Archive for February, 2009
The End of an Era…
Thursday, February 26th, 2009The long-time 40K web comic Turn Signals on a Land Raider is shutting down. This is a sad day indeed. Like the owner of this website, the comic’s author has hit upon some hard times. A print version of the comic was contemplated, but Games Workshop squashed the idea in order to [...]
Moments that make you go D’oh!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Ever had one of those moments in a game where something just goes totally and unexpectedly wrong? You know what I’m talking about. The kind of moment where there’s nothing you can do about it but say “d’oh!”. I had one of those moments over the weekend.
I was giving my eldar a test drive. The [...]
COTC: Eldar Farseer
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Time for another round of Conversions of the Cheap This time I’m making a foot-slogging farseer. Normally this would cost $15 just for the one mini. However, I’m using the rest of the pieces from the guardian set’s heavy weapon platform. If you recall, I’m making 8 of the guardians into pathfinders, which [...]
CotC: Eldar Pathfinder
Monday, February 16th, 2009“Conversions on the Cheap”, or CotC is something I do frequently with whatever bits I happen to have left over. In this case, I had 8 regular guardians still on the sprue and no desire to field a second guardian squad in my eldar corsair army. But, some rangers or pathfinders would be just fine.
A [...]
Howling Banshees or Striking Scorpions?
Thursday, February 12th, 2009This is a question I see pop up constantly on 40K forums. Which is the better Eldar close combat option? Scorpions or Banshees? And you often get a few people that swear by one, then a few for the other. So, which is it?
And the answer is: It depends. Love those vague answers, don’tcha? Allow [...]
