Strange White Dwarf question

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**carmachu**

Does anyone know what era of WD issues Adrain Wood ork articles and battle reports are in? I really dont want to dig through 250 issues of WD to look issue by issue. Thanks

**Howard A Treesong**

Would this be of use?

http://www.gamehobby.net/subject_indexes/subject_wh40k_orks.html

**carmachu**

That works, thanks!

**92acclude**

200-230 ish?

Around there I believe.

**Trickstick**

My first issue was 201, i kind of view this as the "golden age" of WD. Paul Sawyer and Adrian Wood were both great, and I feel WD was much better back then.

Maybe I'm just an overly nostalgic 25 year old though.

**Howard A Treesong**

Trickstick wrote:My first issue was 201, i kind of view this as the "golden age" of WD. Paul Sawyer and Adrian Wood were both great, and I feel WD was much better back then.

Nope, it was still a quality magazine then. I think the really good stuff was all before #150 but there was plenty of good material up to about #250 give or take the odd dull issue. After that it started to become more obviously advert orientated and self congratulatory to the detriment of actual gaming/hobby content and Chapter Approved would be the highlight.

**Sturmtruppe**

He used to write and participate in battle reports during the late 90s mostly according to my recollection. I started buying White Dwarf around number 157 and remember he played in the battle report for that issue.

**chromedog**

It started going downhill during the 40k 4th ed period.

Still, the 'quality' issues are generally pre-250.

**Kid_Kyoto**

chromedog wrote:It started going downhill during the 40k 4th ed period.

Still, the 'quality' issues are generally pre-250.

It's all been downhill since Rogue Trader!

**Pacific**

Haha..

Best ever SM vs. Ork Bat rep I would say has to be issue 166 (October 1993). Came with a free marine or ork, damn I read that magazine so many times it practically fell apart!

http://www.gamehobby.net/white_dwarf_magazine/white_dwarf_166.html

This bat rep was so iconic, part of the battle (Andy Chambers' Captain Tycho getting brain-popped by Jervis Johnsons' Orc Weirdboy on turn 1) actually became an established part of the background in future BA codecies

**dirkthe1**

There was a battle report he did with his ork horde (with those quality dreads he made) somewhere after the gamesday with "battle of big toof river". Set in a zulu style last stand with the (then new) pretorian models and various oddball (hook anyone??)

well worth a look

**Howard A Treesong**

Got a few pics of Big Toof Battle...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/howardtreesong/DSCF3661.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/howardtreesong/DSCF3677.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/howardtreesong/DSCF3662.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/howardtreesong/DSCF3676.jpg

**dirkthe1**

Sadly I never made that gamesday, much my annoyance. Was it the same one where they had that massive empire town being wiped out by zombies?

Are they both still at GWHQ??

**Howard A Treesong**

dirkthe1 wrote:Sadly I never made that gamesday, much my annoyance. Was it the same one where they had that massive empire town being wiped out by zombies?

Are they both still at GWHQ??

I saw it at GWHQ not Gamesday, the one in the city was built a year or two later by someone I now work with oddly enough. Sadly they don't have them any more, they have the miniatures display area but all the dioramas and "life size" stuff is gone.

**dirkthe1**

A shame that is. They must store them somewhere

**Grimtuff**

dirkthe1 wrote:A shame that is. They must store them somewhere

They do, in a skip. True story sadly.

**Howard A Treesong**

I assume people had the models off them because those are worth something, unless they were specifically prevented from having the minis. But the displays themselves were definitely broken up.