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I quite like the idea of a digital version of Talisman. What about you?
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An interesting move from that Games Workshop
An interesting move from that Games Workshop.
Their magazine, White Dwarf, is now going to be weekly.
Available exclusively through Games Workshop stores, independent retailers, and games-workshop.com. White Dwarf is an exciting and essential weekly hobby magazine that contains something for every hobbyist, every week – guaranteed!
I think this a strategic approach to get people to physically go to gaming stores. With weekly visits, are you more likely to spend more money? I am sure that is what GW want to happen. However I am sure like others you will remember in the UK when they stopped selling White Dwarf in WHSmiths, that certainly had an impact I am sure, it wasn’t that long before White Dwarf found its way back there.
A physically weekly magazine is an interesting approach and I wonder if it will be digital at some point?
In addition GW are also launching, Warhammer: Visions, a new magazine which will be their monthly journal, and I suspect that it will be available in places like WHSmith.
Experience a visual feast of super high-quality Citadel Miniatures. In more than 230 pages you’ll find a completely new take on the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 in a stunning new extended pictorial style.
Much more of an approach for the casual browser in the newsagents, looking for something visually attractive.
I find it interesting that this is relatively a quick change from the recent big change to White Dwarf. Very interesting approach for sure, will it work? Who knows?
Top Ten Posts of 2013
Here are my top ten blog posts in reverse order. As is typical most posts are from previous years.
10. Dwarf City under attack
9. Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines’ Land Raider
8. How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: Tau Empire
7. Warhammer Fantasy Village
6. Flames of War – Battle of the Bulge
5. Warhammer Siege Diorama
4. Forge World Diorama – Games Day 2012
3. Death Korps of Krieg
2. Duel
1. Beautiful Dystopian Wars
The Day of the Doctor
Really quite looking forward to this.
Fate of a Nation
Really pleased to see that Battlefront are looking at moving into a new era, with the Arab-Israeli conflict for Flames of War.
I always liked the tank models for the Vietnam era, but as I said back in 2011 when Battlefront returned to Vietnam, that:
Quite like the models. Not so sure I will be buying into the era though. Apart from NVA and Vietcong infantry, the US seem to have all the firepower and armour (as they did in Vietnam).
For me the gaming would have not been tank versus tank, more tank versus hidden infantry. With Fate of a Nation, there will be tank versus tank battles, complete with APCs, helicopters and planes.
Will be interesting to see how they support the free supplement, which models they will produce for the era.
Space Marine Hunter
Having posted the Space Marine Stalker model yesterday, here is an image of the Space Marine Hunter AA vehicle.
The Hunter model comes with a single barrel, whereas the Stalker has three. It is an anti aircraft tank for the Space Marines.
Having now seen both models, I much prefer the Hunter over the Stalker.
Presented here as a news item.
Space Marine Stalker
This is a photograph of the forthcoming new Space Marine Stalker model, well it is alleged that it is and the rumourmill seems to confirm it. The Hunter model comes with a single barrel, whereas the Stalker has three. It is an anti aircraft tank for the Space Marines.
Presented here as a news item.
Update: this is the Stalker model.
Update 2: changed image to an improved one
So the next Doctor is…
Well the secret is a secret no more, the twelfth Doctor will be played by 55 year old Peter Capaldi, who is quite well known as an actor.
He replaces Matt Smith, who at 26 was one of the youngest actors to play Doctor Who, and Peter is the same age that William Hartnell was when he started to play the role of the Doctor. Peter will replace Matt in the Christmas special, and there is no news if Jenna Coleman will continue as the Doctor’s companion.
It will be interesting to see how an older actor will interpret the role.
Doctor Who: The Ripple Effect
As part of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, there are going to be eleven short novels from famous authors covering (as you might have guessed) all eleven Doctors.
The seventh book features the Seventh Doctor, along with Ace and the Daleks!
When the TARDIS lands on Skaro, the Seventh Doctor and Ace are shocked to discover the planet has become the universal centre of learning, populated by a race of peace-loving Daleks. Ever suspicious of his archenemies’ motives, the Doctor learns of a threat that could literally tear the universe apart…
It certainly sounds like an interesting story and I am looking forward to reading it.
Get The Ripple Effect at Amazon.
Get the Ripple Effect at Apple Books.
I was less impressed with the Sixth Doctor story and didn’t enjoy that short novel compared to others in the series. This one with the Seventh Doctor and Ace I have quite high expectations about.
Daleks to Return in the 50th Anniversary Special
As is quite fitting the Daleks will be in the 50th Anniversary Special of Doctor Who, with the 10th and 11th Doctors, alongside the mysterious John Hurt Doctor.
The Daleks are the second monster to be announced for the 50th and will join the shape shifting Zygons, which have only appeared in the show once before in 1975. The Daleks were one of the first monsters to terrify audiences in 1963, 50 years ago, cementing their place in British popular culture.
Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, said:
“The Doctor once said that you can judge a man by the quality of his enemies, so it’s fitting that for this very special episode, he should be facing the greatest enemies of all.”
I am pleased to see that they have abandoned the plastic Disco Daleks and have returned to the classic style, well updated classic style.