You’ve heard of “new year, new me”? Well this is our Warhammer 40k version of that, a hype event that we’re hosting as part of the upcoming 500 Worlds campaign that we’ll run at Drawbridge Games. More details on the campaign itself will happen the rules drop and we can review them and plan store events involving them.

As part of that campaign (occurring at the same time as the culminating campaign event), we’ll be doing a special prize drawing for anyone who commits to purchasing 500+ new points of models for an army at Drawbridge and getting them painted in full by the end of the campaign. Ideally these will be a “new” force, but using it to expand a current force is fine as well. The point is to make the purchase from Enrico, record the painting goal (we’ll have forms you can complete at Drawbridge upon purchase–see below), and have fun.

If under 10 people commit to the 500 Points for 500 Worlds the completion will give bonus draws in the end-of-event raffle we’ll hold for the 500 Worlds campaign. If 10 or more people buy in to 500 Points for 500 Worlds then we’ll have a special drawing for just that set of participants (and the prize will be able to be chosen by the winner from certain types of kits, to fit their faction or start a brand new one!).

When you make your purchase you can fill out a small form and leave it with the staff at Drawbridge. They’ll stamp it with the official Drawbridge stamp to mark that you’ve paid and purchased the models you’ll be painting, and hang onto it for pledge recording purposes.

If what you want to field isn’t on the shelf, you can place a special order for models right now via this link https://bit.ly/DrawbridgeSO , by visiting Drawbridge, or by calling Drawbridge at 412-254-6151. Do keep flexible in your planning as sometimes some GW product is out of stock.

Participants can make their purchases and commit to 500 Points as early as January 15th (the night of our Knight Night Fight Night 5 event), but can also do so at any point amidst the 500 Worlds campaign. We expect the campaign rules to be released in about one week after Knight Night given release timings, and about a week for us to get a campaign idea sorted from it. Then we’ll probably have a 6 week campaign window after that, flexing up and down a bit depending on the rules–but 6 weeks tends to keep interest and excitement but not be too much. That would mean time to paint the 500 Points for 500 Worlds entry models by middle March at the very earliest. I’ll update the final exact deadline when we set that campaign’s rules.

We hope that this becomes a fun event for everyone to participate in, and a motivation to not just make some purchases to support Drawbridge Games, but to get a new painted force ready and onto the tables for battles together!