Editorials

The chatter is gradually increasing over the last week or so, and Tau seems to be the topic of it all. Someone out there obviously knows something (or is doing a really good job making it up). Either way it makes for a fun read about what just could be.  Plus Faeit dug up some old UK […]

JStove here, and I brought a soapbox to stand on. Now, if you’ve been playing for awhile, just move along, don’t bother. If you’re new to the hobby though, stand here and read this so I can take this soapbox and smash it over your head. Its pretty often that you see people get into the hobby, […]

Is the honeymoon over for Grey Knight Paladins?  Since the release of the Grey Knight codex back in 5th edition, people have thought paladins were an extremely powerful unit.It wasn’t because people thought they were an insanely good close combat unit, or the level of firepower they could put out, but because of wound allocation […]

Yup turns out the real life inspiration for the Primarch of the Dark Angels turns out to be a man from England’s Victorian era, who apparently struggled with quite a few issues in his day, and may have had a secret or two of his own.His name was Lionel Johnson, oh and his masterpiece was […]

A few weeks ago I had a bit of a scare.  I was surfing the GW site when I noticed that prices were up across the board.  $124 for a rulebook.  $96 for a Trygon, $110 for a storm raven?  What gives?  Normally I get news about price increases from sites like BOLS or Spikey […]

Well by now you have probably heard about Games Workshops “current new” business model of direct only content that you can only buy from them, i.e. the Death from the Skies Book.I say “current new” because as even the most novice outsider can see that their business strategies seem to swing back and forth faster than the Harlem Shake. […]

This morning’s White Dwarf Daily had a slew of tantalizing tidbits about the new “Death from the Skies” supplement/ compendium. I give it that dual status because well we don’t really know for sure if it’s just a compendium with a few extra rules, or a whole supplement with new rules, and scenarios etc.They seem to indicate […]

This popped up towards the end of last week, as Games Workshop is trying / tried to lay claim to the term “Space Marine”. I figured I’d weigh in on the issue a bit myself here.The first time I ever heard of that term Space Marine was in the Alien movie series I believe, so […]

Well its official I guess, Games Workshop is taking a page from Apple and doing exclusive limited edition direct order only products (books) that affect the games we love, and well if you don’t get it, you don’t get it.Seems fair right?  No it’s not, IMHO. GW has just created an even worse demand driven product, that has nothing […]

So here’s my latest “Faeit” commentary on the newest rumor of the week.  It looks like GW is looking to switch out from Finecast to something better- like maybe those awesome plastic character packs they’ve been coming out with as of late for Fantasy and 40k (Chaos Aspiring Champion).Being a big company and all, with […]

17 years. That’s how long I’ve been playing 40k.  17 years.  In the past 17 years I’ve lost my virginity, been to college, waited on probably 1000 tables in my service to the restaurant industry, worked for about a dozen different companies,owned 6 cars (mostly junkers), lived in about 6-7 apartments, dated maybe 10 different […]

That’s right true believes, GW has arrived with a handy FAQ to clean up some meddlesome errors and omissions from the new Dark Angles FAQ. Plus they didn’t stop there, they issued FAQ’s for the whole 40k range AND Fantasy even.Looks like they even cleaned up that little faux-pas I talked about with the Raven Command not […]

So I was cruising around the tubes the other day and stumbled upon a great collection of Games Workshop promotional Videos over on Blood of Kittens, and chuckled a bit.You can obviously tell who they are marketed to, right? Remember guys REAL GAMERS PLAY FACE TO FACE! -Enjoy MBGCourtesy of Blood of Kittens What you are about to see is […]

Welcome back! Here’s all the fun and exciting posts you missed here at Spikey Bits over the break. Keep your hands on the keyboard, and enjoy the ride! Hot- Dark Angels Codex Pics! Posted by Man Boy Genius at 12/31/2012 1 comments Well here they are in all their resplendent glory. White Dwarf Pics of the new Dark Angels […]

My buddy, and fellow Wrecking Crew member Hod, recently got hit with a double whammy. Not only was his army stolen after the sale, but he lost the money for it as well though Paypal. Leaving his holidays not so cheery at all.Sad part is, he was only selling the army to help get money […]

Glory.  The sweet taste of it is enough to drive men to the bitter brink of sanity.  To stand over your enemies victorious . . . . heroes are born in such ways.But how much does it really cost to compete?  If you going to run with the bulls, you gotta be able to keep […]

Check out this pretty informative post by Caleb at White Metal Games.   When I read this originally it really got the gears going in my head about the whole competitive “scene”. From White Metal Games: It’s funny how getting your ass kicked makes you think about the game differently. A few weeks ago I played a Dark Eldar […]

This just in: Dark Vengeance is rumored to be shipping out from Games Workshop, with an official release set for this weekend. Which is of course, a full one week delay past their previous scheduled release of September 8th. Current on Games Workshop’s site Dark Vengeance is still set at “Advanced Order”, but if patterns […]