That run of fat dwarf from 191 to around 205 that had articles, tiles and cards for Warhammer Quest and Space Hulk 2nd edition. Plus the style from that time and all the lore that was coming out was so creative
YES! This was the era when I started on my GW hobby journey. My first 40K army (for many years) was Dark Angels, in large part due to issue 195. I started reading slightly before that but that had a big impact. My WHQ obsession also started at that time as well. That was possibly the first GW game I ever played, although it *might* have been WFRP; we got into those about the same time. One of my “GW Regrets” was the time I was in a used bookstore and found White Dwarf issues #2 through 7 or 8 for sale on a shelf. These were priced very reasonably, like just a couple dollars per issue… and I didn’t buy them! I was still super-new to the world of GW and I didn’t realize this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. D’oh! >.
A while back I found a bunch of White Dwarfs from the late '80s/early '90s in a charity shop - looking through them at home I found someone's old D&D character sheet inside one of them. Oddly moving to randomly find a fragment of someone's old game, decades later.
One issue stands out for me far above any others..... although I am not sure if it is 126 or 127..... The Eldar Aspect Warriors. That is an issue that wasn't just great at the time but even now, years later, is fantastic to go back and read again now.
totally. I was utterly obsessed by that artwork and spent many evenings with pencil and sketch-book trying to replicate them - particularly the Striking Scorpion.
The “Undead” issue in 1992 that had a Drop Dead 😛💀Gorgeous Poster-Map of The Old World, & the saga up of Nagash’s rise to power, of how he almost slew *Sigmar* & his war with the Skaven. 🐀🔪😉
My #1 is Issue 169 for the card bunker inside, together with datacards and missions for it. It also had 40k army list for Arbites, new rules for fantasy Skaven, a battle report for Man’O’War and more!
My favorite White Dwarf is the issue that has the conversion guide to build a Whirlwind. It was my first kitbash. I’ll see if I can find the issue number when I get home. Also, Into the AM does make some nice shirts. Congrats on your first sponsored video.
I remember one with a battle report with space wolves vs orks and it was a mechanized wolves list doing a breakout from the center of the board. I basically built my army around that from that day forward. I think it was third edition. Loved it.
187 was my first WD I bought myself after a friend brought me back 3 issues from a trip to the UK, huge nostalgia for me. Had a thing for Dark Elves and LR Demolishers ever since
White Dwarf 118 was the first one I got - blue border, Advanced Heroquest art on the cover. I read it cover to cover multiple times - fell in love with the dioramas and ‘eavy metal and I was hooked
This first WD I bought as a youngster in Sweden was issue 112 in 1989. It was a skyblue cover with a large terminator badge. For me that era of discovering Games Workshop, WH40k, Heavy Metal and Golden Deamon miniature painting will always be the most important to me. There was a lot of exciting things happening, beautiful artwork, atmospheric and inspirational miniature dioramas and articles about WH40, Epic, Space Hulk and other the other games I didn't really play but enjoyed reading and thinking about like WHFRP, Blood Bowl and Fantasy Battle. I pored over those White Dwarf's over and over. I loved the art and the miniature paintings and these days when seeing photos from those old issues I can't accurately remember if I had those minis myself or if I just have them imprinted on my mind so strongly because of looking at them so often in WD that it just feels like I owned them and still have them hidden away somewhere among my old things in my parents attic. One particularly painful memory for me is of going back to the wreckage of the car crash that me and my family was in and gathering the White Dwarf issues I was bringing along for the road trip that would have gone down to europe. The image in my memory is of picking up issue 113, the red cover with the artwork of the original Space Hulk, from the jumbled mess and debris of the things that we had packed in the car.
The fact that you got me hooked on your channel despite me not being involved in Warhammer of any kind is due to your passionate enthusiasm and lovely soothing voice. I found your channel thanks to the HeroQuest video and have not regretted clicking subscribe on that fateful day.
Has to be one with Gobbledegook in it. He was the best thing to ever come out of WD. I'd say 107, but the issue itself is quite lackluster, to me, so let's go with WD 70, hilarious Gobbledegook, also Thrud and The Travellers, with a range of articles on AD&D, Judge Dredd, Traveller and Golden Heroes.
Issue 109. It was the first one I bought and got me obsessed with Adeptus Titanicus; 105 because that was the first issue I read (my mate’s copy) and it got me into GW and obsessed by Eldar Harlequins and Elf Wardancers - and then switched my allegiance to Orks because they had such cool minis and vehicles (Wartrack Scorcha: a motorbike fitted with a rubbish-bin armed with a flame thrower!). The rules for Battleship Gothic were awesome, I used them to build my own version of the game - and I don’t know which issue it was but it had a card game for hand-to-hand combat between bretonnian knights.
Two that stand out to me was the one where you got that free game 'bar room brawl'. Great orky madness. And the second was my first ever issue that released along side this dark angels campaign pack. Something of vengeance, I can't remember so long ago! But it also cause with this 3 piece barricade set. Great times
Was surprised WD218 wasn't No 1 or even on the list, the iconic first of Tale of 4 Gamers which surely one of if not the most popular continual series they did in White Dwarf over the years, they repeated it a few times too but the original with Beastmen, Wood Elves, Skaven and Bretonnians being built over a few months was amazing content
I can't recall the number (185ish?) but it had the huge gathering of might battle report for Warhammer fantasy. Another one, around the same time (from memory) which had Michael McVey's (spelling?) Emperor vs Horus diorama, that was epic. And, like you, Jordan - anything with Skaven in it!
Many of the issues where Mordheim started were my favourites, and I love that Aenur miniature also. I can't remember the issue but I would stare at the pages for hours of one issue that had a massive diorama of the undead assaulting a city in the Empire, that blew me away.
I understand your reasoning ..... but your wrong! 230. Plastic bezerker kit, huge showcase explaining the kit, how to build and convert them, paint them, Kharn, a Kharn piece of fiction, world eaters history. Oglah khans wolfboys. Space wolf chapter approved with images of every model. First metal chaos raptors. A cool looking battle report, that while it was ultramarines it had them paired up with vallhallans fighting nids in the snow. And Cypher..... such a cool issue..... and very likely why the rot of chaos gripped me from this my very first issue.
I can't remember which issue exactly it was but there was an issue where the lads did like a little battle report thing where they put each lord against each lord to find the best/most dominant character. I'm sure it was something like Deathmaster Snikch vs Lord Kroak in the final round or something similar, it was a 90s WD if I remember correctly, like a Character Tournament kind of thing. Anyone got any ideas to which it was?
Phew! I was getting concerned when you’d done four and Marienburg hadn’t turned up! I’ll confess I’ve not really read WD for many years. Once WFB went, it’s not really held much interest for me (that could change if they cover Old World more). It would be hard to pin down a favourite, but it would likely be in the pre or low 100s, when you would find stuff for Traveller, or articles on King Arthur’s swords or Robin Hood. For what it’s worth, those Jes Goodwin sketches were followed by the release of Space Fleet - I gave no idea why they named it like that, but I do remember the original battleships. Shaped like flat swords.
Issue 64 is a stand-out to me as has the fantastic Dawn of Unlight scenario for MERP, great stuff for FASA's Star Trek RPG and Golden Heroes and without doubt the best installment of the Travellers comic. While it's famous for the obvious reason Issue 77 is absolute quality. The outgoing team were clearly doing their best to make the most of their last chance to make 'real' White Dwarf. Issue 101 has one of my all-time favorite WFRP adventires, the Affair of the Hidden Jewel. It's very much not your typical WFRP adventure, being filled with with swashbuckeling, intrigue and high adventure. It does demonstrate how versitile the WFRP system very well. You also get the unforgetable original Badab War article with what should absolutely still be the Salamanders core armour scheme. Just a short hop from there is issue 102, which is apparently just about the much missed Dark Future. Despite that it managers to cram in a huge chunk on my personal favorite Warhammer gribbly, the Fimir, and a masterclass in painting faces from John Blanche. Finally issue 105 gives us Harequins and a cheeky little add on to The Power Behind the Throne. Also the little matter of the first oficial Space Marine army list. Nothing that important really... 😉
Absolutely...and 45 because it had Thistlewood scenario in it. After lusting after that model of Grond for 37 years, I actually managed to score it from Joe's collection 😍.
Issue 223, free Ork bar brawl game and the finale of the original Tale of Four Gamers. As a child I loved the Bretonnians in it, but looking at it now Paul Sawyer's Beastmen still look incredible.
Loved most of.these issues. 187 marks the high point of my relationship with GW. I loved the dogs of War issue when I was a kid, that also gave us dungeonbowl for the 3rd Ed blood bowl too. And I think it was 167, which was a skaven cover and my first real issue of white dwarf.
187 is a great issue, and like Jordan a big reason why my main WFB army was Dark Elves. It's also the issue I use when people complain about WD just being a giant advert these days - everything in 187 is what new stuff was out, an article about what new stuff was out, literal full page adverts, or mail order. i think there is like 4 pages about Golden Demon in it too, but even that could arguably be an advert for the event. But we didn't care because that is exactly what we wanted!
Great issues, especially 88 and 119. Mine are currently 85 for much the same reason as your 88:a huge swathe of RPG material including the amazing RQ scenario and pullout which featured only Ian Miller and Tony Ackland art which created quite an impact for how I saw the game and world. 98 for Grapes of Wrath, the Ultramarines and Clan Scrutens. 99 is the only issue I bought a replacement for after the first fell apart and that is because I was constantly using the d1000 chaos mutation table. 100 had the awesome poster and masses of 'eavy metal and golden daemon painted miniatures. The eye opening interview with Michael Immig and the amazing dreadnought rules for 40k. Here I fell in love with the eldar dreadnoughts and saw my first beakie space marine and mistakenly thought that they were space skaven. And, uh, 144? Marauder Dark Elves Army painted by Kent Willians (iirc). I keep coming back to that army. Really, any issue from 50 to 150ish is a golden era of WD for me: so much material I've referred back to and reread. So much gameable material for RPGs and warhammer. A lot of amazing tutorials and craft stuff. And then all of the citadel minis.
For me its 153 mainly due to The Battle of Grimdal's Tomb battle report. The narrative element and the way it is written is just brilliant. The whole look of the minatures and the battlefield is everything I loved about the Warhammer Fantasy setting.
For me, 2nd place is WD100, which was packed with stuff but mainly for the Dreadnoughts, which went into huge amounts of detail on how to make stompy walkers for Rogue Trader, down to the nearest 1/2 point. Top spot has to be WD 93, the one with the Crimsons Fists' last stand on the cover, which introduced the background to the WH40k universe. 14 year old me had never read anything like it, and the picture of the Emperor as a decaying psychic corpse got me hooked instantly. I have never been able to part with a copy of WD from that day to this, much to the annoyance of my other half...
119 was the first WD I bought at release! I thought it was 117 till you made this video oddly. 127 would be my pick, because Jes is legendary and I dont think warhammer 40k has been the same since.
The Cover of 108 is certainly in my pantheon of Top 5 covers that always hits me in the nostalgic feels. Love this series and some how wish it was longer! In fact, maybe that's another dedicated series you bring on board: in-depth deep dives into old White Dwarf issues. It never gets old to me re-visiting what was so instrumental to me and my youth and to the anchor that this hobby has served throughout the course of my life.
Pretty much all the ones numbered in the 90s are great. I went for 97 and 94 below, but I also want to give 91 a shout out for the Blood Royale cover and the Blood on the Snow WFB scenario. I mean you could roll trussed up dwarfs down a snowy hillside to turn them into devastating snowballs, what more do you want from an Orc?
Got to be WD 296! Mainly because of the 40K rules for Imperial Guard armoured companies! I liked it so much, I re bought a copy a few years ago (my original had gotten pretty battered and water damaged...)
Pretty good choice you've gone for at number 1, loved that Skaven diorama, great to see it again. My favourite is probably 97 with The Valley of Death WFB scenario, the first Index Astartes and then stuff that I revelled in for games I never played (The Madcap Laughs (Stormbringer) and some Call of Cthulu stuff etc). 94 takes some beating though with 'A Rough Night at the Three Feathers' (probably the best WFRP thing ever in White Dwarf though I understand you going for Marienburg) and 'Skirmish on Rynn's World' which was the follow up battle scenario to the Battle at the Farm from the Rogue Trader rulebook.
@@jordansorcery Into the Valley of Death rode far more Orcs and Goblins than 99% of the readership had any hope of ever owning... I have enough Dwarfs to fight that battle, wish I had about 200 greenskins!
My first White Dwarf was 116 (though I picked 107 - 115 up as back issues) and I collected them up to 169 before university distracted me. My favourites would probably be from the earlier part of that run. The issues that had Golden Demon coverage in them would be prime candidates so I guess I'd look through them and see what else the Golden Demon issues had in them and pick the issue with the best overall selection of articles. 🙂 Golden Demon in the late '80s and early '90s was fascinating for me, especially the vehicle and vignette categories. The limited number of vehicle kits sold back then resulted in a lot of really impressive conversions, as entrants did what they could to make their entries distinctive from those of their competitors.
I’m glad to say I own all of your picks, plus most of your followers’ picks too. Probably nostalgia speaking, but I really find the 100s plus early 200s to be the best White Dwarf issues. White Dwarf issue 357 (Sept 2009) and Weekly 33 (Sept 2014) are also good ones. They cover the release of Space Hulk 3rd and 4th editions respectively, and do Space Hulk Battle reports on these versions which are great to read. Shame they never did Space Hulk battle reports for 1st edition.
I love the Early and Mid range White Dwarf mags. So glad I kept them ... have 48 sporadic numbers up til 100 (5 &6 being the earliest if I recall) then pretty much all (minus maybe 15?) to about 380. Got various ones later by passing through newsagents on the way to work. My halcyon era was 2nd ed 40k and Necromunda Era - as is our whole group. Cheers 😄👍
So hard to call, Number 1 I think I have to go with 222 and the legacy mini-campaign and battle report of the Praetorians v Orks, 2 would be the issue that launched the 40K workd 93, 3 rd 111 being the Squat army list for rogue trader 4th 127 and the Eldar society pretty much defined, lastly probably go with Necrons codex launch issue in rd, its the WDs introducing major 40k faction background that I revist the most, still so many gems, I was tempted to call out 250 and the Gaunts Ghosts issue, but I think I'll go with those.
Look at the art work on the front covers of those early double digit WD magazines. It's all about the creativity. You're right about 187 (cover, Dark Elves, Warhammer Quest). Big loss that domain of the horned rat Warhammer Quest. Ok 238 with the free Ainur Sword of Twilight was a great one too. 127 stands out for me the most: The creativity of the Eldar/Jes Goodwin material is phenomenal. So many others were probably great that I never knew about no doubt.
The only issue I can recall with any clarity is my first. Can't remember its number or date, but it must have been early 2002 I think. It featured an excerpt from "The Guns of Tanith" which blew my 12/13 year old mind. The first run of Gaunt's Ghosts minis were previewed with a big article and rules etc. I seem to remember there being a double spread of Necrons vs Cadian 122nd on a big city fight board showing off the then-new Monolith model. I've been a die hard Imperial Guard man ever since. Also featured a great LOTR battle report on a gorgeous scenic board.
Having emigrated to NL nine years ago it's always funny to look back on Marienberg and remember that it does canonically exist in WFRP. (spelling changes aside, "suiddock" should probably be pronounced "soud (south) dock" for what it's worth.) The first WD I ever bought was 174 and it's still up there at the top. My dad came back from work one day not long after with a stack of back editions from 117 to 141 so I spent a huge amount of time delving into lore and games that I absolutely did not have the context to understand and loving it all nonetheless.
My favorite is undeniably #104- the big debut of Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness. That blew my mind. I think the glare of my eager young eyes faded the pages of that issue. Plus, it drops the genesis of the Horus Heresy!
I remember issue 195 (still have the Skaven board tile for Whq) and the Dark Elf issue was the issue that got me into collecting Dark Elves lol. My fav issue I cannot remember the number but I'm sure it had the release of Nagash and being disappointed by it esp when you had that epic black and white picture on the opposite side lol I think it was The same issue where it had one of my fav battle reports Chaos vs Dwarfs and they had the Chaos Warlord on a converted dragon a great Batrap. The one issue I wish I got was the Chaos Dwarf supplement one - 😂
The Fat Bloke era was my favorite of the books. They were actually useful and I had a subscription for years due to it's entertainment value. I haven't bought one in years due to it's becoming nothing more than an advert for new models but no hobby value and just being AoS, which I don't play.
My personal fav is WD330 June 2007 because it premiered the majestic Fortified Manor and dedicated a buckload of spreads and pages to it. I gazed at it endlessly. Such desire.
Good vid, interesting stuff but youre wrong because *ackshuallyyyy* WD142 is the best one. 😉 (That is; it's the one that compelled me to collect undead back in the day!)
Favourite WD? hard to say, so many, but, the one with Burz Womba Snaga (!) versus the Valedictors Space Marines in a game of epic really gets my nostalgia vibes going...
my favorite issue will forever be the german White Dwarf #34, it had the introduction to 3rd. Edition 40K and more importantly my very first WD ever. It had a Dark Eldar Warrior miniature as a bonus and i scanned and read every single line of that issue
White Dwarf 226. First issue I got as a kid, I was just getting into the hobby then, found this magazine in a newsagents that came with a free mini (dark eldar warrior) and a load of details of the new 3rd edition of 40K.
Always loved the earlier WDs as that matched my preference for RPGs at the time, always thought it was much better than the Dragon or Imagine magazines.
The old cardboard supplements they used to include are a real area where stuff gets lost with time - they do (or used to?) put out compilations of "the best of" the White Dwarf supplements as standalone books... sometimes... but it's a shame to see that extra material get forgotten about. (Also, I wish I'd known about that Patreon call for suggestions, so I could have suggested 262 where the Tau debuted, with a load of articles about the design process and how the miniatures were made. Servesme right for not checking my Patreon feed!)
YES! issue 187. Definitely one of my faves. Infact I mentioned as such on a Facebook group (imperium of man) post along with that battle report, and many seemed to agree they remember and enjoyed that issue too. Good times.
I remember staying up all night reading 187 cover to cover- that battle report is actually an interesting bit of lore as Andy Chambers’ character in it (Lord Varlak) would resurface in the Necromunda expansion Outlanders, having survived the battle and fled to Necromunda to form a Goliath gang- Andy obviously enjoying the character so much and wanting to tie his games together. It blew my mind when I noticed it, and that kind of fun interconnection was such an appeal back in those days, not just because it gave a sense of shared universes but also because it made you feel like the developers were playing and enjoying their characters and stories in the same way as you.
I'm sorry Jordan. You are categorically wrong: You didn't pick the five issues I have actually read in my childhood. Shame on you. (I have watched the first minute of the video. Looking forward to the rest)
That run of fat dwarf from 191 to around 205 that had articles, tiles and cards for Warhammer Quest and Space Hulk 2nd edition. Plus the style from that time and all the lore that was coming out was so creative
That was an incredible run to be sure. The fat dwarf era was something special
YES! This was the era when I started on my GW hobby journey. My first 40K army (for many years) was Dark Angels, in large part due to issue 195. I started reading slightly before that but that had a big impact. My WHQ obsession also started at that time as well. That was possibly the first GW game I ever played, although it *might* have been WFRP; we got into those about the same time. One of my “GW Regrets” was the time I was in a used bookstore and found White Dwarf issues #2 through 7 or 8 for sale on a shelf. These were priced very reasonably, like just a couple dollars per issue… and I didn’t buy them! I was still super-new to the world of GW and I didn’t realize this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. D’oh! >.
The one with the oger kingdoms on anniversary edition one it was massive
A while back I found a bunch of White Dwarfs from the late '80s/early '90s in a charity shop - looking through them at home I found someone's old D&D character sheet inside one of them. Oddly moving to randomly find a fragment of someone's old game, decades later.
One issue stands out for me far above any others..... although I am not sure if it is 126 or 127..... The Eldar Aspect Warriors. That is an issue that wasn't just great at the time but even now, years later, is fantastic to go back and read again now.
127, yup agree
My favourite of all time.The Eldar / Jes Goodwin material was phenomenal art and design and story-telling and more.
totally. I was utterly obsessed by that artwork and spent many evenings with pencil and sketch-book trying to replicate them - particularly the Striking Scorpion.
The “Undead” issue in 1992 that had a Drop Dead 😛💀Gorgeous Poster-Map of The Old World, & the saga up of Nagash’s rise to power, of how he almost slew *Sigmar* & his war with the Skaven. 🐀🔪😉
187 was actually my first White Dwarf, and remains my favourite to this day, mostly because of the Battle Report.
My #1 is Issue 169 for the card bunker inside, together with datacards and missions for it. It also had 40k army list for Arbites, new rules for fantasy Skaven, a battle report for Man’O’War and more!
My favorite White Dwarf is the issue that has the conversion guide to build a Whirlwind. It was my first kitbash. I’ll see if I can find the issue number when I get home.
Also, Into the AM does make some nice shirts. Congrats on your first sponsored video.
I remember one with a battle report with space wolves vs orks and it was a mechanized wolves list doing a breakout from the center of the board. I basically built my army around that from that day forward. I think it was third edition. Loved it.
Good call on your 4th pick. That was definitely a treat in an era of really, REALLY bad White Dwarfs of the recent era.
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187 was my first WD I bought myself after a friend brought me back 3 issues from a trip to the UK, huge nostalgia for me. Had a thing for Dark Elves and LR Demolishers ever since
White Dwarf 118 was the first one I got - blue border, Advanced Heroquest art on the cover. I read it cover to cover multiple times - fell in love with the dioramas and ‘eavy metal and I was hooked
This first WD I bought as a youngster in Sweden was issue 112 in 1989. It was a skyblue cover with a large terminator badge. For me that era of discovering Games Workshop, WH40k, Heavy Metal and Golden Deamon miniature painting will always be the most important to me. There was a lot of exciting things happening, beautiful artwork, atmospheric and inspirational miniature dioramas and articles about WH40, Epic, Space Hulk and other the other games I didn't really play but enjoyed reading and thinking about like WHFRP, Blood Bowl and Fantasy Battle. I pored over those White Dwarf's over and over. I loved the art and the miniature paintings and these days when seeing photos from those old issues I can't accurately remember if I had those minis myself or if I just have them imprinted on my mind so strongly because of looking at them so often in WD that it just feels like I owned them and still have them hidden away somewhere among my old things in my parents attic.
One particularly painful memory for me is of going back to the wreckage of the car crash that me and my family was in and gathering the White Dwarf issues I was bringing along for the road trip that would have gone down to europe. The image in my memory is of picking up issue 113, the red cover with the artwork of the original Space Hulk, from the jumbled mess and debris of the things that we had packed in the car.
The fact that you got me hooked on your channel despite me not being involved in Warhammer of any kind is due to your passionate enthusiasm and lovely soothing voice. I found your channel thanks to the HeroQuest video and have not regretted clicking subscribe on that fateful day.
You are very kind!
Has to be one with Gobbledegook in it. He was the best thing to ever come out of WD. I'd say 107, but the issue itself is quite lackluster, to me, so let's go with WD 70, hilarious Gobbledegook, also Thrud and The Travellers, with a range of articles on AD&D, Judge Dredd, Traveller and Golden Heroes.
Issue 109. It was the first one I bought and got me obsessed with Adeptus Titanicus; 105 because that was the first issue I read (my mate’s copy) and it got me into GW and obsessed by Eldar Harlequins and Elf Wardancers - and then switched my allegiance to Orks because they had such cool minis and vehicles (Wartrack Scorcha: a motorbike fitted with a rubbish-bin armed with a flame thrower!). The rules for Battleship Gothic were awesome, I used them to build my own version of the game - and I don’t know which issue it was but it had a card game for hand-to-hand combat between bretonnian knights.
Two that stand out to me was the one where you got that free game 'bar room brawl'. Great orky madness. And the second was my first ever issue that released along side this dark angels campaign pack. Something of vengeance, I can't remember so long ago! But it also cause with this 3 piece barricade set. Great times
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Was surprised WD218 wasn't No 1 or even on the list, the iconic first of Tale of 4 Gamers which surely one of if not the most popular continual series they did in White Dwarf over the years, they repeated it a few times too but the original with Beastmen, Wood Elves, Skaven and Bretonnians being built over a few months was amazing content
Great selection! Would be great to see a video with the best issues that expanded the Warhammer Quest boardgame content. Cheers!
I can't recall the number (185ish?) but it had the huge gathering of might battle report for Warhammer fantasy. Another one, around the same time (from memory) which had Michael McVey's (spelling?) Emperor vs Horus diorama, that was epic. And, like you, Jordan - anything with Skaven in it!
Excellent choices!
Many of the issues where Mordheim started were my favourites, and I love that Aenur miniature also. I can't remember the issue but I would stare at the pages for hours of one issue that had a massive diorama of the undead assaulting a city in the Empire, that blew me away.
Everyone knows the Sabbat issue is the best.
16:15 looks like someone 😂 has hole punched the pages 😂😂😂
195 was the first issue I ever bought!
Issue 222. Last Stand at Glazer’s Creek. Simply the best battle report they have ever done.
I understand your reasoning ..... but your wrong! 230. Plastic bezerker kit, huge showcase explaining the kit, how to build and convert them, paint them, Kharn, a Kharn piece of fiction, world eaters history. Oglah khans wolfboys. Space wolf chapter approved with images of every model. First metal chaos raptors. A cool looking battle report, that while it was ultramarines it had them paired up with vallhallans fighting nids in the snow. And Cypher..... such a cool issue..... and very likely why the rot of chaos gripped me from this my very first issue.
I can't remember which issue exactly it was but there was an issue where the lads did like a little battle report thing where they put each lord against each lord to find the best/most dominant character. I'm sure it was something like Deathmaster Snikch vs Lord Kroak in the final round or something similar, it was a 90s WD if I remember correctly, like a Character Tournament kind of thing. Anyone got any ideas to which it was?
Phew! I was getting concerned when you’d done four and Marienburg hadn’t turned up!
I’ll confess I’ve not really read WD for many years. Once WFB went, it’s not really held much interest for me (that could change if they cover Old World more).
It would be hard to pin down a favourite, but it would likely be in the pre or low 100s, when you would find stuff for Traveller, or articles on King Arthur’s swords or Robin Hood.
For what it’s worth, those Jes Goodwin sketches were followed by the release of Space Fleet - I gave no idea why they named it like that, but I do remember the original battleships. Shaped like flat swords.
Warmaster launch WD is the best one, amazing new game, and not 1 bad/boring page in it!!
Got me thinkin' wot my top 5 would be. 🤔
Nice one on the sponsorship 👍
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Ugghh Green Skins 😂😂😂😂 when and where does the Heresy end 😂
When they changed the format I stopped buying them 😢
Is this a pump and dump scam for magazines? 😂
Issue 64 is a stand-out to me as has the fantastic Dawn of Unlight scenario for MERP, great stuff for FASA's Star Trek RPG and Golden Heroes and without doubt the best installment of the Travellers comic.
While it's famous for the obvious reason Issue 77 is absolute quality. The outgoing team were clearly doing their best to make the most of their last chance to make 'real' White Dwarf.
Issue 101 has one of my all-time favorite WFRP adventires, the Affair of the Hidden Jewel. It's very much not your typical WFRP adventure, being filled with with swashbuckeling, intrigue and high adventure. It does demonstrate how versitile the WFRP system very well. You also get the unforgetable original Badab War article with what should absolutely still be the Salamanders core armour scheme.
Just a short hop from there is issue 102, which is apparently just about the much missed Dark Future. Despite that it managers to cram in a huge chunk on my personal favorite Warhammer gribbly, the Fimir, and a masterclass in painting faces from John Blanche.
Finally issue 105 gives us Harequins and a cheeky little add on to The Power Behind the Throne. Also the little matter of the first oficial Space Marine army list. Nothing that important really... 😉
Issue 52 because of the battle of the pelenor fields with a great army list,painted a few roman legionaries as uruk hai from minifigs.
Absolutely...and 45 because it had Thistlewood scenario in it. After lusting after that model of Grond for 37 years, I actually managed to score it from Joe's collection 😍.
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Issue 223, free Ork bar brawl game and the finale of the original Tale of Four Gamers. As a child I loved the Bretonnians in it, but looking at it now Paul Sawyer's Beastmen still look incredible.
My friends and I played bar room brawl a ton. Delightful mayhem.
Loved most of.these issues. 187 marks the high point of my relationship with GW. I loved the dogs of War issue when I was a kid, that also gave us dungeonbowl for the 3rd Ed blood bowl too. And I think it was 167, which was a skaven cover and my first real issue of white dwarf.
187 is a great issue, and like Jordan a big reason why my main WFB army was Dark Elves. It's also the issue I use when people complain about WD just being a giant advert these days - everything in 187 is what new stuff was out, an article about what new stuff was out, literal full page adverts, or mail order. i think there is like 4 pages about Golden Demon in it too, but even that could arguably be an advert for the event. But we didn't care because that is exactly what we wanted!
Great issues, especially 88 and 119. Mine are currently 85 for much the same reason as your 88:a huge swathe of RPG material including the amazing RQ scenario and pullout which featured only Ian Miller and Tony Ackland art which created quite an impact for how I saw the game and world. 98 for Grapes of Wrath, the Ultramarines and Clan Scrutens. 99 is the only issue I bought a replacement for after the first fell apart and that is because I was constantly using the d1000 chaos mutation table. 100 had the awesome poster and masses of 'eavy metal and golden daemon painted miniatures. The eye opening interview with Michael Immig and the amazing dreadnought rules for 40k. Here I fell in love with the eldar dreadnoughts and saw my first beakie space marine and mistakenly thought that they were space skaven. And, uh, 144? Marauder Dark Elves Army painted by Kent Willians (iirc). I keep coming back to that army.
Really, any issue from 50 to 150ish is a golden era of WD for me: so much material I've referred back to and reread. So much gameable material for RPGs and warhammer. A lot of amazing tutorials and craft stuff. And then all of the citadel minis.
For me its 153 mainly due to The Battle of Grimdal's Tomb battle report. The narrative element and the way it is written is just brilliant. The whole look of the minatures and the battlefield is everything I loved about the Warhammer Fantasy setting.
Great choice, that battle report is fantastic
As a massive fan of Zulu the movie. Issue 222 is always the best white dwarf magazine to me. All the fat bloke mags are my favourite era.
Issue 94 (I think) for the brilliant "A Rough Night at the Three Feathers" for WFRP (by Graeme Davis.
For me, 2nd place is WD100, which was packed with stuff but mainly for the Dreadnoughts, which went into huge amounts of detail on how to make stompy walkers for Rogue Trader, down to the nearest 1/2 point.
Top spot has to be WD 93, the one with the Crimsons Fists' last stand on the cover, which introduced the background to the WH40k universe. 14 year old me had never read anything like it, and the picture of the Emperor as a decaying psychic corpse got me hooked instantly. I have never been able to part with a copy of WD from that day to this, much to the annoyance of my other half...
119 is one of the few Issues I kept hold of out of 12 years of White Dwarf, absolutely beautiful issue.
119 was the first WD I bought at release! I thought it was 117 till you made this video oddly. 127 would be my pick, because Jes is legendary and I dont think warhammer 40k has been the same since.
Most welcome. My favourite is #144 because of Wayne England's Imperial Dwarfs, failing thta, anything with Dark Elves in it lol.
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White Dwarf issue 300 with a Dwarf on the Cover, poster map of the old world and on the opposite side has dwarven poster 🔥 🔥 🔥
The Cover of 108 is certainly in my pantheon of Top 5 covers that always hits me in the nostalgic feels. Love this series and some how wish it was longer! In fact, maybe that's another dedicated series you bring on board: in-depth deep dives into old White Dwarf issues. It never gets old to me re-visiting what was so instrumental to me and my youth and to the anchor that this hobby has served throughout the course of my life.
White Dwarf 95: 1. Sabbat flexi disc 2. Ruglud's Armoured Orcs 3. the infamous Deodorant Hover Tank
Pretty much all the ones numbered in the 90s are great. I went for 97 and 94 below, but I also want to give 91 a shout out for the Blood Royale cover and the Blood on the Snow WFB scenario. I mean you could roll trussed up dwarfs down a snowy hillside to turn them into devastating snowballs, what more do you want from an Orc?
Got to be WD 296! Mainly because of the 40K rules for Imperial Guard armoured companies!
I liked it so much, I re bought a copy a few years ago (my original had gotten pretty battered and water damaged...)
Issues 45 and 52 because of the early Warhammer scenarios by Joe Dever. 47 was a particularly good issue too for D&D and Bushido stuff .
Pretty good choice you've gone for at number 1, loved that Skaven diorama, great to see it again.
My favourite is probably 97 with The Valley of Death WFB scenario, the first Index Astartes and then stuff that I revelled in for games I never played (The Madcap Laughs (Stormbringer) and some Call of Cthulu stuff etc).
94 takes some beating though with 'A Rough Night at the Three Feathers' (probably the best WFRP thing ever in White Dwarf though I understand you going for Marienburg) and 'Skirmish on Rynn's World' which was the follow up battle scenario to the Battle at the Farm from the Rogue Trader rulebook.
Some excellent choices!
@@jordansorcery Into the Valley of Death rode far more Orcs and Goblins than 99% of the readership had any hope of ever owning...
I have enough Dwarfs to fight that battle, wish I had about 200 greenskins!
Madcap Laughs was a truly excellent adventure.
had 187, 195 and 212 back in the day. Can't believe I threw them out. Great video. Thanks from the heart for doing this.
My first White Dwarf was 116 (though I picked 107 - 115 up as back issues) and I collected them up to 169 before university distracted me. My favourites would probably be from the earlier part of that run. The issues that had Golden Demon coverage in them would be prime candidates so I guess I'd look through them and see what else the Golden Demon issues had in them and pick the issue with the best overall selection of articles. 🙂 Golden Demon in the late '80s and early '90s was fascinating for me, especially the vehicle and vignette categories. The limited number of vehicle kits sold back then resulted in a lot of really impressive conversions, as entrants did what they could to make their entries distinctive from those of their competitors.
totally agree, there were some amazing creations
116 with its fantastic cover of beaky Ultramarines. My first edition too. 👍
Issue 300 has to be the best because there is a handsome devil doing a middle earth SBG battle report inside it... ;) :P
I’m glad to say I own all of your picks, plus most of your followers’ picks too. Probably nostalgia speaking, but I really find the 100s plus early 200s to be the best White Dwarf issues.
White Dwarf issue 357 (Sept 2009) and Weekly 33 (Sept 2014) are also good ones. They cover the release of Space Hulk 3rd and 4th editions respectively, and do Space Hulk Battle reports on these versions which are great to read. Shame they never did Space Hulk battle reports for 1st edition.
I love the Early and Mid range White Dwarf mags. So glad I kept them ... have 48 sporadic numbers up til 100 (5 &6 being the earliest if I recall) then pretty much all (minus maybe 15?) to about 380. Got various ones later by passing through newsagents on the way to work. My halcyon era was 2nd ed 40k and Necromunda Era - as is our whole group. Cheers 😄👍
So hard to call, Number 1 I think I have to go with 222 and the legacy mini-campaign and battle report of the Praetorians v Orks, 2 would be the issue that launched the 40K workd 93, 3 rd 111 being the Squat army list for rogue trader 4th 127 and the Eldar society pretty much defined, lastly probably go with Necrons codex launch issue in rd, its the WDs introducing major 40k faction background that I revist the most, still so many gems, I was tempted to call out 250 and the Gaunts Ghosts issue, but I think I'll go with those.
Look at the art work on the front covers of those early double digit WD magazines. It's all about the creativity. You're right about 187 (cover, Dark Elves, Warhammer Quest). Big loss that domain of the horned rat Warhammer Quest. Ok 238 with the free Ainur Sword of Twilight was a great one too. 127 stands out for me the most: The creativity of the Eldar/Jes Goodwin material is phenomenal. So many others were probably great that I never knew about no doubt.
The only issue I can recall with any clarity is my first. Can't remember its number or date, but it must have been early 2002 I think. It featured an excerpt from "The Guns of Tanith" which blew my 12/13 year old mind. The first run of Gaunt's Ghosts minis were previewed with a big article and rules etc. I seem to remember there being a double spread of Necrons vs Cadian 122nd on a big city fight board showing off the then-new Monolith model. I've been a die hard Imperial Guard man ever since. Also featured a great LOTR battle report on a gorgeous scenic board.
Having emigrated to NL nine years ago it's always funny to look back on Marienberg and remember that it does canonically exist in WFRP. (spelling changes aside, "suiddock" should probably be pronounced "soud (south) dock" for what it's worth.)
The first WD I ever bought was 174 and it's still up there at the top. My dad came back from work one day not long after with a stack of back editions from 117 to 141 so I spent a huge amount of time delving into lore and games that I absolutely did not have the context to understand and loving it all nonetheless.
My favorite is undeniably #104- the big debut of Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness. That blew my mind. I think the glare of my eager young eyes faded the pages of that issue. Plus, it drops the genesis of the Horus Heresy!
I remember issue 195 (still have the Skaven board tile for Whq) and the Dark Elf issue was the issue that got me into collecting Dark Elves lol. My fav issue I cannot remember the number but I'm sure it had the release of Nagash and being disappointed by it esp when you had that epic black and white picture on the opposite side lol I think it was The same issue where it had one of my fav battle reports Chaos vs Dwarfs and they had the Chaos Warlord on a converted dragon a great Batrap.
The one issue I wish I got was the Chaos Dwarf supplement one - 😂
The Fat Bloke era was my favorite of the books. They were actually useful and I had a subscription for years due to it's entertainment value. I haven't bought one in years due to it's becoming nothing more than an advert for new models but no hobby value and just being AoS, which I don't play.
My personal fav is WD330 June 2007 because it premiered the majestic Fortified Manor and dedicated a buckload of spreads and pages to it. I gazed at it endlessly. Such desire.
Good vid, interesting stuff but youre wrong because *ackshuallyyyy* WD142 is the best one. 😉 (That is; it's the one that compelled me to collect undead back in the day!)
Favourite WD? hard to say, so many, but, the one with Burz Womba Snaga (!) versus the Valedictors Space Marines in a game of epic really gets my nostalgia vibes going...
my favorite issue will forever be the german White Dwarf #34, it had the introduction to 3rd. Edition 40K and more importantly my very first WD ever. It had a Dark Eldar Warrior miniature as a bonus and i scanned and read every single line of that issue
White Dwarf 226. First issue I got as a kid, I was just getting into the hobby then, found this magazine in a newsagents that came with a free mini (dark eldar warrior) and a load of details of the new 3rd edition of 40K.
Thanks for the visual focus on WD77. That contents page will haunt me beyond my dying days. 😉
For me, it’s the 300th special issue. I just remember that one feeling really exciting, with its Grombrindal comic and so many other cool articles.
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That's all I have to say that's useful here as, guilty confession time, I've never owned an issue of White Dwarf. :(
White Dwarf Issue 223 is clearly one of the best. >:D It had Brewhouse Bash, a fun game of Ork brawling shenanigans.
I probably couldn't even do a top 10. Even the modern WDs suck me in when they have extra card bits for games.
Lol, I was 50 years old when I found out that the magazine tittle also referred to a star
Haha yes I just learned that today at a similar age!
I'm going to ignore it as it doesn't feel right to me at this point. That ship has sailed.
179 (Epic Titan Legions) and
181 ('The Gathering of Might') have to be up there.
Always loved the earlier WDs as that matched my preference for RPGs at the time, always thought it was much better than the Dragon or Imagine magazines.
I’ve never been able to read the magazine but White Dwarf #4 introduced the Barbarian Class to D&D so that has to be the best one
Issue 132, the issue that had the guide for the 40k baneblade scratch build
The old cardboard supplements they used to include are a real area where stuff gets lost with time - they do (or used to?) put out compilations of "the best of" the White Dwarf supplements as standalone books... sometimes... but it's a shame to see that extra material get forgotten about.
(Also, I wish I'd known about that Patreon call for suggestions, so I could have suggested 262 where the Tau debuted, with a load of articles about the design process and how the miniatures were made. Servesme right for not checking my Patreon feed!)
Were the images of the Skaven there at number 1 not the same as those on the side of the Advanced Heroquest box?
I had exactly the same experience with 187 with Dark Elves.
YES! issue 187. Definitely one of my faves. Infact I mentioned as such on a Facebook group (imperium of man) post along with that battle report, and many seemed to agree they remember and enjoyed that issue too. Good times.
Managed to track down Full Tilt I plan to make a tournament layout and give this game a shot!
I remember staying up all night reading 187 cover to cover- that battle report is actually an interesting bit of lore as Andy Chambers’ character in it (Lord Varlak) would resurface in the Necromunda expansion Outlanders, having survived the battle and fled to Necromunda to form a Goliath gang- Andy obviously enjoying the character so much and wanting to tie his games together. It blew my mind when I noticed it, and that kind of fun interconnection was such an appeal back in those days, not just because it gave a sense of shared universes but also because it made you feel like the developers were playing and enjoying their characters and stories in the same way as you.
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Let's hear some love for 153! 4th edition.
Great video and all great White Dwarf issues! ❤
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I'm sorry Jordan. You are categorically wrong: You didn't pick the five issues I have actually read in my childhood. Shame on you. (I have watched the first minute of the video. Looking forward to the rest)
I really thought I’d guessed your five though!
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