tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105162157427396782024-03-13T06:32:26.367-07:00Grumpy WargamerA Blog for me to talk about the Wargaming Hobby and pretty much everything else.Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-34519723691757339232014-05-21T15:50:00.001-07:002014-05-21T15:50:22.108-07:007th Edition First Impressions.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Got my copy of 7th edition today, (I know it's earlier and no I won't tell you how) and after a few hours of reading through and picking out some of the main changes that I have found I have to say I'm liking it. I'm not sure it's going to be to every body's taste as some stuff has been simplified (dumbed down to the avid forum GW hate mongers) now I'm just going to go right ahead and say that the 3 book set is both pointless and awesome at the same time. How can it be both? Well put it this way there was no way GW where going to release a BRB without adding in the 40k fluff and what I call the warhammer 40k google image search results. And this makes the BRB rather heavy rather annoying and rather pointless especially when it is going to have to be dragged around from game to game. So it made perfect sense to have the rule book separate from the rest of the fluff. You are left with a codex sized rule book to cart about with you instead of a tomb of useless images and fluff. Now wile the constant handing out of GW fluff is somewhat like grandad from only fools and horses siting down in his frayed arm chair constantly repeating the phrase "during the war" it would be silly to not include it. After all new customer base is what GW wants and handing someone a book with rules in it and no explanation as to why the tin men with spikes are fighting the tin men without</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Now the rules changes. Not so drastic as I thought it was going to be. I have for this first impressions pulled some of the rules the stand out from the crowed. Starting with what I think is the biggest change to the game. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Force organisation, well what better way to start other than to say if you did not like escalation you are going to hate this. Lords of war are now part of the force organisation for anyone with a copy of the Horus heresy rule books this force organisation chart is going to look pretty familiar to you. But the difference being is now you can take multiple forces without that 2000 point upper limit of taking two primary force lists in a single game as long as they are both from the same faction. Factions basically being each different codex army. You also have an allies chart and a new slightly changed allies matrix. You also have the option to use formations in your force organisation these being the ones found in apocalypse etc. these can also be found in the Unbound army selection. Now unbound has turned out slightly different. I thought it was no force org but from the same army. But after reading the very very very small paragraph it is as simple as this. An army built out of what ever the hell you want. Now it is stated that the use of unbound and battle ready armies must be agreed before hand. So no suddenly pulling out an army of blood thirsters with a phantom Titan as support. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">However you get added benefits of using a force organisation chart. These being the ability to re roll warlord traits, and Objective secured rule that lets the player keep the objective even if an enemy scoring unit is within range, as long as that unit does not have the same rule in effect.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Vehicles......... well they have toughened up. You no longer get to automatically hit a vehicle if it didn't move anymore, the only time you auto hit a vehicle now is when it is immobilised (walkers excluded) they have also made the vehicle penetration damage table a little harder to blow stuff up with a 1 hit wonder shot. To blow up tanks now we need a roll of a 7. on a dice that only goes to 6.......... makes perfect sense when you add in the +1 and +2 bonuses for AP1 and AP2 weapons. make it impossible for a weapon with an AP of 3 to blow up a tank or flier with 1 shot. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Dedicated transports............ Transports are now categorised by the unit that took it. For instance a squad of veterans taking a rhino as a dedicated transport makes the rhino count as an elite choice. A troop selection making the rhino a troops choice etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Destroyer weapons.................... The one thing that people think of when it comes to the Superheavys. Well rest in easy. for the Big D has been nurfed. Now if a 1-5 has been rolled on the destroyer damage table. all cover saves and Invulnerable saves can still be taken. Only on a roll of a 6 on the D weapon table does the Big D remove these. thus making D weapons slightly more friendly. But remember those saves have to be made against each wound so there is still bite as the chances of a single terminator making a worst case scenario of 4 5+ saves is still not going to be easy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Cover saves........... There is now no such thing as Area terrain, something I actually love. cover saves is simply if the model has 25% or more obscures then they get a 5+ cover save unless stated in the rules section for Battlefield terrain for instance Ruins still offers up a 4+ cover save. what this means is no more 9" high Wraithnights stood on the edge of a buildings base getting a area terrain cover save. there are rules for Moon craters and over previous "area terrain" that offers special rules and there are data sheets covering the different buildings including special rules offering up night vision for some of them as an example.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Shooting phase............ maybe some people where struggling with allocating shooting attacks from multiple weapons in 6th edition, but no you have to resolve all shots fired by a simgle type of weapon, Bolt gun, gravgun, plasma gun etc. one at a time. so you fire all your bolters resolve wounds and saves and remove any casualties. and you continue until the unit you are firing with has fired each different type of weapon in turn. It simplifies the process of allocating different str and AP weapons. but out of all the new rules this one struck me as odd.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Night fighting..................... not sure how I feel about this one if I'm honest. sure they simplified it. But the fact was My Dark Eldar had at least 1 turn per game where they could out shoot everything. but now night fighting only grants stealth special rule no more of this cant target past 36". Luckily enough you will all be happy to know that my Night shields still work the same way they did before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Tactical Objectives.............. Now I'm not going to go into this, as I personally think, until I have played a few games using the new missions and the Tactical objectives, that it would be unfair to comment, same with all the rules really.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The psychic Phase............... The one rule that even for someone that plays zero Psycher armies. even I am excited about it. the steps involved in the Psychic phase are a bit long winded for a blog post of this size anyway. but it basically involves rolling a D6 and taking a number of dice equal to that roll you then add an extra dice for every psychic mastery level of every psycher in your army. Each of these dice represent a warp charge and you can spend as many or as few as you like to make a successfull test. the more dice you use the more you risk perils of the warp. It seems like a really good way to get the psychic attacks and blessing over and done with. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">After reading the new rule book its safe to say that not much has changed from 6th edition. i would say some stuff has been made more balanced Destroyer weapons for instance. The fact that Rhino's are now no longer the useless boxes that you paid 35 points for only to give away a first blood. or are they? until I play a game when someone braves some Rhinos we wont know.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The only thing I hate about this is of course the ability for a Space Marine army to conjure flipping daemons. You can try quoting me little made up blurbs about rogue marines etc etc. but end of the day its plain retarded. And this little paragraph is the only thing i don't like about the new rule set. everything else I'm cool with.</span><br />
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Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-11443489896817915682014-04-04T10:24:00.001-07:002014-04-04T10:24:32.239-07:00Dropzone commander Starter set armies.<span style="color: #999999;">This box has been sat in a cupboard for ages, so decided to paint them last night, whilst watching some Youtube vids on Playing Malifaux. Was originally going to get get Mark at <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lemon.painting.7?fref=ts" target="_blank">Lemon Painting</a></span> to do them for me, but I really need a break from 40K/30k stuff I think. and increase my painting skills further, hence why I have made a big leap into the steam punk horror world of Malifaux better miniatures more details. So need to get new techniques on the go.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">So I got these done last night as I'm really wanting to get playing with this game as it plays really nice. I love all the scourge models so may expand on this army. Problem I have is pulling my friends heads out of their asses and get them to try something a bit different from the world of 40K. I managed to start a small X-Wing craze off, just need people to expand a bit further now. Especially with the likes of deadzone, Mars attacks, dreadball extreme, AVP. Malifaux etc etc etc. Just for my friends reading this. a "Army" in Malifaux, or Crew as they are known will set you back around £35 for a 50 soul stone list. be lucky to get a troop choice and an HQ in 40k for that :P </span><br />
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Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-21180544050662669212014-03-13T00:15:00.000-07:002014-03-13T00:15:00.616-07:00Imperial knight.<span style="color: #999999;">So like most of the world I grabbed a couple of Knights. Have to say really nice models. and after building one I have some great ideas for some small improvements on the next one. Colour scheme wise I just made up one. Wanted to dry air brushing flames so did that on this one as well. any way spent an hour taking a few pictures this morning in the light tent so have a look and let me know what you think.</span><br />
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<br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-29891343056387631652014-02-26T00:48:00.003-08:002014-02-26T00:48:30.087-08:00Waste Land Wonderers<span style="color: #999999;">Brother Vinnie's have released some stunning miniatures based on the Fallout 3 waste lands. Now its a shame there isn't any rules to go with these, but who cares, these mini's are stunning, and represent one of my Favourite games of all time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">You can grab these minis from <a href="http://www.brother-vinni.com/shop.htm#!/~/category/id=5965003&inview=product25324794&offset=0&sort=normal" target="_blank">Brother Vinnie's</a> as well as some other great minis.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Also if you are a Fan of Xcom like me, Then you will love the miniature below from the Scifi Monster section. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Well it's not a stand alone codex, sort of glad about this to be honest. Imagine how many cheese lists we would of seen then. And I would not be surprised to see a few Cyther of the damned lists either. But I will say that after reading through the sample I'm liking the fluff and also the artwork a lot. I'm interested to see what army's will be able to use them. Be nice if they kept it to the fluff and only allowed imperial forces to take them. But I expect they will have the same allies chart that codex inquisition does. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">So lets put some things into perspective, first of all price. The main argument is that back in the good old days GW was cheap, you could grab 5 models for £2.50 and its true you could. But lets also take into account the average wage back then was £6000, not much is it. But that's not strictly true in today's terms, as we haven't added in inflation to that. And the average wage of the UK today is £19000 so that's a rise of 216%. So let's take the rogue trader space marine box set. 30 marines for £9.99 using the UK inflation rate available on most government sites, that would be £36 for 30 marines today. Now lets look at quality. Because £36 for 30 models is a great deal. when compared to today's price of £2.50 per space marine, 30 years ago a space marine would cost £1.20 so about half the price. However what about quality?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">And that's where things start to fall off, Sure the hate trending rogue traders era wargamers remember the cheaper prices, but seems as though they forgot how much the quality has changed also. So this one could be classed as personal choice. do you A: have more models for your money, and live with the models looking like final fantasy VII characters with over sized heads and arms. Or do you B: go for less models for your money yet have models that are stunning to look at, when compared to the £1.20 space marine rogue trader era models?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Now some gamers will go for the cheaper nasty looking models, and these are what we refer to as the 3 colours or less gamers, the ones that simply want to play the game and don't care about the look of the models in the army, these are the guys that would not think twice about cracking out those Cardboard cut outs from 2nd edition. The ones that will proxy Books as land raiders and such. And then you have the collectors, the ones that prefer to fully paint a model before it is used on the table, the ones that will sooner loose than proxy a unit. And these will almost certainly choose the more expensive yet much nicer looking units.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">And that's about as much content as Visions has in it. The book is a smaller format to that of the original white dwarf, roughly A5 in size. It's basically a picture book hence the Visions part, but its not a good picture book. For instance I counted at least 8 pictures that had been used multiple times, And that was before I got bored of counting. The repeats are slightly zoomed in or turned so its on a landscape orientation. Then there is the writing, literally nothing, hardly any information given at all, its like reading a child's book. "this is a Rhino" "this is a Harpy" "Z is for Zoanthrope" I honestly wish I could read in German and French as I would get more than one paragraph, as Visions has one paragraph in English one paragraph in French and one in German.</span><br />
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First up is the Night Raptors for my NightLords Legion, Grabbed 10 of these when we went to Warhammer world Just before Xmas, was dreading painting them as it was a lot of brush work, And I get agitated if I cant use the Airbrush for everything :P <br />
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And I did it, I finally finished the the Proteus, It has been sat Built and Base coated for about 3 months. But I decided to pull my finger out now I have cleared some other units I wanted to get. And finished it off, weathered the same as the rest of my World Eaters. I'm looking forward to grabbing my self a Real of Battle board and building my little Istvaan III table, so all my World Eaters will look right at home. I'm not going to lie here though, I still have many, many, more models to finish off for the World Eaters. <br />
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<br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-55973706998648165282014-01-14T07:07:00.002-08:002014-01-14T07:07:42.866-08:00Warhammer 40k pay to win.<span style="color: #cccccc;">Its no great secret that the digital gaming world is fast becoming a free to play venture. But with most of these free to play games there is still a price attached. They sell off bundle packs and all the good stuff separately meaning they gain a revenue from the people willing to pay for items to increase there In game ability's and weaponry etc. the system works. People don't mined paying the odd £3.99 for a better weapon in the game. Using planet side 2 as an example. The game is vast, huge in fact. And it's totally free. And for the most part is playable without ever having to pay a penny. The issue with this is of course when you go up against a bunch of guys who all have purchased weaponry. You are going to come off worse in most instances. But the option is there if you are struggling that much to buy a decent weapon so you are more equipped to deal with those situations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">These data slates that where introduced mainly in the advent calendar that GW and black library produced at Xmas time are going to be the lists we will see at tournaments. Buy a data slate from iBooks and you can bring the best units from the new codex's without even having to worry about force organisation. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So TT figure cases. Have a range similar not quite as big as battle foam. Different sized bags that fit different amounts of foam. But I'm going to be talking about 2 bags in particular, as in my mind they give both the best versatility and the best bang for buck. There is a £20 difference between each of these bags. The dreadnought bag offering hard plastic sides and multiple pockets for storing gaming supplies. Whilst the standard bag just offers storage for foam. The dreadnought bag weighs in at £65 whilst the standard bag is a mere £41. Now bare in mind both those prices include the bag fully loaded with what ever foam you. Can fit in it. On the gift for geeks website there is a tool to create your bag, and add it to your basket with the foam you require. You get 8 slots in total. That's 5 more troop trays than the £36 GW model.</span><br />
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Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-1397131833080827322014-01-09T00:30:00.001-08:002014-01-09T00:30:11.859-08:00Hobby Update<span style="color: #cccccc;">Well I have been slightly inactive on the blog for a wile. In truth, I have had so much Hobby time available I have made good use to it. But now the Xmas holidays are far gone, And Its back to work time for me. (well maybe next week) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So i will be slowing down on what gets painted, in some ways that's a good thing, as sometimes you speed increases but your skill does not. So its good to have a slow down for a wile.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I have practically stopped doing the world eaters at the moment, and concentrating on other army's. Its not that I'm bored of them, its more the fact that I have done the bulk now. All the troops are done, and a few key units. I expect once they release Kharn I will get back to them. But they are staying in there sealed zip lock forge world bags for now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I have been getting on with my Eldar allies for my Dark Eldar of late, apart from doing a Farseer on a Jetbike conversion I'm practically done with them. Even picked them up a Revenant Titan that I can now use in games of Escalation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Actually been playing the game as of late as well, had a great game of Escalation (was more apoc than escalation) at Warhammer World with some friends to end a great hobby year, and I think all 4 of us went home with empty pockets. used twice as much fuel on the way home as the journey up to Nottingham due to the weight of all the resin we had to carry back home with us.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Also been getting ready for my Local clubs Badab War campaign. And randomly decided instead of using my world eaters as a chaos army. I would just do an entire new army. So went out and brought all the models I needed for a Tyrants legion Army. and then was greeted on twitter by a tweet from Forge world with a link to the new Tyrants Legion Army list, so that worked out rather well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I have about 2000Pts worth all in so far with most of that painted and ready bar some 40 imperial guard. but they will be done soon, and ready to shield the Astarte's of the Astral Claws from incoming fire.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Looking forward to the Campaign, I'm not to worried about winning any games, hence the nice fluffy list rather than a 120 zombies and 3 helldrakes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Talking of the campaign We need to figure out some sort of Fortress wall to use in the end game. Would love to have the funds available to spank £800 on the forge world imperial fortress. But don't see that happening. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So anyway, A few Pictures of some models I have been doing. Also have a 2 in 1 review of Table Top Tyrants Figure cases, And Gifts for Geeks own brand of Foam trays.</span><br />
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<br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-27959614198889235752013-11-08T20:33:00.001-08:002013-11-08T20:41:54.129-08:00Codex: Inquisition sample pics.<div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">GW are no longer giving any thing rule wise away in these samples now, so all we are left with is a few pictures, and a bit of fluff. Not really worth the 20 seconds it takes to download these now. At least with Eldar sample we actually got a few snip bits of rules, that made a huge buzz around what the rest of the book held for us. I hardly think giving away 1 or two little rules will cost you sales GW, if anything it will raise sales.</span></div>
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Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-72625897499584875032013-11-08T17:25:00.002-08:002013-11-08T17:25:33.611-08:00World Eaters Terminators: Special weapons.<br />
<span style="color: #999999;">Pulled my finger out and finished the first 5 terminators for my world eaters, I did the specialist weapons first comprising as you will see of mostly flamer based weapons, Heavy flamer, and Combi bolters/flamers. Also an Auto cannon and Plasma gun. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">My terminators will mostly be comprised of Flamer based Weapons, as this will make them not only great Assault troops, but be able to put out walls of death against any units that are stupid enough to charge a World Eater. I have 15 left to do now, 10 of them need minor sorting out after a really bad Undercoating, consisting of still after 3 washes, the paint still did not stick and the undercoat just flaked off. With the 5 I have pictured now, I actually sprayed purity seal on the bare resin first, and then used undercoat. The clear coat has a slight Etching effect to it, so it bites into paint and protects it, This works to the advantage of biting into the resin and providing a nice Matt coat on what you can then undercoat onto.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"> Been asked a few times Now on some Forums how I go about weathering my world eaters stuff. So rather than make a half ass reply to people, I thought it best I do a little Tutorial to show you guys how I do it. And like anything in this hobby eventually you will work out your own ways of doing things that work best for you. Now this tutorial took me all of 30 minutes to do, from spraying the model to finish. That gives you some sort of idea at just how fast you can achieve the heavily weathered look. Spending a little more time on Parts will obviously give better results, but for a basic 101 in World Eater weathering this will do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Now you will need a few things here, most important is High density foam, the sort you fined in the back of old metal blister packs, of packing foam. A cheap Washing up sponge also works. And secondly Cotton swabs, these are a must, if you are in the UK you can grab a pack of 500 for 99p. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">So the first step is to get your model Painted like it would be if it rolled off the production line, And Built, if you are like me and paint everything before you glue it together. For this tutorial I am using a Rhino side section, as you get a few spare when you buy the MKI Rhinos from forgeworld, so these sides give you and excellent practise piece. And for this I'm just going to leave it on the Sprue, as its never going to get used, and will most likely end up in the bin after I finish this. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Now what colour to use............... If you have a two colour paint scheme this is very easy to choose, you just use the colour that there is the most of on the model, in the case of my world eaters this is White. The reason for this is we have to imagine that the colour with the less percentage is going to be painted over the main colour. So with my World Eaters, this will be the Blue painted over the white, So when the blue paint is damaged and chipped or just worn down the white paint will start to show through. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">So as you can see below on the blue areas i have sponged on some White Scar, to give the effect of the blue paint worn down, or chipped away. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"> Now the most important bit, removing that wash. This is where a ton of cotton swabs comes into play. you want to remove that wash you just splatted over the model by rolling the swabs back and forth, changing them over for clean ones regularly. Then on the high spots, you want to use a clean swab and rub hard, this will bring more of the base colour through the wash and in some respects give it a sort of highlight. the wash also tones down all of the rust effects and brings out the difference between the two tones of Metals you applied.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">And that peeps, is that, a very very fast way to weather your models using my world eaters technique as an example. Now I mentioned earlier about the rust effects, If you happen to play with a bunch of guys that for some reason know the ins and outs of the particles that make up Ceremite, you may wish to skip the rust effects, hell skip the metal effects. we all know our self's that in the 41st millennium they probably wont use a material that rusts, hell if the name has anything to do with it then Ceremite is some sort of ceramic material hardened by the hairs from L337 Neck beards from the virgin stock of basement dwellers. and as such probably is not silver in colour even though th colour of Grey knights can be argued here as there armour is apparently bare Ceremite. and it wont rust. however we want a look to our models that says they have been through hell and back, and the easiest way to do this is by giving them chipped paint and rusty metal.</span><br />
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<br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-64413999360591626872013-10-05T16:23:00.002-07:002013-10-05T16:33:07.615-07:00World Eaters Work Log: No 1 "the catch up"<span style="color: #cccccc;">So I have been proper rubbish, rubbish in the sense that for a couple of months I have had an absolute hall of Forge World Resin, in the guise of Pre Heresy World Eaters. Quite laterally the entire army is resin, All be it for one drop pod, That as of Games day, I have thrown to the side, and am now waiting for the Dread Claw Drop Pod to act as my army's Deep Striking assault crafts. So I guess I should start with exactly what I have purchased over the last few months.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">2X 30 man MKIII Iron armour sets including weapons and command upgrades.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">1X 30 man MKIV Legion armour set including weapons and command upgrades.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">1 X 20 man Tartarus pattern Terminators set, with special weapon set, storm bolters, and power Axe's </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">2 X Fellblade super heavy Tanks.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">1 X Legion Glaive super heavy Tank.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">2 X Spartan Assault Tanks.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">2 X Land Raider Proteus</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">6 X MKI Demios Pattern Rhinos</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">2 X Cestus Assualt rams</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">1 X Scicaran Battle Tank</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">1 X Warhound Mars Pattern Titan, (to replace the second hand one i brought, and just don't have the time to fix it up) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So where did I start, Well i hate painting space marines with a passion, so I forced my self to start on the bulk of the troops. after doing the first two sets of 5 marines, i had the technique to get them done fast, but without dropping to much quality from the paint Job. I can probably now do 5 marines in 4 hours. so not that long at all. so I did 40 to start with, enough to play most games, well more than enough, but there are 20 more of the MKIII armour left to do, and the MKIV's are being used for a second project that will explain in a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"> The Rust effect, I created using a Mixture of Orange Rust from the Forge World weathering Powder set and Burnt Umber and Light red from the Vallejo Model Air set. The effect is Gained from sponging on White over the blue to give the worn off paint effect, then I use the rust mixture, and combine both brush and sponge, sponging to give feathered edges and larger flat areas, and the Brush to achieve hard edges over detailed areas. After that I hit those areas with Bolt gun metal again using both sponge and brush. I think the effect can out OK, i could of made it more realistic by using the dremel to create small holes in those areas that have rusted through, But in the 41st Millennium, Ceremite plating probably doesn't even rust, but it gave it that " I have actually been to war" look. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">After I did the rust effect I hit it with a mix of Agrax Earth shade, and Nuln Oil 75% Agrax 25% Nuln. And covered the Tank on it completely, And then taking off the excess with Que Tips. This weathered the white and toned it down a lot, and also blended in the "rust" with the paint work on the tank. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Since that first lot of Pictures where taken I have given the tank 2 more coats of Clear varnish, Before hitting it with Black Soot Weathering Powder, again from the Forge World set. Black soot is basically the closest thing I could get the the grayish black sands of the Istvaan system planets. That are covered in dark volcanic ash from Melania of volcanic activity, And you can take that as fact as I got it From Ben Counter, after moaning to him about a lack of description, I mean how is one supposed to base there models without this info eh?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Also on the Tank theme is one of the Land Raider Armoured Proteus tanks. All i have done so far is Pin it all together and undercoated it. then i will be taking it apart again to paint. as there are some parts that are un reachable via air brush or paint brush.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">And then we get to my special weapon Termies. Only 5 Special weapon termies, And will be distributed probably among two groups of 10. This is where the Cestus Assault rams come into play, there is nothing more World Eaterish than ramming tons of Ceramite craft into the side of something and pouring a loud of White and Blue termies with daddy issues in. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">And that About wraps it up for my world Eaters thus far. I will start doing regular updates on them If and when I actually do some more painting. I have decided to hang up the air brush for a little wile and get back to enjoying the game, as well as the many other non GW games I have been buying up lately. Mars Attacks anyone? :P</span><br />
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Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-47636477131301969612013-10-05T16:22:00.001-07:002013-10-05T16:22:34.331-07:00Review: 40K Hardback Small Rule Book<span style="color: #cccccc;">OK less of a review more of a small rant. Yeah the book looks great stunning cover, Black chrome edged pages, and a use full feature of having 3 different coloured Ribbons to mark some of the pages you refer to the most, in my case the first few pages of How To Play The Game.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">But there is a LARGE flaw in this rule Book. Apart from the fact it £30 the same cost of a fully fledged Hard cover Codex. And that's important. GW charge us £30 for a Hard back Codex that has had Brand new rules written loads of Fluff and stunning new Artwork. This Rule book however is nothing more than the Tiny rulebook you get in dark vengeance. This would not be that bad I could of been happy with that if it wasn't for the fact that GW are so Bloody Lazy they could not even be bothered to update the Book with the latest FAQ. They have literally just wrapped cardboard around the Dark Vengeance Rule book added some Ribbons to it. And charged the same price as a fully fledged Codex. More full me for buying it, But it does look rather nice sat on the shelf Next to Betrayal And Massacre.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span>Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-41621766852189935712013-10-05T16:06:00.001-07:002013-10-05T16:23:04.021-07:00Dread Ball: The Upper City Slickers<span style="color: #cccccc;">Yes, I know I did not do a review of Dreadball Ultimate. BUT to be fair I could not wait to play it. As soon as it turned up I glued the teams together and roped my other half into playing it with me. (She is a mean ork) After half my team being killed by my darling Girl Friends Orks, I was hooked, and went straight for the air brush to paint up my first team.</span><br />
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<br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-52721536586402703202013-10-01T12:36:00.000-07:002013-10-01T12:36:09.237-07:00Whats in the Box: Dropzone Commander 2 Player starter set.<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">As far as starter sets go, they are great thing, they enable people to pick up a game, and play right out of the box, in most cases. Granted there is normally some assembly that is involved. But for the most part everything you need is right there. And then we Have Drop Zone Commander, the game its self has been out for a wile, but with small starter army's set at around £70 each. Not many people went out to purchase it. you where looking at around £200 just to get started. The main reason for this being the Models where expensive to manufacture being made of Metal, or Resin in some cases. But now Hawk Wargames have brought out a new line of Plastic Miniatures for the game, same great detail even on the 10mm scale, But by doing the plastic sets they are able to decrease the price a lot. (take note GW, when reducing the cost of your manufacturing, this means you CAN in fact reduce the price of your miniatures rather than increasing them)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">And because of Hawk Wargames newly cheaper model line, They where able to produce a starter set.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">If you ever wanted to know just what Dropzone commander is about you don't have to look much further than the stunning box art, Also as trivial as it may be, the box is not a normal slide the top off sort of box but more of a hinged lid one, and this makes life easier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">The Back of the Box shows most of what is includes in the 2 player starter set. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Inside the Box you fined the Full size A4 155 page full colour rule book. It includes all the rules that you need to get started, and lists all the units available for each army and there respective rules, and points costs. We also get Nice artwork throughout, and even a gallery of guest painters, that have painted up both scenery and models. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">We also get quick reference sheets for the army's included in the box, Plus a quick start guide to get you into the action faster. These are full colour Card sheets, and are a really nice addition to the box set. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Also one thing I'm not used to seeing as of late, with all the forge world i have been building is instructions for the different models in the game. its worth taking a look as some parts fit in different places to allow the drop ships to carry the different APC's and tanks. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">We also get some nice Card Stock, including objective markers, blast/landing zone templates, as well as an Arc of fire template. Its worth considering buying the Perspex set of templates for £9.50. as all though the card is thick, it does not seem as hard wearing as say the card items you get in X-Wing. But as a starter set it gets you playing until you want to go out and get the decent templates. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;"> Next up we have the Army's and first of all the Scourge. The Scourge are an alien race, And there is fluff and background included in the book, for you to learn all about the Scourges invasion of Earth. The army consists of a 500 point list, including 3 Drop Ships the Marauders, 3 Hunter tanks, 3 Reaper tanks, 2 Invader APC's (although you do get an extra one on the sprue) And 30 Warriors. This makes up 3 Battle groups.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">As you can see from the picture below the Drop ship actually do carry the tanks and the APC's giving the Game a more active feel. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;"> The detail although only 10mm Scale, is very high especially on the scourge. The models are made of plastic, so you can actually use Plastic glue instead of superglue, So you can be assured a decent join between the components.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">These are the Scourge troops as you can probably guess there is not that much detail, but there is enough, to make an effective looking troop, when painted. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Next up we have the UCM Army consisting of the same sort of units as the Scourge did the UCM army contains, 3 Condor drop ships, 3 Sabre tanks, 3 Rapier tanks, 2 Bear APC's and 30 legionnaires. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;"> Again as with the Scourge the drop ships can carry the APC's and Tank's into battle pictures below is a Condor carrying two Bear APC's</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Also (and I love this) they provide enough dice to play the game without having to keep re rolling dice, and the addition of a small little tape measure rather than a red whippy stick also adds to the ease and completion of a rather nice starter set.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Also in the Box you Get two, huge Posters. But wile these are nice posters, what really counts is on the other side. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Flipping the two posters over gives you a very high quality printed Battle field to play DZC on. But they did not stop there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Also included are 10 Full colour ready cut, ready folded Buildings, all 10 are different from one another, and are just the icing on the cake for this brilliant Starter set. The building can either be glued together, for a more permanent scenery of if space is tight can be left unglued and folded flat and stored away. This gives you a 4' X 3' fully built city scape to fight in. Pictured below is just Half of what you get. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Now i want to mention a few extras that Hawk provides on there website. You can add to the look of the building's by way of purchasing a bag of resin pieces, that can be painted up and glued, or magnetised to the card buildings ( my personal choice) And these include Lobbys for the building and fun details like the airconditioning, and air vents for the roofs. All os the card building are actual copies of Real resin building that where originally made for the game. However I am unsure if you are able to buy them. But wile on the subject of Building, If you so happen to have a decent printer. then you can also download all the building you want off of the Hawk wargaming website, print them out and build them. The building on the site are a perfect match for these ones, so you can stack a few on top of each other for huge skyscrapers, or just riddle the city setting with building. Also available on the website to download, are quick reference sheets for all the army's, A Army builder software for you to work out your army roster and even the road sections. although for the cost of a set of printer cartridges nowadays, you may as well buy the city scenery set for £30, £25 from Wayland Games. and this includes enough square card pieces to create a 6' X 4' city scape with 20 buildings. its also worth mentioning that both the poster layout and the card layout options, all have the ability to create multiple roadways, by turning the pieces around.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">All in all this is the best starter set i have seen by far, retailing at £55 from most places. there is no reason not to grab one. Just invite a few friend and save the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The general theme for the whole day seamed to be Forge world, and Horus Heresy heavy. This was great for me however, being a Heresy player my self. The amount of new models on show was immense, and some stunning displays, Including a Zone Mortalis Imperial Fists VS Iron Warriors battle. And the stunning Drop site Massacre, White Dwarf did not do the Drop site massacre justice in its latest issue. I was going there expecting a huge Dark Elf themed Day, But there was very little Dark Elf stuff on display, Well compared too the HH and Forge World items anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The Que for Forge World was massive, and when I saw it I was glad I pre ordered Massacre. As I walked right in picked up my copy, And was also able to get Alan Bligh to sign it for me with minimal waiting time. As every one else was still trying to purchase there copies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Saw some of the new Supplements being released including the new Chaos Gods limited edition 4 book set. and the Farsight, and Black Legion supplement hard back editions. All the Model Sculptors from Forge world where out in force and willing to chat to us all about the new creations.</span></div>
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Oh and did I forget to say something............. what was it now................... Began with something like Lerper....Lurper....Lorpa......LUPERCAL!!!!!!!<br />
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Thats right the 5th Primarch being released Is Horus Lupercal, the Warmaster.<br /><br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-14968393638702703052013-09-19T12:48:00.000-07:002013-09-19T13:03:09.443-07:00Interview: Ben Counter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Had the chance to Interview Ben Counter, Black Library Author and the creative mined behined novels such as Galaxy in Flames, Daemon World, Grey Knights, and the Soul Drinkers Series, as well as many other Books and short storys. For a List of his Books check out Ben's Lexicanum page. <a href="http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ben_Counter#.UjtRgz-8gWQ" target="_blank">BEN COUNTER</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">BC: This is a bit of an odd one as the route I took into writing
was pretty unusual. In the 90s I was a teenage Warhammer fan with a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>particular love for 40K, as well as having
ambitions to write professionally. A short story was published in White Dwarf
one moth – I think it was 'Skaven's Claw' by Bill King. I immediately wrote a
story (it was about a Dark Angel) and sent it off to White Dwarf. Skip forward
a couple of years and the Inferno! short story magazine is being planned, and
the editors must have gone through a filing cabinet of all the stories they had
been sent to find any that might be useful. They found mine and suggested that
while it wasn't in the right format, that I should try submitting plotlines for
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<span style="color: #999999;">After about half a dozen submissions they finally found one
they liked – 'Daemonblood', which was in issue 9, I think, and which became my
first professional sale. Three more stories later and I broached the subject of
submitting novel ideas, and the response was positive. Of the two I sent in,
one was 'Soul Drinker', and after a very thorough reworking it was
commissioned. I was extremely lucky as I wanted to write Warhammer fiction at a
time when GW was actively looking for new writers to populate the Black
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b>Grumpy Wargamer: Tell us a bit about how you would start to write a novel. Are you given
the plot line to write about, and you have to fill in the blanks? Or is it a
case of you come up with a story, and black library find a way to fit it into
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<span style="color: #999999;">BC: Books generally come about one of two different ways. The
first is when a specific bit of the background is to be turned into a novel.
Malodrax is an example, in that it's about a piece of Lysander's background
that is already sketched out in the codexes. Van Horstmann is another. That's
fairly prescriptive as the characters and major events are already determined,
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<span style="color: #999999;">The second way is more freeform, where the subject might be
decided but the plotline itself be undetermined. This was the case for the Soul
Drinkers and Grey Knights series. Major characters and events are up to me.
There is a lot of back a forth with this kind of book before the editors sign
off on it and I can go ahead and write a first draft. Books in a series tend to
work this way. The Black Library plan quite far ahead with their publishing
schedule so they know what books they need when, and commission to fit the
slots they have coming up rather than fitting a story into an existing series.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Both approaches are driven by the Black Library's editors.
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about the next book and start writing up plotlines pretty soon after the previous
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<b>Grumpy Wargamer:</b> <b>Any advice for up and coming authors that would like to write novels
about the hobby they have grown up in. I know for me, I am struggling to write
these questions. It seems like you either have it or you don't kind of affair
to me, but does practising help. I once tried to write a short night lords
storey. I struggled to get passed one page before I ran out of things to write.
So how you go about writing a whole series like your soul drinkers is a misery.
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<span style="color: #999999;">BC: The first thing I will always say is that writing Warhammer
stories and novels is just like writing any other novel or story. That is, the
standards are just as high. There is a perception among the general public that
licensed fiction is somehow not worth as much as non-licensed fiction, or that
the writers don't have to put in the same amount of work as with a 'proper'
book. My editors definitely don't share that belief. You're telling a story and
aiming for a very high quality of language and expression, just like any other
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<span style="color: #999999;">There are a million and one resources for writing. I found
creative writing nightclasses to be extremely useful when I first started
writing as, if nothing else, it forced me to write something every week and
learn to produce different types of writing. Books on story theory are also
really good stuff, to help the focus on crucial elements like character and
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<span style="color: #999999;">In a practical sense, read a lot and write a lot. I can't
give much specific advice about how to get published because my route into
writing for the Black Library was pretty unusual, but read lots of different
kinds of book (not just books you know you'll like) and write every day, even
if it's just jotting down plot ideas. You get better by practising so you have
to practice the act of writing – no one likes to hear that because it's a lot
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<span style="color: #999999;">My favourite piece of advice is 'writing = ass + chair'. If
you don't sit down and actually put words on paper or on the screen, you're not
writing, you're just thinking, and everyone in the world does that all the time
anyway. Writing isn't a mystical process where ideas magically translate into
words on the paper – it's a cool job but it's still a job and the discipline
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<span style="color: #999999;">Finally, plan ahead with your writing. An editor will
usually insist on a pretty complete plotline before commissioning anything, so
get into the habit of planning a story so you're never stuck not knowing what
to write next. I don't know if there's such a thing as writer's block, but
there is such a thing as failing to plan ahead and it'll stop you dead in the
middle of the story if you don't put in the groundwork first. Again, not a very
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<span style="color: #999999;">For writing Warhammer fiction in particular, what I always
try to do is identify a core theme of the setting and spin that out into a
plot. For instance, one of my favourite themes is the question of how far we
should go to be victorious. This is a key theme of 40K because the Imperium
does horrible things, not least to its own population, to 'win' against the
forces preying on it. The stories about Lysander are based on this theme,
because Lysander's character is that he will do whatever it takes to win. I put
Lysander in situations where he had to really think about whether he was
justified in the decisions he made – the theme became the conflict, and the
conflict drove the story.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">In summation (and to answer your actual question, heh heh)
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<span style="color: #999999;">The two lost Primarchs are lost – no one knows what happened
to them. As far as I know that includes the GW studio, too. It's a cool little
background nugget that was planted way back in the first Rogue Trader rulebook
and I love that it's never been paid off. It's an example of one of the things
that makes Warhammer 40K particularly awesome, which is that it's infinitely
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<span style="color: #999999;">The 40K universe is big enough to contain all the stories
that could possibly be told about it, from having an effectively infinite number
of planets (the Imperium itself doesn't know how many – the Administratum keeps
losing them) to hosting whatever secret cabals and conspiracies a writer can
come up with. There isn't even a concrete number of Space Marine Chapters –
there are a thousand of them, but is that literally a thousand or a 'poetic
thousand' meaning 'too many to count'? The strength of Warhammer 40K's themes
means that a lot of facts simply don't need to be tied down to actual numbers,
and the two lost Primarchs are an example of that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">In my head, Gork and Mork are psychic gestalt entities
created by the massed activity of all the galaxy's Ork psyches. In a very real
sense the ARE Orkdom. Whether that's what anyone else thinks that is another
question – it's that ambiguity about a lot of the background, like the nature
of the warp and daemons and all the nasty secrets about how the Imperium really
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<span style="color: #999999;">Then again all sorts of crazy things could happen in the
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b>Grumpy Wargamer: I know you buy the odd model to paint up, like the silver wraith night I
have been shown pictures of. But what else are you into GW armies, X-wing,
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<span style="color: #999999;">BC: I am a massive miniature painting nerd. My most prized possession
is a Golden Demon award, 3<sup>rd</sup> place in the Large 40K Monster &
Vehicle category from Games Day Germany 2007. I won it for a Nurgle Daemon
Prince, one of my favourite models of all time. I've been painting for a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very, very long time – it's my zen thing, I
get to chill out and focus while creating something. I can happily sit and
paint for hours on end. I haven't painted competitively in a while, and I find
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<span style="color: #999999;">I can hardly ever get actual armies together, I usually
paint single figures. I have cobbled together a small Grey Knights army and
another of Dark Angels made from the Dark Vengeance boxed set, as well as a
tiny Eldar army which I put together just to see what an army looked like when
it was painted in Alclad chrome metallics (turns out it looks pretty cool). I
have a bad habit of starting big projects and never finishing them, and I'm
trying to get better at painting model tank and plane kits so I can apply the
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<span style="color: #999999;">I'm also a big RPG player. I worked on the Dark Heresy core
book and have run that sometimes – I also enjoy Call of Cthulhu, various White
Wolf games and Dungeons and Dragons, preferably 4<sup>th</sup> Edition (which I
know will be controversial...). I've recently got into board games and Magic:
the Gathering so I can get my gaming fix while painting individual projects
rather than whole armies. For M:tG fans, I'm a red mage and proud.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b>Grumpy Wargamer: Now I have to extend this invite out to you as I know you are local, but
how about getting some soul drinkers painted up and joining my clubs Badab War
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<span style="color: #999999;">I'd have to get any army together first, but you never know.
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<span style="color: #999999;">Many thanks for asking me to do this interview, it's always
cool to share things with readers. I'd also like to give a big shout out to the
Bunker Games & Comics in Havant, to the Portsmouth On Board gaming club and
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<br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-83946279790869279052013-08-26T14:41:00.003-07:002013-08-26T14:47:53.499-07:00Codex Spacemarines: White Dwarf Pictures.<span style="color: #999999;">Here are some pictures for the new White dwarf released Next week. Including pics from the Bat-Rep.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">And More interestingly the two new Pre Heresy characters, Kor Phaeron and Erebus.</span><br />
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<br />Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-3769918838508842532013-08-25T14:06:00.003-07:002013-08-25T14:41:43.865-07:00Codex Space Marines: Codex Covers.<span style="color: #999999;"> The Codex Space Marines Covers have apparently Been Leaked. Its pretty Promising, And I don't think anyone will complain About them at all. I am Especially Loving the Black Templar's Cover.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Whether these are just going to be dust covers or not, Is unknown. I am Thinking This is the way GW will do it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Been thinking about The army list I "want" to own or should I say the list I'm working towards for my Dark Eldar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Based Upon a 3000 point list. (3k points is normally what I build my Army's to) I have come up with this list.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">These will Act as the Guard for my Archon, plus provide an deadly close combat unit.</span></div>
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Pinch-of-Salthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210862976739808817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510516215742739678.post-60542959469714419892013-07-28T14:16:00.002-07:002013-07-28T14:16:13.683-07:00Gosprt Wargaming Club. Summer Painting Compatition.<span style="color: #999999;">Doing a quick post here to show case my Gaming clubs Painting competition. unfortunate I was unable to enter anything this year due to Having to work on the Saturday. Actually annoyed me A lot being as I have had a good year of turning out painted mini's.</span><br />
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John Wilcocks Absolutely Stunning DA flyer. To see this thing Up close is something else. <br />
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Paddy O'Gormans Hellbrute <br />
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John Wilcocks LOTR set. How he did it I dont know but even the Hobbits have eye details. <br />
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John Willcocks Nurgle Daemon Prince <br />
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Just to make us all feel bad about our painting. This screaming Bell was Painted by a 13 year old. Could be seeing a future Golden Daemon winner here. <br />
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Blood letters Painted by Mark Stancliffe <br />
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