Author: Felix

Forge World Ork Gunwagon

If you have been following my workbench feature on my Forge World Ork Gunwagon, you will know that it is nearly finished. Though not quite finished, it’s finished enough for me to use in a game (or two). Having read the Forge World Masterclass Volume One book I am re-looking at the model and will see if there are things I can add to the model.

Forge World Ork Gunwagon

It performs quite well, and just ensure you have a few Meks around to fix it when it gets shot to pieces.

Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.

More pictures of Ork Gunwagons.

Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler

Nice article on the problems with time travel and travelling back in time to assassinate Hitler.

Next month sees the release of Valkyrie, a film about Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who tried to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Plenty of time travelers have had the same idea, although their plan was to kill Hitler before he enacted mass genocide. Their intentions may be noble, but the plans always seem to go awry, leaving history unchanged or even worse than when they left. We list all the ways their attempts go wrong, so you can plan your time travel accordingly.

The article that is mentioned and linked to that I enjoyed was Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel:

One of the bylaws of the International Association of Time Travelers states that you can’t kill Hitler. The problem is, everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. This leaves more experienced time travelers the onerous task of undoing the historical edits of n00bs.

World War One British Infantry

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 some 1914 British Infantry moving forward…

World War One British Infantry

Beautifully painted and modelled.

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

To see more pictures from GamesDay 2008 have a look at my GamesDay 2008 Gallery.

"ruin the surprise"

When I was at GamesDay I had a chat with the White Dwarf crew about future issues. They only had the October and November issues available to preview. The October issue was in fact on sale at GamesDay, though the November issue did have a picture of the Ork Battlewagon. I was told by the WD crew that the December issue wasn’t at GamesDay as that would “ruin the surprise”.

Now what was that “surprise”?

I wondered at the time if it was going to be the Ork Stompa, now I think looking at the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tabletop Gaming blog was the “surprise” a plastic Lizardman Stegadon?

I don’t have the issue of White Dwarf to hand so I can’t check to see what else is in it, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

There may be a few ways I think I could use a plastic Stegadon in my Warhammer 40K games.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull out on DVD

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is now out on DVD. Get Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull from Amazon.co.uk.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Though I know a lot of people were disappointed and some reviews were bad, I really enjoyed it.

I am guessing that as a result of the reactions and reviews I had lower expectations than those cinema-goers who went in the week of release and had really high expectations.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Was it perfect?

Well no, but I liked it, I liked the nod to the previous fims (ie Marcus) and even the Young Indiana Jones’ Chronicles.

As for “nuke the fridge”, I am afraid I do agree with the internet community sentiment on that.

From a gaming perspective, lots of wonderful ideas. I do like the idea of using Soviets as the bad guys.
I am already working on and planning an Area 51 scenario as a result of that scene in the film.