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Having produced one of their best issues in a while (IMO) last month, the WD editorial team perform a perfect about turn and head back into the era of crapness with this months issue.

I suppose you can only work with what you're given, but if what you're given is utter s**t, why devote over three quarters of the magazine to it?!

Here are some of the astounding low lights...

A once again poorly mapped battle report where a Space Pup Rune Priest destroys a hitherto unharmed Great Unclean One with that stupid grabby monster power

A "Hey kids, look at all the cool things you can do with the new Space Wolves box" article (getting very bored of kit bashing articles, a five year old can kit bash)

An article that looks at the some of the admittidley impressive scenery pieces, but doesn't show how they made them

JJ achieves astonishing new lows with his "Let's all paint together" Standard Bearer

LoTR comes back

I'm normally a WD apologist, but seriously, avoid this one like Gordon Brown avoids elections

Haven't got mine yet (got a one year subscription for present, guess how much I would have wanted to change it to a Battalion!).
Otherwise I'm getting used to that kind of "hey look a new army with all these must-buy kits!" but I just can't stand the fact that they force us to read Lord of The Rings.
As Flashman said, last issue was very good. Always nice to have one good issue in a year!

White Dwarf is a waste of cash for anyone more than 2 months into the hobby.

*as an aside...
A five year old can indeed kitbash Flash, but kitbashing well and in a complimentary style is actually a fairly part of the hobby. I find your comment somewhat unnecessary and a bit harsh.

I flicked through it in the store and put it back down. Nothing of value in there at all. At least it's better than the days when they devoted a whole 50% of the mag to LoTRs. I only really buy it now when there's some painting guides in there my girlfriend might be interested in.

Oh please. There was just as much chance for the non-new army of the month to win that BatRep as there was for the new army of the month.

Battle Reports aren't rigged. Fethin' bunch'a cynics the lotta'a ya!

noooo, after the last one (to those of us not interested in the new space hulk it's really not even worth opening in my opinion, and not worth the price tag for sure) I thought it couldn't get any worse. And after that promising issue a couple of months back as well :(.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Oh please. There was just as much chance for the non-new army of the month to win that BatRep as there was for the new army of the month.

Battle Reports aren't rigged. Fethin' bunch'a cynics the lotta'a ya!

You know the report is a draw yeah ?

Standard Bearer was spectacularly pointless this month, I swear it was a reprint.

I suspect that the column may now in fact be sponsored by Domino's pizza perhaps.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
*as an aside...
A five year old can indeed kitbash Flash, but kitbashing well and in a complimentary style is actually a fairly part of the hobby. I find your comment somewhat unnecessary and a bit harsh.

Apologies to cause offence MGS. My point is that I don't think we need to be told that you can use heads from Kit A on bodies from Kit B on a monthly basis.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Oh please. There was just as much chance for the non-new army of the month to win that BatRep as there was for the new army of the month.

Battle Reports aren't rigged. Fethin' bunch'a cynics the lotta'a ya!

And you don't have just as many GW-induced mental scars as any other 40K veteran? What about me and my massive LatD army? Or the Baneblade and Stompa that I'll never use? Or the absolute lack of those awesome card sections that they use to have? Or the letters? I want LETTERS!!!

Flashman wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
*as an aside...
A five year old can indeed kitbash Flash, but kitbashing well and in a complimentary style is actually a fairly part of the hobby. I find your comment somewhat unnecessary and a bit harsh.

Apologies to cause offence MGS. My point is that I don't think we need to be told that you can use heads from Kit A on bodies from Kit B on a monthly basis.

Concurred and yes, further evidence that WD is not worth your money.

warpcrafter wrote:And you don't have just as many GW-induced mental scars as any other 40K veteran?

I think you need to find a mechanic. Your sarcasm detector is acting up.

The best part was the back cover and I don't mean that in an ironic "thank god I finished the magazine" way.

Skaven next month!

I think I'll be skipping this one then.

One for the club's library then (my - misguided fools that they are - friends insist on getting me a subscription every year as a birthday present) as I'll not be reading much of it - the space viking werewolves really don't appeal to me and lotr appeals less.

They'll only put card sections in again when they want to hike the price up yet again. And ofcourse a few months down the line the card sections vanish. Havent touched a white dwarf in years, the only one I have bought since I think it was the issue they told us how much they had screwed 40k with 3rd ed was the one with the eldar release. And that was so my son wouldnt steal the codex I bought. And the next day I still had to buy another codex as he stole it anyways

Flashman wrote:
LoTR comes back

Wow, really? A core game got some token coverage? Those swines! Next thing you will be telling me there about to release some more models and rules for LotR too….

This is an utterly ludicrous complaint and no more appropriate than me complaining about 40K getting coverage.

WD is there to cover the entire hobby and not just the parts you personally like.

poor, poor White Dwarf, I want it to be good SOOOOOOO badly.....but it isn't

I quite liked the painting masterclass on the Wolf Guard with Wolf Claws, the method for SW armour is very good, as is the method for red hair.

If you don't like wd don't read it.

Valcatta wrote:If you don't like wd don't read it.

And if you're unsure, these reviews are good to know if you want to spend the money or not.

Would you belive this was the first white dwarf I've gotten in close to a year? As it happens I picked it up because of the detailed pics of the wolf pack bitz and he kitbashing article showng some of the other space wolf bitz.

Oh, and forget Dominos, get Pizza Hut, they support the rebelion.

I came close to buying a subscription when I restared the hobby a year ago.....

but I bought figures instead...I keep thinking I shoulda bought the sub but the more I read my friends the more I think I made the right move

nyyman wrote:Haven't got mine yet (got a one year subscription for present, guess how much I would have wanted to change it to a Battalion!).
Otherwise I'm getting used to that kind of "hey look a new army with all these must-buy kits!" but I just can't stand the fact that they force us to read Lord of The Rings.
As Flashman said, last issue was very good. Always nice to have one good issue in a year!

As if WD would be any "better" if they pulled LOTR out of it.

Well it would be shorter. Which might make it better depending on your point of view. "Lets just advertise for two games as opposed to three."

TBH Its not that bad WD at the end of the day yes you get terrible issues but come on there can be some cool bits in it i think your just going heavy on it
though i hold my hands up it can be quite poor at times.

Flashman wrote:Having produced one of their best issues in a while (IMO) last month, the WD editorial team perform a perfect about turn and head back into the era of crapness with this months issue.

If it's mostly off, then isn't that what you should expect, rather than a sudden change with just one issue?

I mean, did GW trumpet some grand structural and editorial changes with the last issue that led us to believe that it wasn't a case of a blind squirrel finding a nut?

This one had it's moments, I liked the model highlight in the back with one of the Perry bros. models being picked, that fat friar. Lovely model.

whitedragon wrote:

Valcatta wrote:If you don't like wd don't read it.

And if you're unsure, these reviews are good to know if you want to spend the money or not.

That would be fair if this was a review, but it's just some guy saying he wasn't interested in anything in it.

The LotR games have been out for nearly 10 years, and we still have people moaning about it being in WD.

Get over it.

Where are the whines that they covered 40k, but you only play Warhammer? Or vice-versa?

Did you feel this way when they did an article on BFG, BloodBowl, Warmaster, Mordheim, or any other game GW made?

"You" meaning the general you, not a specific poster.

I got this month WD too, and i agree that it did not have a lot of content.. sigh indeed..

But, has anyone else noticed that all the tyranids had a repaint-job? (page 1 and 16-17)
All ranged-weapons that were white first (Leviathan), are now painted red instead!

what do you all think? is this another hint for a new codex?

Feluca

@feluca: You mean, *besides* the Nid codex announced for Feb next year?

I can't see why they don't go with a nice red-brown-black scheme for Nids instead of the god-awful schemes they come up with. It's like GW has no clue how to paint their own models the way John Blanche draws them...