The Angels of Death are coming....

 

The internet world has exploded recently with lots of rumours about the Blood Angels codex and I've been having a look with a trusty bag of salt. Two things seem to be flying around at the moment - The above cover and a PDF with all rules in it.

Firstly we have the cover. Now I've pinched this off Heresy-Online and it looks very nice but as I made a copy of it, the acutal file is called BA Cover Mock UP. While this 'may' be the offical cover (and I hope so as it's nice), I can't help but feel that this is something somebody has quickly made up.

EDIT - Dezartfox has nicely pointed out that if I looked properly at the cover I would notice that a lot of the Marines seem to be Imperial Fists sprayed Red. Shame as it would have made a nice cover!

Next we have the PDF. The PDF is basicly a hand typed copy of the actual rules from the codex (or a test version), so is full of spelling mistakes (like my blog). A general flick through reveals lots of interesting things but it's not until you come across the MIGHTY BAT RIDER CAVALRY entry where you really suspect this is a load of rubbish. The author of the list has tried to defend the rumours and is saying wait until April to see who is right, but I can't help but shield myself with my bag of salt. It's possible that the author has added the MIGHTY BAT RIDER CAVALRY unit as a joke but too be honest if you want people to take you seriously, you can't make jokes. Rumour does have it that GW have confirmed that there is a leaked copy around of the codex, which gives this PDF some creditablity. I for one am happy to wait until April, mainly as I want to read the background more that the rules!

I won't be putting any links up for the PDF as I don't want the GW legal heavy boyz kicking things in.

WAAAGGHHH!!!!

I've been trying to write a couple of interesting updates to do with the Rankings or about how GW are backing away from having all the models ready when a new army book/codex is released, but I seem to have left my muse down the pub (plus I'm not feeling too good). So instead, I'm going to get all excited about new plastic models!

The image above is the new Ork Deff Dread and I quite like it. It's out with the new Battle Missions book, along with some new plastic releases - Space Marine Venerable Dreadnought, Killa Kans, Ork Flash Git, and new re-done Guard Chimeras and Baslisks. I'm currently holding out for the Blood Angel release but I could be painting Orks up if I loose my Warhammer fetish!

Sheffield Slaughtered!

Hi folks. All back from the Sheffield Slaughter and what a fun weekend that was. Real life has been giving me some problems the last month or so, and too be honest I wasn't going to go. But my wfie said I should as I would enjoy it and was she right! I would just like to thank all of my opponents for the weekend - Paul, Rob, Chris, Bernard, and Owen. I got to fight lots of different armies and got 1 win and 4 losses.

I would also like to thank Gareth Hamilton as he is a true gent as he lent me some skaven models from his really nicely painted collection, as I was unable to finish the army I was painting up.

I'm not going to post up any reports as I'm struggling to remember them all, plus they all had the same theme - lots of misfires and the army destroying itself.