6th Edition

A PDF of what purports to be the rules for 40K 6th edition has appeared all over the internet in the last 48 hours.

I have had a quick luck and it is either genuine or somone has devoted weeks (months) of work to creating a clever fake.

The game changes quite dramatically with supersonic flyers, overwatch fire, and evasion modifiers to shooting.

The competition players are going to go into a frenzy of activity rebuilding their perfect armies.

Nurgle Plague Marines - Forge World Conversion

This was one of my Xmassy pressies, the Forge World Nurgle Plague Marine from the current Mrs John and a plastic marine box from number two daughter's boyfriend.


They were undercoated with Tamiya olive green spray, layered in yellow-green, treated with burnt umbar, metal bits in Vallejo copper and finally washed in Devlan Mud and touched up with MIG Rust Effect.

Temple of Thorns - Free Fiction

The Temple of Thorns

Written by John Lambshead
Illustrated by Chantelle Thorne

She sat cross legged on a wool sack in the small cult room and prayed. To her left a flight of stone stairs led up to the ground floor of the palace and, on her right, a break in a low wall opened onto a shorter flight that ran down into the sacred bath, where priestesses anointed themselves with sweet smelling unguents in honour of the Gods. She faced a low stone ledge that was covered in a thin sheet of gold on which stood small painted ceramic statuettes of the Gods, surrounded by token sacred offerings of flowers and berries that were fashioned in faience.

This story can be read for free on the Baen site at the momen. Try this, or click the link top right and then the link for 'Sample Chapters'.

My story is Chapter 5.

Torchwood

Whi is this immortal time traveler disguised as a WWII RAF Officer?
I think we should be told.

John is currently Drinking - Hopping Hare

A golden seasonal ale from Badger Beers of Dorset,

Chin, chin, chaps.

Necrosius, Sorcerer of Nurgle

Tis the sorcerer Necrosius of Nurgle plus Minders.

Do the Funky Nurgle.

Always leave 'em wanting more.

Happy New Year from London

The Palace of Westminster, Big Ben (above).

Tower Bridge, City of London (above). 



London Eye, The South Bank (below).