Rise of the Cavilliverse

Finally! Gotta admit, I was getting worried...

Dreams Do Come True!

Cavill. Warhammer. Let's do this!

Seriously, what a ride! This dyed-in-the-wool Snyderbrony was feeling on top of the world when Henry Cavill showed up as Superman in the post-credits scene in Black Adam. Would that brief scene presage a return to Snyder's vision of an epic, mythological superhero multiverse? A rejection of Warner's cowardly and ham-fisted attempts to copy Disney's cookie-cutter Marvel flicks? Turns out, not so much. Cavill's cameo was his last time wearing the cape. The new creative regime at Warner is rebooting the DC cinematic universe with new actors, so Cavill is out. 

We were just talking about what might be next for our family's favorite actor (Bond, perhaps?!) when the news dropped that Cavill had found his next big project: Warhammer! In partnership with Amazon, Cavill is going to produce and star in a Warhammer series. I can't even say how many times the boys and I have chatted about which character in the Warhammer universe we'd love to see Cavill play. The Emperor of Mankind? Horus? Guilliman? Eisenhorn? Gaunt? Can't he play more than one?!

Monday TARDIS Blues

Grandfather Nurgle was the guest of honor at our Thanksgiving this year (henceforth it will be known as "That Pancake Thanksgiving"), and he continued to share his blessings on my birthday. Since we weren't in any shape to continue our Tales of the Ternion superhero campaign, I tried to get some painting done. As I'm still trying to avoid tackling the growing pile (it's now a full shelf) of 3D-printed buildings, I made some progress on my Doctor Who Exterminate! miniatures, finishing up my unit of UNIT infantry. I got to work on the TARDIS and thought I could knock it out quickly. Hey, it's only two colors, right? Well, even with careful drybrushing to get the tiny raised lettering of "Police Box" and "Public Call", I managed to screw up the "Public Call" on one side really badly. I could strip off all the paint and start the whole model over from scratch, but I also have to acknowledge that my my kids and I are the only ones who will ever see this stuff and it doesn't have to be perfect. Heck, the boys have been playing a multi-battle campaign with the Necrons against all of our other factions and half the models they're using are half-finished, just undercoated, or not even painted at all! They're having fun, and that's what matters at the end of the day. I need to learn that lesson, because I was still grumbling about the janky TARDIS lettering on my way to work this morning. Going through all the emails I missed over the long weekend, I saw that my team had chipped in to get me a Games Workshop gift certificate for my birthday. I'm going to spend it on something fun that the boys and I can all enjoy together, and not worry so much if it's painted to a "parade ready" (or even "battle ready") standard. 

(That sounded convincing, right?)

Warhammer Cafe

Today we crossed an item off my bucket list by taking the Warner Bros. studio tour in Burbank. I'm a lifelong, dyed-in-the-wool WB fan, so this place is the center of the entertainment universe as far as I'm concerned. After a very enjoyable day at the studio, we headed to nearby Monrovia to visit the one-of-a-kind Warhammer Cafe. 

It's a cool place! They have more inventory than a typical Games Workshop store, as well as some other nifty Warhammer stuff. The cafe menu is a bit limited, but we very much enjoyed our drinks and cookies. Highly recommended if you're ever passing through that area!

New Edition

I'm very late to the party with this post, but in case you haven't heard yet, coming up in June is a new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. I feel like there should be a colon in there after "Warhammer", but I guess the only colons you'll find in the Mortal Realms are the guts strewn about the bloody remains of your disemboweled foes...

Warhammer Adventures

Awesome news today out of Games Workshop: They're doing a series of Warhammer novels aimed at kids. The series is called Warhammer Adventures, and Nathaniel is super stoked to get his hands on these books!

Warhammer Cafe

Yes, please! But where the Hellblasters is it? Last time I checked, "North America" is a pretty big place...

Worlds of Warhammer

I've been looking around lately for good mobile games (I ain't got one of them fancy-dancy console game systems) to tide me over until the sequel to Injustice comes out later this year, and I've stumbled upon a couple of Games Workshop gems: Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf, a turn-based game of Space Marines tactical action, and Blood Bowl: Kerrunch, a game of fantastical football-themed combat and part of GW's long series of Blood Bowl titles. Both are free and highly recommended!

A Free RPG Day Without D&D...

Wizards opted to hold a D&D Game Day event instead of participating in Free RPG Day. Lame! Without a D&D or Warhammer/Warhammer 40k option, it was kind of a lackluster Free RPG Day this year. Paizo stole the show with "We Be Goblins Too," the sequel to a prior freebie Pathfinder adventure from 2011. The only other standout module that I picked up was Catalyst's Battletech/Shadowrun combo book. I also scored one of the fancy dice from Q Workshop.

Warhammer Quest

Hat tip to Matt for alerting me to the upcoming Warhammer Quest game for iOS devices. Check out this video preview and this review.