The Warhound Titan has been recovered

Warhammer world has been making a few changes to their gaming board set up. Three of their featured game boards have now been retired and turned into an extra row of two player tables. According to the Warhammer World store manager the larger boards were only being used for 2 player games and they were having to turn bookings away as a result. This change should mean more people are able to enjoy a game at Warhammer World. One of the biggest casually of this large broad cull is the Warhound Down table. While this should generally produce a more positive experience for gaming visitors, many people will be sad that this board won’t be available any longer.

I’ll be interested to see if the Warhound makes an appearance on another board in the future.
Ben

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Imperial Knights White Dwarf 4 back cover

White Dwarf 4 Review – Imperial Knights

This week’s White Dwarf was the first 40k orientated issue since the last change in format. I must say I was very very impressed.

Pictures

There are lots of pictures of the knights. Most of which have already been published on the net; they are great non the less.

Imperial Knights White Dwarf 4 back cover

Imperial Knights White Dwarf 4 back cover

Features

There are features written by Jes Godwin and Jervis Johnson about the development or evolution of the knight. I always enjoy it when they draw out the history of the hobby. It’s also astounding to see how much better Jes’s drawings have become.

Paint Splatter and Hobby

The paint splatter and hobby articles are about building and painting the Knights and contain some very useful practical tips that will apply to other models.

Tactics and Rules

There are two pages devoted to how to use the knights, from two different authors and points of view. There are also all the rules need to field a knight.

Conclusion

This issue could easily be mistaken for one of the “good old issues”, from “back in the day”. If you are think you are going to get a Knight this is a must have issue.

This issues gets 5/5 Thunder Hammers from this Chapter master.

Ben

Imperial Knights White Dwarf 4 Cover

Imperial Knights White Dwarf 4 Cover

Apocalypse

Titans – Imperial Knights are Here

Oh wow they’ve done it. I am amazed at these. This is genius. I predict many many units will be sold. In fact I’m starting saving right now. The Titan knights are here, the pictures have gone viral.
Yes I know they are called Imperial Knights not Titan Knights, but they so are little Titans, so get over it! 🙂
Pictures from 40k and other Facebook pages, many many pages on Facebook.

it appears Imperial Knight are shorter than the Eldar Knight, but will cost the same as a the multi option kit Banebalde. Dang!

Titan Knights so what else?

Phantom Titan
I hope you will forgive the title of this post (and the picture) Don’t get me wrong if there are Titan Knights coming in March 2014, it’s a big deal. Given “the rat” says they are on the way, I’m inclined to believe they are. I also think Games Workshop are mad not to have release these about 4 years ago. Given they can be used in Imperial and Chaos armies, and as allies and in Apocalypse. If they look as good as the Eldar Wraith Knight, they are going to sell like hot coffee. If they look anything like The Lord of Skulls they will sell like Dreadfleet.
But back to the title so what else is going to be released in March? Am I the only person who thinks one plastic Knight kit even if it is going to cost as much as the other super heavies is a bit thin for a release window? In the Apocalypse release window we had 2 super heavy kits, 4 Space Marine Captains and a table’s worth of fortifications. I can’t help but wonder what else they have in store for us this time. Could there be another uber hyper heavy on the way? If so what army is it for? The only armies that don’t have a really big plastic kit are, Space Marines (but they can use the Knight) Sisters of Battle or what ever their name is (ditto), Tau (rip tide is not far of this size), Tyranids (didn’t someone say a new big bug would be released?) and Dark Eldar (a Dark Knight could be cool). Of the above I would think the Tyranids stand the best chance, I’d love to see a small plastic Bio Titan or Norn Queen. However I think a separate Chaos knight kit which uses an alternative sprue to maximise for the Chaos components would maximise the return on GWs design investment and is therefore even more likely (darn it Chaos why do you sell so well).
If GW do put out some more terrain might we finally see battle fields not covered in Imperial eagles and skulls. I get a few visitors to Chaptermasters each month looking for Eldar terrain.

So is March the month of the Titan Knight or the month of Titan Knights? Given the tightening of GW leaks I guess it will be at least two more weeks before we find out.

Ben