Avalanche from the net: Warscrolls, Life in the Realm Bubbles, Force organisation and

The floodgates have opened with tons of new pictures, all indicating the future direction of Warhammer. The (Warhammer) world as we know it has changed irrevocably. 8th Ed is dead, WHFB is dead. Unlike in the case of Beethoven, there will be no 9th.

As many pictures and changes there are, as many opinions. GW has obviously moved from the classic mediaeval setting of Warhammer Fantasy Battles to another realm where it can better protect its IP.

It has simplified the game to an almost dumbed down version of 40K. Timmy or Tommy or Jimmy can bring anything he likes and we'll compensate for the imbalance somehow. You do not need skill to choose your army, and points do not matter...

Its all about the base, the base, its all about the base. No trouble?

And Size, does it matter? 

Army Comp: Premade simple organisational charts ?

And a first look at the war Scrolls:

A good review on Jossy's site (clicky)

 And the Price, dear reader, you may ask?

So $250 NZ, $200 AUS 75 UK pounds, 100 Euro and $100US. 

NZ and Aus get shafted again. Exchange rates mean squat.

The Only model I vaguely like (head swop or lightning trim likely)  :

And the rest of the Sigmarines:

How Space marine can you get?

And yes, you do play in bubbles....

and the ones to come...

 

 

And yes, you can use your Dark Aelfs

 

 and UnDaed...

NZTC 2015 Photos and Winners

Warhammer Fantasy Battles New Zealand Team Championships 2014

The Kapiti Wargames Club fielded 2 teams: Legion of Doom and Pants Off!

Day 1: Gloves off, or was it shirts of and pants off?
After a brief kerfuffle to find a replacement player at no 99 when Rex took ill, Team Legion of Doom (LoD) arrived to take on the big guns of the NZ Warhammer world.

Roundly tipped to take the wooden spoon, as we had come close to in the preceding years, we proceeded to do battle.

Many thanks to Lockie Reid who stood in for the incapacitated Rex, ably fielding his Wood Elf army!
Hope you're feeling better, Rex! You missed a great tournament!

Not much time to do a write-up of my experience or the event (I will do it next week)
I am now hurriedly packing to go off on a school camp at the crack of sparrows tomorrow...

So, this is really not much more than a photo-dump.

May thanks to Pete and Tim for a fantastic event!

And no, we (LoD) did not take the wooden spoon either!

For full results check The Fields of Blood.

Pete and Tim, feel free to right-click and use my photos for your blogs
(It would be nice if you linked back to my blog or acknowledged some way)

Apologies for poor quality of Day 1 photos- taken with my phone

And the gaming is on!

The Field:

Artful Dodgers

DILF

Grumpy Old Men

Legion of Doom

Nice Team

Not Afraid to use Comp

Pants Off

Petes Pot Luck

Shirts Off

Stonesfall Massive

Team Bucketheads

Weekend Warriors

Heroic stand of my Corsair Master in my first game - Team DILF

Druchii Civil War.

Kapiti Teams Comparing notes after the first clash

And then we're off again

Some lovelies that caught the eye...

The Nice Team. Tane and Luc doing battle

Ironblaster in hard cover

Team Pants Off (Also from Kapiti) going hammer and tongs...

Day 2: Artful Dodgers fist up: 

Then Weekend Warriors

And Grumpy Old Men...

Ladies and Gentlemen: Tim announcing the winners:

Aesthetic awards:: 

Best Sports:

Not Afraid to Use Comp

The Inaugural Van Trapp Invitational Trophy 

(Sorry Pete, you've got yer eyes closed: but it's the only shot I got)

Third place

Second Place

And Overall Winners: Team DILF (with a Phoarrr)

Very relieved that the Wooden Spoon passed Team Legion of Doom by (again)!

You will notice that it is a slotted wooden spoon...

 To represent all those attacks allowed to come through!