October white dwarf, now I would say I was going to review it but I think
that has long gone, I don’t think for the last few months I have done a proper ‘review’
of it for a while so instead of lying to you all I will say I am just going to
give a general comment on the magazine in general. Plus I just makes this whole
process easier for us both.
Now I know it’s a little late again as everything has already come out
but shut up, it’s hard to keep on track some times. Anyway back on topic, the
new release this month is re-release of the Dark Elves for warhammer fantasy. Now
we have a big wave release with more to come next month apparently, not bad,
but a little surprising considering GW’s trend over the last few months, releasing
something new each and every month. Apparently November isn’t cool enough to
get a new release. Anyway I digress, a lot has changed, and to be honest I didn’t
feel like it had to. Granted the new models are pretty sweet but still, not necessary.
Its like they have been given the Dark eldar treatment when they already had a
good range of models and a reasonable rule set. Whatever makes money dude...
So the biggest thing that surprised me was a totally different dark
elf warrior box set. For £20 you get 10 new dark elf dudes with either spear,
hand weapon or repeater crossbow. Yes the diversity is actually surprisingly
good for a GW kit, and the models look ok. But the big thing was the change of
direction with the models, they have altered the 6th edition look
that they came out with long ago and have gone back to the old 4th
edition look but with a new updated feel (more like a purple high elf now, not
some guy in chainmail).. The same can be said about the witch elves and cauldron
of blood which so no longer an immovable model, but comes on wheels (just like
the old old days).
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| 4th edition warriors vs 8th edition |
The hydra has once again had another change, so that's each edition
the model has changed, and while it’s probably better now, I’m surprised how
often it changes. Granted now you can make a crazy sea monster as well, which I
still can’t get my head around, but still that’s what happens these days.
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| Hydras though out the ages |
Digital releases you all probably already know, with the Sisters of
Battle getting a new updated rule set soon yet they call it codex sisters of
battle yet on the GW site they have changed them to Adapta Sororitas, so yet
another change in name for the Nuns with Guns. What I was surprised at was
Blood angels getting an updated rule set as well, but looking at the white
dwarf they are only adding in the FAQ’s and nothing else, not even adding in a warlord
table like the sisters are getting. So does that mean that the blood angel book
will stay the same? Probably so they can still sell hard copies to the masses.
Army of the month is a massive Smurf army by a guy called Gareth
Etherington, and it consists of almost 3 whole companies, and none of them are
the 2nd, good old Sicarius sits out and no yellow shoulder pads to
be seen. It’s a very odd experience. The 4th, 1st and 10th
make an appearance in his army. Green, white and scout, Green ultramarines...
strange to see. Either way the army is quite well painted and VERY big, even
gracing the board with a thunderhawk gunship. His models come from many
editions and what impressed me the most was a veteran squad made up entirely of
old suits of armour, mainly the metal mark 3 ‘Iron’ armour. Also a lot of
apocalypse formations... well what else do you do when you have a few
companies?
Battle report and the dark elves take on the Orcs and goblins, before anything
else when I looked at the two armies I just knew how the battle report would
turn out. Spoiler alert: the Orcs loose, just the army composition is bad with
2 large units of boar boys, which were never going to be able to break the
massed blocks of the elves. Both lists are quite monster heavy but again I had
to give the edge to the dark elves and that’s exactly how it played out. They
orcs get obliterated and just fold under the power of the dark elves. If the
orcs just had massed infantry instead of cavalry maybe they would have stood a
chance at weathering the number of attacks but otherwise it would have ended
the same.
Last month I enjoyed Jarvis Johnson’s article but this month it just
was more of the same but was less interesting as he was trying to explain his
decision for one of his scenarios. It just dragged for the whole read and was ultimately
disappointing. The same can be said about Vetocks article. I don’t know what I want
them to write about, but just something different each month or different
people. It’s just a running theme of hate each month.
The rest of the mag is same old same old, just painting tips and why
they did what they did with the dark elves. A few bits from forgeworld, but nothing
new that you can’t already see on their site. Meh, nothing great.
Before I go I have one question that I couldn’t find an answer to in the
white dwarf. Why are the Bloodwrack Medusa’s called that? While i will accept,
coz it is, surely it should be called a Bloodwrack Gorgon? Medusa was the name of
a Gorgon, not the species! It’s a little thing that bothered me.
I think that the name Gorgon would've been too similar and thus confusing to the Beastman monster Ghorgon...
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