The Purge is a novella about the World Bearers. The first book is Sons of Titan which is a collection of four Grey Knights stories.
It looks like something out of Robotech rather than 40K, which I strongly approve of. I don’t even want to imagine the price tag on that piece of resin. There are two books and a giant Forge World Ta’unar K139. Considering the author is Josh Reynolds, I’m guessing either Arkhan the Black, Neferata, Khalida or ugh…Manfred. We also get a new audiobook entitled The Prisoner of the Black Sun.It features the Hallowed Knights, an appearance by Nagash and a tease of a pre- Age of Sigmar favorite for fans of the old version of Warhammer Fantasy. Of course, if you really want to, you can always spring for the limited edition which comes with a special cover and some art prints for only twice the cost of the standard edition. It’s not worth spending $58 for a book without any real impetus to purchase it. There are three new Battleplans in the book, but sooner or later they’ll be online too.
Of course, since most warscrolls are free to download in several different ways, you’re really only purchasing this book for fluff and art. This time it is for the Khorne Bloodbound and it’s very similar in design and layout as the one the Stormcast Eternals got a while back. There’s a new “Chaos Battletome” aka what we used to call Army Books/Codexes. There are other things Games Workshop wants you to purchase besides some plastic figurines though. So 0 for 2 in terms of sculpts this week. A lot of lost opportunity here with this piece.
Plus wouldn’t it be fun to say “I murdered your Celestant with a freakin’ anvil?” Of course, the fluff tried to pass off the massive Warhammer the SKullgrinder carries as an anvil, but holy crap if you can’t tell the difference between a Warhammer and an anvil, you probably shouldn’t be crafting fantasy miniatures. I would have definitely included that on the sculpt – maybe even have him use it as a weapon to show the insane berserk nature of Chaos. The fluff constantly talks about the Skullgrinder’s anvil, but it is nowhere to be seen on the figure. I LOVE the idea of a weaponforger/blacksmith, especially for Chaos but the figure is just very uninteresting to me. The Skullgrinder however is an interesting piece. From the giant spine exploding out of his back to the face that looks like he is having an extremely large bowel movement, this is an easy pass for me. Anyway, the Slaughterpriece sounds like a nice piece for board control and there is some interesting fluff around him, but the figure is really laughable.
It’s too bad Malekith and Tyrion didn’t kidnap Khorne instead of Tzeentch. They’ve always been the least interesting part of any form of Warhammer. Of course, I tend to think most Khorne figures are unintentionally hilarious looking. The first miniature is the Slaughterpriest. “Prayers of Blood” is the intro to the sales piece, setting the stage for a Khorne heavy issue. Anyway, only two miniature releases this week, so expect another issue of heavy padding. I mean I’m a fantasy guy, not a Warhammer 40,000 one, but I’d imagine some 40K guys would enjoy having stats for these sculpts so they can (legally) add them to their space Khorne team. This week the focus is on Khorne’s forces in Age of Sigmar.I keep hoping they’ll release 40K stats for some of Chaos’ Age of Sigmar guys, if only because then everyone can use them. Get it Here: The Black Library (Or your local Games Workshop retailer)Īnother week, another White Dwarf.