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  Warhammer Fantasy Release The Dogs of War Chapter 2 The Giants of Albion The Giants of Albion form up for Role call  "...BOLLOGS!!!" The Giants of Albion dont have a great vocabulary, their war cry  tends to be their name with the inference being that whatever their gaze has hit, now is theirs and not for sharing with any other giants. This was during the period GW was using the minis for the box art Summary These models are now over 20 years old. To my knowledge they first appeared in the 2002 Warhammer Annual as a Regiment of Renown for the Dogs of War army. The regiment or "unit" consisted of two giants (Cachtorr & Bologs) and a level 1 Wizard of the Lore of Beasts (Hengus) that cost 450 points and they counted as two Rare Units. Giants where not very common at the time so they where really quite different.  The Giants also appear later in the same annual in an article called 'The Big Bash' although they are used as stand alone giants in a four way ...

Warhammer Fantasy - High Elves Chronicles of The Glorious Host Chapter 2 - Prince Tyrion Tyrion, The Defender of Ulthuan " Though our fair homeland is beset on all sides, we shall resist, as our fathers did before us. In these dark times, as our tainted brethren ravage our shores, we stand defiant and shall emerge victorious. For we are the Asur, the true kin of Aenarion, and Ulthuan shall never fall. " Prince Tyrion Tyrion and his twin brother Teclis are the two foremost Asur warriors to have come from the line of Aenarion, these two twins are are the Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger of the Asur, with Teclis a weak but powerful mind and Tyrion the foremost swordsman and warrior among the Elves of Ulthuan, and possible all of Elf kind, perhaps even in the whole Warhammer Fantasy world. (FD- if the elf Propaganda is to be believed "scoff") Background Tyrion is one of our favourite Elven "Special" Characters in the Warhammer Fantasy lore. His martia...