A few interesting links:

Forgeworld's new releases, the classic land raider and a new Dark Eldar vehicle: Proteus and Tantalus. How is that dollar doing against the pound anyway...

Vincent Baker on why game designers can learn things from playing bad games: You Should Play Bad Games. Even Monopoly!
He said something very cool about Monopoly in ( Read more... )

I really don't post about 40k very often, but it's still in the periphery of my headspace and I skim BOLS for interesting articles. Recently, the constantly-rumoured-for-half-a-decade Dark Eldar revision has gained solidity and now an official announcement ahead of a codex release in the next few weeks or so.

It sounds very interesting, and the ( Read more... )

I don't get to play 40k very much, and I really don't get to play with my full Eldar army very much - not since 2nd edition really - so I do like to play Apocalypse when I get the chance.

Today's game, five of us playing with 10,000 points a side in javelin_nz's garage, was a great example of the large format game. I was able to deploy all 15 of my Dark ( Read more... )

The Gothic Wombles took to the field against Mashugenah's marines. His report is here. It was a poor display and I have rejigged the army accordingly. Possessed may still be good in some armies, but they're not what they used to be. Rereading the Chaos Space Marine list has given me a bunch of ideas for potential character and unit models ( Read more... )

As my lack of posting indicates, I've been very busy over the past month, and particularly the last week. Picking up from the time of my last post...

On Thursday the 8th, I ventured north to the wilds of Palmerston North to play in a playtest of Mashugenah's Kapcon game, Trail of Blood (also reported by Exiledinpn (f-locked)), a fantasy scenario using DreadOn Friday ( Read more... )