Last Battle of the Year

So this past Sunday, i played my last battle of the year 2013 against a guy from my local store who plays Grey Knights. We played at 1500 points as he is still building up his force for  2000 point list. It was a fun game, and nice way to end my hobbying year. Hopefully next year will be just as good for releases and new GW release strategies like the dataslate calendar. Anyways i digress, the battle report follows :)

Tyranid Teaser is up.

Hey guys, its been a little while since my last post as i have been enjoying some much needed time off and before that had a crazy busy week at work. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and good time with family, etc. :) So onto some minor news, by now we all know Tyranids are imminent for release at the beginning of the New Year and with that, Games Workshop have put up the new teaser for everyone's favorite Alien bugs. Here's a link to go check it out if you haven't seen it already :)
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=12500050

P.S - I'll be posting a battle report that is my last battle of 2013 later today :)

New Horus Heresy Vehicles Released

Busy morning so far. :) Another piece of news from Forge World. Just released is the new Kharybdis Assault pod, and the Legion Basilisk. Both are nice new vehicles to add to existing armies and are yet more wonderful releases. Forge World has been infinitely better than Games Workshop for realeases recently in my opinion. Everything is new and the stuff that isn't at least has enough new bits to give it a completely different style from their original kits. Futher Info and more pictures for the new releases can be found on the links below. :)
 Kharybdis Pod - http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/LEGION_KHARYBDIS_ASSAULT_CLAW.html

Legion Basilisk - http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/LEGION_BASILISK.html
Enjoy your day everyone.

Horus Heresy Limited Edition series

Hey guys, i hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. I finished reading the second of the two latest limited edition Horus Heresy novellas on Saturday and realized that a lot of people probably haven't had a chance to check these out. These are some really nice releases for fans of the lore and the Heresy Saga in general and have a lot of neat little extras. More info and pictures follow....

Death Guard Grave Wardens released.

 

Just released by Forge World today. This unit looked to be one of the coolest when i saw them way back as a Games Day reveal, but open seeing them in their full glory, they look even better. The Grave Wardens have arrived!

Eternal Crusade Planet name revealed

Hey guys, as you frequent readers may know, i have posted a few interesting articles on the upcoming 40k MMO being worked on by Behavior Interactive on my blog. For those who don't know much about it, it is currently in development and is slated tentatively for a beta sometime in late 2014, possibly early 2015. Not much has been shown for it yet but it is beginning to unfold slowly now that all the races and classes have been announced for the playable factions. As a nice holiday gift, Behavior released a short story based on their game, written by none other than Graham McNeill himself, tying in the lore a bit more. It is titled; Descent on Arkhona. Interesting read, and possibly contains some hints into the types of Tyranid units we will likely fight against during NPC encounters. For anyone who wants to read it, here is a link to the short story: http://www.eternalcrusade.com/phase_4_space_marine.

Deathwatch Project

Hey guys, sorry i haven't had much to post this week. There hasn't really been any major news to report so far and i have had a really crazy past few weeks with work also. I figured i would share an update on one of my projects I have in the works right now. A while back i posted about Deathwatch and how i wished they had some rules and things to bring such a neat unit to more peoples tabletops. Anyways I set out to build some Kill Team units and here is where i got so far....

Night Lords Raptors Released

Hey everyone. With the week winding down, and a lot of people preparing to see the new Hobbit film tonight, theres not too much for me to report at this time. There is a few extra Tyranid rumors floating around out there but some seem wildly conflicting with what we have previously heard so i am going to leave them out for the time being. Anyways, Forge World have now released another new legion squad, just a few days after putting up the Medusan Immortals, people who have a soft spot for the stealthy, murderous barbarians of the Night Lords Legion can now buy the Night Lords Raptors.

Tyranid Tidal Wave

 

Yesterday saw a huge amount of information drop regarding Tyranids and their upcoming release. This looks like it is shaping up to be one a solid release to start the new year. Expect this release to be a difficult one when it comes to deciding what to buy first as it seems that there is a number of big new bugs to use on top of the selectiong that were previously available. Rumors and more below....

Medusan Immortals Released

Hey everyone, I hope you all had a nice weekend. Not too much news over the weekend really. Some rumor regarding Tyranids are starting to surface but they are relatively minor and some seem to be a bit conflicting. For anyone interested in that there is a few sites such as BoLS and Natfka's blog where these can be viewed. My little bit of interesting news to me was the release of the Horus Heresy era Iron Hands unit: the Medusan Immortals, which followed on the heels of the new Primarch release of Lorgar.

Stormwing formation info

Hey guys, today the Stormwing formation rules were released. Heres some of the info, courtesy of Natfka's blog. Info follows below:

To Fluff or not to Fluff?

So after a friend of mine sparked a really interesting conversation on facebook regarding powergaming vs fluffier gameplay in 40k, i felt inspired to do a follow up article about it. (Vortaine recently posted an article covering the powergaming thing also, so this is mainly the fluff side of things.) Several interesting points were made during the course of the 60+ comment topic. It all stemmed from the fact that the new Tau formation seems to allow it to be taken by any army in the game, leading to the question, just because you can, does it really mean you should?

Brass Scorpion Conversion

Hey guys, time for another one of the wonderful conversions from the talented mind behind the Iron Warriors Daemon Prince conversion from one of our previous articles. (For those who somehow missed it, he can be found here:http://warpartifacts.blogspot.com/2013/09/iron-warriors-daemon-prince-conversion.html ) Anyways, this new warp-forged abomination is a Brass Scorpion conversion. I had a quick chance to talk with Rick about it while he played in the Underground Assualt Apocalypse scenario from the recently released Warzone: Pandorax book that was held at our local GW store. Heres what it took.....

Be'Lakor! The Newest (Old) Demon Prince for Chaos Impressions!

So I snagged the newest Data Sheet for Chaos because the rumors I saw floating around piqued my interest about the fellow.

I'd previously known a bit about him, and though this tiny release doesn't really do him justice (he is basically the Abaddon...before there was Abaddon, the Imperium...possibly mankind, and maybe even the Eldar). Point is, he is old, and when someone is cunning and badass enough to court the favor all four Chaos Gods and become a chosen champion of them, before anyone else, a paltry two dozen pages hardly does him justice.

That said, he is damn cool. Ruleswise, he is a nasty piece of work, knowing all of the powers in the Telepathy Discipline. He has a few nifty other tricks that I don't necessarily want to spoil, but for the price of a moderately equipped Demon Prince, he easily has a place in my army...if I feel like running a Demon Prince.

I've already begun concocting a double Eternal Warrior demon prince duo (using Be'Lakor and a Black Legion Prince) that might throw some demons in the mix.

Anyways! It IS a cool supplement, and if you are into Chaos Space Marines or Chaos Demons, I recommend you pick it up.

Dawn of the Dataslate

So over the weekend we had some really interesting developments regarding rules/model releases. The black library tease from last week was finally revealed, and what many believed would be a Daemons supplement turned out to be a character rules release. Bel'akor to be specific.