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There is absolutely NOTHING in this issue for 40k players. That is unless you want to allow GW to shove Apocalypse down your throat (I dont) in which case the entire issue it seems is dedicated to the Stompa and Baneblade hull tanks.

WD has been really bad, I know, but I frequently find SOMETHING in there to read. Even if its Jervis complaining about Tournement play.... There's always SOMETHING that applies to 40k.

This issue....nothing, nathan, nada. The most exiting peice of 40k news to me in this ish is the upcoming Wolf Guard with lightning claws...and I dont even play space wolves or necessarily care for the model. There is also a feature on the Black reach Warboss on how to paint him.

I dont play Apocalypse, I'm not extremely exited about the lizardmen release as I'm building a Dark Elf army slowly....this issue sucks ballz. I knew it was going to be bad...it always is...but spending an extra dollar now for something that neglects me so badly infuriates me.

I've held out for long enough...used to pick up every white dwarf...then the content started shifting and I perused them at least before I picked them up...then it got even worse and I only picked them up if I was either really exited about some article or if the mag seems like its ALL 40k (rare)...THEN the price increase for the 130 pg flyer went thru...and this is my first issue since then.

It's also my last...ever. Screw you White Dwarf, never again. If there was a GW employee involved in making the White Dwarf within 10 feet of me right now, I'd wing the mag at him spine first. This thing is garbage. Strike that, white dwarf has BEEN garbage, but at least there's usually something to laugh at or talk about...this time there isnt even that.

I know, I deserved it....but I feel better now. I'm going to go take a poop now, and wipe my butt with the cover right all over that stompa, I'm not kidding.

Deadshane1 wrote:There is absolutely NOTHING in this issue for 40k players. That is unless you want to allow GW to shove Apocalypse down your throat (I dont) in which case the entire issue it seems is dedicated to the Stompa and Baneblade hull tanks.

I'm getting it, but then again, I think Apocalypse is infinitely better than points based 40K. Apocalypse reminds me of my friends and I throwing down everything we owned on my parent's pool table and playing all night when we were in high school. Great fun to play that way and we always had scenarios for each game with special rules and plenty of VDR/home-made units and vehicles.

There's often "absolutely NOTHING for 40k players" in WD (unless you play army X; or unless you like to read modeling articles; or unless you like tacticas...)

So it's got the new Guard Tank Datasheets?

Awesome!

Also, welcome to the no-WD-buyer club. Too bad it too you so long to join. Some of us have been members for years!

Platuan4th wrote:

Deadshane1 wrote:There is absolutely NOTHING in this issue for 40k players. That is unless you want to allow GW to shove Apocalypse down your throat (I dont) in which case the entire issue it seems is dedicated to the Stompa and Baneblade hull tanks.

I'm getting it, but then again, I think Apocalypse is infinitely better than points based 40K. Apocalypse reminds me of my friends and I throwing down everything we owned on my parent's pool table and playing all night when we were in high school. Great fun to play that way and we always had scenarios for each game with special rules and plenty of VDR/home-made units and vehicles.

Apocalypse is inherantly points based too...otherwise its a giant cluster-fuc* of a game. All that different is you play more points and get to use your big things.

Deadshane1 wrote:There is absolutely NOTHING in this issue for 40k players. That is unless you want to allow GW to shove Apocalypse down your throat (I dont) in which case the entire issue it seems is dedicated to the Stompa and Baneblade hull tanks.

WD has been really bad, I know, but I frequently find SOMETHING in there to read. Even if its Jervis complaining about Tournement play.... There's always SOMETHING that applies to 40k.

This issue....nothing, nathan, nada. The most exiting peice of 40k news to me in this ish is the upcoming Wolf Guard with lightning claws...and I dont even play space wolves or necessarily care for the model. There is also a feature on the Black reach Warboss on how to paint him.

I dont play Apocalypse, I'm not extremely exited about the lizardmen release as I'm building a Dark Elf army slowly....this issue sucks ballz. I knew it was going to be bad...it always is...but spending an extra dollar now for something that neglects me so badly infuriates me.

I've held out for long enough...used to pick up every white dwarf...then the content started shifting and I perused them at least before I picked them up...then it got even worse and I only picked them up if I was either really exited about some article or if the mag seems like its ALL 40k (rare)...THEN the price increase for the 130 pg flyer went thru...and this is my first issue since then.

It's also my last...ever. Screw you White Dwarf, never again. If there was a GW employee involved in making the White Dwarf within 10 feet of me right now, I'd wing the mag at him spine first. This thing is garbage. Strike that, white dwarf has BEEN garbage, but at least there's usually something to laugh at or talk about...this time there isnt even that.

I know, I deserved it....but I feel better now. I'm going to go take a poop now, and wipe my butt with the cover right all over that stompa, I'm not kidding.

Look, we all know that White Dwarf has deteriorated to nothing more than a magazine size advertisement. But ranting because one issue doesn't do anything for you is silly. You don't play Apoc; others do. The Lizardmen release features don't excite you. Well, now you know how Lizardmen players felt when the new Dark Elf releases were showcased over 2-3 issues. There's lots of things you can criticize White Dwarf for. But you've known for a while that it's always about the new stuff.

And even if you don't like the issue, to be fair, this month's painting tutorial on the Ork Warboss is really great. I found it pretty helpful. I also found last month's face painting tutorial to be really helpful, as well.

You've broken free Deadshane1!
Revel in your time.

White Dwarf is some of the worst toilet paper I've ever used. You'd think for that amount of money it would at least be as soft as Charmin.

Inquisitor Whipple! Don't squeeze the White Dwarf, hand me the pliers.

I used to buy WD when the battle reports were told in a story instead of "...and then the Farseer failed his armour save and was removed". That also used to be when WD was cool. I don't remember what issue # those were though... hehe.

I found the terrain bits interesting...not enough to buy it, but I don't regret browsing.

I always wondered how to do those jungle trees I've seen and now I know...barbeque skewers. Of course I have a billion dowel rods I could have used that would have looked the same, but still...it never actually occurred to me for some reason.

I'm a big Apoc player and even I thought it stunk it up. It was just silly, 8+ Stompas puh-leese!

Also it only contains two of the data sheets.

On the plus side, it does have rules for custom stompas.

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So, yeah, does it have the sheets for all the Shadowsword variants?

BYE

No Sir it does not. It has the shadowsword and the stormlord wich was already released in Apoc Reloaded. It has a note stating that the sheets will be released on line.

So...what Fantasy and War of the Ring stuff does it have?

glon52 wrote:No Sir it does not. It has the shadowsword and the stormlord wich was already released in Apoc Reloaded. It has a note stating that the sheets will be released on line.

But the stormlord rules in Apoc reloaded were all messed up. They didn't list the tank as having a hull-mounted TL heavy bolter on the front and didn't give you any options to take heavy stubbers on the crew compartment, even though both were shown in the datasheet's diagram. These weapons are also found on the new model so we're all hoping that the WD datasheet has fixed these omissions.

Got any info on that?

Hmm... I thought they were going to release the rules in WD.

Not that I care mind you - one less thing I have to buy - but I thought that was kinda the point of the whole Stompa/Shadowsword issue.

But online is better. I like PDFs.

BYE

Joyous_Oblivion wrote:Apocalypse is inherantly points based too...otherwise its a giant cluster-fuc* of a game. All that different is you play more points and get to use your big things.

I happen to like giant cluster-f games...

Ha! Well to each his own. I just spent an hour completely enjoying this issue. I guess I'm more easily amused, or less cynical, than some.

Yep, it featured the Stomper and Shadowsword kits, and the Lizardmen. Gee, I wonder why? Excellant article on the new stuff, rules for things you can make from the new kits, variant stompers, and mekboy upgrades.

The mekboy upgrades scare me, as they may cause me to build about 3 more stompers than I was going to do originally. Belly gun? Wrecking ball? Redpaint job? This is sounding like what I liked about the old epic game.

And the big, doublesided poster was pretty cool.

Zip Napalm wrote:Inquisitor Whipple! Don't squeeze the White Dwarf, hand me the pliers.

Sigged.

Thats why I read it in the store instead of buying it. Unless it's about a new codex release or if it has good 'Eavy Metal articles.

malfred wrote:So...what Fantasy and War of the Ring stuff does it have?

He can't tell you, Malf. Those pages are covered in dookie.


Eric

Deadshane1 wrote:There is absolutely NOTHING in this issue for 40k players. That is unless you want to allow GW to shove Apocalypse down your throat (I dont) in which case the entire issue it seems is dedicated to the Stompa and Baneblade hull tanks.

WD has been really bad, I know, but I frequently find SOMETHING in there to read. Even if its Jervis complaining about Tournement play.... There's always SOMETHING that applies to 40k.

This issue....nothing, nathan, nada. The most exiting peice of 40k news to me in this ish is the upcoming Wolf Guard with lightning claws...and I dont even play space wolves or necessarily care for the model. There is also a feature on the Black reach Warboss on how to paint him.

I dont play Apocalypse, I'm not extremely exited about the lizardmen release as I'm building a Dark Elf army slowly....this issue sucks ballz. I knew it was going to be bad...it always is...but spending an extra dollar now for something that neglects me so badly infuriates me.

I've held out for long enough...used to pick up every white dwarf...then the content started shifting and I perused them at least before I picked them up...then it got even worse and I only picked them up if I was either really exited about some article or if the mag seems like its ALL 40k (rare)...THEN the price increase for the 130 pg flyer went thru...and this is my first issue since then.

It's also my last...ever. Screw you White Dwarf, never again. If there was a GW employee involved in making the White Dwarf within 10 feet of me right now, I'd wing the mag at him spine first. This thing is garbage. Strike that, white dwarf has BEEN garbage, but at least there's usually something to laugh at or talk about...this time there isnt even that.

I know, I deserved it....but I feel better now. I'm going to go take a poop now, and wipe my butt with the cover right all over that stompa, I'm not kidding.

The rest of us are laughing AT you, not with you.

You one of the last people buying this gack mag? thats probibly why its 9 bucks now instead of 6.

!@#$ WD. Its been crap for the last 2 years. wake up and put your money to something of better use, like some minis.

I've been spending my hard earned coins on No Quarter and have yet to be disappointed. PP publishes a great mag that contains aspects for all; tactica, previews, battle reports, how to-do, painting, fluff, tourny support and advertisements.

The last decent WD was some time in the early 2000s...

Yak-

They did not correct the crew compartment heavy stubbers omission.

glon52 wrote:Yak-

They did not correct the crew compartment heavy stubbers omission.

Weaksauce.