ImAGeek wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 reds8n wrote:

Spoiler:

Some sort of blackshield character/merc type.

Well, the painted example is a Sons of Horus marine, but it would work well as a blackshield.

I'm really impressed with this. Might even pay ebay prices unless I can get someone to pick me one up who's attending the event.

Oh, I saw the damage and the image on the left pauldron shield looked like something had been scratched off.

Is it supposed to be Little Horus?

Little Horus wore power armour, not terminator armour. I doubt it's a named character though - they might make a character for him like they did with the AL and IW marines last time though. Alternatively he looks like he'd make a badass Falkus Kibre (although he'd be in the black and red Justaerin armour).


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Yeah, it's just a Praetor in Cataphractii:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
You might have missed people pointing out that they can't make the events that FW usually pitch up at/hold, ergo, regardless of how long the model will be available for after Warhammer Fest, they'll not be able to grab it.

 Virules wrote:
FW said they would give away 4 Knights this week for contest runners-up. Wonder when that will happen...

EVEN MORE WINNERS!
We got so many more fantastic entries to our Win a Titan competition than we were expecting, we decided than more prizes were needed.

Last week we announced all of the Titan winners. Today and tomorrow we’ll be announcing runners-up. Each one was chosen from the best of the entries by one of the guys from the Forge World customer service team, and each winner will be getting one of our four Cerastus Knights!

Our fist runner up is Jake O of Leamington Spa, UK – we’ll be sending you a Cerastus Knight-Lancer.

Gary chose Jake's story as his winner. Gary says: The name of Jake's Titan totally grabbed my attention and forced me to read more. The image of this scarred battle Titan squaring up against engines twice it's size was just awesome. Great work Jake!

You can read the story of Jake’s titan Sweetest Oblivion here:

The Sweetest Oblivion is a Chaos Reaver Titan. It was formerly known as the Ex Nihilus of Legio Impactor, one of several Titans left for dead after the Legion’s crushing defeat and almost total annihilation at the hands of the so-called Witch Lords Traitor Titan Legion, at the Defence of Carcos.

The Ex Nihilus was presumed destroyed after it received a direct hit to its head from the Volcano cannon of the infamous Traitor Warlord Titan Phantasmagore. The Ex Nihilusstaggered as the laser weapon penetrated its shields and reduced its adamantium head to molten slag, then became still. All attempts to communicate with the Titan were unanswered and the damage to its head and bridge was visibly catastrophic: the Reaver was almost decapitated and so presumed lost with all hands. The Phantasmagore’s war horn growled in triumph to announce the engine kill and the sinister Warlord turned its attention elsewhere.

For ten days the towering corpse of the Ex Nihilus stood over the ruins of Carcos, even as the victorious Chaos forces routed the Imperial army. On the third day the Titans of theWitch Lords walked, leaving nothing but craters and the slagged remains behind them. On the tenth day, the fingers of Ex Nihilus’ Powerfist twitched, and then it woke. And screamed.

The Titan shrieked through its amplifiers, a static cry of anguish and torment. Its plasma generator reignited and its single remaining eye illuminated with cold blue light in the charred remains of its head. It looked to where the Witch Lords had gone and then, unsteadily at first, the engine walked once more.

Almost a thousand years later, the Sweetest Oblivion is often seen fighting alongside the Witch Lords, its distinctive ruined head making identification easy, even if all previous markings and insignias have been removed or defaced, replaced by indicators of its new name and allegiance. The titan is known for its apparent disregard for its own safety, often squaring off against opponents that outgun it, and deliberately lowering its Void Shields as if inviting oblivion.

The Sweetest Oblivion was on the field when Phantasmagore was finally brought low by the Lux Occulta and its Ventarii maniple, and it was heard to scream again: a sound of such anguish the princeps of the Lux Occulta described it as ‘the cry of a child witnessing the death of their parents.’

Luke chose our second runner up, Benjamin Tuttle of Walton, Kentucky, USA, who’ll be receiving a Cerastus Knight-Atrapos.

Luke said: Benjamin gave an awesomely atmospheric setting to a titan that had seen its fair share of action. It reminded me of an action movie that portrays a gallant hero not willing to give up till he actually died. TO THE BITTER END!

Here’s Benjamin’s story of the Titan Impaler’s March:

The massive chain dragged on the ground, sparking and scraping, connected to the barbed spear following like a lure behind it. The Princeps felt his mangled knee twitch in empathetic connection to his limping Titan as it haltingly tread the harsh landscape. Every laborious step produced the screeching of metal on metal and the grind of salt boulders disintegrating into dust under the great dragging spear. Mounds of bleached dirt pooled around his burden. Bitter ammonia in the burning wind slowly sheared the paint from the Titan's surface. Whole armor plates clung tenuously to the carapace, clanging against the battered hull, threatening to fall free.

Bleeding profusely, his last remaining Moderatii struggled to keep the cogitators running. Only a few kilometers more and the Titan could rejoin its comrades for extraction. Only a few kilometers more of the proud, slow, and painful march.

The Princeps could barely make out the faltering heartbeat of the Moderatii, broken servitors and skull fragments littered in between the humming of wires and the jingle of metal shards. Groans shook the frame of the Titan as its sundered war horn emitted long, distorted cries of pain.

But the prize was proof of victory.

In the end, the remains of the first foul Chaos Warhound’s grasping claws completely impaled his Warhound's leg. Static electricity had arced between the connected Titans as his war machine struggled to be free. Yet that final torturous boom, the screaming of the spear as it found purchase, still consumed his mind.

Thirty hours it had taken to coax his wounded God Machine out of the entangled pile of death. Thirty hours it had taken to tear away the limbs and armor from his defeated enemies so his Warhound could limp free. The chain and spear had bellowed in protest, tangled around his many foes. But that precious prize was proof of victory.

With a brief turn of his head, the Princeps heard his final crew member slump in his chair. The thud of his subordinate's head scattered debris from the console, the final sigh of death distracting him for a mere moment. But that other sound snapped him back to attention. That grinding scrape of the chain dragging behind made his scarred mouth twist into the ghost of a smile. The massive Chaos Reaver's head, impaled on that triumphant spear, was a great prize indeed.

That’s all for today, come back tomorrow for two more winners!

russian69hitman wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
You might have missed people pointing out that they can't make the events that FW usually pitch up at/hold, ergo, regardless of how long the model will be available for after Warhammer Fest, they'll not be able to grab it.

Nope. Didn't miss that. That's why I said what I said. They can order it off Forgeworld most likely in the near future. Looks standard enough. Most likely in a set of 5 soon. Don't need to be at an event. Problems only exist when you want them too.

 CragHack wrote:
ForgeWorld mentioned that they should have those on the next weekender.

AFAIK, all of these previous "limited" models were indeed strictly limited to events only - they never went up online. What makes you think they might do it this time?

russian69hitman wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
ForgeWorld mentioned that they should have those on the next weekender.

AFAIK, all of these previous "limited" models were indeed strictly limited to events only - they never went up online. What makes you think they might do it this time?

They stated "...you'll get the first chance to grab this model at the WF event..." Which (depending on how you read this statement they made) would indicate other chances to obtain this model will happen. That's all I am pointing out. Let's move on from this please.

 ImAGeek wrote:

russian69hitman wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
ForgeWorld mentioned that they should have those on the next weekender.

AFAIK, all of these previous "limited" models were indeed strictly limited to events only - they never went up online. What makes you think they might do it this time?

They stated "...you'll get the first chance to grab this model at the WF event..." Which (depending on how you read this statement they made) would indicate other chances to obtain this model will happen. That's all I am pointing out. Let's move on from this please.

They just mean future events. This is the event exclusive model for this year, and won't be available after that.

Yesterday we revealed the first runners-up in our Win a Titan competion who've won a pair of Cerastus knights. Now it’s time for our final two winners. Good luck!

Chosen by Simon to win a fantastic Cerastus Knight-Castigator, the next runner up is Russell V of Longmont, Colorado, USA.

Simon said: I thought that the imagery provoked in this story really caught the essence of the battle between two titans as witnessed by a Space Marine. It made me want to know more about the titan and the Space Marine in the story.

Here’s the story of Russells Titan, Blood Brother:

Kar’ak found himself scratching frantically at the base of a fortress. The battlement before him stretching into the hot red sky of a world he did not remember. He looked down to see a mangled chain axe, broken teeth embedded into the deep scores of the wall before him. Around him, warriors in white armour beat themselves against the unyielding walls of the fortress. Behind them, a city lay in ruin. Rust colored dust swept through crumbling buildings already consumed with smoke and fire. It was often like this when he awoke from the nails, when no more blood was within his reach.

The world beneath Kar’ak began to tremble. In a matter moments, the tremble grew to a violent shake, brown red dust pouring from the ruins. One of the crumbling buildings exploded. Smoke billowed forth as man sized chunks of debris were sent flying through the air. A pair of massive titans tumbled through the crumbling city as if grappling, scrambling to tear into each-other like common brawlers. Kar’ak stared on at the display as the two titans, each nearly two dozen meters in height, collided with the fortress wall. The wall screamed and groaned as stone and metal buckled and shattered. Even from 60 meters away, he could feel the impact in his bones.

One of the titans rose. Thousands of scratches covered it’s once red hull. It raised its right arm, revealing a smoldering hulk that might once have been a power claw. The second titan lay slumped against the fortress; its carapace of blue and gold still shining in the red sun. With a sound like cracking thunder, the now ruined power claw slammed into the exposed belly of the blue titan. The fortress wall shook and the armored torso of the blue titan buckled. Air hissed as the red titan’s left arm, a plasma cannon the size of a tank, charged.

Kar’ak smiled as he looked on, seeing that the hulking mass of adamatium that had never known the nails or the smell of blood or the crack of bone, was one of his legion.

The plasma cannon fired. Super heated air ruptured the blue titans power core. Kar’ak survived the explosion, blinded. Nearly every bone broken; bleeding in half of his organs. In time he would recover. In time he would tell the tale of the titan they now called Blood Brother.


Tris picked our final runner up, Matt Curnen of Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Matt, we’re sending you a Cerastus Knight-Acheron.

Tris said: I picked this story as it nicely, and succinctly captures the tale of a Reaver Titan from The Horus Horus era who's name became legendary for a truly courageous act during the Siege of Terra and took on an almost supernatural presence for the warriors, on both sides, that were involved in the final struggle for the throne world of Mankind. I can imagine this story shown next to a full colour plate of the Burning Vengeance that an Imperial historian might study millennia after the Titan had been lost the ravages of war.

Read Matt’s story of the Titan The Burning Vengeance here:

The Legio Ignatum has long served the Imperium, and in its history, perhaps no other god-machine is more honored than the Burning Vengeance.

Originally named the Emperor’s Will, this colossal Reaver Titan had seen many of the battlefields of the Great Crusade. As the Imperium expanded, it’s maniple was assigned to a Blood Angels Legion strike element that engaged in several bloody system campaigns pushing into Ultima Segmentum. It was the only member of it’s maniple not destroyed, and was only saved by the stalwart defense of the Blood Angels Legion. Returned to Mars for extensive repairs, it was in its post-repair shakedown when Horus’ treachery was discovered. Involved directly in the battles on Mars, it was one of the Titans to be evacuated to Terra to prepare for the inevitable siege.

Its Princeps commanded the head be painted white, a sign of the noble death he expected to meet in battle. As the Siege of Terra wore on, the Emperor’s Will found itself fighting alongside its longtime companions, the Blood Angels, around the Imperial Palace. Often neglected in Imperial History, the final hours of the Siege of Terra were by far the most horrific. Sensing victory, the traitor legions released every weapon at their disposal. As the fateful boarding action aboard the Vengeful Spirit took place, phosphex shells rained down around the Emperor’s palace.

When Sanguinius was struck down by Horus, the Blood Angels fighting around the titan were rocked by the psychic backlash of his death. Without hesitation, its void shields catastrophically damaged, the Emperor’s Will stepped into the breach and lashed out at the traitors, even as it burned from several phosphex impacts. Such was the fury of its onslaught and the accuracy of its fire, that the traitors were scattered before its fury. As the Blood Angels regrouped and charged out to the field, they looked on in awe as the god-machine tore through the traitors’ ranks, the eerie green phosphex flames reflected from it’s white death’s head.

In the aftermath of the Siege, the titan was renamed the Burning Vengeance, in honor of its deeds on that day of days. Millennia later, there are those among the traitor legions who still remember the slaughter outside the Imperial Palace, a gleaming white death’s head, and the cold fear they felt the day the Warmaster fell.

Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you to everyone who took the time to enter. It’s been a lot of fun reading your stories, and we hope you enjoyed writing them.

But it’s not quite over yet!

Some stories really stood out to us in the web team, for a lot of different reasons. Special mentions go to Noah S; Duncan K of Hove, UK; Glen B of Frankston, Australia; Chris S of Verona, Wisconsin, USA; Maxime D of Ivry Sur Seine, France; Matt V of Oakton, Virginia, USA; Alex L of Llandudno, UK; Guerin T of Deakin, Australia; Harald W of Gothenburg, Sweden; and Douglas D of Glasgow, UK. Each of you will be receiving a small prize from us soon, because we though your stories deserved recognition.

And Duncan, we strongly disagree with the Collegia Titanica’s ruling - Houndy McHoundface is an excellent name for a Titan.

Venue: Warhammer World
Date: Sunday 17th July 2016
Tickets: Tickets are first available at Warhammer Fest, then general release, 20th May on the Forge World website.

Forge World Open Day is always a popular and buzzing day, with members of the Forge World Studio coming out from their secret studio to chat with you, share tips and techniques, and show off their latest projects.

Things to take Home

Pick up Forge World’s event exclusive 2016 miniature, as well as event and Warhammer World exclusive art prints, clothing and merchandise.

Things to See and Do

Special Guests from the Middle-earth Studio and Blood Bowl Studio, talking about these exciting new projects.
Get up close to see all the details in one of Forge World’s impressive diorama displays, bringing dramatic life to their miniatures.
Meet and chat with Forge World’s designers and writers, discussing the worlds and creations you love.
Bring your prized painted Forge World miniature to enter into the painting competition.
Take your turn in the massive Titan game! Command one of these huge machines and see how your dice rolls change the outcome of the battle.
Tickets are first available at Warhammer Fest on May 14th and 15th, then go general release on the Forge World website on 20th May.
Want to find out more about Warhammer Fest? Click here.

 reds8n wrote:
Harald W of Gothenburg, Sweden

 Ashiraya wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
Harald W of Gothenburg, Sweden

This is literally my dad.

There is not enough WTF in this world right now.

 Alpharius wrote:
Birthday Present...spoiled?

But still really, really cool, right?

 Ashiraya wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
Harald W of Gothenburg, Sweden

This is literally my dad.

There is not enough WTF in this world right now.