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Apocalypse Reload

Normally when Games Workshop release a supplement, they release a bundle of stuff over two or three months, then ignore it for ages until they re-release it or ignore it for ever!

Remember Cityfight and Cities of Death?

What about Armageddon?

Well it appears that Apocalypse is somewhat different.

There was the usual two or three months of new releases last September – remember the BaneBlade!

However with the release of fifth edition of Warhammer 40,000, Games Workshop are publishing a new Apocalypse book, Apocalypse Reload.

This doesn’t appear to be a new version of the old book for the new version of Warhammer 40K, but a supplement to the original Apocalypse rulebook.

Check the blurb from the Games Workshop website.

Apocalypse Reload is a supplement to the hugely popular Apocalypse book, crammed full of more than 50 exciting new datasheets, new strategic assests specific to each Warhammer 40,000 army, and an Apocalypse battle report that has to be seen to be believed!

Well I am not sure if it is that good it “has to be seen to be believed” but I think I may be getting a copy.

Inside Warhammer 40K 5th Edition

Games Workshop have published a couple of previews of the new 5th edition Warhammer 40K.

Better than ever, the new rulebook updates and develops the rules, adding new detail and clarification to create a fast paced, exciting and rewarding gaming experience. But it’s not just the rules that have been expanded, you will also find within its pages a mammoth background section, going into depth like never before to delve into the races, conflicts and history of the 41 st millennium.

Read more on the background in the book.

Read more on the hobby section in the book.

There will be a third preview soon.

Overall I am looking forward to the new rules and will probably buy the new rulebook – and the boxed set when that comes out in September.

Update April 2011: the GW links no longer work.

Sisters of Battle Immolator

One of the vehicles Simon has in his collection is this very nice Sisters of Battle Immolator.

The Immolator is a design exclusive to the Ministorum, based upon the ubiquitous Rhino chassis.

Immolators carry deadly twin heavy flamers, multi-melta, or heavy bolters. As well as its armament, the Immolator can carry a squad into the heart of the enemy army.

Sisters of Battle Immolator
Sisters of Battle Immolator

This is a really nice model and I like what Simon has done with it.

More pictures of Immolators.

Heresy today, heresy tomorrow, heresy soon

Well after the announcement that the Black Library was no longer going to produce Dark Heresy raised a few eyebrows, especially after the initial print run sold out it was interesting to read that there may have been reason behind the madness.

According to a press release from Fantasy Flight Games they now have the licence to publish the role-playing, board and card games set in the Games Workshop universe.

Fantasy Flight Games (“FFG”) and Games Workshop (“GW”) jointly announced today that they have reached an agreement for Fantasy Flight Games to become the exclusive publisher of board games, card games (including collectible card games), and roleplaying games based on Games Workshop’s family of renowned intellectual properties including Warhammer Fantasy Battles and Warhammer 40,000.

Further down the press release we read:

FFG will continue production and new-product support for the Universal Fighting System CCG, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay RPG, and the new smash-hit Dark Heresy RPG.

So it looks like Dark Heresy is here today and will be here tomorrow.

Dark Heresy Rulebook

The new Dark Heresy will be released in July 2008.

You can pre-order from Amazon.co.uk.

Indiana Jones takes $126m

Indiana Jones takes $126m

BBC reports on how well Indiana Jones has done at the cinema.

The new Indiana Jones film has shot to the top of the North American box office chart, taking $126m (£63.7m) in its first four days on release.

Released 19 years after the last Indiana Jones film, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened on Thursday following mixed reviews at Cannes.

Still have yet to see it myself, hopefully soon. In the meantime why not look at some photographs inspired by Indiana Jones.

Buy Indiana Jones stuff from Amazon.

Update: Buy Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Plastic Deffkopta (possibly)

According to Bell of Lost Souls, it is rumoured that…

According to Games Workshop USA Sales Representative Mark Koscielniak, the new Warhammer 40k 5th Edition Starter Boxed Set will include a “Crap-Ton of miniatures”.The new boxed starter, due out in September of this year, will include the popular “mini-rulebook”, dice, measuring sticks and the proverbial French “Crap-Ton” of miniatures including:
1– Space Marine Commander (full sprue)
1– Space Marine Tactical Squad (10 models)
1– Space Marine Terminator Squad (5 models)
1– Space Marine Dreadnought
AND THAT’S NOT ALL!
The set will ALSO include:
1– Ork Warboss
2– Ork Boyz Mobs (20 models total)
1– Ork Nob Mob (5 models)
3– Death Koptas

GW have not included metal miniatures in boxed sets for many years now, so I am guessing that if this listing is accurate then we will see plastic Deffkoptaz!

Of course this is a rumour and it has been rumoured that there would be a plastic Killa Kan or Ork Dreadnought included in the box set.

However we might see plastic versions of all the models on the release of the fifth edition of Warhammer 40K. Note though that the teaser in this month’s White Dwarf was of Space Marines versus Necons, not that that means anything but you never know!

When is a buggy not a buggy? When it’s a trukk!

The original Ork trukk was released for Gorkamorka and was (at the time) just the right size for the smaller Orks which were also released for Gorkamorka.

With the release of the (previous) Ork Codex, it was used again as a trukk, even though the Orks had grown in size.

It did mean that the driver and gunner looked a little on the small size and not in keeping with the new Orks plastics and metals.

With the new Codex released this year, we see a nice new trukk model which is much much bigger than the old trukk. Interestingly we didn’t see a new Wartrakk or a new Warbuggy which was a pity. Even a slight modification with new crew would have been nice.

Of course who defines what is a trukk and what isn’t? Few ork vehicles would be identical due to the way the Ork vehicles are “constructed”.

I am considering that with the new (bigger) trukks that I may relegate my current Ork trukks and define them as warbuggies. Now I don’t have any warbuggy models as I don’t like the model, so it’s not as though I have a few warbuggies hanging around which would need to be re-defined as well.

Ork Trukk

Of course I now need to get some of the new Trukks…