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I reckon this is one of the best White Dwarfs in recent memory (I mean several years), if you like Warhammer Fantasy Battle. It's the special 25th Anniversary edition and it rocks.

Anyway, for anyone interested, I wrote a review of it on my blog below (from a fantasy battle fan perspective):-

White Dwarf April 2008 contents review

Get a load of this... there's a 26 page battle report covering a 25,000pt battle - sweet heh?!

Does it explain why Harry the Hammer(er) has such an incongruous name compared to every other frikkin' Chaos character in the game?

Becuase Harry the Hammer is from 25 years ago when Warhammer didn't take itself so seriously?

Ah. Was this Harry a buddy of Thrud the Barbarian or something?

Why can't the review just be posted on here? Just askin' as I hate clicking on unknown links.

Obviously because the OP wants some traffic for his blog. Nothing wrong with that, I guess.

Is Harry the guy swatting the skelly in the old art? Was he ever made a real character before this, or is he just a (mostly forgotten) mascot?

fullheadofhair wrote:Why can't the review just be posted on here? Just askin' as I hate clicking on unknown links.

Plus blogger is blocked for Dakka's billions of potential Red Chinese readers.

Why are you holding back a nation of billions?

Here is a copy//paste for this in the red...

White Dwarf WD340 April 2008 Contents Review
Let me be quite clear, this is the best "fantasy related" edition I have seen for White Dwarf in recent years. Fantasy Battle is, for the second month running (thanks also to Vampire Counts), the primary focus of this edition of White Dwarf.

Here, in brief is the content (just things of interest to Fantasy Battle Fans):-

New Releases



25th Anniversary T-Shirts (one showing the old Harry the Hammer picture)
Harry the Hammer new release (only availalbe on 26th & 27th April)
25th Anniversary Rulebook - limited edition (only 2,500 of them)
(note, this includes a bonded leather hardback current edition rule book - with silver lined pages ! And it includes the very 1st edition of the Warhammer Rules !!!!!! Yes !)
Chaos Daemon Spearheads and other new Daemon miniatures (see my Chaos Daemons thread). Or you can probably scroll down the page a bit !
25th Anniversary Figure Case, dice sets (with a chance to win some solid silver dice - albeit a very slim chance - I think about as likely as rolling 6 on 7xD6's all at once! Having said that, someone is going to win them and there's 25 sets)

Black Library



The Thousand Thrones - An epic Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay campaign.
Vampire Wars - the 3 Vampire novels by Steven Savile (Inheritance, Dominion and Retribution)
The Art of Clint Langley fantasy & science fiction art
Time of Legends - The Legend of Sigmar, The Rise of Nagash, The Sundering


A Huge Article on Legendary Battles - a Warhammer Expansion (6 pages + 2 pages opening spread picture - awe inspiring)
(Massively Mutliplayer Warhammer Tabletop Games)

Includes rules for setup, team selection, pts total (minimum 5000pts), allies, monstrous hordes, massed batteries, desperation tokens (more on all this later when I've had a chance to digest it all)

A massive and I mean MASSIVE 25,000 pt (!!!) Battle Report (26 pages)
Orcs and Goblins vs Empire and Dwarfs
(notable characters include: Grimgor Ironhide - can't wait to see how he gest on, Skarsnik & Gobbla, The Emperor Karl Franz, Kurt Helborg, Bathasar Gelt, Volkmar the Grim and Ludwig Schwarzhelm)

notes: It is a seige like battle with a Huge Orc & Goblin Battlering Ram and a LOT of miniatures. Multiple monsters, artillery batteries and literally hundreds of Cavalry - and I guess an ice-cream tub full of dice

Architects of War - an interview with game developers about the secrets of the last 25 years of game development (5 pages)

Words of Wisdom - interview with Alan Merrett, a very experienced GW staff member. Almost like a continuity expert (1 page)

Images of Warhammer - interview with John Blanche (2 pages)

The Ziggurat of Doom - an updated version of a classic Warhammer Scenario by Gav Thorpe (2 pages)

25 Most Influential Warhammer Characters - GW poll (6 pages)
-Thanquol was disqualified - ue to too many teeth marked ratty votes lol

Standard Bearer - an article on the coming Daemon Army lists (3 pages)

Army building and batch painting article (8 pages)
Something I need in a bad way - having a High Elf and VC army to put together in short time !

Harry the Hammer Special Character Profile for Hordes of Chaos (2 pages)
Some notes: Unbreakable, Killing Blow and Hate Undead - passed onto units he joins.
Magic hammer D6 wounds, no armour saves ! re-rollable to wound against Undead, Daemon or Forest spirits.
And an extraordinary power - even the dead are scared of Harry - he causes Terror in them ! Lol.

A suggested scenario including Harry + 1000pts vs 1750 pts Undead (1 page)

A Harry the Hammer in house painting contest with 7 entrants and great photos (5 pages)

Events diary, calendar, Collectors range and Bitz Packs (mail order) and the usual adverts


Phew - my back is killing me, too much excitement and I need a new chair !

To summarise, one of the best ever White Dwarf mags for Fantasy Battle Fans

Harry = so totally the man!

I really don't want to have to head to Philly April 26/27 to plop down a ridiculous amount of green for the man, but you know, sticking it to tree spirits / undead with such a badass might be worth it ...

If nothing else, perhaps I buy my first WD in years :S

- Salvage

Harry rules. I saw a pic of the miniature on the GW site, and it doesn't look much like the original John Blanche painting though. I'll probably just buy the T-shirt. It's about time I bought a Warhammer-related shirt anyway.

Death By Monkeys wrote:Does it explain why Harry the Hammer(er) has such an incongruous name compared to every other frikkin' Chaos character in the game?

According to the GW site his full name is "Harald Hammerstorm"

- Salvage

Vero wrote:

Words of Wisdom - interview with Alan Merrett, a very experienced GW staff member. Almost like a continuity expert (1 page)

Now that's funny.

For all the wrong reasons, but still, funny!

Boss_Salvage wrote:Harry = so totally the man!


- Salvage

If nothing else having zombies and skeletons shamble away from him in terror will be great. I know a couple of VC and TK players whose panties are going to be in a knot about him.

Hm. Still seems like a bad porn name to me. Can anyone link a pic of the original Warhammer cover? There's a pretty bad shot of it on GW's site, but I can't find anything better (okay, I probably could, but I'm being lazy with my google fu right now).

Death By Monkeys wrote:Still seems like an AWESOME porn name to me.

Fixed your typo.

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

Death By Monkeys wrote:Still seems like an AWESOME porn name to me.

Fixed your typo.

QFT. Thanks, Aba!

The Harry painting contest is a GREAT article. The 7 "entrants" are the 7 EM painters. EM painters usually have to paint clean, top shelf minis without a ton of character. When they have competitions like this, these guys (and girls) go nuts, and it's totally worth it to see their work when they cut loose.

The last time they did this was WD 232 for the Jes Goodwin Chaos Lord (40K) with the raised axe.

Frankly, they should do it much more often (like every 6 months). It's nice to see a single (showcase) mini painted so many different ways by people with ridiculous talent.