,
n recent years I have tried to get from the second Edition book, painted by
Choosing a
new army is a
big decision.
I started on a number of new armies,
including Tyranids and Necrons,
thinking I could choose simple colour
You invest a schemes and paint~up a force quickly.
However, each time I got bored after
lot of time, painting a few models and abandoned
effort and the idea - I soon got a reputation
money in any amongst the White Dwarf team for ne er
finishing any of the armies I started. Then
decent sized I found out that we were going to be
force, so it is producing a new Witch Hunters codex, to
Graham Davey important that follow on from the Daemo~unters. I had
you enjoy painting and playing been quite tempted by the Sisters of
Battle codex for second Edition
with it. I have been 0 devoted Warhammer 40,000, but back then I had
Chaos worshipper since I first just started my Chaos army. This time the
joined Games Workshop, and Sisters had been joined by the forces of
the Inquisition, in their new guise as
over the years have amassed a Witch Hunters - a much more sinister
formidable Black Legion army. I
proposition, which really appealed to me.
reached the point where I could The thing Ihat I Uke most about the Witch
field just a60ut any unit I Hunters army is that it really is a cross·
wanted, and eventually I realised section of all the dark, gothic insanity of
the Imperium. It contains a huge variety
it was time for a fresh challenge of different troops and nowhere is this
- Witch Hunters. better illustrated than on the cover art
The Order 01 the Burning Chaitce purges the sinister Word Bearers warband, the DiscIples.
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John Blanche (you can find it in the
colour section of the new codex). Apart
ffom the awe.some central figure, what I
really love about the picture is the
background depicting all the different
members of the force - there are Priests,
Veteran Guardsmen, fanatical
Redemptionists, Scribes, Servo-skulls,
Inquisitors, other Sisters - every one
individual. I decided that this variety
would be the theme for my force - I
would include as many different squads,
and different models within those squads
as possible.
CHOOSING AN ARMY
One of the best things about working at
Games Workshop HQ is that you can get
involved in projects as they are
developed. As soon as I heard that Andy
Hoare and Graham McNeill had started
work on the new codex, I volunteered to
help with playtesting. This meant I tried
out loads of different army lists, although
I often had to use stand·in models to
make up the numbers. I find it is actually