The End Times : Khaine

What a roller coaster ride this book is. I remember the 'Storm of Chaos' WHFB release when I first started out in the Hobby way in the dark ages. That was pretty cool to introduce me to the rich vein of vivid imagination this hobby is. The End Times is another couple of levels of cool. For all those that are a little shaken with all the recent new releases and the changes it brings, don't worry be happy. You can easily just not use it in your games (so easy to run normal games without end times). If you do want to recreate some of the pinnacle battles in the series of books you can. The new allied lists bring a whole different feel to the game and the magic is just crazy cool.

So here are some of the snippets from the book and it's superb inspiration to get more of my huge stored collection painted and on the table.

Just like the past two books it's a premium printed volume.

Full of a host of established icons in the Warhammer fantasy universe.

What a great work to inspire me to get some legendary huge battles going multiplayer.

There was talk of the Elfpocalypse and this be a fine word to use for this book. 

(I know it was meant to have another meaning)

Without dropping any spoilers, I can say this is well worth it in any collection.

If you didn't manage to get one of the 1st prints of the book there will be a second release in soft cover.

5 out of 5 stars and I don't say this lightly. 

The Storm of Chaos book I used about twice and it was shelved. You won't do that with this book. It will be well worn.

End Times : Khaine is coming

So I stumbled over the upcoming sneak peeks of the Khaine book on the interwebs. Better late than never and thought I'd share. This so far means that you can run two types of allied Elven armies. This makes for some powerful builds and Warhammer Fantasy only gets better.

Tyrion's host.

 Malekith becomes King...

Characters in the end times are just uber! 

Here's but a selection.

 Super Franz joins the action.

Every army book gets a End times spell.

Tyrion what hast thou done....

Warhammer Dual Kits saves you Lotsa $$$

I recently picked up the Doomfire Warlock dual kit. Very pleasantly surprised that they came with enough bits to make 5 Dark riders too, with the help of years of bits collecting.

Box o Warlocks

 I had some old High Elf horses and Newer kit heads.

 5 Darkriders appeared from the bits

This is very encouraging for the Next army in the collection. I did a rummage and managed to get a unit of Dark shards on the table too.

Magnetised Weaponry

With all the talk of the NZ magnet ban (silly law change), I thought I'd magnetise the sponsoons on my Predator with my left over magnets. A lot easier than I had anticipated and now I can be the odd man out with a Annihilator sporting some Storm Bolters.

Army on show: courtesy of lilloser here

Here's a Dark Elf army I stumbled on which caught my eye. Some superb conversions and ideas for my up coming dark kin I'm going to procure I reckon.

 Mixture of Dark Eldar, Spearmen, Whitelion bits really sets this unit off.

 Morathi on an alternate Pegasus

 Another use for Dire wolves and great as dark riders.

I may use the Manflayers as shades but these are a good alternative.

Board Game of the week: Alhambra

City building game where you collect and build up resources to fund different structures. Structures are of different categories and net you points through the three different scoring phases in the game. Classic German board game and very easy 5 mins to learn and about an 1hr duration for 2-6. Highly recommend this and the whole family will definitely enjoy it.

Rating 4 1/2 stars out of 5.

Whats on the work table

Stern guard with a few licks of paint.

Quite happy how these turned out. GW white is perfect for the imperfect helmet look. Still need a bit more work but table worthy. 

Thanks to Mike for hooking me up with a vintage Cauldron on blood. I haven't been this excited about the prospect of starting a new army for a while.

Possible new project for 2013.