This picture is from a recent game.
My Orks had just shot down the Valkyrie (a lucky shot from a twin-linked Big Shoota) and the Stormtroopers were lucky to get out alive!
The crashed Valkyrie then provided cover for both sides.
Tag: valkyrie
Downed Valkyrie
Forge World have announced a new piece of scenery, a downed Valkyrie flyer.
This large scenery piece would make a great objective to fight over in games of 40K, or perhaps even in a scenario where the surviviors of the crash-landing have to avoid capture and fight their way out of enemy held territory! (Yes, I get excited by new models. Did you not know that by now?) This Valkyrie has certainly taken quite a pounding, with the fuselage riddled with bullet holes and several huge holes in the remains of the port wing. The interior is still fully detailed but half-filled with dirt after the forced landing.
I really like the downed Valkyrie, though I would have thought the front of the craft would have been more damaged in the “crash”.
I also like the fact at £36 it is half the price of an undamaged flyer.
Forgeworld Valkyries
Epic and 40k scales…
The WH40K version of the FW Valkyrie is a really nice model, well detailed and a very nice piece of kit for the Imperial Guard.
From what I have heard about the Epic version, it is just as sweet, and much larger than the Specialist Games model.
FW Epic models are very detailed compared to their metal counterparts. If I do get some Valkyries it will have to be the FW ones.
Fighting Withdrawal
New Warhammer 40K battle report added to website…
This was an interesting game. Simon had just finished his 40K scale Forgeworld Valkyrie and wanted to use it in a game. Knowing his “luck” I expected that the Valkyrie would fly in and one of my grots would take a shot and shoot it down… at which point Simon would be slightly annoyed!
Therefore I created this scenario which has forty Imperial Guard, with Heavy Weapons, a Tarantula Sentry Gun but no tanks. They would be dug into one end of the table and their objective was to get at least twenty troops off the table.
They would be taken off table by a flight of Valkyries that would fly in, strafe the Orks before landing, allowing the Imperial Guard to embark and fly off.
My Orks job to stop all this!
See the report.