White Dwarf... Good?
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:22 pm
Having lived through the "White Dwarf is literally and explicitly just a miniatures catalog" era, I was a little trepidatious of picking up the January WD for some AoS skirmish rules, but man, they've relaunched it into an actual hobby magazine with a vengeance. The January issue has:
An actual "letters from readers" page in TYOOL 2019
A couple pages of reader-submitted models
An interview with Phil Kelly about the job of background writing
Some AoS fiction about sky dwarves
An interview with Jervis Johnson about rules design
Full rules for AoS skirmish (although the campaign rules will be next month, th' skinflints)
A lore writeup on one of the AoS realms, including thematic painting and conversion ideas for a number of armies
A writeup of some dude's awesomely painted and heavily converted Nurgle army
A Shadespire tactics article
Full rules for Kroot mercenaries in kill team (that just sort of incidentally also let you include kroot in your Tau kill team)
A couple pages of Blackstone art including artist commentary
An interview with one of the designers who's also a golden demon winner, with lots of pretty high-level talk about painting theory
A writeup of the latest golden demon winners
An "'Eavy Metal Challenge" where they give six of the team the remit of "paint a mage" and let them loose
Some 40K fiction about ultramarines on Vigilus
An interview with Robin Cruddace about designing 40K 8th edition
Full rules (chapter tactic, warlord trait, and stratagems) for the Crimson Fists, along with a fluff-dive
An interview with the studio painter who did the studio C-Fists
A full 40K battle report, of a game played by some tournament folks
All supported with lots of glossy photos, of course.
It's... a lot of stuff, most of which is actually pretty dang interesting (well, if you're into GW games anyway, of course). I'm definitely going to be keeping my eye on the magazine moving forward.
An actual "letters from readers" page in TYOOL 2019
A couple pages of reader-submitted models
An interview with Phil Kelly about the job of background writing
Some AoS fiction about sky dwarves
An interview with Jervis Johnson about rules design
Full rules for AoS skirmish (although the campaign rules will be next month, th' skinflints)
A lore writeup on one of the AoS realms, including thematic painting and conversion ideas for a number of armies
A writeup of some dude's awesomely painted and heavily converted Nurgle army
A Shadespire tactics article
Full rules for Kroot mercenaries in kill team (that just sort of incidentally also let you include kroot in your Tau kill team)
A couple pages of Blackstone art including artist commentary
An interview with one of the designers who's also a golden demon winner, with lots of pretty high-level talk about painting theory
A writeup of the latest golden demon winners
An "'Eavy Metal Challenge" where they give six of the team the remit of "paint a mage" and let them loose
Some 40K fiction about ultramarines on Vigilus
An interview with Robin Cruddace about designing 40K 8th edition
Full rules (chapter tactic, warlord trait, and stratagems) for the Crimson Fists, along with a fluff-dive
An interview with the studio painter who did the studio C-Fists
A full 40K battle report, of a game played by some tournament folks
All supported with lots of glossy photos, of course.
It's... a lot of stuff, most of which is actually pretty dang interesting (well, if you're into GW games anyway, of course). I'm definitely going to be keeping my eye on the magazine moving forward.