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Black Library, Book Reviews, Declan Waters, Games Workshop

Book Review – Rogal Dorn: The Emperor’s Crusader

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Horus Heresy Primarchs #16 by Gav Thorpe

The 16th Primarch novel (novella) takes us to the Imperial Fists and their Primarch – Rogal Dorn.

From the book:

As the Great Crusade enters its sixth decade, the fleets and armies of the Emperor spear out into the galaxy to bring the Imperial Truth to thousands of worlds. Expansion has been swift, but must now be tempered with consolidation. Even so, the Emperor demands that the boundaries of the Imperium be pushed further into the unknown.

The Master of Mankind tasks four primarchs with the dangerous mission of securing the worlds of the Occluda Noctis – hundreds of star systems on the far side of the Northern Major Warp Storm, whose warp-churning presence casts a shadow on the guiding light of the Astronomican and blinds even the Emperor’s psychic sight. Rogal Dorn leads his Imperial Fists directly into the heart of this cosmic twilight. Isolated, battling a foe the likes of which nobody has encountered before, Dorn must use all of his strategic genius and irresistible will to conquer the darkness in the name of the Emperor.

Not many of the books in the Horus Heresy have four Primarchs, and even fewer of the Novellas so it strange that the author has chosen to do this for a book pertaining to be about one Primarch.

Dorn clashes with Lion El’Jonson about how to fulfil the Emperor’s commands and how to bring The Night Crusade to a successful conclusion. The Lion does not come out well in these discussions, and Dorn definitely comes across as the ‘better’ Primarch (by which I mean more competent and able to lead his men).

Dorn leads his fleet and Chapter into the darkness of The Night Crusade and is able to outflank, and out plan his enemy, despite them having a seemingly impossible ability to navigate between star systems without going through the Mandeville Points.

Dorn uses all the resources at his disposal, augmenting his Navigators with his Librarians to break through the long night.

I very much enjoyed how everything tied together, although the battle sequences are much shorter than other books and the novella format was perhaps too short for the story that Gav Thorpe wanted to tell. But all that said, it is a very good addition to the Primarchs series.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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— Declan & Eeyore

Games Workshop, Hobby Update, Legions Imperialis, Peter Holland, Sci-Fi

Legions imperialis – Imperial Fists WIP

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Like many at Woehammer, I’ve been hit with the Imperialis bug. Being a child of the 80s & and 90s, I have strong memories of its predecessors, Space Marine and Epic. So there was no chance I wasn’t going to be getting involved with the latest iteration!

I’ve collected Blood Angels since the 2nd Edition 40k box hit the shelves. The Box art of that edition really appealed to me, and I was instantly in love with the Space Vampires.

However, for Imperialis, I wanted something that would ‘pop’ a little more on the tabletop and a Legion that has a fair bit of character. I decided early on this would be the Imperial Fists. After all, who doesn’t love painting yellow?

Credit: Games Workshop

Though, you don’t have to go with the traditional colours of the Legion you’ve chosen. GW, as always have supplied many examples in their various Heresy books of individual companies within a Legion having their own paint scheme. With sometimes hundreds of companies to each Legion, it’s no stretch to make up your own colour scheme and head cannon to your own force.

In the end, though, I did plump for the yellow and decided I (like many others) would paint them on the Sprue.

I started by spraying the sprues with Greyseer and then applied Averland Sunset to all the Marines.

I used a watered down Agrax over the top of this and did a light dry brush of Yriel Yellow. Then, it was a case of painting in the blacks, reds, and metals. None of these colours I shaded or highlighted as doing this on 100 8mm models is unfeasible!

With them all painted, I cut them from the sprues and glued them to the bases. I used the GW dark base recipe as shown on their YouTubes.

With all those Marines you also get a few spare, and having painted them up I applied them to the base of one of my Warhound Titans (along with a mini of the month Rhino which I chopped up to look destroyed).

You may be struggling to find good examples of conversions and paint jobs for Imperialis, but one YouTube channel I’ve found really useful is LItbashing. Mattie only uses GW parts from the sprues or greenstuff, and as you can see below, there’s plenty of opportunity for creating those characters from the books.

Games Workshop, Peter Holland, Sci-Fi, Warhammer 40k

Space Marine Colour Schemes

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Some time ago, I spent a considerable amount of time playing with impcat. For those who don’t know Impcat allows you to digitally paint models to test colour schemes for projects.

As such I ended up recreating and creating tonnes of Space Marine liveries for both cannon chapters and non-cannon chapters. This process eventually allowed me to create my own home brew Space Marine Chapter the Void Dragons.

But, I thought rather than deleting all that hard work or just leaving it on Pinterest where it won’t be used, why not share them with you. That way, you can view the colour schemes I’ve already made and pick one for your own Chapter should you wish….. Enjoy!

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Age of Sigmar, Games Workshop, Peter Holland, Warhammer 40k

#Woehammer Roundup 17th October 2021

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Two submissions this week under the #Woehammer on Twitter. Both members of the team.

If you want to see your miniatures on the site remember to use the hashtag #woehammer either on Twitter or Instagram.

Dave has started a new 40k 9th Edition army, this time focusing on the Space Marine Chapter the Imperial Fists. The model below is his first Marine for the army, and I think you’ll agree its a stunner!

Dave’s Imperial Fist

Dave has gone for an awesome golden yellow armour tone and black trim denoting the 5th Company.

The detail on the base is great, and I especially love the coiled barbed wire and spent casings next to the dismembered head.

It’s little different this week for Declan’s submission, here we have an army shot of the force he took to Mancunian Carnage last weekend.

The blue armour really stands out along with the spots of Red. Declan has joked in the past that his Orcs have been called the Crimson Fists. It’s a great army and Declan finished the weekend 3-2!

And talking of Declan’s fantastic tournament performance, only yesterday he was interviewed by the AOS Coach on YouTube about the Gloomspite Gitz! I’ve included the video below for you to watch.

Remember to use the #woehammer for your painting. While you’re at it why don’t you check out our painting competition below where you could win a Start Collecting or Combat Patrol box of your choice all thanks to our sponsors SCN Hobby World. By signing up to their mailing list you receive 25% off all GW products or 15% for the web only products.

The Woeful Brush Painting Competition Sponsored by SCN Hobby World

Closing date for entries 30th November. £1 entry, win your choice of a Start Collecting or Combat Patrol box set!

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