WD #44: Shield of Baal: Deathstorm

Welcome!

So i had a look through the new WD and I must say, GW knows how to make money. Not only they are introducing new base sizes (Power Armour dudes and Jump Infantry and Broodlord) but are realeasing another boxset that makes you want to buy it straight up! Damn you GW! I hope you burn in hell! Ha!

But let's see what else is in the issue.

Deathstorm

• The new boxset with the new Shield of Baal campaign sort of thingy taking place in Cryptus System. Blah, blah, blah... you get 1 Blood Angels Terminator Captain, 1 Furioso Dreadnaught, 5 Death Company Space Marines, 5 Space Marine Terminators, 1 Broodlord, 8 Genestealers, 3 Tyranid Warriors and 1 Carnifex. 
• What's more interesting are the two new base sizes: 32mm round and 75mm oval. The 32mm bases are (supposedly) for all Power Armoured and Jump Infantry units. The other, 75mm oval, is for Broodlord, so I would say bigger, smallest monstrous of some kind.
• The box will also include the campaign book and a rulebook and a set of dice and markers and stuff.
• Captain Karlaen - dancing terminator is pretty cool with his Thunder Hammer and a Storm Bolter at once. Very Spacehulky looking model. Same goes for The Spawn of Cryptus, very similar to the Space Hulk Broodlord.

Hobbit 

• With the release of the new installment of the Hobbit movie we get plenty of new models. But who cares?!

Deathstorm Novella

• Josh Reynolds in hardback, 128 pages

Flesh of Cretacia

• Andy Simillie in hardback, 128 pages (reediton?)

Space Marine Battles: Visions of War 

• 52 illustrations from other BL books in hardback, 128 pages

Codex: Apocrypha

• They touch on Necron Empire and heroic general Nemesor Zahndrekh... or something.

Heroes of the Blood

• An insight into the history of Blood Angels.

Deathstorm (are you getting tired of that word already?)

• Three missions based on the Cryptus System campaign, Shield of Baal.

Adapt and Conquer

• Phodian Annihilation Swarm is used as a basis for a larger Tyranid force - how to use what you get in the box to build up to fully fledged Tyranid army.

Issue 45

• Rules of Engagement
• Sprues and Glue
• On Deadly Wings they come - Blood Andels flyers?