New Ork, Space Marine, and IG units

So Games Workshop has updated their Advance Orders page with the Battle Missions book, the Space Marine Venerable Dreadnaught, Imperial Guard Chimera, IG Basilisk, and for the Orks (who are near and dear to my heart) the new Deff Dread (pictured), Killa Kans, and Flash Git with Targeting Squig.

Now, First off I love the new Deff Dread model.  Very Orky look, and I love the 4 arms.  The Killa Kans look good, but I was partial to their old models so the updates are nice but weren't as necessary.  I do like how the Deff Dread doesn't look like a bigger Killa Kan.  But, that being said, the Killa Kans need to be in units of 2-3 so having a box that has 3 plastic units versus having to buy them 1 metal model at a time is perfect.  And the Flash Git is great.  And since we didn't have any of the Flash Gitz models I'm loving what we have here, but having it available only through the GW stores or website is pain in the butt, since I don't have a close GW store and I buy from an independent hobby store.

On the Non-Ork front, the Venerable Dred and the IG tanks look pretty cool as well.

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Free Army List Form From Games Workshop

Games workshop has released a free Army List Form as a downloadable pdf file.  It's nicely laid out, and well organized, and it's a great tool for people like me that don't use Army Builder.

My only beef is that I wish the pdf was a form with fields so I could type my information into it so that it would be an easier to read document than when I write it by hand.  Otherwise, it's a nice document.

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40K Neotube - 2/3/10

This week's 40K Neotube finds me only 2 weeks in and already breaking all my personal rules about this series.  The concept when I first decided to do this series was highlight a video a week, because there are some pretty neat 40K centric videos out there.  While searching for this week's video I stumbled on a great video reference series about the basic rules of 40K.   As a newer player I know that a lot of time during a game is spent looking up rules.  That's where doremicom has made a wonderful tutorial series on the rules of 5th edition 40k.  Hopefully reinforcing what we have read so we can move past rules discovery and on to fun.  There are 3 series, and I'm just highlighting Series 1 which is seven episodes long, as well as two correction episodes.  And he doesn't even get into the Assault phase or things like wound allocation.  Not the video series for recruiting new players, but once they're hooked this is a good place to start to really help them understand the nuts and bolts of the game.

Videos are after the jump.

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Chaos Rising Update - The Last Stand and Chaos Marine Multiplayer

Last week Relic announced that there will be two new heroes for The Last Stand included in Chaos Rising.  The first they announced/profiled is the Hive Tyrant.

I always wondered why the 'Nids were left out of The Last Stand.  I mean it's not really a fluff issue since you have Eldar, Orks, and Space Marines working together.  But now I see.  Those dastardly Relic guys kept their hand back to entice us even more with Chaos Rising.

Well played, sirs.  Well played.

Who wants to lay odds that the final hero for The Last Stand is a Chaos Space Marine?

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Ultramarines The Movie Update

The latest Ultramarines Movie newsletter came out today, and it had some cool nuggets of nerdy treasure included.

First up was more concept art.  Back in December an image of the Codex Chapel Entrance was released.  I liked it, but it wasn't much.  More has been revealed.  I love the fact they actually did concept art for something as small as a bolter pistol.

There was also a video and article about the Facial Capture technology being used for the animation of the movie which looks really good.

Man, just the idea of concept art for little things like Bolter Rounds (not to mention the crazy cool details like the "For the Emperor" on the casing) gives me hope they are doing right by this movie.  I highly encourage checking out the pages and seeing what they are up to.

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Chaos Rising Unit Profile: Ork Wierdboy

The Dawn of War 2 Community site has updated with the unit profile for the Chaos Rising Ork addition, the Wierdboy.

As an Ork player in the tabletop version, this is the most exciting of the unit profiles.  I mean they're all good, but the Wierdboy hits close to home for me.  I'm especially looking forward to Warp Vomit and the Foot of Gork.

You can read the entire update here.

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40K Neotube - 1-27-09

In an ongoing effort to keep myself on task with updating the blog, I have started a new regular feature called 40K Neotube.  Basically if I find a cool, humorous, entertaining, or otherwise noteworthy 40K video, I post it.

This week I start with MiniWarGaming.com's "Secret Warhammer Project Revealed?

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