Archive for October, 2012

Noise Marine Sonic Weapons

Posted: 28 October 2012 in Slaanesh Army
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I took a Emperors Children army to Liber Animis III 2006 and had a great time. I think I won the Best Sportsman prize and finished top ten overall. So i know and have used sonic weapons extensively in my 40k armies. The 2012 Chaos Codex hasn’t really changed anything re the range and strength but the weapon in now a Salvo 2/3 and Ignores cover. They are cheaper at 3 points each by 2 points. I think the ignores cover change is a biggie. I can see units of noise marines being able to negate lots of effects that provide cover and slight reduction in cost of a noise marine combined with cheaper weapons make a sonic weapon squad a playable unit.

One of the major issue re the modelling of sonic weapons is that they model always seem to tip over. I sold all of my metal sonic blasters and blastmasters (wasn’t as tippy) and have been making up some plastic conversions using plastic tubing and the compulsory GS.

Here is my take on a sonic blaster.

Maelstrom – Send me my order

Posted: 27 October 2012 in News
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I ordered some in stock item more than 3 weeks ago and nothing. Nada. Zilch. The order is still in ‘processing’ state and my emails have been unanswered . In the mean time I keep getting the emails ie

“Hi there,

Thanks to stockchecking just about everything, once more here at Maelstrom Games (www.maelstromgames.co.uk) we have decided to clear as much of our hard-earned stock as we possibly can over the next few days and to that end, all our remaining stock will now be sold at 70% off UK RRP except for Battlefront Miniatures and Mierce Miniatures, which will be sold at 50% off UK RRP and Templar’s Forge at 75% off. We still hold some stocks of Battlefront (it’s worth checking!),Gamezone Miniatures, Dark Age, Cool Mini or Not and Scibor Miniatures, and there’s a few bits of Games Workshop, Privateer Press and Malifaux left too. These sales don’t come along very often – so take advantage of it, as this is our FINAL stock sale and it WILL end on Monday the 29th of October! Grab a bargain now!”

Whats going on Maelstrom. Send me my orders or refund my money.

iBooks 3

Posted: 25 October 2012 in News
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Apple has just updated the iBooks app to V3. “At Tuesday’s iPad mini event in San Francisco, Apple announced an update to iBooks, its ebook reading platform. The company is also reportedly expanding the iBookstore to 18 more countries in Latin America, including Brazil, as well as New Zealand. That makes the iBookstore available in a total of 50 countries.” yeah. This means us 40k gamers will be able to purchase and read the digital codex on the iPad ( I hope)

One interesting point is that the books on the iBooks store are more expensive than on amazon for the Kindle. Eg The Hydrogen Sonata by Ian Banks is $14.18 in the kindle edition but on the iBooks store it is $19.99. I know what I will be buying!

OGRE KS update

Posted: 24 October 2012 in OGRE
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I just got this news.

“Scenarios Posted
Update #59 · Oct. 23, 2012 · comment
And here’s the Scenarios book PDF. Comment on our site or on BGG.

Daniel will be visiting Austin next week, so the deadline for comments on the Scenarios book is noon Texas time on Monday the 29th. Please comment in this thread.

You’ve gotten us several good comments on the rules material already (and some corrections have already been made). Let’s say the deadline for comments on the rulebook and reference sheet is 11:59pm Texas time on Thursday the 25th.

Thank you!

– Steve Jackson”

And it looks very , very nice. And the dice look nice as well 😉

Maelstrom news

Posted: 24 October 2012 in News
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from Taban web site

“Taban Miniatures has decided to set up a free shipping policy to the following countries:
USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand

We took this decision after the logistical adjustments of our main UK partner .
Our business relationship with this trader   has been great for years and remains the same.

However, they have temporary stopped re-supplying any products and are clearing their stock until they move to a new warehouse.
At the moment 98% of our range is unavailable on their web-store. We don’t want the many (many) Eden players that got supplied so far to be left over… and stop our game !”

this trade is Maelstrom I guess……I brought most of my Eden models (and I have a ‘lot’ ) from Maelstrom……

Looks like Maelstrom is going down the gurgler …….

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Slaanesh Spawn

Posted: 22 October 2012 in Slaanesh Army
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Here is my interpretation of what a spawn tainted by the Chaos God Slaanesh would look like. The conversions used the WF “Seeker of Slaanesh Chariot” kit . I melted the necks and tails and then bent them around. Then posed them upright and GS up some bodies. Then I added spikes and some mutated arms. I normally make on a 60mm base as its easier to hold and I will mount on some 40mm bases when they arrive. I might try and find a different head as they are too similar for mutated spawn.

Hollow Marsh Gala

Posted: 21 October 2012 in Malifaux
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previously posted Wednesday, September 29, 2010 [M&SU]
prev posted on Sunday, November 28, 2010 [M&SU]

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OGRE – my collection

Posted: 21 October 2012 in OGRE
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perviously posted Thursday, May 10, 2012 [M&SU]

I have the original OGRE game , still in its tattered plastic bag. I am a BIG fan of SJG. Very cool. Published 1977 and sold for $2.95 USD but I think It cost me $7.50 NZD. Its only a second edition and second printing but still its a bit of gaming history. The counters are tiny and the board never sat flat but its a terrific game. I also picked up the Deluxe Ogre with the metal minis (which were using todays standards very average) but it did have a large printed board with large hexes. The Ogre book was almost a compulsory purchase with heaps of articles, scenarios and general all round Ogre goodness. Hence my excitement around the Designers Edition coming put in November 2012. Yeah.

My take on a Slaanesh Biker

Posted: 21 October 2012 in Slaanesh Army
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I had six CSM bike lying around so I thought it would be a good time to make up some Slaanesh Bikers. Or it could be  good timing? with the new codex the CSM Biker has suddenly ‘roared’ back as a viable option for the armies of Chaos.  2012 stats are they same as 2007 with the exception of leadership dropping by 1. The cost has plummeted from 33 to 20 points. Thats a 39% decrease! A new option is the ability to take a Mark of Chaos , my favourite MoS is only 2 points. Other things are much the same with icons and weapons etc plus the Vets of Long War for 1 point a model. I must say I never (well seldom) saw any bikes during my tournament days but with the new points , i guess that will change. Taking a  mark of chaos with the corresponding  icons provides a much needed boost to the humble biker. My Slaanesh bikes will be initiative 5, toughness 5 and have Feel No Pain.

Here is my first “test” model. Base coated and a wash but you get the idea. It is a possessed model on the CSM bikers legs. The bike has bits from the fantasy “seeker chariot of slaanesh” to make it look spiky . I have stuck with my split colour scheme but I am having trouble finding any suitable bases.

SJG Ogre KS

Posted: 19 October 2012 in OGRE
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I got update #58 today and it includes the rulebook and players reference pdfs. WoW. The quality is superb and I don’t mind if the shipping has slipped a bit if we (the KS backers) are going to get a quality product. Here is a snippet and to be honest, I CANT wait for my big box of goodies to arrive.

 

See “The 99.9% finished rulebook, as well as the Player Reference Sheet, are posted at http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/kickstar…e_rulebook.pdf andhttp://www.sjgames.com/ogre/kickstar…_ref_sheet.pdf.” from SJG forum post.

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