, rife with glorious photography, artwork, and illustrations, you’ll find timelines, short stories, game scenarios, and more. New miniatures will be released alongside each supplement, representing the heroes, horrors, monsters, and mechs, described in its pages.

Special Miniature

When you order this book, you’ll also receive the exclusive ‘Operation Touchdown’ special miniature, representing United States Hero, Roberta ‘Einstein’ Wells, making landfall in Germany in her experimental Firefly powered armour!

Miniature sculpted by Marco Sano. Studio Miniature painted by Kirsten Williams.

The development of a new serum solution by the enigmatic Oberstarzt Albrecht von Zögling, also required the development of a machine to effectively distribute it amongst the freshly dead.

The ultimate design, dubbed the Nachtzehrer (named after the creatures of folklore; revenants said to drag the living to the realm of death), is reminiscent of a hermit crab; it consists of a small crew compartment within which scientists can operate external instruments without exposure, married to an armoured, temperature-controlled canister which houses the highly volatile serum. Large, bladelike forearms inject the serum directly into subject corpses with abject efficiency, and are themselves equally capable of striking down the living, to immediately convert into the walking dead.

This plastic kit also allows you to make the Sd.Kfz.501/4 Infernospinne, which trades the serum housed in its cannister for napalm, and its medical implements for powerful flamethrowers, more potent than its Flammenspinne cousin, though slightly les nimble and somewhat more volatile.

Box contains one plastic Sd.Kfz. 501/1 Nachtzehrer, Vehicle decal sheet, MDF base, and assembly guide.

Miniatures sculpted by Jon Heeney. Studio Miniatures painted by Kirsten Williams.

The Nachtzehrer is the latest product of the Green Vault’s horrific research, able to be fitted with terrifying technology that can raise soldiers, both friend and foe, from the dead. Alternatively it can be built with flamethrowers to purge the enemy from the battlefield. This great bundle gives you an entire Armoured Walker Platoon of three Nachtzherer, that can be built in any combination of these options.

Contains three plastic Nachtzehrer.

Miniatures sculpted by Jon Heeney. Studio Miniatures painted by Kirsten Williams.

Albrecht von Zögling is the Axis’ custodian of the Totenkorps programme, and a long-term member of the Grünes Gewölbe. His obsession with the dead led to years spent studying the texts of the Green Vault’s library, and visiting sites of battle or massacre whenever he could, where he would collect corpses to experiment on, earning him the whispered moniker of ‘Der Erntemann’ or ‘The Harvestman’.

On 12 March 1944, the bomb was dropped on Dresden, and von Zögling’s dreams were fully realised. Approximately half a million dead now wandered its ruins, and a seemingly perpetual source of Rift Energy was now available to him.

The secrets of the Rift have provided von Zögling with the means of reanimating the dead on a scale even undreamt of by him, and he soon developed the serum that would supplant the crude power packs initially used to reanimate the recently deceased, one that could be injected directly into a corpse and have it walking again in mere seconds.

Unlike many of his understudies, von Zögling is not content to sit back and observe the fruits of his labour from a distance, and makes it a habit to stalk battlefields in search of prime material for further experimentation. Ever concerned with the effects of wounds upon the human anatomy, he has become quite adept at inflicting them himself, having trained himself over the years to become a proficient marksman, and equally skilled with a blade, and whenever the opportunity presents itself, he will personally lead his personal Totenrotte to witness the glories of his creations in action, wearing a personalised battle harness sufficient to carry an array of medical gear, as well as a supply of serum to augment his Totenkorps legions on the fly.

Box contains one Warlord Resin miniature, with plastic base.

Miniature sculpted by Marco Sano. Studio miniatures painted by Kirsten Williams.

Totenrotte commanders have been personally vetted by Oberstarzt Albrecht von Zögling, head of the Totenkorps program, to direct the walking dead in battle. They wear the advanced body armour of the Shocktroopers, several units of which are attached to each Totenrotte to herd their charges in the direction of the enemy.

Contains three Warlord Resin miniatures, with plastic bases.

Miniature sculpted by Marco Sano. Studio miniatures painted by Kirsten Williams.

A graduate in physics, the emergence of the Los Alamos Rift at the Trinity test site led to Roberta dedicating herself to the study of Rift Energy. The deployment of Axis Rift horrors, in particular the dread Totenkorps, in late 1944, led to her volunteering to ship out to the European theatre to conduct studies of the application of Rift-tech in warfare. Despite numerous objections from the US Army, her request was eventually granted.

Her no-nonsense approach, resilience to the psychological horrors of the Rift War, and willingness to get stuck in marked her out amongst the raft of scientific advisors seconded to the front. Exhibiting a fierce independence, Roberta would often strike out separately from the squad to which she was attached, lest they constrain her in the pursuit of her studies. Nevertheless, she gradually earned the respect of the US Army soldiers entrusted with her safety in the field, having displayed a remarkable aptitude for combat situations.

Roberta is considered the United States’ best hope in assessing the Dresden Rift in the goal of safely controlling or neutralising it, and has returned to the front line in 1947, attached to 109th Airborne Division bound for Dresden. As a high value asset, she has been granted the use of prototype armour designed specifically for use with the Firefly jump pack. Of course she has already begun to make her own modifications…

Box contains one Warlord Resin miniature, with plastic base.

Miniature sculpted by Marco Sano. Studio miniatures painted by Kirsten Williams.

A Totenrotte is an Axis military formation comprised of the walking dead. Initially the Totenrotten had the simple directive of deploying Totenkorps amongst enemy lines, sowing physical and psychological chaos amongst the enemy throughout Europe.

However, with newly emergent technology originating from the minds of Axis scientists, led by the research of Albrecht von Zögling, which replicates the effects of the Dresden Rift on the newly dead, the operations of the Totenrotten have greatly expanded in a sinister new direction – recruitment. The Totenrotten now incorporate the Sd.Kfz. 501/1 Nachtzehrer, armoured walkers which can apply von Zögling’s serum on the battlefield itself, and immediately redeploy the newly dead against their former comrades in arms.

This starter army contains the following:

• 1x Totenrotte Platoon Commander with Bodyguards (3 Warlord Resin Miniatures)
• 45x plastic Totenkorps miniatures
• 2x Sd.Kfz. 501/1 Nachtzehrer (can also be assembled as Sd.Kfz 501/4 Infernospinne)
• MDF and Plastic Bases
• Assembly guides

Miniatures sculpted by Marco Sano and Jon Heeney. Studio Miniatures painted by Kirsten Williams and Darek Wyrozebski.