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The Rynn’s World diorama was on display at Warhammer World. Inspired by the artwork from the original Warhammer 40000 Rogue Trader rulebook, this diorama shows the Crimson Fists making a heroic last stand against hordes of Orks.
Across the Warhammer World displays were various armoured vehicles of the Ultramarines Space Marine chapter.
The Gladiator Valiant lays down blistering volleys of fire as its escorts transports or supports infantry in ferocious fighting, crossing rushing watercourses, sucking marshlands and bubbling lava with equal ease. Its twin las-talons spit death at the foe, making short work of enemy armour and cracking open fortified positions.
Like the Predator is to a Rhino, the design of the Gladiator is based upon that of an Impulsor’s chassis, and has been designed to serve as a front line battle tank rather than a transport vehicle.
As the main surface-to-air tank, the Hunter scours the the skies of enemy bombers and fighter craft with its skyspear missile launcher.
The primary weapon of the Space Marine Stalker is the skyspear missile launcher. There are also options to include re-inforced armour on the sides of the tank, as well as pneumatic pins along the base.
The Stalker wields two independently targeting rotary autocannons that fill the air with armour piercing death so that no foe is safe in Imperial air space.
The Invader ATV is a highly flexible all-terrain vehicle, perfectly adapted to an aggressive reconnaissance role. Outfitted with either a multi-melta or an onslaught gatling cannon, it can rapidly deliver punishing fire against vulnerable parts of the enemy line, or swiftly engage and destroy scouting elements of opposing forces.
Not quite a vehicle, but the Hammerfall Bunker was also in the displays. Hammerfall Bunkers are launched from Space Marine warships in the same manner as Drop Pods. Automated area-denial assets crewed by hard-wired servitors, they have all kinds of battlefield roles, including securing beachheads, hampering enemy assaults and wreaking havoc behind the foe’s lines.
The Repulsor Executioner is the most heavily armed battle tank available to the Adeptus Astartes, with a choice of murderously powerful, primary turret-mounted weapon – a macro plasma incinerator or heavy laser destructor – supported by a coaxial heavy onslaught gatling cannon.
This was an Attack Bike.
The Stormtalon Gunship serves the armies of the Adeptus Astartes as both an interceptor and ground-attack craft. It is fast enough to engage all but the swiftest of enemies, and sufficiently well-armed to reduce the chosen foe to a mangle of twisted wreckage and ruined flesh. The tide of many a battle has turned with the thunderbolt descent of a Stormtalon Gunship from the war-torn skies.
Alongside the vehicles was this Assault Space Marine.
In this diorama at Warhammer World the Dark Angels are fighting to reclaim the industrial world of Khendrel IV from the clutches of the Death Guard.
More photographs of The Battle of Khendrel IV.
Last month I wrote a post about the Citadel Limited Editions that I had seen at Warhammer World. I remember thinking that it was a pity that Games Workshop stopped producing miniatures like this.
Of course the reality is that now and again they do release similar models. We have seen the Red Gobbo festive release and today a lovely little diorama, Provisionally Prepared has gone on pre-order. It features two halflings, sorry abhuman Ratlings, hiding behind some ruins. One is a sniper and preparing to shoot, the other is preparing lunch.
Diminutive, keen-eyed and instinctively stealthy, the abhuman Ratlings serve the Astra Militarum primarily as outstanding snipers – they can take the head off a heretic with their rifles from over a mile away.
Get ready to celebrate with this incredibly detailed diorama showing two Ratling sniper specialists right in the middle of their two most important jobs – fighting and eating.
Thoroughly dug in behind a sturdy barricade, the sniper is shown taking cover and getting ready to shoot. Their colleague, meanwhile, prepares to reload both their bellies and their weaponry, equipped as they are with tasty sausages, a turkey, fresh drinks, grenades, and more, all within easy reach.
This is not a regular army model, this is an amusing scene that captures the essence of halflings in space. It so reminds me of the types of limited editions that we would see in the 1980s.
I really like this model, so I have pre-ordered it from my FLGS.
Magnir’s Crag is (now) quite an old diorama that has been around at GamesDay 2009 and then into Warhammer World.
A nightmarish tendril of Hive Fleet Behemoth has descended upon an ancient fortress of the Space Wolves. The alien monstrosities are held at bay by the dauntless warriors of Fenris, but for every horror slain, a dozen take its place.
This display was originally made by the Design Studio for Games Day 2009, then displayed in Warhammer World, and now has been restored and updated by the Warhammer World Studio team. Magnir’s Crag has been updated with a variety of newer kits, such as Thunderwolf Cavalry, the Venerable Space Wolf Dreadnought and the Tyranid Trygon.
This Genestealer Cults Achilles Ridgerunner was in the display cabinets at Warhammer World.
The Achilles Ridgerunner is a versatile Imperial light exploratory vehicle. It’s a favorite among mining guild prospectors seeking new ore deposits and geological surveyors exploring Frontier Worlds.
Known for its speed, range, and durability, the Ridgerunner has also proven to be a valuable asset for the outriders and scouts of the Genestealer Cults.
I have one on my workbench which I am using with my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers.
This Shokkjump Dragsta vehicle was on display at Warhammer World.
These speedy Ork vehicles have the two of the key needs for any Ork fast attack vehicle, high speeds and lots of big gunz.
These Shokkjump Dragstas are real favourite of the Mekboyz of the Kult of Speed.
T’au Supremacy armour is larger than any other current class of battlesuit. It is intended to meet a threat that the T’au Empire has not yet prepared for; the defence of worlds within their growing domain from the counter-expansion forces of other races.
Lacking the manoeuvrability of other battlesuits, the KX139 Ta’unar Supremacy Armour was designed for static defence, carrying massively destructive, long range weapons.
The T’au Heavy Rail Cannon Array is the most powerful armament yet developed to be mounted on the KX139 Ta’unar Supremacy Armour without structural damage being incurred from its use. It was created to eliminate the toughest enemy targets at extreme range.
This T’au KV128 Stormsurge was on display at Warhammer World.
An absolute colossus of a machine, piloted by graduates of the Ves’oni’Vash, the KV128 Stormsurge is designed as an extreme heavy-weapons platform. Not as manoeuvrable as a Riptide, instead relying on thick armour and devastating loadouts, these hulking, squat ballistic suits are capable of changing the course of a battle in seconds with a decisive volley of astonishing firepower. Fitted with thrusters to counter recoil, bristling with pulse weaponry and missile pods, the Stormsurge is the T’au Empire’s Titan-killer.
The Battle for Angelus Prime was a massive diorama at Warhammer World, which was in a huge room.
The primary action of the War for Sanctoria campaign was fought in Sanctoria’s capital city of Angelus Prime. The entire might of the Ultramarines Chapter and their allies among the Grey Knights, the Knights of House Terryn and the Titans of the Legio Astorum stood against the bloodthirsty hordes of the Blood God Khorne.
Much blood was spilled, as the Ultramarines made their last stand against the followers of Khorne on the holy ground of Angelus Prime’s cathedral dedicated to the Ultramarines Primarch. Yet in the end, the Ultramarines prevailed once more, and Chapter Master Marneus Calgar personally banished An’ggrath to the Warp.