The near-future is here, and Earth’s abandoned cities are now battlegrounds for the ultimate spectator sport: GIANT KILLER ROBOTS. Let that sink in for a second. GKR: Heavy Hitters is a miniatures board game designed by Cryptozoic Entertainment and Weta Workshop. Normally any miniatures boardgame has my interest, but with Weta Workshop taking a lead with… Read More GKR: Heavy Hitters
In an effort to reduce duplicate miniatures, my Bolt Action Partisan army contains models from no less than nine different companies. Luckily, Footsore Miniatures has a wide variety of miniatures for Partisans and I picked up the majority of the range: Workers Militia IRA advancing IRA firing IRA with shotguns IRA with pistols Not only is… Read More Footsore IRA and Workers Militia
That’s right folks! We are 30 days out from the biggest tabletop miniatures event in the country, the event that our hobby year orbits – Adepticon. So far I have: Finished 39 Partisan riflemen Finished 24 Partistan pistol infantry Finished Partisan bazooka team, sniper team, flamethrower team and mortar team Finished Partisan command squad Just… Read More 30 days until Adepticon!
An integral part of my Adepticon Bolt Action team tournament list is the pair of Rubicon Opel Blitz trucks. After all two of the units in my army list are 12-man, inexperienced squads armed only with pistols. Those two units will not survive a walk across the table into incoming enemy fire so I will… Read More Rubicon Opel Blitz trucks
It’s an understatement to say the Partisan army list has limited anti-tank options. Although the Partisans do have access to a wide range or German and Italian armor, any vehicle must be taken as Inexperienced and suffers from Unreliable. Meaning that any time you want to fire with an armored vehicle you have a -1 To… Read More Partisan bazooka team
Let’s take a look inside the box of Gathering Storm II – The Triumvirate of Ynnead. Unlike the first Triumvirate, the Triumvirate of the Imperium, this set contains three new characters – The Yncarne, Yvraine and The Visarch. The background for these new Eldar Special Characters is all included in Fracture of Biel-Tan. Like the first Triumvirate,… Read More Triumvirate of Ynnead – What’s in the box
Back again with another new issue of White Dwarf! No shipping mishaps this month – the issue arrived promptly on Feb. 7. Here we go with issue six, February 2017. Planet Warhammer We’ve got a massive Planet Warhammer this month- 25 pages of new releases! Warhammer 40,000 gets the next chapter of Gathering Storm with… Read More White Dwarf – February 2017
With the start of the New Year comes the promise of new armies, hobby projects and opportunities to get people involved or back into the hobby. I had the chance to do just that and get my friend Mikey, who tried once before to play Warhammer 40k,interested again. I jumped at the chance but soon… Read More Getting a friend back into the hobby
Update – The Warhammer Community has opened the flood gates with a ton of information in their March, For Macragge article. Early this morning a Redditor got his hands on a copy of the March issue of White Dwarf (the February issue hit store shelves today) and took a photo of the cover. The r/warhammer subreddit was… Read More First look – The Triumvirate of the Primarch
Since my last WIP post almost all of my hobby time has been spent painting up partisans for Bolt Action. That work continues as Andrew and I are starting to reach the home stretch for our Adepticon Doubles team tournament army. Painting this army has been both fun and little challenging. They are a fairly… Read More Prepping for the parti
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