Fly my pretties...Nurgle Plague drones take to the sky

My Nurgle Plague drones take to the sky for the first time

Fly, my pretty rot-flies!

I finally got my plague drones painted up and ready for the table (well, sort-of) the basing was not yet completed, but I couldn't resist tabling them in the KWCs big daemonic incursion on Saturday (see a separate post on this later) Limited points, so we each only got 1200. Didn't have much to spare, and didn't expect to have to go up against ogres. Would have given them deaths heads (shooting attacks) and poisoned attacks/venom stings.  

Split them into 2 units of 6.One ran into lead belchers before slugging it out with Mournfang and Bulls before being annihilated. The other carved their way through 2 Mournfang cavalry, and survived.

Anyhow, her they are, bursting forth in their corpulence:

Happy with the paint scheme, looks better now they have been based with yellow-ochre gravel, same as the rest of my daemon armies.Ranking up is an issue with all those legs and wings, and the legs and wings are quite fragile, and transport may be in issue in future. Had to give 2 of them longer stems to raise them above the others as to rank up a little better.

40K Players: Tau releases coming: Pics and Rumours

40K Players (Not my thing) 

Tau first sneak pics: Razorsharks and Sunsharks, Battlesuits and  Knarloc Kroot Giants:

My son Luc avidly collects Tau (And Ogres in WHFB) It is his birthday tomorrow. 

It is quite fitting that the April White Dwarf features the pre-view for the Tau releases everyone speculated about.Luc will be happy...

Trouble in the Border Provinces is not my vehicle for 40K, but here is link to 

Wargames Obsession

my first blog and now my WW2 page where I have posted more pics 

40K is not my thing, but I'm excited for Luc.

Daemons of Chaos Army Book 2013 Pre-order and Limited Ed Armybook

Daemons of Chaos Army Release (2013)

 Pre-order and Limited Ed. Army Book

OK, so the Pre-Orders are up on the GW Website:

The Army Book will look like this, retails for $98.00 NZ 

FOUR Limited Edition Fancy cover Army Books, featuring, by the looks of things, Blanchitsu's artwork.
Each with one of the Chaos Lores on the front page, and themed accordingly:

Price: $180 NZ

Blood Throne of Khorne

$64 

Surely this will end up being called the Cannon of Khorne

Think I'll call mine the "Can of Khorne" for short - will probably be getting this model

Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot

$64

May well consider getting this one too

Plague Drones of Nurgle

$110

May get these for my Nurgle Army too.

Other Heralds? Meh! 

$46 each, with the Nurgle one at $30?

More than just a little disappointed in the Khorne, Nurgle and Slaneeshi models. 

I think they lack originality, and are overpriced. 

Will stick with my own conversions or more elaborate bases. 

Or better looking competitor models at a lower price - many out there now..

And...Why, Oh Why would you make the Nurgle Herald 

$16 cheaper than the Khorne and Slaneesh Heralds?

Battle Magic Cards $22

I won't go on to berate the pricing structure of GW.

We all know that NZ is getting the short end of the stick...
I see players in the US and Europe complaining on the forums that they have to pay $20 for a Herald!

My browser must have opened on the US site, and for a minute I was delighted to see the Army Book at $49.50.
But then reality struck home and I realised that for some reason I was not on the NZ website...