The new trailer for WarhammerTV animation The Tithes has been unwrapped today, but there’s still plenty to watch this week if you’ve got a Warhammer+ subscription. After an exciting start in the Spearhead league last week, it’s coming to a close in the second and final episode on Battle Report.
We caught up with the four participants to ask how they got on. No spoilers on who won – you’ll have to watch this week’s episode of Battle Report.
Laura: As a committed hobby butterfly, I love working on smaller projects. It really lets me focus on individual conversions or paint schemes. Spearhead allows you to field a complete faction while also keeping it small enough to enjoy all those little details! I had a lot of fun customising each unit to feel really different to the others, and adding little easter eggs and details that then tie the wider force together.
Alex: Spearhead is a fantastic, intense and quick way to play Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Since we started practising in preparation for the league it has become a firm favourite in the office, with each of us putting together multiple Spearhead forces to play with. Rarely does a day go by without a game at lunchtime hoping to add a win to the victory board on the wall.
Lydia: Every game of Spearhead I have played – and trust me, I have played a chunk – has been an absolute blast. The twists and turns provided by the Battle Tactics and Twist decks add a level of intrigue and tactical consideration to every game – I have both been lifted up and utterly ruined by the arrival of a new tactic, or the board shifting in some unexpected way.
I also love how no game is ever dead in the water – so often games come down to the last roll of the dice or the last move of a single unit, and that extends out so that as soon as the game has ended, it leaves you wanting more! Plus with how quick the games are you can have more. And it’s not just games! The smaller army footprint gets rid of the choice paralysis of list building, and allows me to not just get on making an army but finishing one! I plan on making a Gloomspite Gitz army for every realm!
Ed: I am usually the kind of hobbyist who collects one massive army with at least one of everything available to give me choices when it comes to large games. This means that I’ve often shied away from collecting more than one faction at a time as it would quickly burgeon into a project of epic proportions and I would never finish anything.Spearhead has given me the chance to have much smaller armies, all of which have some models I’ve wanted to paint for a long time. I’ve managed to get the Sons of Behemat and Stormcast Eternals finished in quick succession, with the Cities of Sigmar, Sylvaneth, Ogor Mawtribes, Flesh Eater-courts, Blades of Khorne, and the Lumineth Realm-lords lined up and ready to go in a production line effort of warband painting! Writing them all down is making me realise that maybe I have actually hit that project of epic proportions, but I just can’t stop!
Somehow despite being involved in fighting for glory and maybe even victory in the Spearhead league, Ed and Alex managed to find time to make a new episode of Citadel Colour Masterclass and Loremasters.
On Citadel Colour Masterclass you’ll find a video all about how to paint animal print designs like leopard print on your miniatures. These can be used to represent fancy animal fur capes and clothing, or to liven up the diverse fantastic creatures that exist in the many worlds of Warhammer, like the noble Gryph-hounds or furtive Escher Phyrr Cats, and many other things besides – perhaps you want to tackle an outrageous Noise Marine?
The Ruination Chamber may be the morbid new hotness in Warhammer Age of Sigmar, but the sigmarite-clad warriors of the Stormcast Eternals have many different Chambers to call on. Loremasters this week is dedicated to the Extremis Chamber, which is packed full of Stormcast Eternals that have bonded with draconic mounts to create a force that emphatically puts the shock into shock assault.
Watch all of this and plenty more right now as part of a Warhammer+ subscription. Subscribe, and you’ll get access to hundreds of episodes of Battle Report, Citadel Colour Masterclass, Loremasters, and numerous animations. If you subscribe for a year, you will also get the choice of one of two awesome free miniatures.
