Monday Musings

Two legs good, six wounds better

I've read this 1984 times you know

We've decided to extend Tyranid Week into Tyranid Fortnight. This is mainly so that the Tyranid players on the blog can actually write some articles! I've been promised a tactics article by Graham and hopefully Darren will write something about his Mycetic Spores. Meanwhile, I'm planning another 'nid Arena of Death and an anti-bug tactica...

Deadfleet?

More popular than Dreadfleet

Andy and I went to Warhammer World on saturday, hoping to get a look at, and maybe even a demo game of, Dreadfleet. Yet, to our surprise, they didn't even have an open copy in the shop. They also had a lot of copies still on the shelves which, Andy informs me, wasn't the case with Space Hulk. To be honest, I'm glad they didn't have any as if I'd enjoyed playing it I might have bought one and I've got better things to be spending £70 on at the minute (especially since I found out that Fender have re-released the Jaguar Bass)

Looking forward to more 'nids? Have you tried Dreadfleet yet? Oh and if Warfrog is reading this please e-mail us about you very kind offer last Monday...

Monday Musings

Yarr

Since it's Talk Like a Pirate Day, there's only one place to start...

We're going to need a bigger boat

Yep, Dreadfleet. It went up for pre-order over the weekend and I am slightly tempted. I love a good pirate yarn and the models look incredible (actually, when was the last time a new GW model didn't look incredible?) However, £70 is a bit steep for a game that would only get occasional use at best...

Retro

No school like the old school

Lovely old school Land Raider from Forge World. What price nostalgia? £80. Hmm, when they release a retro Rhino, will they be in packs of three? It does look awesome though. The thing is I always told myself that my next Land Raider would be one of these babies...

Games Day

So, Games Day UK is fast approaching. I'm not really that bothered about going after Mick went and said that it wasn't very good. However, I would like to see what GW has in store for the new Necron models. I'm a bit disappointed that we've not heard any news about either IA11 or plastic Thunderwolves which I had hoped we might see at GD. IA11 was confirmed as Wolves and Eldar a long time ago and we've seen some nice lloking new Eldar models but still nothing wolfy. As for the Thunderwolves, I'm starting to think that we may not get them this side of 6th edition. Don't get me wrong, it's been brilliant to see all of the new Dark Eldar models that have come out this year and, if I'm being honest, Tyranids could use a Tervigon/Tyranofex kit before us. But, with the rumours being that IG are getting a release early next year, I feel a bit unloved. Yes, we still have one of the best codices out there but I'd like ot be able to run an army that's really wolfy.

(To be honest, I would probably have bought a couple of Storm Ravens to tide me over if they had been ret-conned as expected in the so called "Summer of Flyers". Whatever happened to that?)

Will you be getting Dreadfleet? Or a retro Raider? Are you going to Games Day? What did happen to the summer of flyers? Will Monday Musings be a one off?