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A look back at Warhammer Fest 2016  Diplay Boards Video

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I recently wrote about how the Forge World display boards were absence at Warhammer Fest in 2017. I thought I would recapt on what Forge World brought to the piece last year. GW and Forge World had swapped floors in 2016. The GW studio brought 2 of their own 4×4 display boards.

Forge Worlds displayed a massive World Eaters vs Iron Hands board

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Games Workshop brought a 40k board


The new Specist game team brought Blood Bowl


Specist Games also put on 2 Lord of the Rings displays


River town

Plenty to marvel at.

Ben

Warhammer Fest 2016

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Looking for the Golden Demon 2016 winners. Click the link.

Golden Demon 2016 winners
And so Warhammer Fest begins

The big Forge World release is an even more heavily armoured Porphyrion. 

But probably even bigger than that  the first painted mastodon has been spotted. The Sons of Horus roll out.


Leman Russ looks to be almost ready. It appears it’s just the base left to do. I wonder if there might be a couple of wolves on it.


The Rhico arena floor plan, it’s a great venue for Warhammer Fest. Really relaxed and full of natural light.


And the most popular area….

The queue for Forge World Goodies. They call it Warhammer Fest, but we know it as ForgeHammer Fest. 
And here is ForgeWorlds new bird


More pictures are available at battlebunnies. They have been posting great content all day. 
ChapterMasters will be picking up coverage of Golden Demon tomorrow.

Ben 

The Wolf Time

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The new Space Wolves release has certainly raised a few eyebrows, to say the least. 

There are only 3 completely new sets in this release.

  • Ulrik the Slayer
  • Iron Priest
  • Space Wolves Wulfen

In addition to the new models is the Curse of the Wulfen book.

There has also been a lot of sets re-boxed and as CEO Kevin Rowntree had indicated a new lower price point for Space Wolves with the introduction of the Wolf Guard set at 65% of the price of a Space Wolf Pack for half the amount of models.
There is also a new Start collecting Space wolf set which is the same price as other new start collecting sets. The set contains a Wolf Pack a Thunder Wolf Cavely along with a Space Marine Commander. This set is priced lower than the cost of a pack and cavaly, making it a very cost effective way to start or expand a Space Wolves army. The remaining commander can easerly be used as a wolf guard with the spare components from the wolf pack set.

 While 13th Company space Wolves are not new to the 40k Universe. The 13th company had a metal set released in the days of 40k 3rd edition and a plastic hybrid Chaos Soace Wolf set during 4th and 5th. 

  
It’s the conflict between the Space Wolves and other Space Marine Chapters that make this releaese  very interesting. Games Workshop have previously refused to advance to 40k time line, so alienating the Space Wolves chapter in this way is not only a big change to the 40k status quo, it’s also the beginjng of the end of the 40k universes. This has lead a numbe of doom seerers predicting this is End Times for 40k….

I’m not so sure this is the end though. The grim dark future has always been a universe on the edge of collapse. If anything this just expanded the possibilities in that players can play pre and post 13th Company return time periods. Which is surly a good thing?

  
 

Warhammer Fest and Golden Demon to return in 2016

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News broke at the Horus Herersy Weekend that Warhammer Fest will take place in May of 2016. It will be again be held at the Rhico arena in Coventry.

Golden Demon will be held at Warhammer Fest in place of the Warhammer World mini competitions. 
The 1st pictures of the tickets have appeared on volomir.blogspot.co.uk.

  
This can only be good news for Golden Demon fans who want to see all the entries, but don’t want to make 12 separate trips to Warhammer World in order to do so.

I know that the Warhammer Fest format wasn’t a hit with everyone, but I enjoyed it and will certainly go to get pictures of all the entires.

So if you want to see this years best painted Citidel and Forge World models, mark the 14th and 15th of May out in your dairy.

Paint for the paint God.

The Death of a Phantom

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For two years Captain Ventis had been plotting revenge on the Eldar Titan less affectionately known as Bone Walker; within the Fourth Company.  New intelligence had suggested the Eldar Titan was involved in a cleansing mission with another unknown allied force. Not willing to let week intelligence get in the way of his honour Vetris made request to Malgias Calgar forassistance  with removing the xzeno war machine.

Turn One

The forces of Ultramar oblitorated the Phantom Titan during the 1st turn. This was largely down to a single squad of Sternguard equiped with combi meltas, which arrived via drop pod. Although the Second and Ninth Companies also played a large roll in the demise of the Titan.  

   
   
Turn Two  
The terminators of the 1st company suffered heavy loses. In true Christmas Apocalyse style this resulted in the Eldar and Grey Knights  winnig the game on Victory points, a convincingly 9-3 with a turn in hand. The morrle victory was clearly with the Ultramarines though, having oblitorated both the Phamton Titan and a Baneblade.

The Ultramarine chapter has now been declared trators to the Imperium due to firing upon Grey Knights. A small price to pay for redeeming their honour.