Author: Felix

Codex Space Marines

Released today and I have my copy.

Codex Space Marines

The Space Marines of the Adeptus Astartes are Humanity’s ultimate warriors, dedicated to the defence of the Emperor and the Imperium of Man. They are barely human at all, but superhuman, having been made superior, in all respects, to a normal man by a harsh regime of genetic modification, psycho-conditioning and rigorous training. Organised into small independent armies called Chapters, their unswerving loyalty is to the Emperor of Mankind and no other. This 144-page Warhammer 40,000 Codex contains all the rules you’ll need to field a Space Marine army, as well as detailed background information, bestiary, accompanying artwork and ‘Eavy Metal showcase.

It’s huge book and full of pages!

So is it worth £18?

Hmm.

Maybe I am just getting old. Maybe I am as it only seemed like yesterday when I bought the last Codex!

There will be a plastic Stompa, and then something else….

Today from a reliable source I got confirmation that there will be a plastic Ork Stompa and it will cost £60.

It will be released in the early part of 2009, maybe part of the January Ork release, maybe a little later as part of the Apocalypse releases.

It was originally suppose to be released for Apocalypse, however due to some design problems which led to production issues it had to back to the drawing board and be almost redesigned again from scratch as the production model with the original design was flawed.
However we have already seen lots of rumours about plastic Stompaz.

I also managed to glean another piece of information from my source.

There will be a plastic Shadowsword, yup you heard it here first, there will be a plastic Shadowsword and it will cost £60.

New White Dwarf, but…

So there I was driving home form work and I thought, hey it’s the last Friday of the month, that means the new White Dwarf will be out.

Then as I continued to drive, I remembered…

I had bought it at GamesDay 2008!

Hmmm.

Got wait four weeks now to the next issue, well at least that one will have pictures of the new plastic Ork Battlewagon in it.

It wasn’t all Elves and Space Marines…

With Warhammer Historical available, GamesDay 2008 wasn’t just Fantasy and 40K, in Hall 1 there were a fair few historical wargames on show using the various Warhammer Historical rules. This is nothing new, last year we saw was Aly Morrison and Dave Andrews’ excellent World War One demonstration game.

Demonstrating The Great War rules were two games one set in Gallipoli and one in 1914. Here are two pictures of British Artillery about to open fire on the advancing German army.

World War One Artillery

Beautifully painted and modelled.

Scenery was not as nice as Dave’s but was still very well constructured and impressive.

You can see many more pictures of the historical wargaming on my website.

Witchhunter Crusader – Inquisitorial Henchmen

I am adding some Henchmen to my Inquistorial force. I believe that the Crusader adds another attack (and a wound) for the Witch Hunter Inquisitor, but I am not 100% sure on this.

The Crusader (and the Crusader variant available in the Witch Hunters’ retinue) are probably my favourite Inquisitor models.

Having flocked the base with Games Workshop modelling sand, the model was given a white undercoat.

See full workbench feature on the Crusader.