This week sees the next installment in the Arks of Omen story arc, and it's the big new guy - Vashtorr - vs. the Dark Angels. Now maybe all the ammunition is being held back until the rumoured return of the Dark Angels Primarch The Lion, but the Dark Angels have been all-but ignored in this new set. Yes we get the Primaris-ified Supreme Grand Master Azrael, but Warhammer Community have been very quiet about the Dark Angels themselves. These aren't just some insert-protagonist-here faction - this is the Dark Angels Legion, The Emperor's First, holders of arcane relics, keepers of secrets (sorry Tzeentch), possessors of equipment that no other Chapter can bring to bear. They have stood with the Emperor on battlefields, committed heinous war crimes for him, protected the Imperium in it's darkest hour, and in the lead up to this boxed set we have almost nothing on who they are, what they have done. It's just disrespectful, and mightily suspicious if you ask us! Something is afoot, and it feel like a Lion!
The next chapter of the Arks of Omen is here, and the big-bad, Vashtorr has taken form to wreak havoc in the name of pure machine-Chaos. He's not going to win any beauty awards, but he's the centrepiece for the new boxed set to accompany this new expansion. Wrath of the Soul Forge King includes not only Vashtorr, but host of machine abominations and human cultists (which makes no sense to us, but okay) against the Emperor's Finest, The First First, the Dark Angels, who are led by the now Primaris-ified Supreme Grand Master Azrael and his force of Deathwing Terminators and Dark Angel legionaries. Seems like an okay set, but not going to blow anyone away, especially with Vashtorr not being able to be fielded in the Boarding Actions combat. Small hole in the plan there! As for the fluff around Vashtorr and his parts in the current Arks of Omen story, the Arks of Omen: Vashtorr book is available in Where's The Boss? Collectors' Edition and OOOOH It's Cramped In Here Standard Edition. To accompany the new book and the new boxed set, there's a very nice set of Arks of Omen: Vashtorr Dice too.
Now Vashtorr might not fight in the corridors of the space hulks, but there are plenty who do, as these four new Boarding Patrols prove - one each for the Genestealer Cults, Death Guard, Adeptus Mechanicus, and Chaos Daemons. Not bad little sets for either their intended purpose, or as force multipliers for your existing armies.
Something else that is too big to fight in the corridors of the space hulks, are Imperial Knights, who this week get new dice sets - one for Imperial Knights and one for the Chaos Knights!
Horus Heresy fans delight in having a crappy difficult and awkwardly heavy resin kit replaced with a lovely new near-identical plastic kit of the Typhon Heavy Siege Tank. What a beauty she is too! It is interesting that this kit only comes with the Dreadhammer and not the turbo-laser destroyer variant like the Vindicator does. That would make a pretty great multi-kit.
It's been a while since we have had some new plastic Lord of the Rings, and this week we have two sets - the flexible Gothmog, Lieutenant of Sauron, who has multiple weapon and accessory options and the Faramir, Madril and Damrod, Rangers of Ithilien set that provides you with dynamic poses in almost mini diorama type poses, which is a lovely touch.
In books this week we have the beautifully presented Cypher: Lord of the Fallen in Limited Edition, Knight of Talassar: The Cato Sicarius Omnibus, and Ahriman: Eternal in paperback.
It's also a White Dwarf week with Issue 486 out on Friday.
Now Vashtorr might not fight in the corridors of the space hulks, but there are plenty who do, as these four new Boarding Patrols prove - one each for the Genestealer Cults, Death Guard, Adeptus Mechanicus, and Chaos Daemons. Not bad little sets for either their intended purpose, or as force multipliers for your existing armies.
Something else that is too big to fight in the corridors of the space hulks, are Imperial Knights, who this week get new dice sets - one for Imperial Knights and one for the Chaos Knights!
Horus Heresy fans delight in having a crappy difficult and awkwardly heavy resin kit replaced with a lovely new near-identical plastic kit of the Typhon Heavy Siege Tank. What a beauty she is too! It is interesting that this kit only comes with the Dreadhammer and not the turbo-laser destroyer variant like the Vindicator does. That would make a pretty great multi-kit.
It's been a while since we have had some new plastic Lord of the Rings, and this week we have two sets - the flexible Gothmog, Lieutenant of Sauron, who has multiple weapon and accessory options and the Faramir, Madril and Damrod, Rangers of Ithilien set that provides you with dynamic poses in almost mini diorama type poses, which is a lovely touch.
In books this week we have the beautifully presented Cypher: Lord of the Fallen in Limited Edition, Knight of Talassar: The Cato Sicarius Omnibus, and Ahriman: Eternal in paperback.
It's also a White Dwarf week with Issue 486 out on Friday.
Unfortunately Forge World haven't put the links up for these on their site yet, but we have some Horus Heresy goodness this week, with Alpha Legion's very own Exodus – The One Who Is Many and the generic Traitor Esoterist Consul on pre-order.
Not to be outdone, there are Mk VI shoulder and head upgrades for Raven Guard and Alpha Legion, plus two different generic Character Heads Upgrade Sets. These seem like great sets with some of the best heads we've seen in some time from Forge World, who can sometimes botch them horribly. However these should be on everyone's shopping list! Be great to have these in plastic!
Not to be outdone, there are Mk VI shoulder and head upgrades for Raven Guard and Alpha Legion, plus two different generic Character Heads Upgrade Sets. These seem like great sets with some of the best heads we've seen in some time from Forge World, who can sometimes botch them horribly. However these should be on everyone's shopping list! Be great to have these in plastic!
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