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Guy Haley did play; his Guard were in an entertaining battle report vs Tyranids, and his losing streak with Goblins was legendary.

What I miss most with WD is the voices of the team members. Time was when you knew the 'style' of each contributer, and could follow there army growth and play style. Thats gone now. The only person who shows any personality now is JJ. Woop-de-fething-do.

Brother SRM wrote:I read WD for the pretty pictures.

I'm the same with Nuts and Zoo magazines...

Actually, i used to really enjoy white dwarf. it was a lot of fun back in the day, it just grew worser and worser with time. I used to fiercely defend white dwarf's reports, always using that excuse that the new army would win because it was new, rather than there being a fix. But much less so now, as the reports got a little out of hand.
it does seem, however that the least biased ones should be those when no new army is brought out, for expansions and the like, as these shouldn't be biased.
I think it was the latest, Spearhead one that failed the most. the Eldar player admits he doesn't actually ever play Eldar, then goes on to say that Falcons with brightlances are great against tanks, and gives them scatterlasers instead.
for his troops, he thinks that 21 jetbikes with str3 will be great against tanks in a tank battle, and for back up takes Dire Avengers, who are great at tank busting, having str4 instead. all of which he doesn't actually need, because his tanks can hold objectives too.
for a tank battle, he manages to take 7 tanks, two walkers and one monstrous creature, whereas the Imperial player, who seems to actually have picked up an imperial codex once, takes 13 tanks, 2 walkers and a flyer.
and somehow loses, showing that they're all idiots anyway.
thanks for that thread, I've been wanting to rant that for ages.
good to get it off my chest.

erik..