How cool are Valhallans? They're probably one of the most loved Imperial Guard armies from a time when GW were providing alternative looks for the Guard. Beautifully themed with their long coats and WWII feel, they were gritty and very cold! This weekend sees the return of the classic moulds via the Made To Order system. Get them while they're hot... or cold!
Get the whole re-release collection in the Valhallan Platoon, or pick and choose from the Valhallan Mortar Team (3 sets), Valhallan Heavy Bolter Team (3 sets), Valhallan Missile Launcher Team (3 sets), Valhallan Autocannon Team, the bloody awful Classic Commissar Yarrick, Commander Chenkov, Valhallan Commander, the super classic and not badly priced Valhallan Ice Warrior Squad, Valhallan Special Weapons, Valhallan Missile Team, Valhallan Heavy Bolter Team or the Valhallan Mortar Team.
The troops are very nice models. The officers are not great at all, pretty boring and pretty shoddy. If you look closely you can see the Mortar Team and the Special Weapons Team are done by the same person who did the troops, but some of the other heavy weapons teams don't have the same quality faces.
Commander Yarrick is a divisive model - many people like him because this was a time when lots of hobbyists got into the hobby, but if you look at him with fresh eyes, he's the worst elements of over the top GW madness and flat model sculpting.

Warcry continues to produce some of the nicest miniatures GW have released in some years - interesting, macabre, fun - and the latest two are no different. The Fomoroid Crusher is a big boy, and he is very cool, especially since he comes with alternate faceplates, which gives him (and his kin) a bit more versatility. The Mindstealer Sphiranx is frankly a thing of nightmares; echoing both cat and... God knows what this thing is freaky and cool, and again with alternate heads, this can be all the more versatile for hobbyists and gamers alike. With these two new monsters, we also get some characters - some available outside previous boxed games. The excellent
Ogor Mawtribes Tyrant leads the list, a mist have for all hobbysists, surely, there's also the Loonboss on Giant Cave Squig, the highly thematic Abhorrant Archregent, the air-guitar playing Warlock Bombardier, Vokmortian Master of the Bone-tithe, and the super odd Druanti the Arch-Revenant. There's also Warcry cards for Sylvaneth, Stormcast Eternals Sacrosanct Chamber, Blades Of Khorne Bloodbound, Blades of Khorne Daemons, Maggotkin of Nurgle Rotbringers, Maggotkin of Nurgle Daemons, Hedonites of Slaanesh and the mighty Seraphon (hurry up with new minis, dammit!!!).  
Previous darling of the Community, Necromunda, is busily expanding existing gangs, with new Stimmers and Forge-born for the Goliaths. Now I have to say this - these minis (especially the Stimmers) look so different from the previous Goliaths, these may not fit in that well. Have a look at the faces and the body types - these are far less cartoony. The Forge-born are awesome, even if they do look like they're falling over! These minis re out to coincide with the new Necromunda book House of Chains, which is apparently all the background and expanded fluff, special rules (including the Slave Ogryn Gang) every Goliath player needs to read in between reps and bench presses. The book also sees the re-release of the Goliath Gang Tactics Cards, now called Second Edition. 
Forgotten, lost in the wastes of space - somewhat like it's namesake Blackstone Fortress - the latest expansion, No Respite is pretty disappointing. Three Plague Marines they couldnt give away and were on Last Chance To Buy for ages, and some zombie cannon fodder. Not up to the standard of previous boxes.
Adeptus Titanicus has had a weird relationship with the very important Titan Command Terminals, often going into Last Chance To Buy or Sold Out within week of release. Well there they are back again, but with all the Titans now catered for in one pack - the Adeptus Titanicus Titan Command Terminals.
Middle Earth keeps up the pace with some more minis, Gorbag and Shagrat, the excellent Mordor Uruk-hai, Orc Shaman on Warg, Boromir Captain of the White Tower, Bard Hero of Laketown and the core cast of The Hobbit in The Champions of Erebor.
Next week is also White Dwarf 451 (notice back to numbers and not the monthly naming convention) - still miss the weekly version of this magazine! More targeted content and less filler.

Let's be honest - the Tau are cool and anyone who doesn't like them is really just jealous of their ranged firepower. Get in close and they're toast, but far away, you are plasma-fodder!
The Greater Good is the the latest chapter of Psychic Awakening is out next week, which gives you updated rules for Genestealer Cults and Imperial Guard, and it also gives some love to the much-maligned Tau - the good guys of the WH40K universe. The book comes in We're Here To Help Collectors Edition (with a pretty awesome variant cover) and One Of Us Standard Edition. Rather surprisingly, the new mini for this release is Commander Shadowsun which would normally be awesome except for two things; [1] she who has somehow been Primaris-ified and [2] she head looks like it's been made out of play-doh, or maybe a crushed pea. That's a huge shame because the later Tau heads have been very detailed and expressive. Thankfully there are three head options in the kit, so go for the helmet! Genestealer Cults also get some new rules in this book, so we finally get the awesome Kelermorph model available separately, and a new Start Collecting! Genestealer Cults box which is about 30% off RRP and comes with the awesome Achilles Ridgerunner.  
Meanwhile in the world of giant mechs, there is a new Adeptus Titanicus expansion book - Shadow and Iron - which brings new rules for Knight Houses, new weapons options and rules for the new Warbringer Nemesis Titan who comes with a head so big you'd think it was a Kardashian. There's also the new Adeptus Titanicus Titan Command Terminals for all Titan classes, a set of cool new Manufactorum Imperialis scenery and a new starter set, Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy. If you love your Titans there's also new decals on the way with decal sheets for Legio Ignatum, Legio Metallica and Legio Astorum. 
Far away from a land of giant robots there lives the world of Middle Earth, who next week get some new additions, with new Magical Powers Cards, Defenders of Pelennor Profile Cards, Mordor Profile Cards and Fallen Realms Profile Cards. For the life of me, we can't work out why these are so expensive!
Now if you like your 40K cute and cuddly, the new Bandai-made Warhammer 40,000 Chibi Figures Series 1 are on their way. If you haven't been exposed to this sort of mass produced rubbish before, for the most part they're very cheap quality with poor paint jobs. Maybe these can be stripped and repainted, but don't expect much when you open them.
In books, there's just one this week - Farsight: Empire of Lies which sounds like it's about to retcon everything we know about Farsight and possibly the Tau. Not ideal!
As with all of the Psychic Awakening releases, if you order through the webstore you will get the Greater Good Datasheet Cards which have the stats for Commander Shadowsun and The Eight on them.

If you've been wondering where Nagash is, or maybe Archaon (he's been hunting for Slaanesh) then Wrath of the Everchosen is for you - it's Chaos vs the Undead, it's new rules for siege warfare (something people have been asking for for a long time), some much-needed background on the Eightpoints, how to use the many roaming monsters, harness Wandering Endless Spells, plus Allegiance rules for the Hosts of Chaos. This is only a 104 page book, but still standard Battletome pricing.
Warhammer Underground Beastgrave gets some new parties too, with Hrothgorn's Mantrappers for the Ogors (with added dice and card sleeves) and The Wurmspat for Nurgle (also with added dice and card sleeves). Dammit, I've actually found a Nurgle model I like - that warrior with the spear is awesome!  
In books we have the next Warhammer Horror - The Oubliette, a massive Warhammer Chronicles omnibus - Heroes of the Empire, and a Warhammer 40,000 novel - Knights of Macragge. Interesting shot of the Ultramarines on the front of the novel, I mean who knew Ultras could look so damn cool?

Forge World have released the final three decal sheets for the remaining Legions in the Horus Heresy. Two of these we have been waiting for, and to be honest, we're a tad disappointed. Emperor's Children and Dark Angels are two mighty Legions with proud histories - but looking at these sheets, it seems they are missing any pre-Heresy or Terran markings. We saw that the World Eaters and others had flashback decals to the Great Crusade and even decals dating to before they were united with their Primarchs, but these seem to be lacking those. White Scars especially had some very unique markings for their Companies and they just aren't present. The Dark Angels are particularly boring, with their banners looking more like biker gang icons than the imagery of a proud Legion - which is a huge shame!
Click the pics to go to the Forge World site and check them out yourself.
What do you think? With three very interesting pasts, did you expect more?

Well well well, this is cool. I'm not sure any of use expected Tau as the next Xenos faction in Aeronautica Imperialis, but it's a great surprise. Eldar maybe, but now joining the very cool Ork planes, we have some Tau goodness... Greater Goodness indeed. Really nice to see they went with the larger Forge World planes and not the Razorshark/Sunshark from the GW line of Tau ships. Anyone else tempted?

Sisters of Battle have been called for from loud voices in the Community for some time, but the past two weeks have been mysteriously quiet in the FB and Instagram fronts in terms of people showing off their minis. Could the desire for them be less than GW had hoped? Well this week we see the Sisters of Battle releases interrupted for a series of things from across the GW range to possibly get the sales figures for where they need to be for January... Cynical? Probably!
If you've played Necromunda then you know there's no real good guys, so this week sees the pre-order for the bad guys with badges, the Palanite Subjugator Patrol. These guys are a beefier version of their predecessors, and for us, a sizeable improvement, including ranged and melee weapons and so very cool shields! Now when you think of bad with a capital "B", the Corpse Grinder Cult Gang pretty much fit the bill, with their heinous weapons and obvious affinity with inflicting pain. Excellent looking minis available seperately for the first time, there are also Corpse Grinder Gang Dice and Corpse Grinder Cult Gang Tactics Cards for when it's time for them to take the field. Speaking of the field of battle, hello to finally being able to get the new Zone Mortalis sections! Next week sees the Zone Mortalis Columns and Walls and the Zone Mortalis Platforms and Stairs on the market. These are very cool and will take the underhive, or 40K or 30K to the next... level! Pun!
In the world of Warcry the very cool, and very tempting Ogroid Myrmidon is on it's way, as are the mini-Slaves To Darkness, the Spire Tyrants. So excellent to see the Light of Chaos touch many different factions. There's also a new terrain set, the Ravaged Lands: Souldrain Forest, so if you like trees, go forth! Warcry has also introduced small fores for the Gloomspite Gitz, the Stormcast Eternals and Nighthaunt as well as Card Packs for Slaves to Darkness, Ossiarch Bonereapers, Ogor Mawtribes, Kharadron Overlords, Tzeentch Arcanites, Disciples of Tzeentch, Skaven, Stormcast Eternals Warrior Chamber, and Beasts of Chaos.
Even the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game gets a run next week with the new Matched Play Guide
out and about, plus some minis - The Three Hunters Mounted, two of our faves the Serpent Riders and Khandish Horsemen and the woeful Woses of Drúadan Forest. 
In books we have another Limited Edition, this time Incarnation, we also get two of the Horus Heresy books in paperback - Wolfsbane and Slaves to Darkness, 40K fans can get into the paperback of Fist of the Imperium and we also get the Warcry Anthology in paperback.
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So, there goes the paycheck then...!

I'm sure GW told us about this, but we had completely forgotten it existed - there's some pretty decent content on here too...! Click the pic to go to the site.

Christmas Day 2019 saw probably some of the ugliest Dark Angels models made available for Made To Order - well this week we get one of the prettiest in the form of the new Primaris-flavoured Dark Angels Master Lazarus, Captain of the Dark Angels 5th Company, lover of kittens, and probably wishing he was wearing black! This is another amazing Primaris character model, with alternate weaponry and head options to make this your own. Probably easily convertible to a Black Templars character too, this is a must-have, even though at $70 he is at the higher end of the Primaris character models. Keen-eyed observers will notice the small feather amongst his decorations - a throwback to a time when the Dark Angels were identified with Native American cultures and before their psuedo-Gothic reformation. The model is being released to coincide with the next Psychic Awakening book, Ritual of The Damned, which comes in both Iron & Feathers Collectors Edition and The Bells, The Bells Standard Edition. If you do order either of these through the webstore you also get the Psychic Awakening: Ritual of The Damned Datasheet Cards for free. Free cardboard - amazing!!
If you're not a Dark Angels fan, then this week is probably about the Sisters of Battle/ Adepta Sororitas, and this week brings out all the whacky for them. In the blue corner we have Junith Eruita in her flying eagle zap-zap-mobile and in the red corner we have the much-loved and finally-in-plastic Exorcist organ-as-missile-launcher battle tank! Have to tell you - big fan of the Exorcist - but $140 AUD for two sprues seems harsh when this could have been a combi-kit with next week's tank. Great for bitz though!! Now - that's not all the whacky BTW - we also get the combi-kit of the ​Penitent Engines/ Mortifiers AND we get the super-grim Arco-flagellants (who really just want a hug), plus nothing gives you confidence in a character model than having it stand over a mortally wounded colleague - bring on the Hospitaller... who seems to have a pesky dove stealing her scroll! Seems like the flying rats are still around in 40,000 years.
In books - we have the paperback version of book 15 in the Gaunt's Ghosts series Anarch and the paperback that seems really interesting - Vaults of Terra: The Hollow Mountain.