White Dwarf Issue #100: Review of the Year 2015

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Contents: The White Dwarf Review of the Year

This issue of White Dwarf is all about rehash, but in a good way. These year in review issues are a good good way for the average fan to keep track of what happened over the past 12 months in the land of Games Workshop, especially when you consider the rapid release schedule we now have. To make this easy we are going to condense the already condensed month by month break down ground in this issue.

• January: Necrons, End Times – Thanquol
• February: Harlequins
• March: End Times – Archaon, Khorne Daemonkin
• April: Skitarii, Eldar
• May: Imperial Knights, Assassinorum – Execution Force, Cult Mechanicus
• June: Space Marines, Dark Angels
• July: Age of Sigmar
• August: Chaos Dreadhold
• September: Quest for Ghal Maraz
• October: Tau, War Zone Damocles – Kouyon
• November: Horus Heresy – Betrayal at Calth, War Zone Damocles – Mon’ta, Seraphon
• December: Archaon – Everchosen

Contents: The Year in: Forge World

Intermixed with the timeline are a few pages dedicated to Forge World. Here we get a quick list of everything released from them over the year with the Ta’unar and Warlord Titan being the highlights.

Contents: The Year In: Black Library

As with Forge World we get a page for Black Library. This doesn’t actually do any justice to the amount of releases this part of GW had, and the selection they chose to mention is pretty weak.

Contents: Miniature of the Year 2015

The issue ends with White Dwarf calling for readers to submit their top five choices for model of the year for 2015. This is neat idea, if only it was done in a more interesting way. As it is you can email White Dwarf what you think and the results will come out in two months, well after you forget about 2015 or the choices you made in the first place.

Next Issue Hint: New year, New Army…

Final Verdict

Issue #100 is an average issue providing no usable material, but is a great time capsule for looking back. The issue does a great job breaking down what we saw each month from the last year, but gives terrible lip service to the Black Library and Forge World.