Warhammer Fantasy Battle Archive

  • My first attempt at a display board. My borrowed foam hill board.  It belongs to the FLGS. Display boards are important for any serious tournament player.  Many tournaments still use soft scores and making your army look it’s best is incredibly important to scoring well overall.  My Salamanders won a...

    Capture and Control: Hobby Project: Display Board!

    My first attempt at a display board. My borrowed foam hill board.  It belongs to the FLGS. Display boards are important for any serious tournament player.  Many tournaments still use soft scores and making your army look it’s best is incredibly important to scoring well overall.  My Salamanders won a...

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  • Terrain makes our toys look better. Some people love to paint and build terrain.  Some people hate it.  I think terrain is one of those things with our hobby that you absolutely 100% must be in the mood to do or it just isn’t going to happen.  I can force...

    Capture and Control: Terrain! The Neglected Side of my Hobby.

    Terrain makes our toys look better. Some people love to paint and build terrain.  Some people hate it.  I think terrain is one of those things with our hobby that you absolutely 100% must be in the mood to do or it just isn’t going to happen.  I can force...

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  • Masters of WW2 I have been MIA for a while.  Life has a tendency to get in the way of blogging, I had the end of the trimester at work so there was a ton of grading I had to do, plus having a 14 month old and an expectant...

    Capture and Control: Warhammer 40k Masters Series

    Masters of WW2 I have been MIA for a while.  Life has a tendency to get in the way of blogging, I had the end of the trimester at work so there was a ton of grading I had to do, plus having a 14 month old and an expectant...

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  • by SandWyrm We’ve talked about 3D printing and it’s threat to Games Workshop before. but now the Huffington Post is reporting that 40K-Infringing objects have begun to show up on the Pirate Bay. Pirate Bay Hosts Physical Objects – And Violates Games Workshop Copyright?Huffington Post UKA model listed by an...

    The Back 40K: And So It Begins… Some Advice To GW

    by SandWyrm We’ve talked about 3D printing and it’s threat to Games Workshop before. but now the Huffington Post is reporting that 40K-Infringing objects have begun to show up on the Pirate Bay. Pirate Bay Hosts Physical Objects – And Violates Games Workshop Copyright?Huffington Post UKA model listed by an...

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  • Cold dice, they happen to everyone.  You can play 3 games in a row with hot dice that go cold at the crucial moment in the third.  You can play a game where the dice are cold only at the moments where they really matter.  You can play a tournament...

    Capture and Control: How do you deal with "cold" dice?

    Cold dice, they happen to everyone.  You can play 3 games in a row with hot dice that go cold at the crucial moment in the third.  You can play a game where the dice are cold only at the moments where they really matter.  You can play a tournament...

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  • by SandWyrm Time to clear out the rest of my Warhammer Fantasy Dwarf collection. Plus a few other things. 5 Unpainted Dwarf Slayers That speck on his beard is just a loose paint chip from my Guard carrying case. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290641967722 Painted Dwarf Slayer Unit I originally painted these guys after...

    The Back 40K: The Last Of My Dwarfs Are Now For Sale

    by SandWyrm Time to clear out the rest of my Warhammer Fantasy Dwarf collection. Plus a few other things. 5 Unpainted Dwarf Slayers That speck on his beard is just a loose paint chip from my Guard carrying case. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290641967722 Painted Dwarf Slayer Unit I originally painted these guys after...

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  • Reecius announced the 2012 Bay Area Open this week.  It will be held March 2nd-4th.  I am posting it up on here because I attended the BAO last year and thought it was a superb event.  Well run, excellent tables, fantastic judges, and loads of prizes in a good venue...

    Capture and Control: Tournaments: Bay Area Open 2012

    Reecius announced the 2012 Bay Area Open this week.  It will be held March 2nd-4th.  I am posting it up on here because I attended the BAO last year and thought it was a superb event.  Well run, excellent tables, fantastic judges, and loads of prizes in a good venue...

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  • A little while back I wrote a short blurb about the rumored Holiday Megaforces and Army Sets.  The rumors are true!  The Megaforces are up for pre-order now, unfortunately though we are only getting the 2 that we leaked previously So we get a Space Marine and Dark Eldar Megaforce. ...

    Capture and Control: News: GW Advanced Orders, we were right!

    A little while back I wrote a short blurb about the rumored Holiday Megaforces and Army Sets.  The rumors are true!  The Megaforces are up for pre-order now, unfortunately though we are only getting the 2 that we leaked previously So we get a Space Marine and Dark Eldar Megaforce. ...

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  • GW put up a bunch of “new” and new hobby tools on their site including: ‘Eavy metal brush set ‘Eavy metal painting guide The Paint Station + The Hobby tools case that came out 2 years ago is now re-released 2 “new” cases one for 40k one for Fantasy, they...

    Capture and Control: New Hobby Tools from GW

    GW put up a bunch of “new” and new hobby tools on their site including: ‘Eavy metal brush set ‘Eavy metal painting guide The Paint Station + The Hobby tools case that came out 2 years ago is now re-released 2 “new” cases one for 40k one for Fantasy, they...

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  • Looks like a little tid bit on the GW holiday specials has been dropped.  Dark Eldar get a Megaforce for sure.  This box would be better if you took out the Raider and added two more Venoms, hell I might actually buy 3 of them if that were the case! ...

    Capture and Control: Holiday Specials from GW.

    Looks like a little tid bit on the GW holiday specials has been dropped.  Dark Eldar get a Megaforce for sure.  This box would be better if you took out the Raider and added two more Venoms, hell I might actually buy 3 of them if that were the case! ...

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