A little long in the tooth (White Dwarf (Games Workshop))

Member Name: LastLine

Product:	White Dwarf (Games Workshop)
Date:	05/06/09 (14 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Still useful for some gamers

Disadvantages: Feels more like a book of adverts

White Dwarf is a monthly magazine published in the UK to support the Games Workshop wargaming hobby, currently priced at £4.50 per month.

The magazine covers Games Workshop's three core games - Fantasy, 40,000, and Lord of the Rings, typically having articles to do with each game in each issue. Games tend to get a larger focus dependent on the new releases that particular month so, if a new Fantasy army is released that month then that army will get a large section of the magazine to publicise it in and the other games will get sidelined a little. Sadly, this is one of my major complaints with the magazine of late, and that is that it seems to have become little more than a catalogue for the company to sell their latest items through, rather than a useful hobby magazine which it was five years since.

Maybe it's a case that Games Workshop has spread itself thin with three core games and that there's not as much room in the magazine anymore for each game and that's why there's less going on for your particular favourites, but it seems that if an army hasn't got anything new going on with it you often won't see it in the magazine for months or longer at a time.

Sadly the magazine isn't what it used to be. Bring me back painting guides, battle reports that don't just feature new models, background stories - just because...

Summary: Buy it if you have the money to spare, but may be better off put into new models.