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New Apocalypse War Zone book, appears to be set for the Damocles Gulf area, but not necessarily the Crusade as iirc the picture on the front is a Riptide getting shoulder charged by a Knight (I think it was a Paladin).

There is also a Knight Dataslate in the WDW for 3-5 Knights, and the Knight Warlord is the command vehicle for the dataslate.

This one?

Cool picture.

Where's this Warzone information coming from?

That's a very cool pic

There's also this one, but it might be a bit too pro-Imperial to be proper cover art:

Dying Tau are dying Tau. Doesn't matter who's doing it, it's always good.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Cool picture.

Where's this Warzone information coming from?

That's the picture.

I got the information when I took a sneak peak at the WDW today, a circumstance I don't think I'll get again for a while.

Although it means the Astrathingymastuff gets pushed down a week, since none of its stuff is in the WDW.

Did you see any other models in WDW?

None that I noticed, but I could have easily missed them, my glance was only for about 45 seconds or so.

If they do make it I hope that it is more FW-like historical record and less imperial fan-fic.

Also: Why are those stealth suits plain to see? That goes completely against the fluff.

It involves Shadowsun VS Kor'sarro and Shrike. There's a pic in the WDW with her in melee with both of them, so I don't know how she supposedly survived that. There's another character on the imperium side, though I didn't recognize him. He seemed either an IG officer or maybe someone from the knights

 B0B MaRlEy wrote:
It involves Shadowsun VS Kor'sarro and Shrike. There's a pic in the WDW with her in melee with both of them, so I don't know how she supposedly survived that. There's another character on the imperium side, though I didn't recognize him. He seemed either an IG officer or maybe someone from the knights

So Ravenguard and White Scars get some focus, not bad considering how out of focus they are.

I'll be honest, the War-zones have been pretty good when it comes to the quality of focus, the formations are usually good as well.

I'm quite interested in this, hence why I noticed it, as a raven guard player I'm hoping for raven guard specific formations, even if it's only the comeback of the A-team flavoured one Shrike had

Describe the Imperial guy if you can?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dying Tau are dying Tau. Doesn't matter who's doing it, it's always good.

Tru Dat - let the blue blood flow!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dying Tau are dying Tau. Doesn't matter who's doing it, it's always good.

KHORNE cares not from where the blood flows, unless its Tau blood, that smells like rotten fish.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Describe the Imperial guy if you can?

His name didn't strike me as one I knew, his portrait was quite basic, beard, white hair, a bionic eye maybe. Didn't feel "princeps-y" but I'm not that into the new knights so their crew might be a bunch less bionic-dependent than the "real" titans' . It'd still make sense that he'd be a Knight pilot of somekind, the campaign didn't seem to have "regular" IG involved from what I've read

Only thing missing is a space marine eating the brains of the alien and using the knowledge for even more mayhem.

 Kroothawk wrote:
I can confirm that there is no miniature release in the fourth week of March, just Battleground Damocles accompanied by a BL anthology, a Helbrute data slate and a BL hardcover (Arjac Rockfist).They are so desperate to fill the weakly WD that they included a "How to start the hobby" article by Vetock and another one on how awesome a Gandalf miniature is !!

You won't find many months in GW history with only two miniature releases (and one of them getting a Codex for just this model).

Anthology is also named Damocles.
Helbrute dataslade includes history, famous battles and a formation, the usual stuff.

And yes, April releases are pushed back to April
Info from WD this week.

 Krellnus wrote:
There is also a Knight Dataslate in the WDW for 3-5 Knights, and the Knight Warlord is the command vehicle for the dataslate.

I don't get how this dataslate would be different from what's in the codex, other than that it's 3-6 in the codex. Is there anything else to set it apart... there must be, right?

And they still call it a dataslate if it's in the White Dwarf Weekly (WDW), or do you mean there's just an ad for it in the WDW?

 RiTides wrote:

 Krellnus wrote:
There is also a Knight Dataslate in the WDW for 3-5 Knights, and the Knight Warlord is the command vehicle for the dataslate.

I don't get how this dataslate would be different from what's in the codex, other than that it's 3-6 in the codex. Is there anything else to set it apart... there must be, right?

And they still call it a dataslate if it's in the White Dwarf Weekly (WDW), or do you mean there's just an ad for it in the WDW?

They had a formation specific ability, but I can't remember what it was for the life of me.

I don't think it was called a dataslate, it was merely the first thing that popped into my head to 'identify it' if you will, it was fully included in the mag, not an ad, I should have been clearer.

Chances are enhanced shields or the like, the Knight codex makes mention of a trio of Terryn Knights utterly fething the gak of the Tau up to such a degree that Shadowsun was forced to deploy prototype Riptides en masse to keep her army from running the feth away.

Can someone post the pic of Shadowsun vs Shrike and Khan?

Lucarikx

Anybody have info as to how many IG, err Astra Militarium formations there will be?

Not too much info, but as it is similar in size to Damnos and Pandorax, expect similar amounts of fluff and formations for each faction would be my guess.

 BrookM wrote:
Chances are enhanced shields or the like, the Knight codex makes mention of a trio of Terryn Knights utterly fething the gak of the Tau up to such a degree that Shadowsun was forced to deploy prototype Riptides en masse to keep her army from running the feth away.

Oh good, so I guess GW's fluff writers will continue to refuse to acknowledge that the FW Tau units exist? You know, ones like the Tigershark AX-1-0 that one-shots a Warhound (much bigger and nastier than a mere knight), or the Manta that is an even match for a Reaver/Warlord titan? I guess it's better to try to drive sales of the "awesome" new Riptide and knights...

Ah yes, the stupid deus ex machina flyer in Imperial Armour 3.

Yeah, the heretofore and since unseen AX-10, that flew out of the plot, stopped the Imperium dead in its tracks, and flew back into the plot hole from whence it came.

 BrookM wrote:
Ah yes, the stupid deus ex machina flyer in Imperial Armour 3.

You mean the completely obvious development (a cheaper pure ground attack flyer with the Manta's titan-scale firepower but none of the transport capacity or independent space travel) that was first seen in IA3 and then appeared again in later books? TBH the most common objection to it seems to be "I'm an Imperial fanboy who can't stand the fact that titans can be destroyed by anything besides other titans". The only deus ex machina with Tau flyers in IA3 is the fact that the Mantas all conveniently disappeared until they wouldn't have any meaningful effect on the plot.

 B0B MaRlEy wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Describe the Imperial guy if you can?

His name didn't strike me as one I knew, his portrait was quite basic, beard, white hair, a bionic eye maybe. Didn't feel "princeps-y" but I'm not that into the new knights so their crew might be a bunch less bionic-dependent than the "real" titans' . It'd still make sense that he'd be a Knight pilot of somekind, the campaign didn't seem to have "regular" IG involved from what I've read

Which is odd, seeing as the Damocles campaign relied on an awful lot of Imperial Guard regiments, mostly the Brimlock Dragoons.

Oh wait, that's not a big-name regiment, figures.