Blackstone Fortress expansions
June 2, 2020
40kThis is a fairly comprehensive list of all the official articles and boxes released to date which expand Games Workshop's Warhammer Quest Blackstone Fortress game.
White Dwarf articles
These articles introduced new rules, quests and retinue characters, with almost all of them being reproduced in the Blackstone Fortress Annual 2019. Each new Retinue comes with a short side-quest - normally a single expedition - to find that character (or characters). Note the text in parentheses in the Name column indicates where the original article or article title differs from the name of the content itself.
| Name | Type | Issue | Annual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Traitors Fane (Light in the Dark) |
Quest | Dec 2018 | 2019 | This issue included a free Ministorum Artefact card, rewarded once The Traitors Fane had been conquered. |
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Expanded Hostile Player Rules (Hostile Threat Detected) |
Rules | May 2019 | 2019 | |
| A Deadly Lure pt. 1 | Quest | Jun 2019 | 2019 | Requires The Deadly Ambull boxed expansion. |
| A Deadly Lure pt. 2 | Quest | Jul 2019 | 2019 | Requires The Deadly Ambull boxed expansion. |
| Precipice Awaits | Rules | Aug 2019 | 2019 | |
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Gren 'Knuckles' Broggan & Dorg 'The Wall' Broggan (The Broggan Brothers) |
Retinue | Sep 2019 | 2019 | The Quest to Recruit the Broggan Brothers was renamed to Dorg's Last Stand in the Annual. |
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Skarburn Zapdakka (Big Dakka for Hire) |
Retinue | Oct 2019 | 2019 | |
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An Army of One: Solitaire (The Kiss of Death) |
Rules | Nov 2019 | 2019 | |
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Penitent 707 (Unleash the Penitent) |
Retinue | Dec 2019 | 2019 | |
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The Weeping Labyrinth (A Daring Rescue) |
Quest | #450 | - | Requires the Escalation boxed expansion. |
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An Army of One: Eversor Assassin (Sanctioned Carnage) |
Rules | #451 | - | |
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The Tinkerer (Alien Intelligence) |
Retinue | #452 | - | |
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An Army of One: Deathwatch Watch Master (Xenos Hunter) |
Rules | #453 | - | |
| Men of Metal | Quest | #457 | - | Requires the Ascension boxed expansion. |
Another list is available in r/BlackstoneFortress which also includes Blackstone Fortress related rules such as using the characters, enemies and tiles in Kill Team, or using the Dreaded Ambull in Necromunda.
Beyond what was originally made available in White Dwarf, the Blackstone Fortress Annual 2019 also includes:
- Abominable Intellect Designer's Notes (Rules)
- Strike Force (Rules)
- Wrath of the Daemonkin (Quest)
I'm guessing we'll get another annual for 2020 around December, containing all the articles from White Dwarf issue #450 (Jan 2020) onward. As Ascension is expected to be the last boxed expansion, this could well be the last annual also. (Edit: Well, that didn't happen.)
Expansions
These boxed expansions introduce new miniatures, quests and rules to Blackstone Fortress. Both Escalation and Ascension are larger boxed expansions, Escalation also adds new explorers and retinue characters.
- The Dreaded Ambull
- Traitor Command
- Escalation
- No Respite
- Deadly Alliance
- Ascension
Card upgrade sets were also available for a while, but are now out of production.
- Abominable Intellect is a set of cards that offers a new, more challenging version of every encounter in Blackstone Fortress and its expansions.
- Advanced Arsenal is a set of additional resource cards to shuffle into your existing deck.
- Endless Peril is a set of additional exploration cards to shuffle into your existing deck.
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