Well it’s yet another adventure in the world of Games Workshop with the pre-orders apparently not being region-blocked despite the fact we told they were this week. Surprise!! Yet more geographically staggered releases
So, what is happening this week for everyone – it’s Grand Cathy in Warhammer – The Old World. That’s right, that excellent looking army everyone loves the look of but no one seems to paint, has some excellent reinforcements that bring us up to date with the more recent Warhammer Previews we have seen online – and all in one box. Grand Cathay are an elite force so the brand new Defenders of the Great Bastion Army Reinforcement Set gives you some cheap infantry plus some ranged power! First up with have the Astromancer on foot and the Astromancer mounted on Cathayan Warhorse with their requisite Familiar pet (which tells you how long ago this was in development). The ranged power includes 8 x Crane Gun Teams, 12 x Iron Hail Gunners and 30 x Peasant Soldiers, who can either have warbows or long spears. The Peasant Soldier kit also has two heads per soldier, giving you lots of personalisation options (or build them with two heads – you do you!). Grand Cathay is also the theme for the new Arcane Journal: The Breaching of the Great Bastion, giving you new lore, rules for these new minis, an updated army list and of course the ongoing narrative of Warhammer – The Old World.
Now, new Horus Heresy releases this week look like they’re not coming to Australia and New Zealand on pre-order yet, so for the rest of you rejoice in your Mechanicum goodness. In plastic for the very first time we have the Myrmidon Destructor Host, chunky constructs with big guns to either obliterate your infantry or melt holes in your tanks and armour. These are a nice update to the old resin versions from Forge World and this time have optional heads, so you can be all mysterious and cowled or go for that techno-horror look with old mecha-baldy heads. The Skitarii need a leader, and today we see the Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Marshal, who follows the same rag-tag design of his minions that has resonated so poorly across the Horus Heresy Community – do they even test these in some sort of focus group? This guy comes with multiple weapon and head options to provide a bevy of leaders across your force. Speaking of Skitarii you can now get the Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Corpus outside their big box, which may or may not be of interest to people because these just don’t seem to be resonating. It’s probably the bad colour scheme, because surely they can look better! Also outside the big box for the first time is the Vultarax Stratos-Automata, a great weapons platform that is just asking for some interesting colour schemes to jazz it up.
We had a whole lot of pirates the other week, and at that time we mentioned that Freebooterz were missing – well here’s one for you, Kaptin Badrukk, who with his Ammo Runts give you a really nice start to an Ork pirate force. Space Orks go right back to the very start of Warhammer 40K, so if you like the idea of some old school Orksies, then jump on this duo now!
No books this week, so enjoy the quiet!!
So, what is happening this week for everyone – it’s Grand Cathy in Warhammer – The Old World. That’s right, that excellent looking army everyone loves the look of but no one seems to paint, has some excellent reinforcements that bring us up to date with the more recent Warhammer Previews we have seen online – and all in one box. Grand Cathay are an elite force so the brand new Defenders of the Great Bastion Army Reinforcement Set gives you some cheap infantry plus some ranged power! First up with have the Astromancer on foot and the Astromancer mounted on Cathayan Warhorse with their requisite Familiar pet (which tells you how long ago this was in development). The ranged power includes 8 x Crane Gun Teams, 12 x Iron Hail Gunners and 30 x Peasant Soldiers, who can either have warbows or long spears. The Peasant Soldier kit also has two heads per soldier, giving you lots of personalisation options (or build them with two heads – you do you!). Grand Cathay is also the theme for the new Arcane Journal: The Breaching of the Great Bastion, giving you new lore, rules for these new minis, an updated army list and of course the ongoing narrative of Warhammer – The Old World.
Now, new Horus Heresy releases this week look like they’re not coming to Australia and New Zealand on pre-order yet, so for the rest of you rejoice in your Mechanicum goodness. In plastic for the very first time we have the Myrmidon Destructor Host, chunky constructs with big guns to either obliterate your infantry or melt holes in your tanks and armour. These are a nice update to the old resin versions from Forge World and this time have optional heads, so you can be all mysterious and cowled or go for that techno-horror look with old mecha-baldy heads. The Skitarii need a leader, and today we see the Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Marshal, who follows the same rag-tag design of his minions that has resonated so poorly across the Horus Heresy Community – do they even test these in some sort of focus group? This guy comes with multiple weapon and head options to provide a bevy of leaders across your force. Speaking of Skitarii you can now get the Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Corpus outside their big box, which may or may not be of interest to people because these just don’t seem to be resonating. It’s probably the bad colour scheme, because surely they can look better! Also outside the big box for the first time is the Vultarax Stratos-Automata, a great weapons platform that is just asking for some interesting colour schemes to jazz it up.
We had a whole lot of pirates the other week, and at that time we mentioned that Freebooterz were missing – well here’s one for you, Kaptin Badrukk, who with his Ammo Runts give you a really nice start to an Ork pirate force. Space Orks go right back to the very start of Warhammer 40K, so if you like the idea of some old school Orksies, then jump on this duo now!
No books this week, so enjoy the quiet!!
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