The main Warhammer 40000 tournament was held on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 Jan 2010. The criteria forces players to focus on their all-around hobby by marking them on game play, sportsmanship, composition and presentation.

THQ have announced an addition to their Blood Bowl PC game. 

If you go down to the woods today,

As previously mentioned on Twitter, I have come good with the promise of photos of my first squad completed.

Steam is naughty. Well, my obsession with Warhammer is to blame as well.

Back in July I managed to bash this out: http://thegoldend6.com/article.php/20090922211012865 with some small success.

On the weekend I was involved in an eight player game of Planetstrike (the new expansion for Warhammer 40000). It's in the same vain as the Apocalypse rules in that it effectively removes the "standard" force organisation charts.

for the games ... 

Recently Games Workshop started stocking this little gem.

www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp

It is a Citadel Warhammer 40k basing kit.
 

(Yes, it's another basing tutorial!)

For Arcanacon 2010, I will have a flying guard army, and they will be stealing eveil psyker babies.

More to follow.

New stuff from those maniacs at Forgeworld!

The internet holds many brilliant bits of information regarding our hobby. Information about all aspects can be discovered if you look hard enough. One of the more interesting “How to” subjects, for me, has always been bases.

There are a number of manufacturers making pre-cast resin bases, but there is joy to be gained from making your own!

New stuff from Forgeworld. As ever, this stuff is amazing and makes me want to play, in this case, Orks!

Arcanacon has set itself up as one of the premier Warhammer 40000 tournaments in the Southern Hemisphere. It draws players from far and wide and regularly hits 100+ players.

Unlike previous years, I plan to

a) Play and;
b) Prepare and think out an army!

My first forays into playtesting my new Plague Marine army follow:

The Brotherhood of Rust is my Warhammer 40000 Nurgle army. They started life as an Iron Warriors army, that most identifiably was implemented with nine Obliterators. Not as awesome an idea as I had originally thought.

Another interesting Sisters Of Battle army list. It seems at the moment that we’re bringing back the Rhino rush!

Certainly, the footslogging Sisters army lacks the long ranged punch required to deal with most adversaries and the tanks provide mobile cover against the horde armies if you’re going to stand still!!

I remember well, those millennium of old. Where the Dark Eldar were a feared foe in the galaxy. My appearance on the battlefield would cause dismay and whole armies would crumble at the thought of facing such a fast and ruthless enemy. They’d whisper to me, my Agoniser poised for the decapitation, “who are you, that could move so fast and strike so quickly”. Marines, those slow moving clumsy shoe-box bound men, whose tactic was to drive very quickly and storm out of their rhinos, rapid firing and assaulting. My warriors were cannon fodder to their bolters, but who was to care, for it lured them into harms way and the precious wyches would pounce, appearing from over the horizon, sqealing with joy as they fell on the hapless marines, left flat footed.

This tutorial is dedicated to those who shall not be named; Eldar players. There are a number of people who want to field jetlocks but don’t know how to make them.

This is taken from the Darkson Designs website:

"It is 1946. The greatest conflict mankind has ever known has entered its seventh bloody year. Tens of millions have already fallen, yet the war rages on. No corner of the globe has been spared, the shadow of battle hovers above every land. Millions have been left homeless, driven from the charred carcasses of once great cities. Millions more cower beneath the iron heel of foreign rule. Awesome weapons of destruction rain down upon the earth, blasting the land itself into a blackened cinder. Mankind stands on the edge of midnight as the wheel of history turns toward its darkest hour."

I am the Destroyer Hive; the slayer of worlds ...

Again, the internet is teaching me to cheat, but here is part two.  The important thing to remember is that this tactica is specifically for fourth ed. so it's usefullness in the current edition is somewhat questionable.