Ork Flying Buggy based on the Tau Piranha.
This photograph was taken at Games Day 2008 and uploaded live to the blog during the event.
Category: warhammer 40k
Warhammer 40K Demonstration Game
This photograph was taken at Games Day 2008 and uploaded live to the blog during the event.
Imperial Death Strike Drop Pod
This photograph was taken at Games Day 2008 and uploaded live to the blog during the event.
Ork WarBike
This photograph was taken at Games Day 2008 and uploaded live to the blog during the event.
Ork Flakk Wagon
This photograph was taken at Games Day 2008 and uploaded live to the blog during the event.
£18 for the Drop Pod!
Later this year we shall see a new Space Marine Codex and with the codex comes a bundle of new Space Marine miniatures out on the 4th of October.
One of the new kits will be a plastic Space Marine Drop Pod and I was pleasantly surprised to find it will only be £18 ($30).
This is based on the Forge World resin model which costs a massive £45!
You can get it “early” by buying the Space Marine Spearhead boxed set which comes out on the 20th September. I suspect they may have a few at GamesDay 2008 in Birmingham the week before.
Metal Deffkoptaz
Though I am growing to like the new plastic Deffkoptaz, I still prefer the metal ones.
I have a flight of three of them and though they never seem to last very long in the games I play, if they do get in range open fire with all those twin-linked Big Shootaz, then they can make a very nasty mess of Simon’s Imperal Guard infantry units.
I even modelled them with bombz, before they were included in the rules in the new codex.
Oh, plastic Deffkoptaz!
Okay so I said earlier on my blog that
I have to admit I am not that impressed. They look a lot smaller than the original metal variants, and more like the (new’ish) Epic Armageddon version.
I was basing that on this picture.
I have since seen a side profile in Apocalypse Reload and today I saw them in the flesh (well in the plastic) at my local GW store.
I am now really growing to like them. They are really nice models.
They are much bigger than they appear in the photograph, a similar size to the current metal model. The detail is excellent and with a good paint job look like they could be really nice. Main challenge appears to be painting them, especially the pilot.
Space Marine Drop Pod (in plastic)
Later this year we shall see a new Space Marine Codex and with the codex comes a bundle of new Space Marine miniatures. One of the new kits will be a plastic Space Marine Drop Pod.
This is based on the Forge World resin model.
Hopefully it won’t be too expensive as unlike a Land Raider, you really need a few of these dropping onto the table.
You can get it “early” by buying the Space Marine Spearhead boxed set which comes out on the 20th September. I suspect they may have a few at GamesDay 2008 in Birmingham the week before.
Imperial Guard “Comedy” BaneBlade
Today I had my first game of Warhammer 40K fifth edition. Set in the ruins of an Imperial City, a force of Orks tried to take over a ruined tank factory. An opposing force of Imperial Guard were tasked with stopping them.
In turn four, I allowed Simon to bring on his new Imperial Guard BaneBlade.
It was interesting playing to the new rules, you have to remind yourself to remove your assumptions based on the fourth edition.
Simon’s BaneBlade which is nearly finished is very BIG! He’s done a really nice job on it and it looked very impressive on the battlefield. Though it couldn’t hit much on the table and when it did, it did very little damage. It actually did more damage to itself when its forward Demolisher Cannon “missed” its target and hit itself!
I expect in the next game it will do more damage – I am going to need something to take it out!