Chaos Space Marine Codex in Hand!!

My beautiful cat Mia, reading the new Chaos Space Marine Codex.

As the title says, I have recently got my hands on the new Chaos Space Marine Codex. The Codex is released on the 6 of October, and in Australia, we're in the future!! Yes that was a time joke...

Now anyway, the new Codex is absolutely amazing!! It's similar the the 3rd Edition Codex. Similar with awesome new stuff!! Like Mutilators who are just BEAST!! There have been a few nerfs like Obliterators having only S4 and T4. But otherwise everything is all good. Daemon Princes don't come with their standard 3+ armour save (just think the Chaos Daemons Codex in terms of Daemon Prince, but much more stronger).

The Codex also does one fantastic thing. If you want a dedicated army (i.e. Khorne/Slaanesh/Nurgle/Tzeentch army) you can. Nearly every infantry unit can take a Mark of Chaos, including Obliterators. Admittedly it can be a waste of points, but if you're sticking strictly to a theme (like World Eaters army where everything must take the Mark of Khorne) then you can, even if it's a waste giving an Obliterator the Mark of Khorne.

Points cost has gotten cheaper all round, however if you upgrade them to become a beast!! then well, things get super expensive.

Also, there are no more Chaos Dreadnoughts. The Dreadnought has basically been replaced with the Hellbrute [Insert Troll Flame]. But you know what, screw you trolls, it's actually pretty cool. It's basically exactly like the old Chaos Dreadnought, and even suffers from Crazed!! But wait, there's more!! Crazed only happens when the Hellbrute takes a Penetrating/Glancing hit and is not destroyed. So it only becomes crazed when it gets hurt!! And It doesn't even shoot your own allies!! Or harm them!! It is now a viable unit!! Even if it can be glanced to death, who cares? It's still viable!!

Also, rumours are true about the Chaos Boons Table. Just think Warriors of Chaos from Warhammer Fantasy. And it you roll two 6s on a D6. Say hello to a Daemon Prince. And for every Champion who rolls this result, they too will become a Daemon Prince (if you're real lucky).

Anywho, there's more to say, but I ain't gonna say more (I still have to read it, then re-read then re-read again... etc.).

Got any questions, ask em in the comments section and I'll see what I can do to answer them (I will not answer anything about Points cost however, and anything else that I deem shouldn't be answered). But I'll try to answer everything ;)

But anywho, seriously, buy the Chaos Space Marine Codex. It is so worth it!! Much more worth while than buying the rumoures Dark Angel Codex anyway... Chaos are much more trustworthy than Lion El Johnson... After all, he could've saved the Emperor if he didn't slow down his vessel...

Forge World: Horus Heresy Releases

As the title says. I was surfing the net and it was only today I noticed that Forge World has released the Horus Heresy Book 1 for sale (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/THE_HORUS__HERESY_BOOK_ONE_BETRAYAL.html).

From what I can see, there are no "Advance Orders" whatsoever, which means you can order and receive the book whenever it arrives without a worry.

In addition, the first of the Primarchs is also up for orders!! Angron of the World Eaters has been released. You can also get him without needing to wait for Advance Orders or Pre-Orders, least I can't find it saying anything about Advance Orders (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ANGRON_PRIMARCH_OF_THE_WORLD_EATERS.html).

 

Personally I'm waiting for both Leman Russ and Horus himself. Tho I might get Angron for my 40k World Eaters army. I've got a few conversions that I'm currently doing (a Havok Squad). However I'm also waiting to get my hands on the new Chaos Space Marine Codex. That way I know what to actually arm them. Also so I can build some Khorne Berzerkers (I'm not too sure if I ACTUALLY have to arm them with axes so that they may pass the "WYSIWYG" test [What you see if what you get]). Cos that's being really pedantic if I have to arm them Chain Axes. With Chain Axes: Does that mean Khorne Berzerkers armed with a Chainsword cannot use a Khornate Chain Axe?

(AWESOME) Chaos Space Marine Release

Games Workshop have just released (via their website) a whole host of Chaos Miniatures PLUS the new Chaos Codex!! I'm sooo relieved it's Chaos getting their Codex and not crappy, shitty, evil, untrustworthy Dark Angels.

Anywho, enough of me blatantly showing my hatred for Dark Angels and trolling them. Time to check out the Chaos Models.

On Games Workshop's Advance Orders (http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCatsLarge.jsp?catId=cat440160a&rootCatGameStyle=wh40k) are: Actually, instead of listing them. How about you just click the link.

Now you can listen to (more appropriately to read) me rant on some of my favourite stuff from the Advance Orders :)

Games Day Australia 2012

Taken from Games Workshop's Website

Just got back from Sydney, and I tell you, it was perhaps the best holiday I've had ever!! Mainly due to Games Day Australia. It twas a brilliant event where I got to meet some awesome people, name Jes Goodwin, Jeremy Vetock and Henry Zou (apologies if I spelt their names wrong, never been good with spelling names/surnames). This was actually my first ever Games Day, so it was a nice experience. The Forge World store saw a huge amount of action (spent an hour there including the queue). The Black Library Section was also awesome, and I picked up 2 out of the 3 Posters. I would've loved to have grabbed the 3rd, but it was sold out just before I arrived.

10min after I bought the 2 posters, they were sold out. Each poster was signed by their respective artist too.

The Forge World products I picked up were of fantastic quality, I picked up no miscasts so far. A little warping, but that's cos of the packaging. It's funny, that the quality at Games Day is much better then that when ordered. Good news, I now have the parts to enact my plan, to collect a World Eaters Warband. The army list can be found over at my deviantArt http://sgt-thaddeus.deviantart.com/#/d5dpgir.

Check out the images I took of the Armies on Parade, some boards were overdone (like the Deathwatch one) others fantastic, like the Carcharodons army. It was the Carcharodons board which stole my vote, too bad they didn't win.

These were the only good photos. The rest were taken with shaky hands. I tell you, don't eat the food there... EVER!! It was horrible! After one bite I felt sick and had food poisoning. Nurgle might've got his lapdogs to poison it...

So basically that day, I just didn't bother eating anything till dinner (I skipped breakfast to make it there early and wound up being the [approximately] 400th person there).

Kingdoms of Amalur (Weapon Collection) 1 - The Longbow

Well, seeing as how I did an Kingdoms of Amalur (Armour Collection) - which is still not finished - I thought I might start on a Weapon Collection. One of all the rare weapons that I have found one of my many playthroughs. Remember, for me, trying to acquire each of these rare weapons is by chance. So if I come across them, then I'll take a screenshot.

Anyway, to start with, here are some rare Longbows that I have encountered on my Dokkalfar Rogue.

Heresy-Era Sons of Horus

As per my previous post, I mentioned something about me and collecting Sons of Horus. With rumours of a new Chaos Space Marine Codex and with Forge World announcing their Horus Heresy Books, I figured; forget the Luna Wolves, it's time to collect something with a bit more flair, and go with their changed name/colours.

The Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus are perhaps one of my favourite Legions (specially cos of their story and the Horus Heresy novels). So what I reckon, is that I shall be collecting the Sons of Horus,11th Company. As far as I know, the Sons of Horus have 25 Companies, with about half of them with their own story and fluff. So I thought it be much more fun to create my own story and fluff in relation to some of the un-named companies, hence the 11th Company.

But hey, you probably don't care about anything that I'm saying, instead you want to see pics. So here they are:

Warhammer 40K: Dark Vengeance Advance Orders are up

Image from the Warhammer 40K: Dark Vengeance Starter Set

The new 6th Edition Starter set for Warhammer 40K has just been released. However I am slightly disappointed with it. I don't mind the idea of Dark Angels vs Chaos Space Marines (Chaos should win of course), however the set is completely unbalanced. Look, we've got on the Dark Angels side; 10 Tactical Marines with a Plasma Gun, Plasma Cannon and the Sergeant has a Plasma Pistol, 5 Terminators with an Assault Cannon, 3 Ravenwing Bikes (or whatever the hell their names are) with a Plasma Gun/Plasma Pistol and 3 HQs!!! All Chaos have is a Dreadnought look-a-like, 6 Possessed and 10 Guardsman (actually Chaos Cultists, but they still have paper-thin armour).