Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Games Workshop ends their digital advent calendar with a bang: Cypher, Lord of the Fallen as a Dataslate, adding one of the most elusive figures in Warhammer 40K as a HQ choice to most armies (except Dark Angels Space Marines). #1 – Cypher – Lord of the Fallen The individual known as Cypher is one […]
Shadowsun: The Last of Kiru’s Line is a premium hardback novella from Black Library. Update: Shadowsun: The Last of Kiru’s Line has been released on iTunes now. Surely it’s no coincidence that ‘Shadowsun‘ (along with Firecaste) was released just ahead of Games Workshop’s upcoming Tau Empire release (which is expected to be out in early […]
As (more or less) regular readers of Pin of War will know, I am very fond of named characters. If there is one army in Warhammer 40K that always had far more of those than almost every other 40K army, it is the Eldar. One reason for this is that, in addition to “normal” Special Characters […]
Finally, I had the time to page through the new Tau Empires Codex a bit. Slow delivery and all means I’ll probably have to wait until next week-end to give the Codex a quality reading. Still, in my initial page-flipping, there are a few things that struck me as nice changes or additions for the […]
Rumours about future GW releases are always a fickle thing. This one, however, excites me. If the rumour-mongers are correct, the new Codex for Tau Empires will break with one of the most lamentable trends in Warhammer 40K 6th Edition: the lack of new Special Characters iconic to a Warhammer 40K faction or army. It […]
A few months ago, when everybody was flicking through the new Codex for Chaos Space Marines, I noted there were no new special characters in the first 40K 6th Edition Codex. #1 – Warhammer 40K 5th Edition and Special Characters This was – and is – quite a major break from what everyone was accustomed […]
