StormtruperTK41

Hey all, just another quick update for you today.

Here is the cinematic trailer for the up and coming MMORPG Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (cream) I strongly suggest watching it as it is one of the sexiest videos ever, you will have to excuse the poor sound quality on it, best I could find.

Secondly, me and one of my roommates picked up Dawn of War Soulstorm, so keep an eye out soon for a full uncensored review.

Well, as I am sure you folks will guess, my posts are few and far between compared to the other lads, so take them for the gems they are, or turds (your call). So lets talk about a few of my favorite things and hopefully everyone will get something fun to read. Lets start off with a little Warhammer. I play mostly Fantasy Battles as opposed to Warhammer 40K, currently I am working on a Tomb Kings army. But enough about me, the big news in the hobby these days are the new and improved army lists being spit out by Games Work Shop. I am sure that most of you who are involved in the hobby know that recently the High Elves got a make over of some would call epic proportions. Mind you, they need it, and it is still a well-balanced list in my opinion. I recently played a small 1000pt game against a High Elf opponent using the new rules. It was a new experience for me, but I still won, and it was a crushing victory as well.

But the High Elf face-lift pales in comparison with the Vampire Counts boob job and tummy tuck. Their new army book will be released in early March I believe, but one of the GW employees was nice enough to give yours truly a sneak peak. Let me tell you everything you liked about the Vampires is still there…plus some new bells and whistles. There is a lot to say, so I will stick to the truly mind blowing and important parts. First off, who remembers our friend the wraith? He was a terror unit that caused terror, had a great weapon and was ethereal. Pretty cool right, well now that same hero comes in entire skirmish units lead by banshees. That’s right now you to can enjoy the tears in your opponents eyes by putting a UNIT of wraiths down on the table to destroy their entire flank single handedly. Now as for the Vampire characters themselves, they have some cool new tricks hidden up their 1000-year-old sleeves. The main one being that they may now pick 100pts of magic items AND 100pts of vampiric bloodline traits AND they can mix and match from different bloodlines. The answer to your question is yes, the apocalypse is upon us. One such combo of attacks allows hatred against everyone and a rule, similar to the bone giants unstoppable assault, in which every wound allows another attack, so when you are hitting on 3s, rerolling your misses, and continuously attacking on wounds…that’s a lot of corpses. Speaking of corpses now only units of zombies may be created during game play. Skeletons may only be replenished a la tomb king magic. Three other new units include the corpse cart (chariots pulled by zombie which can wreak havoc on enemy casting), the vargul (a beast we all have nightmares about), and last but now least the new best knight in the game, the sovereign suckers, the revolution death squad…the blood knights. Yes that’s right, units of mounted vampire thralls which are frenzied and clad in the best equipment their endless stores of money can buy. Picture 3 strength 7 attacks coming at you…from each model!

Well that all I have to say about the Vampires, enjoy being slaughtered by them…Lets talk movies, I recently saw the new Rambo and let me say if you a guy, you should love this flick; it has everything but sex in it. If you’re a fan of the Rambo movies you will love this movie as it follows the same basic formula. People captured, Rambo likes them, goes to save them after “heavy” debate, gets pissed off at the enemy, slaughters them all…bbrruuttaallyy. Never before have I seen a man rip out another man’s throat with his bare hand! As for movies in the future, I very much look forwards to The Dark Knight (new Batman flick) featuring the Joker as played by heath Ledger (recently deceased). It really struck me when Ledger died, I was not sure why until I realized that he was only in his 20s making him only slightly older than me, and he was the first actor from my own generation to die. Other things to watch for include the next Indian Jones movie, as well as Iron Man, may he be better than the Fantastic Four.

On to television, all I watch is House, Lost, and Attack of the Show (AOTS). House has not been on lately because of the writer’s strike, which is now over. I missed last nights episode of Lost, BUT not to worry I will watch it today thanks to my trusty DVR, I suggest you get one to record your TV (well worth the money). I also missed last nights AOTS due to travel time, sorry kiddies that’s all for TV today.

Ok now the big one…video games. My current attention is placed on Call of Duty 4 (CoD4) and assassin’s creed. Both good games, for their single player and CoD4 has awesome multiplayer as well. I was a big Halo fan until I met CoD4. She was a harsh mistress but in the end she had the bigger rack so to speak. CoD4 offers a more realistic game play, more features, and better play style. Some features include actually opening new options for you personalized soldier when you level up. As well as offering challenges for you to complete (resulting in more XP). I don’t have the time to give Assassin’s Creed a just review so go to IGN or something. Switching over from the consol we have one of my favorites Dawn of War (DoW). Great and innovative RTS, with unique playable races and over 100 different maps to play on.

Which brings us to the future, March 4th, new DoW expansion, however you will not need the original to play. It offers a huge campaign mode, two new races and more maps. Star Craft 2, we don’t know a release date but keep your eyes on the horizon. The long awaited Spore is finally near completion, it is being produced by EA, which is solid, and has generated much hype, won’t know until you play it though. It is scheduled for September 7th 2008. And of coarse best for last, circle April 1st 2008 on your calendar because that my friends is the release for Star Wars the Force Unleashed. In this amazing game you play between the time period of episode 3 and 4, and take on the role of Darth Vader’s secret Sith apprentice. Which is cool cause it means you can trash both Imperials and Rebels alike. The game also boasts a DMM or digital molecular materials system, meaning that environmental chaos will never be the same. Wood will splinter, mental will bend, glass will shatter. Graphics will never be the same. Most importantly though the game has the Euphoric AI system, essentially meaning that the enemy will actually try to survive and no encounter will be the same twice. This game will be available for all system, which means the WII will have lightsaber combat SCORE!!

Well after talking about Vampires, Assassins, Sith, soldiers butchering each other, actors dying, and missing Lost, I have to go take a bath or read the bible or something, until next time, may the force be with you…always.