Forge World Newsletter #277 - Marine HW and new Dark Eldar vehicle!!!

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**H.B.M.C.**

Why is it that FW seems to be run by people that understand the purpose of newsletters and previews, etc. etc.

Anyway...

Forge World wrote:Hi there,
In this week’s newsletter we are excited to announce four great new products: an addition to our Dark Eldar range in the form of the terrifying Reaper, a Space Marine Heavy Weapons set, and two decal sheets for the Eldar and the Astral Claws.

Dark Eldar Reaper
Akin to the Ravager, the Reaper is a swift and deadly gunship. Its sleek, dart-like hull is built around a single, monstrously-powerful weapon codified by the Xenosavants of the Adeptus Biologis as a Storm Vortex projector. This cannon operates much like the smaller Haywire blaster, and unleashes a cascading pulse of electromagnetic energy that is far more powerful than anything possible in a hand weapon. The vortex chamber at the Reaper’s heart is a cage for howling energies harvested from the spires of Commorragh itself, which when combined with its speed and manoeuvrability makes the Reaper an elegant but still devastatingly lethal weapon when compared to the brutal armoured warfare practiced by lesser races.

The Dark Eldar Reaper is a complete resin and plastic kit which contains a plastic Dark Eldar Raider kit and a set of detailed resin conversion parts, designed by Stuart Williamson, which allow the reaper variant to be added to any Dark Eldar army.
Experimental rules for this sleek and powerful craft are available now to download from the Forge World website, and the Dark Eldar Reaper is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing 27th June.

Space Marine Heavy Weapons Set
The noble Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes are supplied with weapons and armour by ancient alliance with the Adeptus Mechanicus. Some of the less common patterns of heavy weapons created by these techno-magi date from the hallowed and ancient days of the Great Crusade and the Astartes Legions of old. These shoulder-mounted patterns afford greater protection to the wielder as they allow less of the firer to be exposed to incoming enemy fire as they unleash their destructive salvo.

This Space Marine Heavy Weapons Set, designed by Phil Stutcinskas, contains four resin heavy weapons: a Plasma Cannon, Multi-Melta, Heavy Bolter and a Lascannon, as well as supporting and counter-balancing arms, and backpacks that can be used with the full range of both Citadel and Forge World Space Marine kits.
This detailed resin upgrade set is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing 27th June.

New Astral Claws and Eldar Decal Sheets
Our final releases for this week’s newsletter are two new additions to our range of A4 Decal sheets, designed by Kenton Mills and Paul Rudge.

The Eldar Decal Sheet is packed with over 1,000 individual decals that are suitable for use on both vehicles and infantry. Craftworld, Path and Aspect runes are all included as well as unique runes for the doomed Craftworld of Mymeara and the Corsair bands of the Sky Reavers, Sunblitz Brotherhood and the notorious Void Dragons.
The eagerly-anticipated Astral Claws Decal Sheet contains over 500 Chapter badges, Tyrant’s Claw symbols, blazons and the Maelstrom Warders heraldry suitable for use on both vehicles and infantry. The sheet also contains Chapter badges for the ill-fated Tiger Claws Chapter and is packed with the Astral Claws ‘true’ lion-headed Chapter device as well as the heraldry of Lugft Huron that became synonymous with the notorious Badab War campaign.

Both of these decal sheets are available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing 27th June.

Badab War Campaign Weekend – 25th - 26th June 2011
Warhammer World’s Events team are re-fighting the infamous Badab War campaign over the weekend of 25th - 26th June, and with the event rapidly approaching there are only a very small number of Secessionist tickets remaining. The complete rules for army selection can be downloaded now as part of the event pack. Head over to www.games-workshop.com and you will find it in the Badab War event pages in the Warhammer World section of the website.

As mentioned in our last newsletter, Imperial Armour writer Alan Bligh will be hosting a Q&A session on Saturday evening, and the Forge World stand in the main hall will have a selection of our previous Show Only models on sale in limited numbers, along with this year’s MkIII Armoured Boarding Space Marine and Chaos Dwarf Hellsmith.

For more details about the campaign weekend, please contact Games Workshop Customer Service on 0115 91 40 000, the Events Team on 0115 900 4175 or e-mail whworldevents@games-workshop.co.uk.

Games Day Spain – 3rd July 2011
Forge World will be attending Games Day Spain 2011, held at the Pabellon de Convenciones at Casa del Campo in Madrid. Our sales team will be bringing a wide selection of the Warhammer Forge and Forge World range, including both of our Show Only models for 2011: the Chaos Dwarf Hellsmith and MkIII Armoured Boarding Space Marine.

We are now accepting reservation orders for Games Day Spain, and this is the best way of ensuring that we will have exactly the models you’re looking for, packed up and waiting for you to pay for on the day.
To place a reservation order, please send an e-mail entitled ‘Games Day Spain Reservation’ to fwreservations@games-workshop.co.uk, making sure you provide your full name and a list of the items you’d like to reserve. We must receive your reservation order by 20th June to ensure we’re able to process and ship them in time for the event.
You can also phone your reservation order in to the Forge World Customer Service team on 00 44 115 916 8177 (from much of Europe).

Thanks,
Ead Brown
Customer Service Manager
Forge World

**Ouze**

I don't understand the purpose of the heavy weapons. They've already released retro spmreenes weapons, and these use the current aesthetics. Atop all that, devastators suck. So why did they choose to spend developer time on this?

DE Reaper looks like a nice conversion kit, though.

**H.B.M.C.**

My thread wins! Ahahahaha!

Anyway, these heavy weapons are retro heavy weapons. They're the shoulder-mounted kind, and fit with the missile launcher they released. And whether Devastators 'suck' is really neither here nor there.

**insaniak**

Ouze wrote:I don't understand the purpose of the heavy weapons. They've already released retro spmreenes weapons, and these use the current aesthetics. Atop all that, devastators suck. So why did they choose to spend developer time on this?

Because some of us who started in RT or 2nd edition get a little teary and nostalgic over shoulder mounted heavy weapons... and these look cooler than the originals did.

**Ouze**

H.B.M.C. wrote:My thread wins! Ahahahaha

As well it should have. A race won by 90 seconds is no less of a win, and I tip my hat to not only your speedier posting but your superior presentation, with the hyperlinks and all.

insaniak wrote:
Ouze wrote:I don't understand the purpose of the heavy weapons. They've already released retro spmreenes weapons, and these use the current aesthetics. Atop all that, devastators suck. So why did they choose to spend developer time on this?

Because some of us who started in RT or 2nd edition get a little teary and nostalgic over shoulder mounted heavy weapons... and these look cooler than the originals did.

Ok, so the equivalent of fancy Rhino doors, which serve no purpose other then looking cool? I can understand that.

**Frazzled**

Old school heavy weapons, That takes me back.

**SilverMK2**

Those HW SM look like they are having some kind of problem pooping, what with thier arrow straight off arm with clenched fist. Especially the guy with the angry face grill

Though almost a month after I first emailed FW regards sending me out a replacement part (it was missing from the kit) I am still waiting for it and the've not replied to most of my emails.

Guess emailing newsletters and making RT style marines is taking up all their time

**Vitruvian XVII**

You need to give them a ring really, in my experience that yields far better results than emails.

Like the DEldar ship, bout time they released some cool looking stuff! The retro heavy weapons are cool, may have to get some for my SoM.

**warboss**

Frazzled wrote:Old school heavy weapons, That takes me back.

While they are old-school in the sense of the over the shoulder mounts, I don't get that sense from the general styling and I'm not ultimately a fan of them. The rocket launcher had an authentic dated look to it with its strong resemblance to the original RT one but these mostly look like the updated versions simply put over the shoulder (except for the chubby plasma variant) while the heavy bolter is just a completely different direction with little relation to any previous design. I would have preferred if they went for the older dimensions and styling; for instance, the older lascannons didn't have the tapered snout at the end but more of a blocky tip.

**kronk**

I like those heavy weapons.

**Ratius**

Because some of us who started in RT or 2nd edition get a little teary and nostalgic over shoulder mounted heavy weapons... and these look cooler than the originals did.

QFT. Loving the plasma cannon.

DE boat, undecided.

**Nvs**

Wish they would provide names for the Eldar runes.

I wonder if one is the Atherakhia symbol that they provided in the DE codex which is supposed to be an 'emo' eldar rune of the same name.

Perhaps it's the sname of Saim Hann? Or the cockatrice/snake/dragon type thing in the upper left?

As for the heavy weapons, I really wish they made them in a way where the other hand was supporting it in some fashion. I'm not sure I like they way they're being held. It's fine for moving, but not for actually using imo. In fact, the lascannon model looks like he's using the gun to spy on his girlfriend he suspects of cheating.

The DE vehicle is a bit depressing too, but hopefully is the start of many things to come. I have doubts I'd buy it though.

**Kirasu**

Those heavy weapons are pretty bad in terms of posing.. They look well sculpted enough but whats the other hand supposed to be doing? the old style marines atleast had the second hand stabilizing the weapon. They're running around with it strapped to a single shoulder? Seems pretty unbalancing

The current ones are much cooler imo and make a lot more sense. Another non-starter is that you gotta buy 1 of every weapon, what if you dont want that? They should be selling packs of 4 identical weapons cause obviously the old HW boxes with 1 of every weapon were an amazing idea? So they had to replicate that?

**DarkTraveler777**

That DE vehicle is definitely going on to my next order. I really like the look of the giant prow-mounted beam weapon.

**SickSix**

Personally I like the heavy weapons. But I would use different left arms. No big deal.

**JOHIRA**

It's rare that I like something for the space marines, but I like these heavy weapons. They have a lot of character.

I like the basic lines of the Reaper (of course I do, it's based on the excellent Raider). The AEthersail is great. The housing for the prow gun is fine. I'm not feeling the prow gun itself though. It's a little too sleek-looking and crosses the line into looking plain. I don't expect esposed wires and tubes on Eldar stuff, but I'd like to see a little texture. The gun honestly looks like something I might convert myself, which is not a good thing.

**Eisenhorn**

Call Forge World for great customer service.
They don't look at the E-mail too often.

**Theduke07**

Raider seems okay I guess. I really don't see a great role for it besides alpha striking parking lots. Also in heavy support competing with Ravagers is a hard sell. And may wallet is really going to feel the hurt if and when they release the Space Shark decals.

**Breotan**

I really like the look of the Reaper but at the same time I'm underwelmed by the functionality. There are better ways for DE to kill vehicles or MC's and the relatively short range means it ain't staying on the board very long after you send it in to kill something. Fairly pricy for what's essentially a guided missile designed to glance the target.

**Commander Cain**

Loving the HW's. While they do not seem to incorporate as much of the retro looks as the missile launcher, the basic shape is still very cool looking.

The DE ship, not completley what I was hoping for, the main cannon looks a bit cheesy for my tastes.

**Acardia**

DE vehicle very cool looking, but not my army.

I like all the FW heavy weapons except the heavy bolter. Rather have a missle launcher anyways.

**Bikeninja**

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. Shoulder mounted weapons were such a pain. I could never get the hands to line up right with the grips.

**MagickalMemories**

The DE vehicle looks really cool, but I doubt I'll spend my money on it. Not too excited by the rules.

Eric

**Kymera**

I haven't ordered anything from forgeworld in a long time but I don't think I'll be able to resist the Reaper, I think it looks awesome.

**kronk**

Kirasu wrote: the old style marines atleast had the second hand stabilizing the weapon.

Another non-starter is that you gotta buy 1 of every weapon, what if you dont want that?

At second glance at the models, these are excellent points. If I were to make a Devastator Squad, I'd want 4 of something, or 2 of two things and combat squad them. Plus, I'd never run with a heavy bolter. Why would I? I'd rather have the plasma cannon or the lascannon. Too bad you can't just buy those...

And the closed-fist left arms are dumb looking.

**StarShade**

insaniak wrote:
Ouze wrote:I don't understand the purpose of the heavy weapons. They've already released retro spmreenes weapons, and these use the current aesthetics. Atop all that, devastators suck. So why did they choose to spend developer time on this?

Because some of us who started in RT or 2nd edition get a little teary and nostalgic over shoulder mounted heavy weapons... and these look cooler than the originals did.

So very true! these weapons look great.

**Sidstyler**

I just want the sail, lol...

**endtransmission**

warboss wrote:The rocket launcher had an authentic dated look to it with its strong resemblance to the original RT one but these mostly look like the updated versions simply put over the shoulder (except for the chubby plasma variant) while the heavy bolter is just a completely different direction with little relation to any previous design. I would have preferred if they went for the older dimensions and styling; for instance, the older lascannons didn't have the tapered snout at the end but more of a blocky tip.

Couple of pointers.. The Rogue Trader era Heavy Bolter did indeed look pretty much like that. See this old tarantula that used the shoulder mounted Heavy bolters.

As for the Lascannon, it's more 2nd edition than 1st as you can see here in the second picture. As you can see form the parts shown, 2nd edition Devastators also didn't have supporting left arms as they used the tactical marine arms that were designed for bolters.

I like the weapons; I just hope the 2nd ed missile launcher never makes a comeback!
I would, however, love to see a FW take on the plastic marine scouts from Tyranid Attack and their awesome heavy bolter.

**puma713**

SilverMK2 wrote:Those HW SM look like they are having some kind of problem pooping, what with thier arrow straight off arm with clenched fist. Especially the guy with the angry face grill

I lol'ed.

Love the DE Reaper.

**Calvinus**

I can see the retro-appeal on the heavy weapons and why someone who likes retro looking marines would buy it.

I particularly like the lens for the lascannon. If something is going to shoot an extremely focused beam of light to blow up targets a long way off then it's appropriate to have a targeting system, so that's smart. The other 4 weapons though I personally don't care for.

It must get good to be a DE player though with this FW kit coming out and the GW release this weekend too.