White Dwarf 353 Review

Posted by Ranillon on 28. May 2009 20:27

Thought I would go over the newest White Dwarf and any 40K material inside.  Most of the material in this issue relates to Warhammer, specifically to the Empire.  Great for those of us with Empire armies, but not so great for 40K.

Page 12 -- A preview of the upcoming Planetary Empire expansion.  It's basically Mighty Empires for 40K.  Same tiles, but with a 40K theme.  The tiles are of a planet surface, not space.  The quality looks as good as its Warhammer cousin.

Pages 44-49 -- Two new Apocalypse formations with lots of nice pictures.  Both relate to the new Valkyrie models.  The first is the "Bellerophon" Pattern Airborne Assault Group.  You need to take at least two Valkyries to play it.  It turns IG codex Valkyries into flyers, the whole group counts as a single unit in terms of reserve rolls and must enter play within 12" of the command Valkyrie, and you get the Blind Barrage strategic asset.  The second is "Steel Eagle - Colonel Paseski's Command Valkyrie".  For 200 points you get to reroll immobilized results for any Valkyrie/Vendetta within 24", instead of heavy bolters you get snipers that can (beyond normal fire) get one special "champion" shot that can potentially kill or blow up anything, and the Steel Eagle counts as the Supreme Headquarters strategic asset.  Page 49 includes a sweet bunch of pictures of the actual Steel Eagle conversion.  Think Valkyrie with a Catachan theme.

Page 79 -- A page on using Chaos bits to liven up models and to make objective markers.

Pages 80-84 -- Another painting masters article about Keith Robertson.  Fantastic painter.  A number of his shown examples are of 40K miniatures.  I wish I could blend and highlight like he can!

Pages 94-95 -- Citadel Hall of Fame showing off some wonderfully painted Harlequin models.

Page 108 -- The best part, namely the listing of our upcoming tournament at Origins!

That's pretty much it, but never fear as next month looks to be 40K-centric -- Planetstrike is coming!