Author: Felix

Spearhead

Interesting new expansion from Games Workshop for Warhammer 40K announced today.

Gather your tanks and ready your lascannons – in June the pages of White Dwarf magazine and the Games Workshop website join forces to bring you a whole new expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Spearhead.

Spearhead is a new way to play Warhammer 40,000 that enables you to unleash exciting tank battles and daring breakthrough missions on the tabletop, bringing the full mechanised fury of the 41st Millennium to bear in your games. June’s White Dwarf will contain the main part of the supplement, including new rules, missions and plenty of inspirational hobby advice. Alongside this, the Games Workshop website will feature additional material exclusively for registered members, such as details of how to assemble your Spearhead formations along with even more painting, modelling and collecting tips.

As if a whole new Expansion wasn’t exciting enough, it’s going to be accompanied by a range of new miniatures including some stunning new plastic kits – more details of these kits, and the Spearhead Expansion, will follow in White Dwarf and here on the Games Workshop website.

So this isn’t a new publication, but a WD article that expands the gameplay of WH40K.

Interested to know what new tank kits we will see.

Egyptian Scenery

From one of the many demonstration games at GamesDay 2007.

I do like this Egyptian’esque scenery that was used for the game. This is the sort of scenery that I would like to use for a 1930s pulp set of rules I have been working on (for years) called Tally Ho! Tally Ho! is a set of planned rules to represent games in the era of the golden 1930s, in many ways similar yet different to the Indiana Jones films.

More photographs from GameDay 2007.

Fallen Imperial Eagle

In May 2009 I posted the following photograph that I had taken at GamesDay 2007.

Fallen Imperial Eagle on display cabinets at GamesDay 2007
Fallen Imperial Eagle on display cabinets at GamesDay 2007

Back then I said:

I really like this and still wonder why a resin version wasn’t made available either by GW or Forge World.

Why?

Well…

It is going to be released as part of a three piece plastic kit including a ruin and a Space Marine statue.

Making the Ork Battlewagon

This new plastic battlewagon kit was released by Games Workshop on the 3rd January 2009 and I picked mine up on the 4th January. As happens with a fair few of my models it did spend a bit of time on the shelf. The model contains four large sprues.

There are lots of parts and includes Ork krew.

First stage was making the chassis.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.

Buy the Ork Battlewagon from Amazon.

Some more Ork Barricades

One of the nice Cities of Death models released were the resin Ork Barricades. Six resin barricades (still available) that have a very Orkiness about them.

Orks are adapt at banging together large piles of debris, welding them with burnas and Gretchin for extra stickiness. In dense city-fights, cunning Ork Warbosses use these barricades to funnel enemy troops and prevent their armour from manoeuvring, before their Tankbustas launch a devastating ambush.

These are going to be part of what hopefully will be an Ork city.

This is a nice one that has had Baneblade tracks used within it. Also note the dead Imperial Guardsman.

This one has shells and a jerrycan of fuel (safe place to put it).

I do like these resin models. In my opinion this is the material that should have been used for the Blastscape pack.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Barricades.

Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab

There were many of the new Forge World models on display at GamesDay 2009 including the excellent Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab.

This Trukk model also includes a folding platform at the rear. This in my opinion is much better than the plastic platform included with the plastic kit. This is the same platform which we see on the long awaited Flakk Wagon.

This model is shown with the new Big Lobba. Now I don’t really like this weapon that much. Not sure what it does, but I know I don’t like it.

Check out my Games Day 2009 Gallery.