GW Direct News: Ramtut and Zara back in Production

GW has placed 2 Blood Bowl Star Players back into production, Ramtut the Third and Zara the Slayer. While not as good as new models, returning them to production is nice. There are still a few of the more recent blood bowl models not currently available so hopefully they will make an appearance soon also. I am looking at you skaven with poison blade. Putting my money where my mouth is I asked Ryan down at Labyrinth Comics and Games to order me in one of each. Ofcourse now I get to wait a few weeks before they come in since I did not order them off the webstore but I am trying to buy local.

LEGO Time

My little one, ER, is now getting old enough to play with real LEGOs so while we were at my mom's this weekend for a split 4th of July/Birthday celebration we broke out the LEGO collection from when I was a kid. This is from before LEGO's went all tie in crazy so no Star Wars or other Brands just classic Castle LEGOs. About 1 copier paper box of Castle/Pirate and one of just general space and city. We had a lot of sets and they were all mixed together in the end. We tried to assemble one of the old castles from the plans but got stuck looking for some very specific parts that in the big pile are hard to find. We then did some sorting so next time we might have an easier time off it and actually get that castle built so the Princess can be rescued by the Knight in shining armor. I have a girl so a Princess must be involved current.

Epic: Mk I Predator

Here we get a look at the original epic Predator tanks. Turret mounted autocannon with lascannon sponsons. Ofcourse in Epic Armaggedon this is not an option so it will be another case of counts as use. I guess I get to choose with each army list to be Annihilator or Destructor.

They have 6 parts. Note the poor alignment of the vision slits on the chasis.

Side View. Newer kits are nicer looking I think but if you are trying to assemble a consistant force with old beakies then these are the ones to use.

GW on Witch and Daemon Hunters

So GW has in their daily blog commented about the change in rules to the Inquisition forces. Yes, they are different. The old one is still legal in general though, but it is up to event organizers to decide if only one is to be used. Huh.

Three posts in one day. That is like half my monthly output.

Nid and Blood Angel FAQs are Up

GW has graced us with their rules wisdon after only 7 months for the Nids. So go get them and lets discuss.

First thing to note is that they are actually self contradictory. For Blind Rampage for tyrant guards, they say that if the tyrant is killed in the combat before the tyrant guard have gone they do not get the bonus from the furious charge rule they just got but for the Blood Angels they say that you check the range to the priest for the furious charge when you make the attacks. Those seem to be apply the opposite standard to the same rule. Fail.

Essentially they have also declared that while models my shoot out of vehicles with firepoints, use psychic powers out of vehicles(firepoint for LOS needing power but no firepoint for other powers), and generate area type special affects out of vehicles measured from the hull (thus increasing the range by several inches) you can essential make no affect on those models without a special rule that says you can. Pretty Lame. So you thought you had psychic defenses well I will just stay in my transport and do it out of it. Interesting does a psychic hood affect models operating out of a transport. Nothing the nids have other than Sarge is acting funny does. Fail.

And Not that Nids have many ICs but they cannot get into Spores and you cannot send in empty spores so they lack many of the nice features of normal drop pods.

Lash whips apparently take priority over other wargear and act first allowing the other wargear to have affect so Banshees are still I10 versus them.

While some of the stuff seems fine many continue GW bad rules decisions from recent years. Also still no clarity on the confusing wording of the Hive Guard and coversaves. Also they say that Doom and Mawlocs allow cover saves but do not give a good idea of what standard to use. Logic says doom is a shooting type attack but mawloc is more like a barrage.

Mk I Mars Warhound Titans

More photos of Epic scale stuff. I know that it is not really interesting reading but it is helpful to some of the new people to know what this stuff actually looks like and how many pieces they are made up off.

Today we have the original warhounds. They have a curved shape to them so they are Mars style. Very animallistic crew compartment and chaos like spikes regardless of loyalist of chaos forces. While I like the new designs from Forge World for the 28 mm scale the current GW design is just dreadful compared to these classic pieces.

Legs are 1 piece and used to have a mounting peg that got broken off so I will have to add some pins to get a good mount probably.

The standard weapons are vulcan megabolter and plasma blastgun but this set I got had 2 turbo lasers instead of the plasma blastguns so I will just have to count as for regular games with these guys. Epic does not do WYSIWYG rules so generally as long as something is not a legal choice in your list then you can count it as a something else that is a choice. This weapon configuration is legal in a Titan Legion list though.

All the parts for 2 together including little rings that help the torsos mount to the legs. Overall the only part of the look that has always been strange is that the guns mount so far back on the torso but that is probably a balance thing. I think these are the same scale weapons as found on the Reavers.

Forge World Reaver

Got this is the mail from Forge World a little while ago. Epic scale Reaver Titan. I got this model since its Lucius style matches the Forge World warhounds better than the Mars Reaver GW sells even though I ike the GW better as it still looks exactly like the Reavers of old.

This kit cost the same as the 2 Warhound kit but I think that one is the better buy. They pieces in it just seemed better. This titan comes with a volcano cannon and gatling blaster which are the same main armemant on the current GW Warlord. I wonder of FW just molded those metals to get the weapons.

I think it looks better assembled than the picture on the website appears.





I had some problems getting the feet to sit properly so I will probably have to some clean up work down by the feet.

Epic Eldar: Scorpion with Funny Hex Pattern

So I got this scorpion super heavy tank a little while ago for my very fledgling eldar force. Seems to have a funny hex pattern on it.


Some of the other Eldar stuff like the flyers have a hex pattern but I have never seen it on the super heavies. The current version does not have it and neither does the one shown on epicollector.

Anyone got any ideas if this is a legit GW mini.

Epic: Old Style Whirlwinds

I got some classic Epic whirlwinds off ebay recently. I have decided to divide my Space Marine force into Pre Heresy and 40K style components so these go with the Pre Heresy side.


Metal versions of old Rhino chassis with a very square launcher.

Launcher is pretty sizable compared to the tank body.

Back view shows the missile exhaust vents.

Here is the scale of the launcher. While the old rhino chasis are pretty common these rectangular whirlwinds are not. It you want to make a scratch built one they are about 9/32 long, 7/32 high, and 8/32 deep so you could probably make it out of a 1/4 inch plastic rod as the base with maybe 10/32 length. Then just drill in the hole pattern. The missile ports are like 1/16 in diameter with 3/32 spacing between the two rows.

Epic: Space Marine Drop Pods

So as part of my recent Epic order I also got a pack of space marine drop pods. The pack only contains 2 pods which means if you think of them in 40K terms you will need a ton of packs for an epic force but that is not how they work in Epic Armageddon. The drop pod model is only used to represent deathwind pods that have real attacks. You place the drop pod then it attacks nearby enemy units then you place the rest of its formation around it. So 2 pods will let you drop in 2 formations.


Here are the contents. Nothing really fancy but it does come with a modeled on base which is helpful. A lot of the GW images have bases pictured even though you do not get any.

Here are the assembled Epic Space Marine Drop Pods.