Golden Demon 2014 at Warhammer Fest – Ben’s coolest Demons

These are Bens Pick for his favourite entires at Golden Demon. Rather than looking at painting quality Ben has been looking purely at the colour scheme and overall look. He did only had my pictures to go on, so sorry if I didn’t take a picture of your model; and after all Ben’s opinion won’t get you into White Dwarf.

Ultramarine jet bike - Golden Demon 2014

Ultramarine jet bike – Golden Demon 2014

Crimson Fist Spartan Assault Tank - Golden Demon 2014

Crimson Fist Spartan Assault Tank – Golden Demon 2014

Blood Angel Dreadnought  - Golden Demon 2014

Blood Angel Dreadnought – Golden Demon 2014

Greater Demon of Nurgle - Golden Demon 2014

Greater Demon of Nurgle – Golden Demon 2014

The Green Knight - Golden Demon 2014

The Green Knight – Golden Demon 2014

World Eater and Blood Angel Contemptor Dreadnoughts - Duel Golden Demon 2014

World Eater and Blood Angel Contemptor Dreadnoughts – Duel Golden Demon 2014

Skaven Clan Rat - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Skaven Clan Rat – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Knight Conclave - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Knight Conclave – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Dark Angle Sergeant - 40k Single Miniature Golden Demon 2014

Dark Angle Chaplain by El Kaye – 40k Single Miniature Golden Demon 2014

 

Ork Warboss - 40k Monsteress Creature Golden Demon 2014

Ork Warboss – 40k Monsteress Creature Golden Demon 2014

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If you are wondering about the Red and Green stickers on the entry cards. The Green Sticker denote an entry which is being considered as a finalist and goes through to the next round. The red sticker is an entry which has been photographed and may therefore appear in Warhammer Visions, White Dwarf or on the Games Workshop website in White Dwarf daily.

While the number of entries was lower this year the quality was possible even higher.

I’ve seen some very negative feedback on other sites about Warahammer Fest and while the Games Workshop studio was totally out done by Forgeworld, I thoroughly enjoyed the whole event.
As Golden Demon isn’t running on the Saturday, Games Workshop management need to give some more thought to what takes pace in it’s void; If they run the same formate next year and expect people to attend both days, while I would have been happy to have a reason to do. It was also very disappointing the Studio didn’t bring along a couple of display boards from their impressive collection and a few more of their senior staff.
But those were the only down points and really not that big a deal. The venue was better, the space given to none sale activities was bigger, the lighting at Golden Demon was better, the parking was better, more content was provided. All in all it was a great day out and I can’t wait for next year to roll around.

Warhammmer 40,000 7th Edition 16 Rule Changes in White Dwarf issue 16

You may have already seen most of the contents of this week’s White Dwarf. I think just about every page has been plastered over the internet. I’ve included the cover, contents and back page below. I view showing any more as beyond the bounds of fair use.

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It’s no secrete the issue is all about the new edition of 40k. There is really good content in this issue about the changes in the rules and background.

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Here are the confirmed changes so far.

1) unbound armies: take any units from your codex apart from special characters as many times as you want.

2) All units can now capture objectives, just like Apocalypse.

3) battle forged armies follow. Organisational charts and get extra bonuses.

4) Maelstrom War Missions: Six alternative missions that use 36 tactical objective cards. Each player will have a number of objectives each turn. As each objective is achieved a new one is awarded, along with victory points

5) Psychic phase: all psychic powers are now cast after the movement phase. Each turn you have a warp charge for each psychic in your army plus D6 warp charges.

6) Psychic tests: roll a D6 for any warp charge you want to use , but all doubles 6s or even triples results in perils of the warp event.

7) New Psychic Discipline demonology, enables psychers to summon Demons.

8) Unit coherency is now 6″ vertically.

9) No leadership test is needed for Split Fire.

10) Rules for super heavies, D weapons and all scenery are included in the rule book for use in standard 40k games.

11) wound allocation is now done by weapon type from shooting through to save. So in a tactical squad all flamer shots would need to be resolved before bolters roll to hit.

12) the vehicle damage table has moved by one point, so to destroy a vehicle you now need to roll a seven.

13) Moving through difficult terrain now takes 2 inches off charge distances.

14) Psykers who take all their powers from a single discipline now the Primus power as a bonus.

15) Troops in battle forged armies automatically take any objectives they are contesting unless they are contesting objectives against enemy troops also in battle forged armies.

16) Battle Forged armies can reroll warlord traits

There’s really no reason you can’t start playing with these now. To play with demonology you will need the white dwarf.

Lovely picture in the back page this week. Here is half of it.

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Plague Ridden Armies on Parade Games Day 2013

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An entry from Armies on parade games day 2013

Here we have an entry from Armies on parade from Games day 2013.this nicely painted plague ridden army of Nurgle is made up from both the Chaos Space marine list and the Chaos Daemons list.

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part of the armies on parade 2013

The army is lead by Typhus and a forge world Greater Daemon of Nurgle the Great Unclean one, accompanying them is a squad of Chaos marines in a Rhino and also a Daemon prince as seen above.

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Below the tower is a second Greater Daemon of Nurgle leading a horde of Nurglings

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Just in front of the previous picture is a Daemon prince leading another squad of Chaos Space Marines.

 

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US Games Day 2013 Golden Demon Entries

Pins of war have posted some photos of US Golden Demon entries. While non of these made the finals they are certainly worthy of a 1+.

I’ve included 3 40k related pictures below. A Chaos Space Marine based on a Warrior of Chaos, a Seeker of Slanesh and a Space Marine Diorama which uses one of the new Chapter Master kits as well as on of the old wounded Space Marines. There are more entries from Warhammer Fantasy on pinsofwar

http://pinsofwar.com/7-golden-demon-entries-from-the-us-games-day-2013/

Ben