My Forge World Ork Gunwagon being “fixed” by some Ork Meks during a game.
Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.
More pictures of Ork Gunwagons.
Stompa Variants
I was in the Bristol Games Workshop today and the manager let me have a peek at the March White Dwarf which is due out this Friday (27th February).
Though I flicked through the mag, the main piece which I looked at was the article on Stompa variants. One of the options you can have is a belly gun (which is something that Gargants have) which makes the mean Stompa even meaner!
If I had the money (and the time) I would love to have a horde of Stompas, though I expect I would also have to buy Simon some Shadowswords to compensate for them
The Musical Box
Here is another photograph of Simon’s BaneBlade, it is very BIG! He’s done a really nice job on it and it looks very impressive on the battlefield.
One aspect which some have noticed is the name of the tank, “The Musical Box”.
Those of you who know about tanks from The Great War, may know that The Musical Box is the name of a tank from that war.
From Tanks for the Memory.
Whippets were first used in action near Herbetune in northern France on 26 March 1918 to help stem the German offensive when twelve “Whippets” near Colincamps surprised and put to flight two German infantry battalions.
But the Mk As really came to the fore in August 1918 when some 96 Whippets of the 3rd Tank Brigade were used during the Battle for Amiens. Although cavalry horses were still faster and better able to cope with rough, muddy terrain, Whippets proved more of a match for serious opposition.
One such Whippet, “Musical Box”, belonging to B Coy, 6th Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant C.B. Arnold, took part in the big attack on August 8, 1918, overtook the slow Mk V:s, routed a German Artillery Battery and on it’s own penetrated to the rear of the German lines. Essentially the lonely Whippet, with its bold crew of only three men, carried on a war of its own. It shot down retiring infantry, attacked horse and motor transport – even ramming a German lorry into a stream -and regularly terrorised the bewildered “Boche”. This went on for eleven hours, and then the tank was first immobilised, surrounded and then destroyed by fire from field artillery. Arnold and one of his crew survived, and were taken prisoners.
More photographs of Imperial Guard Baneblade super heavy tanks.
Rogue Trader RPG
After Dark Heresy
Fantasy Flight Games have announced their new Warhammer 40K RPG, and it’s called Rogue Trader.
In Rogue Trader, you take on the role of a Rogue Trader and his most trusted counsellors, empowered by an ancient warrant of trade to seek out profit and plunder amongst unexplored regions of space. Your ship will take you to new worlds and uncharted reaches of the void, where you will encounter rivals, pirates, aliens, and possibly even creatures of the warp. You will acquire and spend great wealth and riches, and fame or infamy will follow. You will discover ancient and forgotten mysteries and search out the unknown to find lost human worlds or never before seen celestial phenomena. You must survive the dangers of space, for beyond the threat of vacuum and deadly radiation lurk things Man was never meant to find.
Those gamers with memories as old as mine will recall that the original Warhammer 40K rule book was called Rogue Trader and though had rules for Space Marines and Orks the background was very much based on the Rogue Trader.
Nice to see it back.
Witchhunter Dialogus – Inquisitorial Henchmen
I am adding some Henchmen to my Inquistorial force. I am not quite sure what a Dialogus is and what they do for the Witch Hunter Inquisitor, but it is an interesting model nonetheless.
Having flocked the base with Games Workshop modelling sand, the model was given a white undercoat. I then gave the model a base coat of Desert Yellow.
The rear view.
See full workbench feature on the Dialogus.
Necrons
At GamesDay 2006 there were a fair few demonstration games, this jungle Necrons game caught my eye with it’s really nice scenery.
More photographs from GamesDay 2006.
Epic Artillery
Back at GamesDay 2001, Carl from Dropship, which is back up and being updates now, put on a most excellent Epic demonstration game with some fantastic models and some fantastic scenery.
This is an section of artillery about to open fire.
More photographs from this demonstration game.
Inquisitor Lorr Basecoat
Having flocked the base with Games Workshop modelling sand, I gave the model a white undercoat.
I then gave most of the model a basecoat of Desert Yellow.
See the full workbench feature for this model.
Rules can be found in White Dwarf #304 for this model.
You can see some painted Warhammer 40K Witch Hunter miniatures in our Witch Hunters Gallery.
Forge World Display Game
One of the reasons for going to GamesDay are the huge display games, my personal favourites are the ones form Forge World.
This one representing part of the Siege of Vraks had titans, super heavy tanks, and lots of trenches and guns.
To see more pictures from GamesDay 2008 have a look at my GamesDay 2008 Gallery.
Grot Bomb Launcha
I do like the Grot Bomb Launcha and my first (and so far only completed) model often takes part in my games as part of my Ork force. In this photograph (with my Skorcha behind it) it has already shot its Grot Bomb.
More often than not though, it does not really do anything significant, even with our house rule which allows it to reload!