August 2025 review
While it was a bit slow in the beginning of the month, at least in terms of published articles, but that was due to the preparation of a major release of reviews towards the end of the month.
We went big on the latest pre-orders of Legions Imperialis, covering the book and all new plastic kits.
- Liber Strategia
- Mastodon Super Heavy Assault Transport
- Order Tokens and Objectives Markers
- Typhon Heavy Siege Tank
- Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer
- Whirlwind and Scorpius Missile Tank
- Vindicator Siege Tank
Deth Wizards – Origins of Givana Part 3
Givana was a natural talent, there was no doubt about that. Most students needed over a year to master a second shambler at the same time, while she had achieved three in half as long. If she continued to learn at such a rapid pace, he would soon have to find a better way to keep their lair hidden. Such talent always attracted unwanted attention in the life of a prospective necromancer.
Painting skeletons is quite enjoyable. Not only are they quick to paint, even if you put more effort into them, but they are also highly reusable. In my opinion, undead creatures are the generic villains that can be deployed in large numbers and slaughtered without hesitation for cinematic scenarios, without the need for an exciting backstory for each character.
Mortal Gods – Objective Markers
In preparation of the upcoming demo table and battle reports on Mortal Gods I supported Dino by building some object markers.
I printed the base decoration elements from this set by Edinburgh Miniature Company and a chest from the A Ghostly Odyssey set by Loot Studios and grabbed some 40mm round bases by Warlord Games. Usually my go-to plastic bases are the flat ones by Renedra, but as I wanted to have the decoration immerse more into the ground, I went with the small lipped ones by Warlord.
In total I wanted to build nine objective markers, primarely used for Mortal Gods. You'll mostly be fine with six, but I just wanted to be sure and have a bit of variation depending on the scenario.
Blood Bowl – DeathZone Fantasy Football Stock
We talked about the initial six teams of Blood Bowls 3rd edition and how those are represented in my collection, now it is time to go further and look what DeathZone brings to the table (top).
DeathZone was the expansion for Blood Bowl, adding more complexity and options to the core game. And it did this for the first time in 1987, as well as for the 3rd edition in 1994 - this is the one we're talking about. Funnily enough, the '94 release even picks up some of the initial designs, for example spotting a huge minotaur on the cover. The most current edition of Blood Bowl got its DeathZone as well.
Just like the core game we get another batch of six different teams, and a lot - honestly, a looot - of new star players. Unlike the initial batch we do not get 3 "good" and 3 "evil" teams, but a variety of rather special rosters.
July 2025 review
Now that we have entered the third quarter of this year, let's take a quick look back at July. July saw some major events.
Unfortunately, the German Stormbringer subscription has come to an end. Thank you again to Hachette for supplying us with the issues for our coverage. We enjoyed writing about it and giving it a try.
However, we won't be covering Combat Patrol here. This is not because it is not an interesting magazine, but because a lot of the content has already been covered here, especially with the extensive Warhammer 40,000 Leviathan coverage. As the German edition is published after the international one, there is little novelty value from a content creator's point of view, and we would be referring our readers to articles we published in 2023.
Blood Bowl – Fantasy Football Stock
It is time for some stock taking and to give you an idea of the size of this project and collection. I did the same for Necromunda a while back, and now it is time to do the same for Blood Bowl. And in this regards Blood Bowl is something very special, as it was my very first miniature wargame back in 1996.
I talked about my fascination about the Warhammer / Citadel miniatures of the 90s, and why Blood Bowl means so much to me as well. But let us set the scope for my own Blood Bowl journey, the Chaosbunker Blood Bowl League (CBBL).
As mentioned multiple times - the third edition of Blood Bowl was my first full contact with a Games Workshop game (I only had a Blood Angels Captain before and a few White Dwarfs), and this will provide the frame. It depends a bit on how you count the further editions - we are excluding the major update of Blood Bowl 2016 (which is current in Season 2). The third edition was re-released in 2001 and the 2002 handbook, with updated rules was subsequently packed with the boxed set, as an update.
Why does this matter? Well, due to the updates of the Living Rule Book to the rosters, some positions were changed, meaning you would need more or less of certain miniatures per team. Thus having an effect on my collection and the size or at least types of miniatures for each team. For this project I went with what the 3rd/4th edition gave me as an option and kept my orientation on this. In most cases the major changes were the costs of the positionals and Re-roll counters, rarely the quantity.
The core of this project is the German Starter Set, that I was gifted for Christmas in 1996 and still is in my possession and clearly used. This will be the backbone, along with some further additions to the upcoming content, especially the match reports. I came across a remaining stock of a store, where I picked up multiple team boxes, and lots and lots of blisters, with positionals, star players and big ones, moving me very close to completion in the early 2000s.
The core set provided you with the rosters of six different teams, three "good" ones and three "evil" ones, if you want to split them this way. And these are the ones, we are going to take a closer look upon in this article.
Age of Sigmar – Realmscape Guardian Idol
The Realmscape Guardian Idol is part of the Realmscape terrain range and was included twice in the Stormbringer series by Hachette (issues 65 and 74).
The Guardian Idol was included in the Realmscape Expansion Set and the Age of Sigmar Extremis Starter Set alongside other terrain pieces such as the Realmscape Ruins and the Nexus Syphon.
Warhammer – The Big Summer Preview Show 2025 Part 2
Due to the size of the The Big Summer Preview Show we split our coverage into two parts, part 1 covered all the Sci-Fi topics on the Warhammer 40k and Horus Heresy, and in this one we're going to cover the Old World until the Age of Sigmar.
Just like in part 1, we're going to go through the announcements not in chronological order, but by gaming system.
Age of Sigmar Stormbringer Magazine 74 to 80
This is the 14th and final shipment, bringing our 20-month coverage of the German Warhammer Stormbringer magazine by Hachette to an end with issues 74 to 80.
This shipment contains a variety of items, including the printed parts for issues 74 to 79 in a single block, the 80th issue itself, and the optional premium content for the Assassin. The remaining sprues are individually bagged.
Age of Sigmar Stormbringer Magazine 68 to 73
The penultimate delivery for Stormbringer arrived last week! Including the premium bonus content. Amazing as this subscription started last year in January and it was surely a long run.
In todays unboxing we're covering the issues 68 to 73, with miniatures, terrain and some paints, but more on that further below.
The overview on the issues so far can be found over here, along with the detailed unboxings of older shipments as well:
- Stormbringer issues 01 to 03
- Stormbringer issues 04 to 07
- Stormbringer issues 08 to 13
- Stormbringer issues 14 to 19
- Stormbringer issues 20 to 25
- Stormbringer issues 26 to 31
- Stormbringer issues 32 to 37
- Stormbringer issues 38 to 43
- Stormbringer issues 44 to 49
- Stormbringer issues 50 to 55
- Stormbringer issues 56 to 61
- Stormbringer issues 62 to 67
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