Old, new, borrowed and...bilious green

Hello again.

Way back on 2nd July, I proudly posted about my latest purchase, which was the latest incarnation of Warhammer 40K, together with the Chaos Space Marine Codex.

I drank deeply of the putrid filth that is the Death Guard, waxed lyrical about new options allowed by the new rules to make this doyen of disease and decay even more palatable and bemoaned the fact that I could no longer have Terminators in my Death Guard forces as the new Codex omitted them from the relevant list.

Well, on September 16th I hurried down to my nearest Games Workshop store to purchase the newly-released, specifically "Death Guard" Codex. I also managed to get some cards to use with them, showing tactical gubbins of one sort or another for use with 40K, but I was unable to get the special dice also released at the same time because they had already sold out when I got there.

I had a flick through on arriving home and, lo and behold, not none, not one, but TWO TYPES OF TERMINATOR IN THE DEATH GUARD LISTS!!!



Had they relented at GWHQ? Had they been bombarded with bile by those of us who were old enough to remember the last century at the omission of the Tactical Dreadnought armour types from the Chaos Codex? Had I read that part of the Codex wrongly and confused myself (not too uncommon a thing, unfortunately...)

Who cares?!

My entries into the genre are more of the "Blightlord" category than the "Deathshroud" variety (see pages above), but I am sure I can field both with some thought and coercion of my opponent, when I get a game in that is. I knew there was a reason I originally built eight of these though."Blightlord" units are five+ strong and "Deathshroud" ones 3+ strong!

So, what better way to celebrate than to post a few more retro picks of what younger G used to get up to in his gaming time.

G



These Terminators were originally built mainly from parts from the plastic Imperial Terminators available a couple of decades ago. By mixing parts from other sets, adding some Greenstuff rotten flesh, patches of textured paint scoriasis, etc, I got what I was looking for and made them into something Nurgle-esque. This is the leader figure.



Three ordinarily-equipped figures, with Storm Bolter and Powerfist. A judicious mix of Greenstuff, protruding worms, rust and other detritus all adds to what I was trying to achieve all those years ago.

And the effects are both back and front on various figures.

 

The "Specialist Weapons" types - heavy flamer for smoking out troops in buildings, the Reaper Autocannon for rapid, heavy firepower, a combi-weapon for mixing effects vs various targets and a good old chainfist to rip through tanks.

And a close up of a few of the disease effects I was after, namely mottled, diseased skin, boils and scoriasis, together with rust, rot and patched-up armour.

Oops, I did it again...

Hello again.

Last weekend, on the hunt for my usual monthly-published reading matter in a local newsagents, I happened upon the magazine pictured below.

"White Dwarf" is a magazine I have not purchased regularly for some considerable time and the whole GW genre divides gamers like no other...

I remember the first issue I bought was number 61, though I have acquired earlier issues since, and I bought it for some time thereafter, month after month, then broke off, then started taking it again probably twenty years ago for perhaps another five+ years. The last issue I actually bought prior to this one covered the re-release of "Bloodbowl", as I thought it might inspire me to buy that game again. It did not.

So, what made me buy this one?

A new edition of "Warhammer 40K". Neat. My copy of the last edition is still in its shrink-wrap!

A nice cover picture? Same as always, I suspect.

But wait. "Look again," I told myself. The left hand side of that Space Marine's face is rotting, decaying, blighted by the disease of Chaos. Blighted by the touch of Nurgle...

I built myself a "Death Guard" army around fifteen years ago. Hm.

"Take a look inside," I mused.



The box contents did not disappoint!

The eye-candy did not disappoint either!!!

PHWOAR!!! The usual two armies! The usual plethora of other bits! Some very interesting changes to aspects of the core rules, notably to simplify the multitude of special rules I always forgot! AND ONE OF THE ARMIES IS......

DEATH GUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not just bog standard Plague Marines though. Oh no. There is a "Foetid Bloat-drone." (???). There is a "Lord of Contagion", a "Noxious Blightbringer", a "Malignant Plaguecaster", some "Poxwalkers"...

AND SOME PLAGUE MARINES!!! (And some Imperial tat...)

So, with a BIG birthday less than a month away, do I buy it?
At slightly less than £100, do I buy it?
With so many half finished and not yet started projects already to hand, do I buy it?
With the final instalment of second daughter Becky's trip to Mexico this year to pay in a week or two, do I buy it?

YOU BET I DID!!!!

And I bought the "Index: Chaos", which details every single Chaos option across the range for every budding megalomaniacal despot.

Yet, even with all this, I must end on a sad note. No one wants to wrap this up for me for the aforementioned BIG birthday, so I am forced to open it early...

AND, the "Death Guard" can no longer have the Terminator unit I so lovingly scratchbuilt/ converted for them those several years ago. They are no longer allowed in the new army list options for that Chaos Legion.

But I am still a VERY HAPPY BUNNY!!!

It is a long time since I read a copy of "White Dwarf". I may yet return to reading more...

G