Hive World Terra

Updated Encyclopedia

I've been promising it for quite a while now, but the updates to the Encyclopedia of Games Workshop are now live!

The main feature of the new Encyclopedia is improved cross-referencing. Not only can you now follow links between definitions, but you can also look up all definitions from a single source, e.g. Jack Yeovil's Drachenfells, or a collection of sources, e.g. all issues of White Dwarf.

All of this extra information does mean that the Encyclopedia submission form has become much bigger, but in the long run the additional sourcing should prove useful for those using the Encyclopedia for reference.

By IBBoard on 24th July 2006 21:36:08

Three new stories from Commissar-General

They've been sitting in the Fiction section of the Hive World Terra Forums for a while now, but I've finally had a chance to read over and add three of Commissar-General's story submissions.

All three of the pieces, Quest, Pursuit and Dark Fields, are great stories that are well written and in-keeping with the gothic style of Games Workshop.

Dark Fields is a complete 40K story in five chapters, while Pursuit is a 40K one-shot and Quest is the start of an interesting Warhammer Fantasy story. Hopefully we will see more of Quest and other stories from Commissar-General in the near future.

By IBBoard on 23rd July 2006 18:26:01

More Beasts in Velvet

More definitions have now been added and approved from Jack Yeovil's Beasts in Velvet. The new definitions are for the riverside gang known as The Fish and sword-expert Leos von Liebewitz.

By IBBoard on 19th July 2006 17:57:42

Beasts in Velvet definitions

Simguinus has now added three more definitions from Jack Yeovil's Beasts in Velvet. These cover 'Filthy' Harrald's Watchhouse 317, Watchman Joost Rademakers and Graf Volker von Tuchtenhagen.

Thanks to Simguinus for those, and I should have additional cross-referencing in other definitions soon.

By IBBoard on 17th July 2006 11:27:56

Two Dark Future definitions

Simguinus has returned again, this time adding two new Dark Future Encyclopedia definitions.

The new definitions cover Elvis Presley's Hound Dog Agency and the embarresment known as the Malvinas War.

By IBBoard on 8th July 2006 22:07:06

Emperor and Primarch definition update

Following a submission from Mark Brewer on the Emperor, I have now updated the definitions for both The Emperor and the Primarchs. Since Mark's original suggestions were under "The Emperor" instead of "Emperor, The" as I currently had the original definition listed, I've also put in a cross-reference listing for "The Emperor".

Thanks to Mark for the suggestion, and hopefully people will find the added little bits of detail useful.

By IBBoard on 6th July 2006 14:20:49

Hive World Terra has moved!

Apologies for any inconvenience (mainly due to the fact that most modules weren't loading because I hadn't altered a config value) but Hive World Terra has now moved to a new server.

The old server was getting overloaded, and our old host had introduced some strange new things into their Terms of Service that stopped us hosting some of our downloads. The new host, A Small Orange, has a much more reasonable Terms of Service and doesn't overload its servers.

If anyone sees any remaining niggling issues, please contact me.

By IBBoard on 27th June 2006 08:08:04

New definitions including Dark Future

Following a request by Simguinus back in May, a new category was soon added for Dark Future definitions. Dark Future is an old Games Workshop game of vehicle-based gang wars based in the near-future (now sometime the present or past!) and was available in the 80s and early 90s. Simguinus has now added his first definitions for it, covering the Needlepoint System, Gavin Mantle and John Lennon (yes, the John Lennon of The Beatles fame in our world).

Not content with Dark Future definitions, Simguinus also added definitions for the Second Siege of Altdorf and Beasts in Green Velvet.

Thanks to Simguinus for these additional definitions, and expect to see an updated Encyclopedia Games Workshopika soon - more development work will be undertaken shortly!

By IBBoard on 17th June 2006 17:57:16

Battle of la Maisontaal

With a bit of multi-sourced research, Simguinus has now included a definition for Battle of la Maisontaal. The battle, which was also mentioned in an issue of White Dwarf, has now been added to our ever-growing collection of event definitions.

By IBBoard on 17th June 2006 10:30:35

Warvault Top List now back and running

Following the previous news almost a month ago that Warvault.net had vanished in mysterious circumstances, the community has now grouped together and the site has returned!

Further development is going to be made to create a new, improved version, but for now the guys at Warvault have re-opened the original version.

So, with voting now re-opened and working again, go and vote for Hive World Terra!

By IBBoard on 14th June 2006 12:45:11