Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tabletop Gaming: November 2011

The largest Fantasy Battle Army ever sold on eBay ?!

20,000 pts worth of Beastmen for $1k USD ! WFB Sale of the century ?!

Some lucky bargain hunting gamer just bought the mother of all Warhammer armies including no less than 51 Minotaurs, 2 Giants, 3 Cygors, 3 Ghorgons, 2 Jabberslythes and let's not forget the 254 Gors, 72 Bestigors, 100 Ungors and 9 Tuskgor/Razorgor chariots! (and a lot more besides!!)

HUGE Beastmen WFB Army on eBay

What an incredible deal! Even if you only want to keep 5,000 pts of the army you could sell off the rest for double the price if you broke it up into manageable units. I wish I had spotted it - although I'm not sure I would have had the bottle (or the money) to go in with a $1k bid !

Blood in the Badlands a new Warhammer Campaign

Games Workshop are really pushing Fantasy Battle this year. The rate of army releases and what with this supplement and the excellent Storm of Magic we've never had it better in terms of new content and miniatures (plus Finecast for the connoisseur).

I have no idea what this campaign supplement is like because it's only just been announced as an Advance Order - released on 3rd Dec 2011. It looks like a pretty cool Christmas present to me which is why I've already asked my wife for it (and it's only £20 GBP - a smart pricing move by GW for Xmas!)

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440004a

Here's what GW have to say:-

"Blood in the Badlands is a campaign system for Warhammer that enables you to unleash your army against your foes and carve out a corner of the notorious Badlands for yourself. As well as the campaign system itself, the book contains rules that can be used in any Warhammer game, form massive multi-player scenarios featuring new magic items and spells, rules for underground battles and a complete siege expansion. Blood in the Badlands also features the tale of eight intrepid hobbyists as they play the campaign, including detailed battle reports, glorious army showcases and turn-by-turn accounts of their expanding empires.

This 96-page full-colour hardback Warhammer Supplement contains rules for siege battles in Warhammer, underground battles, new scenarios, magic items and Cataclysm spells. It also has a full set of rules that can be used with the Mighty Empires expansion set."

I notice that GW make a lot of effort these days to loosely couple all their products which is nice because it means everything integrates nicely but is also optional (except for the core rulebook that is !)

The Mounted Chaos Lord takes pride of place...

...as the new Battle Reporter Facebook logo.

Thanks to everyone for taking part (we had 32 entries and 134 votes) and special thanks to "Dims" (Pascal Rooze - one of the expert GW award winning painters from the Battle Reporter forum and winner of our competition). Check out that amazing "chrome-effect" !

Image used with permission.

New Finecast Mangler Squigs

A very Goblin-esque themed Squig Mangler unit (the French "Broyeurs" translates to "Crusher" or "Grinder" apparently, in fact it almost translates to "Garbage Disposal" - which I prefer :)

It looks like a superb model - although I have to say I hate the damned things - very broken rules ! - can you tell that they recently slaughtered a unit of my beloved Weresharks and some Wavebreakers to boot :(

My friend actually brought his disgusting Goblin army around to my house last weekend - next time his entry will be blocked by The King of the Seas with a metal detector - bloody balls and chains ! Real (fish)men fight with tridents :)

Anyway, the models really have come on, they look extremely sneaky now days which fits their gaming style perfectly - something Jervis Johnson kind of alluded to in one of his White Dwarf Standard Bearer columns recently (about fitting the rules to the fluff).

Anyway, I suspect this model will prove very popular with our greenskin buddies and will be snapped up ;-) thanks to it's profile and special rules as well as it's looks ! (I love the five goblin "hangers on")

GW Goblin Mangler Squig kit painted photo

Cygor, Ghorgon, Jabberslythe - Official GW models

It looks like White Dwarf is show-casing some long and eagerly awaited Beastmen Rare units - hurray :) (Games Workshop finally got around to them!)

From the look of it, the Ghorgon and Cygor are alternative assemblies of the same boxed set (although I could be wrong so don't take my word for it !). I reckon we can expect to see a few more Beastmen armies in future with these new units (which are kind of essential to the Beastmen army and must have have been missed by regular Beastmen players).

The Jabberslythe looks quite similar to the one sculpted by the...
Miniature Painting Group (who also do an excellent Ghorgon and Cygor).

Official GW Jabberslythe painted model photo

New High Elf Finecast miniatures

Korhil (the almost there), Caradryan (the mostly there) and Tyrion (the absolute kick-ass there !) have just been released as Finecast models.

I used to be a big fan of High Elves and, I guess, I still quite like them. Korhil once tried his best for me against his Wood Elf kin, Caradryan did somewhat better and Tyrion totally kicked butt by killing 2 Treekin and a Treeman Ancient and turned the game from a loss into a massacre win (not bad heh ?!) Flaming swords aren't only for Ulthuan barbecues ! :)

Anyway, Games Workshop have re-released the miniatures as Finecast and they look very neat indeed but there again they always did :) Some pics... (Korhil is especially tempting this time round !)

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