Forge World Newsletter #231!

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**Kanluwen**

Forge World wrote:
Hi There,
This newsletter we have three fantastic new releases for you; the Valkyrie Sky Talon Transporter as well as the Ork Kill Blasta and Kill Bursta. We can also reveal more details of the forthcoming Open Day along with two other events that we will be attending in the first few months of 2010.

Thanks,
Ead Brown

Valkyrie Sky Talon
A heavy lifter variant of the Valkyrie airborne assault carrier, the Sky Talon can swiftly carry a Tauros Venator deep behind enemy lines for long-range operations. Its heavy-duty magnetic clamps allow a Tauros Venator to be deployed directly into a combat operation, allowing the assault vehicle to operate far longer without supply.

The Sky Talon is armed with a chin-mounted Heavy Bolter and the kit contains options for either wing-mounted Hellstrike missiles or multiple rocket pods, allowing the pilot to strafe a hot drop zone before deploying its cargo.This complete resin and plastic hybrid kit, designed by Will Hayes, uses sprues from the plastic Valkyrie.

You can view more pictures of the Sky Talon here, and it is available to order here for immediate release.
Full rules and background for the Sky Talon will be included in the forthcoming Imperial Armour 8.

Ork Kill Bursta and Kill Blasta ‘Eavy Tanks
These two fearsome machines of destruction are variants on the Kill Krusha, nefarious brainchild of the Murda Meks of Tigrus. Both new kits come with a highly characterful Ork commander and Grot communication system, as well as additional turrets for even more dakka.
With typical Ork ingenuity, Mekboys often nail huge rams and bulldozer blades to the front of what are collectively known as Kill Tanks – all the better to crush and bludgeon the enemy as these brutal vehicles plough through even the heaviest fire.

These huge models are hulking, slab-sided armoured behemoths: each model is around 10’’ long, 5’’ wide, and 5’’ high – take a look at the picture galleries below to see these new Kill Tanks compared to other kits in the Warhammer 40,000 range.

The Kill Bursta mounts a huge-bore Kannon capable of destroying bunkers and siegeworks with ease – the calibre of its devastating shells are such that a single round has even been known to tear the leg from a scout-class Titan (although this could be as much down to luck than the skill of the tanks crew). More pictures of the Kill Bursta can be found here.

The Kill Blasta mounts an insane array of Shootas, Gatlers and rapid-firing Kannons, collectively called a Giga-Shoota. This arsenal of dakka is wired to fire at the same time, engulfing anything unlucky enough to be within range in a fury of shot and shell, leaving nothing but scorched earth and fragments of flesh and armour. More pictures of the Kill Blasta can be found here.

Both Kill Tanks are full resin kits designed by Darren Parwood, with crew sculpted by Mark Bedford, and are available to order here for immediate release.
Full rules and background for both the Kill Blasta and Kill Bursta will be included in the forthcoming Imperial Armour 8.

Enjoy.

**Vlad-X7**

Is it just my laptop or can you not see the alternate pictures of the Sky Talon?

The new stuff does look good, same old story with the price though. :/

Vlad

**Kanluwen**

That's my bad with the editing. Sec.

**insaniak**

The Kill BLasta link is broken as well. Should be kblasta.htm, not klasta.htm...

I do like those Ork tanks though. Lovely and Orky. And the painting is superb.

**Empchild**

Kinda makes me excited for the next imperial armor as I can't wait to see what they write with orks vs. ellysians

**Kanluwen**

insaniak wrote:The Kill BLasta link is broken as well. Should be kblasta.htm, not klasta.htm...

I do like those Ork tanks though. Lovely and Orky. And the painting is superb.

*shakes fist*

You coulda edited it for me, Insaniak!

**BrookM**

No Venator rules?

**Kanluwen**

They don't usually have the 'test' rules until the book goes up on preorder.

**Nurglitch**

*fap*

**Drake_Marcus**

Those Ork tanks look cool but I could easily build them myself from scratch. There's nothing in those two kits that would be tough to make on your own. In that respect I find them pretty disappointing.

**BrookM**

Kanluwen wrote:They don't usually have the 'test' rules until the book goes up on preorder.

But that spanker promised experimental rules!

**Alpharius**

No Raven Guard stuff!

Grrr....

Still, I rather like the Ork Tanks, but if you can scratch build those, well, hats off to you!

**Death By Monkeys**

All I can say about the Sky Talon is this:

"We are in the pipe, 5x5."

**Kanluwen**

Vlad-X7 wrote:Is it just my laptop or can you not see the alternate pictures of the Sky Talon?

The new stuff does look good, same old story with the price though. :/

Vlad

Also, I just realized that if you go onto Forge World's actual site...THEY MISSPELLED THE LINK!

It's not just me! Hooray!

Correct link for the 'More Photos' of Skytalon:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/skytalon.htm

**Kirasu**

So.. the entire purpose of the heavy lifter is to make you buy a AV 10 open topped vehicle that has a money cost in excess of a LR most likely?

if it cant transport any other unit.. no thanks.. Might as well force you to buy the venerator with it

**Death By Monkeys**

Kirasu wrote:So.. the entire purpose of the heavy lifter is to make you buy a AV 10 open topped vehicle that has a money cost in excess of a LR most likely?

Isn't that what a sizable portion of purchases from FW are all about?

**Kanluwen**

Kirasu wrote:So.. the entire purpose of the heavy lifter is to make you buy a AV 10 open topped vehicle that has a money cost in excess of a LR most likely?

if it cant transport any other unit.. no thanks.. Might as well force you to buy the venerator with it

The "entire purpose of the Heavy Lifter" is to have a cool looking model that will look great in a scenario.

Don't like it? Don't buy it.

**Vlad-X7**

Kanluwen wrote:That's my bad with the editing. Sec.

Tbh i went on the forgeworld website and looked under new stuff and the link didn't work there...

seems to be fine now though.

cheers anyway!

**JohnHwangDD**

Kirasu wrote:So.. the entire purpose of the heavy lifter is to make you buy a AV 10 open topped vehicle that has a money cost in excess of a LR most likely?

Yeah, it's wierd that it can't transport a Hellhound or Chimera. That would be useful.

**Kanluwen**

First off:
We don't know that it can't transport a Chimera or Hellhound.
Second off:
It wouldn't anyways, since it seems to be a specialist piece of equipment for the Elysians--who ditch heavier kit like Chimeras and Hellhounds in favor of Sentinels and Vultures(and now Venators).

Either way. I'd rather see one hauling a mobile command center.

**Vlad-X7**

Who needs a Sky Talon to carry a chimera; I thought they came in flat packs from Ikea?

**BrookM**

I've ordered mine just now, I just how that when I stick a Venator under it that the model will remain in balance.

Also, it would appear that you cannot mount the Sky Talon on the flying stand when it holds a Venator.

**Gargskull**

Vlad-X7 wrote:Who needs a Sky Talon to carry a chimera; I thought they came in flat packs from Ikea?

You'd need more then an allen key to put that together!

Ork tank is not bad but I prefer the kil krusha, kil blasta doesn't look that great to me, needs moar gunz!

**Tauzor**

ORK KIL BLASTA TANK

*cough

fit a SUPA KANNON on top

tack on a few grot sponsons - sorted

**Alpharius**

Hopefully it does also allow transport of a Chimera or Hellhound...

**Sarge**

I like the ork tank with the demolisher looking cannon on it better. The other one just appears incomplete, likely on purpose.

**warboss**

i'm thinking that thing should be able to transport two of the elysian sentials, one in each set of grippers. a man can dream...

very cool look to the model, though.

**Kanluwen**

A man can dream, but that's just silly. The Sentinels deploy from standard Valkyries, no reason to clutter it up with Heavy Lifters.

**BrookM**

I doubt the Sky Talon will be able to carry a Chimera chassis, mainly because the Elysians don't use them and secondly because the Venator is TINY. It is a fething tiny battery powered car not a twin-engine APC or self-propelled gun.

**warboss**

Kanluwen wrote:A man can dream, but that's just silly. The Sentinels deploy from standard Valkyries, no reason to clutter it up with Heavy Lifters.

but a mobile command center isn't silly? lol. the fluff for the elysians says they're masters of making things mobile and useful for their types of missions. forgeworld will lose out on sales if the ONLY thing the heavy lifter can carry is an armor 10 open topped vehicle. if they make it able to carry other things the elysians already have in valks (but do the job more efficiently), i'm thinking elysian players would buy more. heck, i don't play elysians but i'd be interested in picking up one or two.