Warlord Games Specialist Daleks & Kahler-Tek

In this post I'm reviewing the three figures from the Maximum Extermination! boxed set from the Warlord Games' Doctor Who range as well as the figure of the android Kahler-Tek, who was recently offered as a freebie if you spent £75.00 or more. Believe me, that was not hard as Warlord Games are constantly adding to this range.

At the far left is the Genesis Ark. Dimensionally transcendental, like the TARDIS, the Genesis Ark was a Time Lord prison ship, similar in shape to a Dalek casing, and contained millions of captive Daleks. The Cult of Skaro, led by Dalek Sec, used a void ship to transmat themselves and the Ark out of The Time War, materialising on 21st century Earth. They aimed to resurrect the Dalek empire, opening the Ark and releasing the Daleks inside. However, to achieve this they needed the touch of a time traveller. Mickey Smith accidentally primed it by placing his hand on the outer casing during an altercation with the Cybermen. The Ark was subsequently raised into the sky, releasing the millions of Daleks inside to wreak havoc on the human race and into battle with the recently arrived Cybermen armies. The Doctor eventually re-opened the void and the Ark was sucked back through along with the Dalek and Cybermen forces.
The Supreme Daleks were commander Daleks, either of a faction, or, in the absence of the Emperor Dalek, the leader of the entire Kaled race. Traditionally they were different to standard Daleks casings, often seen entirely in black or gold, or a mixture of these two colours. After the return of Davros and the establishment of the new Dalek empire, the Supreme Dalek was red in colour, featuring gold ridges and spheres as well as an extra light on the back of the head dome. The Twelfth Doctor, Clara and Missy encountered this model on the rebuilt Skaro, home planet of the Daleks, but his army was destroyed by reactivated Daleks in the sewers beneath the city.
Visually different from other models, The Special Weapons Dalek was heavily armoured with deadly offensive capabilities. The traditional Dalek eyestalk and operating arm was replaced with a giant laser energy cannon. Capable of destroying several renegade Daleks at once, it also easily deflected their energy rays. Known amongst the Dalek race as "The Abomination", it was emotionally unstable as the result of radiation damage seeping into its brain from its own energy weapon.

Kahler-Tek, also known as ‘The Gunslinger’ was a Kahler cyborg, one of many humanoids who was experimented on by Kahler-Jex on his home planet of Kahler. Jex wanted to create a super soldier race so he could win the war his people were engaged in. Tek and several others were converted into powerful half men, half machines: A terrifying army of armed war machines featuring powerful energy weapons and built in targeting computers. Kahler-Tek became damaged on the battlefield and slowly his original personality returned to him. He became aware of what he had become and what Kahler-Jex had done to him. Enraged, he set out to track down Jex and his scientists who had turned him into a killer cyborg, hell-bent on revenge.
Years later, the vengeful Tek tracked down Kahler-Jex to Earth, where he had taken on the role of the Doctor in a town called Mercy. Tek lays siege to the townspeople, and when the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive they face an ultimatum – hand over Kahler-Jex to face his fate or the gunslinger would kill every innocent civilian in town, despite his strong instincts not to harm innocents. When Jex expresses genuine regret for his past crimes, he chooses to commit suicide rather than face his cyborg creation. Kahler-Tek believed he no longer served a purpose: all those who had mistreated him had died, so he decided to self-destruct in the desert. However, the Doctor persuaded him to stay in town to take on the role of protector of the people and keep them all safe from outsiders.
As a massive fan of the Daleks I like this set a lot. The Genesis Ark is made of resin but the two Daleks are made of pewter. As for Kahler-Tek, I barely remember him at all and I doubt if I'll use him in any Doctor Who games. Instead, he looks like he'd be more at home in the Cursed Earth of Judge Dredd or as a villain in Strontium Dogs. The Maximum Extermination set costs £16.00 and Kahler-Tek costs an eye-watering £25.00 if you don't take up the spend £75.00 or more offer.

Warlord Games Daleks

The Daleks are without doubt, one of the most iconic race of bad guys in the sci-fi universe and one of the most enduring. They first appeared in the Doctor Who TV series in a December 1963 episode called simply, The Daleks. Like the Cybermen, the Daleks have evolved over time and whilst the basic shape and form of a Dalek remains constant there are subtle differences between the many variants. The Daleks shown here, produced by Warlord Games as part of their Exterminate! miniatures skirmish game, are known as the Time War Daleks, who first appeared in the 2005 episode of Doctor Who called Dalek. This is one of my all-time favourite episodes of Doctor Who as it showed the Daleks in a new and terrifying light, making them enemies to be truly afraid of.

Here are the four types of Dalek I have from the Warlord Games range. At the far left is Davros, the supreme leader and creator of the Dalek race. He is the only metal Dalek figure made by Warlord Games at the time of this posting, and he comes in three parts. He is available in the "Davros and the New Dalek Empire" boxed set, which contains him and 12 plastic Daleks.
The Dalek Leader is easily identified as being all black in colour. In the Exterminate! game he is a unique figure. Note that I painted the 52 sensor globes around his lower body and the two waistbands in gloss black paint. He is one of the plastic multi-part models and I gently bent his eyestalk, sucker arm and exterminator weapon to reposition them.
The black headed Dalek is a member of the elite Imperial Guard. Whilst they are also a unique choice in the Exterminate! game, you are allowed to field three of them as a single unit. As you will see below, this is what I have done.
Finally, we come to the standard patrol Dalek and the only limit to how many of them you can field is the points total you have decided on for your force. They are cheap, but very tough and hard to kill. I currently have 20 of them.

For those interested in how I painted them I first primed them with Foundry Black Shade 34A. I then painted the bodies in Citadel Skullcrusher Brass. When dry, I gave them a Citadel Agrax Earthshade ink wash. The 52 sensor globes around the lower body and the two waistbands were painted with Citadel Liberator Gold. The three appendages were painted with Foundry Spearpoint 35C. The two side lights on the head and the middle section of the eye stalk were painted with Foundry Arctic Grey Light 33C (basically, it's white by another name). I used Foundry Black Shade 34A to paint the bulbous end of the eyestalk, the three recessed rings of the head, the plunger end of the right arm, the tip of the exterminator weapon and the lower skirt. I painted the upper half of the skirt with Foundry Stone Shade 57A and finally, I painted the end of the eyestalk with Foundry Vivid Blue Shade 22A. It looks like a lot of work, but really, they were very easy to paint and I was able to plough through them very quickly.

Unlike most of the other figures in the Warlord Games Doctor Who range, the Daleks do not come with separate bases. To be honest, they don't need them but some gamers like to affix them to bases anyway. I haven't, but what I have done is glue a piece of thin card to their undersides, to hide the ugly hole there and to give them a perfectly flat base, which I cut to fit snugly. I painted the card black and as is custom with my figures, I stuck small adhesive stickers to them to identify each one.

Here are all 25 of my Warlord Games Daleks lined up in rank, with Davros and the black Dalek Leader in the front, just ahead of the 3 Imperial Guard Daleks. Behind them is the bulk of my horde, the standard patrol Daleks.

That is quite an impressive sight and a very formidable force. I have to admit to being a huge fan of the Daleks and they are without doubt, my favourite Doctor Who alien race. These figures are just superb, extremely well sculpted and fit together very easily.