Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
As you may or may not know, I am a huge DreadBall fan and have followed Mantic Games for a while. Like most people, I also started the hobby with Games Workshop games. Both companies are based in Nottingham in the UK, Mantic Games in Greasly Street and Games Workshop in Lenton. Indeed, Mantic Games […]
Welcome to the second week of Games Workshops all-new weekly White Dwarf + Weekly Miniatures release schedule. Obviously enough, the second week of the month sees releases that add to the ones unveiled last week – Warhammer Fantasy Dwarfs. For all intents and purposes, Games Workshop still revolve around 1-army-per-month, just staggered over the different […]
The new 6th Edition Tau Empire Codex is the second Warhammer 40K Codex written by the “new” kid on Games Workshop’s Codex writer-team: Jeremy Vetock. Codex Dark Angels was his first. Looking more in-depth at the new Tau Empire Codex, I can’t help but make comparisons between the two books. And while there’re some good […]
A review of Codex Dark Angels! Let me say up first, I am still struggling to find a good format to review Warhammer 40K Codex books (or, I suppose, game-material more general). Unlike book reviews, not everything that is good or bad or noteworthy about a given supplement is immediately obvious (at least not to […]
Among the things I enjoyed most in the recent Chaos Space Marines Codex for Warhammer 40K was the short section of unique Chaos Artifacts. They are great idea. A fun and flavorful inclusion that allows player to build Chaos Lords (or other HQs) with a unique spin. The equivalent for Dark Angels are the Chapter Relics (those […]
Time to take a peek at the limited edition of the Codex: Dark Angels. I’ve wondered what these new limited edition codexes for Games Workshop’s 6th edition of Warhammer 40K were all about. I missed the Chaos version, limited to 1000 copies worldwide, which was gone before I even knew that a limited edition Codex […]
For months, rumour mongers have tipped Mat Ward, the author behind the 5th Edition Necron Codex and most 5th Edition Space Marines books, as lead-author for Codex Dark Angels. As Mat Ward is… um… controversial, pre-emptive snark has been on an all-time high across the interwebs. Turns out, Mat Ward wasn’t in it. Codex Dark […]
