Warhammer The Horus Heresy – Legions Imperialis – Unboxing
It is finally here! We have a large release for Legions Imperialis, battles within the Horus Heresy in an epic scale! And we start with an unboxing of the starter set, covering Legiones Astartes, Solar Auxilia and even two Warhounds.
This will be the initial unboxing, followed by detailed, indepth reviews, as you have seen it in the past for example with the Age of Darkness or Leviathan boxed set. And it is great that we return once again to when I was there the day Horus slew the Emperor.
Bolt Action Campaign Italy – Tough Gut
We cover the second part of the Italian campaign today and move on from the Soft Underbelly towards the Tough Guts.
Almost a year after the first book, Campaign Italy: Tough Gut was released in August 2023, expanding the possibilities for the Italian forces even more. The first book covered the activities until Ortena in December 1943 and we pick it up again in the second supplement in January 1944 with their move further towards Rome through Cassino, until June 1944.
Great Escape Games – Old West Building
After tinkering around with the General Purpose Wagon, and further converting the kit, Great Escape got in touch with me and send me some sprues from their current Kickstarter campaign.
The crowdfunding campaign for Dead Man's Hand Redux is meant to finance a new starter set, covering plastic miniatures and terrain! And the later is something, that I noticed being hinted in the background of the product shots of the last few months. Please be aware, these are early test sprues, so things can change, parts can be tweaked and added, and what we see here might not be the final product.
Horus Heresy – Legiones Astartes Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought
With the Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought, the third Dreadnought pattern after Leviathan and Contemptor made its transition from a resin kit towards plastic for the Horus Heresy range.
Beginning with the second edition of Warhammer 40k / post-Rogue Trader era, the classic pattern we know as a dreadnought is classified as Castraferrum Pattern Mark V Dreadnought, with the variants that were released by Forge World as Mark IV with slightly slender / less bulky proportions.
Horus Heresy – Legiones Astartes MKIII Tactical Squad
Part of the Legiones Astartes Battle Group are the Space Marines in the new Mark III Power Armour. Available as a tactical squad as well, and compatible with the various weapon options already released. We will cover the Special Weapons Upgrades in this review along with the new models.
The Space Marines in Mk III are currently available as a Tactical Squad of 20 with a retail of 60 EUR or as part of the Battle Group, for 160 EUR with 30 Marines, a Dreadnought and Land Raider. These are no repacks of the Burning of Prospero release from 2016, but entirely new miniatures.
Horus Heresy – Legiones Astartes Battle Group
This new Legiones Astartes Battle Group brings not only the new Mk III power armoured Space Marines into battles of the Horus Heresy, but a new Dreadnought pattern, the Deredeo released as a plastic kit.
A bit smaller than the Age of Darkness boxed set, this Battle Group makes a great starting point for a Horus Heresy project, if the Beakies / Mk VI Marines weren't your cup of tea. And if you ask me, some Legions just have to wear Mark III armour, like the Death Guard or Imperial Fists.
Mortal Gods – Medusa
After recently looking at models from the Army of Hades and the Army of Zeus, in this review we come to probably the most elite faction in Mortal Gods Mythic, the Army of Hera, with Medusa.
The model is one of the larger models from Footsore Miniatures and is accordingly cast not in pewter, but in resin. Right at the beginning I saw one of my biggest criticisms corrected - the packaging is a solid plastic blister in which the model is protected from major damage, especially when shipped with other models.
Mortal Gods – Civilized Centaurs
Footsore Miniatures sent me one of the centaurs for Mortal Gods Mythic before and I was so excited about the model that I also requested the rest of the three civilized centaurs modeled by Trish Carden. The models, like the Zealots, come in a card-backed bag.
All centaurs come with an oval base made of MDF wood and equipment sprue, on which there is a quiver with a bow, a single quiver and two swords. The model itself consists of the horse part, the human torso and possibly an arm and a shield.
Warcry – Hunter and Hunted
This weekend WarCry receives a larger update, covering a terrain set Ravaged Lands: Scales of Talaxis, two warbands and a new supplement Hunter and Hunted. And this supplement will be covered today.
With Hunter and Hunted we move within the Gnarlwoods into a part, where we find new Seraphon relics, and two new warbands, Gorger Mawpack and Wildercorps Hunters, fight each other. Please note, this is not a stand-alone, you need either one of the starter boxes (or at least the rulebook) to be able to make use of this boxed set.
This boxed set has a RRP of 105 EURs, covers a thin campaign booklet, instructions, a card deck, a large sprue for the terrain and two sets of a pair of medium sprues for each of the warbands.
Mortal Gods – Zealots of Hades
If you are into Greek mythology and the typical heroic sagas of this era, you will hardly get past Footsore Miniatures' game Mortal Gods and its expansion Mythic. Accordingly, I started to build an army of Hades some time ago and now got the chance to take a look at the Zealots offered by Footsore Miniatures.
But...what is a Zealot anyway? Well, the best way to describe this term is as a kind of religious fanatic, which adds a mysterious touch to Hades' army. For the ruler of the underworld understandably had rather fewer fans in ancient Greece, and the few known places of worship were in Ionia (Asia Minor) and southern Italy, which was settled by Greeks as early as about 800 BC and became known as the area of Megale Hellas from about 340 BC.
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