| Greetings and Seasonal Salutations Fellow Travellers! Apologies for the lateness of this review. Usually we get this up first thing Saturday morning (AUST time) to give you a look inside White Dwarf for the week and work out if your hard-earned should be shelled out or if you should save up for the next big release. Well this week seasons obligations get in the way - but for posterity here's a belated look inside White Dwarf #48. Now you'd think that with this being the highest spending time of the year Games Workshop would go out with a bang. One exciting release for people to grab onto and potentially shell out all their cash on - gift vouchers, cash from Nan, your siblings pocket money you stole from their piggy bank. You'd think that., right? Oh how wrong you'd be... it's flashback time! - + + More After The Jump + + |
I've made my opinion pretty clear on Forge World and frankly the Forge World section both in White Dwarf and Warhammer: Visions has been pretty poor.
Knowing the lead time before publication we get models that are months old being touted as New Releases, very few of them painted and pretty statically shown. This is Forge World, come on guys...
Still the two kits shown this week are good ones, despite the boring photography.
I'd love to see this section much MUCH better next year. There's certainly scope!
Knowing the lead time before publication we get models that are months old being touted as New Releases, very few of them painted and pretty statically shown. This is Forge World, come on guys...
Still the two kits shown this week are good ones, despite the boring photography.
I'd love to see this section much MUCH better next year. There's certainly scope!
The Year in Review section is a pretty standard look back at 2014 and the releases that have both excited and bored us senseless (Dwarves I'm looking at you).
It's actually interesting looking back and realizing how much product was released and also how quickly they come and go! They are THE big thing, then they drop off for something else to appear. This year saw two Tyranid waves (kind of appropriate that!) and do you remember the Wood Elves (and their awful Codex)? The excitement of the Imperial Knights (still one of the best vehicle releases in Games Workshop history) Space Wolves, Blood Angels and Astra Militarum.
The pictures in this section are very well chosen considering the bevvy they would have to choose from.
It's actually interesting looking back and realizing how much product was released and also how quickly they come and go! They are THE big thing, then they drop off for something else to appear. This year saw two Tyranid waves (kind of appropriate that!) and do you remember the Wood Elves (and their awful Codex)? The excitement of the Imperial Knights (still one of the best vehicle releases in Games Workshop history) Space Wolves, Blood Angels and Astra Militarum.
The pictures in this section are very well chosen considering the bevvy they would have to choose from.
Cities of Death is a great WH40K expansion that has been getting a nice update recently. In both this issue and last issue there have been new stuff - this week two new missions.
The image White Dwarf have chosen to accompany this section with is a cracker. Really evocative.
The image White Dwarf have chosen to accompany this section with is a cracker. Really evocative.
I don't generally focus on Codex: Apocrypha, but this week is quite interesting. For a few months now there have been some rumours of a Beastmen re-release, as either part of the End Times or just in general, and this article gives us a bit of an insight into them.
Hot on the heel of last weeks two mini games, this week we get one!
I assume this is based on some of the real life dog fighting in the Korean War and is quite a cool idea if you like this sort of thing.
I assume this is based on some of the real life dog fighting in the Korean War and is quite a cool idea if you like this sort of thing.
Finally the issue rounds out with your opportunity to vote on what you think the best miniature releases of 2014 are. Notice that Tyranids only get one slot despite having two distinct releases this year.
Still, go at it!
Still, go at it!
Verdict
Best of issues can always be a bit hit and miss, but this issue isn't bad and with the other stuff there is a bit here to look at and read.
Granted, there is stuff in here, but a hint of 2015 would have been nice - a splash page of Necrons, maybe other hints of things to come. Just something to get the blood pumping.
Granted, there is stuff in here, but a hint of 2015 would have been nice - a splash page of Necrons, maybe other hints of things to come. Just something to get the blood pumping.
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