Minis News 21 Oct 05

Urban War Box Set and New Greens

Urban Mammoth are previewing a Starter Set for their Urban War skirmish game. Included is a cut down Hexagon construction kit and two sets of six white metal minis - Viridians and Synthas. Price is posted as £30. Attractive, especially compared to, say, Mordheim. More previews here.

Also, some new greens, posted to their message boards: (in order of pictures) Junker Exosuit, Junker Legionaries, Junker sandrunner, VASA Archangel, VASA Black Legion:





 



Games Workshop News

For the UK at least, taken from their online newsletter:

(40k) White Dwarf 311 preview ... largely about the Black Templars. 310 was the best WD since Paul Sawyer left so hopefully this one will keep up.

(40k) Who are the Black Templars

(40k) Black Templars artwork

(LOTR) Building a Mines of Moria board

Sneak peeks: Warriors of Khand (LOTR) and Dwarf Lord (WFB) - I won't bother linking as they aren't hard linked

Also noted, appearing on the advance orders part of their website, some new "hobby stuff" - water effects (resin?) and modular gaming hills.

I popped into our local GW today and picked up the Tyranid and Skaven collectors' guides and the 2006 catalogue. I've still to open the collector's guides. There's not much to say at this point as regards the catalogue apart from that the paper feels cheaper than previous editions and the "preview pictures" are of tau empire (the same Vespid pictures that have been doing the round - no actual Tau) and the dwarf pictures which have also all appeared in the sneak peeks on the GW website.