White Dwarf (UK) 312 Highlights
This came out Saturday (actually if you go to an independent you can generally find it on the Friday).
New Releases
As previously mentioned on the website advance order list, and no surprises:
- LotR Balrog with whip
- 40k Space marine scout squad
- 40k BT Marshal Helbrecht
- 40k BT Grimaldus and retinue
- 40k Terminator Chaplain
- 40k BT Rhino
- 40k BT Sword Brethren Squad
- Dwarfs army deal (the standard bearer is indeed a LE)
- Water effects (there's an article on this in the hobby supplies section at the end - apparently it's water rather than resin based)
Previews
- Vespid plus concept art - still can't work out whether I like these. The concept art "amateur comix" feel doesn't come over in the models, mainly the head area lacks character and the legs should be more bug like. This may be the colour schemes in the paint jobs we're seeing, but surely they saw the concept art as well?
- N-Gage Glory in Death game preview. Not much about it, which is a good job as I'm not interested (there was a stand devoted to it at UK Games Day, wasn't interested then either).
- WHFRP "Paths of Nuln" scenario (Feb 06) and "Knights of the Grail" Brettonian sourcebook (Spring 06)
- Macragge repackaging
- Forgeworld - Warhammer Giant (this is different, I think, to the one being previewed on the main site, which is slightly annoying for FW - 210mm high resin model), etched brass imperial eagle sets (they had these at GD)
- "Vlad the Impaler" historicals sourcebook slips to Spring 2006
- Books - Fell Cargo (novel, WFB, Dan Abnett, Feb 06), Alien Autopsy (background book), the Art of Warhammer 40k
- Sabertooth - "War of Attrition", new base set for WarCry CCG
Articles
Righteous Victories - Black Templar conversion article, building your own Black Templar crusade. Notably first in the list is a crusade against the Tau (expect the Tau to take stage front between now and their army release). Nice article with 6 different examples and associated background fluff. The nicest (in my opinion) is Mark Bedford's set of terminators, using Cadian/Catachan heads and using storm shields made from Forge World Rhino doors. Easier for Mark Bedford to do as a Forge World employee of course. But it highlights the fact that the shields on the new assault terminator set are too puny for the models.
Black Steel - building the land raider crusader, using the BT upgrade sprue. I have one of these; I don't like building or painting vehicles and I'm not really looking forward to it. Alternate paint schemes for the other "Codex" (in the sense of having one, as opposed to in the sense of orthodoxy - UM, BA, DA, SW) chapters are provided.
Accept any Challenge - Matt Hutson's BT collection. He's painted his latest ones with white "cross of malta" motifs on the fronts of their helmets, and the scouts get black warpaint in a similar pattern on their faces. Don't like it personally - it means less facial detail on the scouts (and the scout heads are, for GW, weakly detailed anyhow) and as a result they all look like eagle-eye action man.
Armageddon - background article with scenarios for 40k Armageddon
Target Acquired - modelling BT mission objectives. Taken from the US WD 310 ...
Index Astartes - Space Marine Scouts background article
Search and Destroy - Scouts modelling and painting article. Examples for Ultramarines, Blood Ravens, Iron Knights, Dark Angels, Black Templars (Matt Hutson's army again) and Space Wolves. The Space Wolves ones look pretty nice (possibly because Simon Grant uses the Space Wolves heads rather than the supplied Scouts ones. Hmm.
Behind Enemy Lines - tactica, but also a cry for help along the lines of "buy lots of scouts please". Four example army lists emphasising their use. The pictures, by the way, have them facing off against Tau.
Tournament Play - set of articles about GW Grand Tournaments
Grudge Bearers - WFB Dwarfs preview
Shrine of the Sorceress - WFB battle report. High elves versus Dark elves. I'm not sure I can remember the last time either of these appeared in a battle report. Also Jervis Johnson runs the dark elf side, so it really is a blast from the past. It also has the distinction of being about the worst board I've seen in one of these articles for a while. Having said which, we've been through a phase where the battle reports have been, for various reasons (mainly mucking about with the format), not particularly compelling, and this one is a little more back to the gold standard.
Conversun Klinic - written by the staff of WD US (just to bear out my theories) - Undead Wood Elves. The first of the two (spirit hosts - basically you can see the clothes but not the elves) are pretty good.
The Shape of Things to Come - LotR concept art and model previews for the "Shadow in the East" set and another one beyond that called "Fall of the Necromancer".
Victory for the Free Peoples - Campaign report for the War of the Ring. There's a clue as to the result in the title.
Misty Mountains - LotR multi-part campaign, part one.
Battle Companies Redux, part 2 - updated campaign rules for LotR Battle Companies.
Treacherous Terrain - the LotR Ruins of Middle Earth terrain pack. And a scenario - Valley of Shadows, to encourage you to buy it.
Descending into Darkness - collecting and modelling Moria Goblins. Painting articles for the goblins themselves and for the Cave Troll.
Painting Legolas - see the title. I think this is meant to be a speed painting article, since Adi Wood is a decent enough painter but the results here don't look too enticing.
Modelling Showcase - highlights of GD Baltimore and LA - first time I think I've seen the international GDs highlighted in the UK magazine, albeit the entire article is only one page.
Advance Orders Coming Up
All except the Bugman model are previewed in the Dwarfs article.
From 26/11:
- Dwarf Warriors
- Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs
- Dwarf Battalion
- Dwarf Grudge Thrower
From 3/12
- Dwarf Master Engineer
- Dwarf Runelord
From 21/1
- Dwarf Lord with Pistol and Axe
- Dwarf Josef Bugman
New Releases
As previously mentioned on the website advance order list, and no surprises:
- LotR Balrog with whip
- 40k Space marine scout squad
- 40k BT Marshal Helbrecht
- 40k BT Grimaldus and retinue
- 40k Terminator Chaplain
- 40k BT Rhino
- 40k BT Sword Brethren Squad
- Dwarfs army deal (the standard bearer is indeed a LE)
- Water effects (there's an article on this in the hobby supplies section at the end - apparently it's water rather than resin based)
Previews
- Vespid plus concept art - still can't work out whether I like these. The concept art "amateur comix" feel doesn't come over in the models, mainly the head area lacks character and the legs should be more bug like. This may be the colour schemes in the paint jobs we're seeing, but surely they saw the concept art as well?
- N-Gage Glory in Death game preview. Not much about it, which is a good job as I'm not interested (there was a stand devoted to it at UK Games Day, wasn't interested then either).
- WHFRP "Paths of Nuln" scenario (Feb 06) and "Knights of the Grail" Brettonian sourcebook (Spring 06)
- Macragge repackaging
- Forgeworld - Warhammer Giant (this is different, I think, to the one being previewed on the main site, which is slightly annoying for FW - 210mm high resin model), etched brass imperial eagle sets (they had these at GD)
- "Vlad the Impaler" historicals sourcebook slips to Spring 2006
- Books - Fell Cargo (novel, WFB, Dan Abnett, Feb 06), Alien Autopsy (background book), the Art of Warhammer 40k
- Sabertooth - "War of Attrition", new base set for WarCry CCG
Articles
Righteous Victories - Black Templar conversion article, building your own Black Templar crusade. Notably first in the list is a crusade against the Tau (expect the Tau to take stage front between now and their army release). Nice article with 6 different examples and associated background fluff. The nicest (in my opinion) is Mark Bedford's set of terminators, using Cadian/Catachan heads and using storm shields made from Forge World Rhino doors. Easier for Mark Bedford to do as a Forge World employee of course. But it highlights the fact that the shields on the new assault terminator set are too puny for the models.
Black Steel - building the land raider crusader, using the BT upgrade sprue. I have one of these; I don't like building or painting vehicles and I'm not really looking forward to it. Alternate paint schemes for the other "Codex" (in the sense of having one, as opposed to in the sense of orthodoxy - UM, BA, DA, SW) chapters are provided.
Accept any Challenge - Matt Hutson's BT collection. He's painted his latest ones with white "cross of malta" motifs on the fronts of their helmets, and the scouts get black warpaint in a similar pattern on their faces. Don't like it personally - it means less facial detail on the scouts (and the scout heads are, for GW, weakly detailed anyhow) and as a result they all look like eagle-eye action man.
Armageddon - background article with scenarios for 40k Armageddon
Target Acquired - modelling BT mission objectives. Taken from the US WD 310 ...
Index Astartes - Space Marine Scouts background article
Search and Destroy - Scouts modelling and painting article. Examples for Ultramarines, Blood Ravens, Iron Knights, Dark Angels, Black Templars (Matt Hutson's army again) and Space Wolves. The Space Wolves ones look pretty nice (possibly because Simon Grant uses the Space Wolves heads rather than the supplied Scouts ones. Hmm.
Behind Enemy Lines - tactica, but also a cry for help along the lines of "buy lots of scouts please". Four example army lists emphasising their use. The pictures, by the way, have them facing off against Tau.
Tournament Play - set of articles about GW Grand Tournaments
Grudge Bearers - WFB Dwarfs preview
Shrine of the Sorceress - WFB battle report. High elves versus Dark elves. I'm not sure I can remember the last time either of these appeared in a battle report. Also Jervis Johnson runs the dark elf side, so it really is a blast from the past. It also has the distinction of being about the worst board I've seen in one of these articles for a while. Having said which, we've been through a phase where the battle reports have been, for various reasons (mainly mucking about with the format), not particularly compelling, and this one is a little more back to the gold standard.
Conversun Klinic - written by the staff of WD US (just to bear out my theories) - Undead Wood Elves. The first of the two (spirit hosts - basically you can see the clothes but not the elves) are pretty good.
The Shape of Things to Come - LotR concept art and model previews for the "Shadow in the East" set and another one beyond that called "Fall of the Necromancer".
Victory for the Free Peoples - Campaign report for the War of the Ring. There's a clue as to the result in the title.
Misty Mountains - LotR multi-part campaign, part one.
Battle Companies Redux, part 2 - updated campaign rules for LotR Battle Companies.
Treacherous Terrain - the LotR Ruins of Middle Earth terrain pack. And a scenario - Valley of Shadows, to encourage you to buy it.
Descending into Darkness - collecting and modelling Moria Goblins. Painting articles for the goblins themselves and for the Cave Troll.
Painting Legolas - see the title. I think this is meant to be a speed painting article, since Adi Wood is a decent enough painter but the results here don't look too enticing.
Modelling Showcase - highlights of GD Baltimore and LA - first time I think I've seen the international GDs highlighted in the UK magazine, albeit the entire article is only one page.
Advance Orders Coming Up
All except the Bugman model are previewed in the Dwarfs article.
From 26/11:
- Dwarf Warriors
- Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs
- Dwarf Battalion
- Dwarf Grudge Thrower
From 3/12
- Dwarf Master Engineer
- Dwarf Runelord
From 21/1
- Dwarf Lord with Pistol and Axe
- Dwarf Josef Bugman
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