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I guess that makes sense.

But I thought the rumors were Tau vs Raven Guard? I swore I saw a spread of the two. I was also under the impression it was to be a regular GW supplement release, ala Shield if Baal style, not IA. I could be confusing the two, it's been a while.

 Nyghoma wrote:
I guess that makes sense.

But I thought the rumors were Tau vs Raven Guard? I swore I saw a spread of the two. I was also under the impression it was to be a regular GW supplement release, ala Shield if Baal style, not IA. I could be confusing the two, it's been a while.

There were rumours of a Tau/Raven Guard box, like the Space Wolves/Orks one and the Blood Angels/Tyranids one (presumably with a campaign) but that's an entirely seperate rumour to the Tau/Mechanicus Imperial Armour.

I don't think this has been shown:



BattleBunnies says it's Warhammer World exclusive, which is a pity. It's a very nice Warlord head.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
I don't think this has been shown:



BattleBunnies says it's Warhammer World exclusive, which is a pity. It's a very nice Warlord head.

Yes it has, but thanks anyways

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
I don't think this has been shown:

Spoiler:

BattleBunnies says it's Warhammer World exclusive, which is a pity. It's a very nice Warlord head.

Yes it has, but thanks anyways

Has it been posted here yet? I haven't seen it before. You sure you're not confusing it with this one?:

Hmm, I feel like I have seen the head Frozen Ocean posted before, but I think it was sometime ago. Is that a new image from a more recent source though? Either way, it has been sufficiently long for it to become forgotten (at least by me...).

I believe it has been posted before, but this is a better image from a more recent source.
Really happy to know that its officially gonna be a bit, though... The Warlord Im working on has been waiting for this particular variant!


http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/The-Forge-World-Bulletin/2015/09/04/The-Different-Faces-of-War

 Nyghoma wrote:
I guess that makes sense.

But I thought the rumors were Tau vs Raven Guard? I swore I saw a spread of the two. I was also under the impression it was to be a regular GW supplement release, ala Shield if Baal style, not IA. I could be confusing the two, it's been a while.

The rumor of Tau v. Raven Guard is regarding a Stormclaw styled double box.

Blood Angels stuff is up for pre-order ... pictures are missing though.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-DE/New


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here they are ...

I think they look awesome. Probably gonna do some HH Blood Angels at some point.

i have plenty of plastic BA shoulder pads already, but those helmets and torsos are the business!!!
i can see a few pieces that will work well for Emperor's Children, too...
very nice sets...

cheers
jah

Much more aesthetically pleasing than the Dark Angels ones but still looks more like something from a 3rd party manufacturer than a boutique branch of the 'worlds best miniatures company'.

Not too bothered about the shoulder pads since I have bucket loads of blinged shoulder pads.

Loving the heads though- even the helmetless one, mainly cause it's not a mop top one like the Citadel studio usually does.

Blood Angels... MK IV Armour.

Hold on, gotta change my underwear.

Those are the nicest marine heads I've ever seen. So cool.

In the email Forgeworld sent out today, it also included an announcement for the upcoming open day event in October. It rather prominently featured a Tau battlesuit in the picture. I wonder if that means something...?

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
In the email Forgeworld sent out today, it also included an announcement for the upcoming open day event in October. It rather prominently featured a Tau battlesuit in the picture. I wonder if that means something...?

Probably the Taros Campaign revamp at a guess? Or something completely new.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
In the email Forgeworld sent out today, it also included an announcement for the upcoming open day event in October. It rather prominently featured a Tau battlesuit in the picture. I wonder if that means something...?

Probably the Taros Campaign revamp at a guess? Or something completely new.

The second edition of the Taros IA book is already out, and the next revamped IA is Mymeara due in a few months. So either it's just about the new battlesuit, or the Tau vs AM book will be shown/released/whatever.

Or it could be to do with new Tau from GW, that's due soon right?

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
In the email Forgeworld sent out today, it also included an announcement for the upcoming open day event in October. It rather prominently featured a Tau battlesuit in the picture. I wonder if that means something...?

Probably the Taros Campaign revamp at a guess? Or something completely new.

Way to commit!

pretre - but him on the tracker!

I'm hoping that this means the rumored "Tau v. Raven Guard" is happening - somewhere.

And that it means that there will be a lot of dead Tau!

(Though that would have to mean it comes from GW and not FW!)

That middle top torso looks brilliant. I could find a lot of uses for that...

Holy batman... No nipple armour, yay!!

Yeah, saw these last night -- they are gorgeous. Preordered!

One thing to note for anyone who's never used them before, the resin shoulders from FW aren't as crisp and clean as the plastic ones that come with new kits, and size matching some of the shoulders between different marks of armor may be difficult; for instance the Mk3 look humongous versus plain Mk7 blanks, and look disproportionately large versus some others.

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 jah-joshua wrote:
i have plenty of plastic BA shoulder pads already, but those helmets and torsos are the business!!!

Yeah, me too. The Mk2/Mk3 ones are really nice though! I couldn't resist.

 Alpharius wrote:
I'm hoping that this means the rumored "Tau v. Raven Guard" is happening - somewhere.

But wouldn't that mean no FW AdMech book?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I'm hoping that this means the rumored "Tau v. Raven Guard" is happening - somewhere.

But wouldn't that mean no FW AdMech book?

Not necessarily?

The rumored Tau v. Raven Guard thing is GW, rumored to be a "Red Waagh!" or "Shield of Baal" style supplement for the Nimbosa Expansion.

Oh right, sorry. I hadn't realised that.


In the meantime, I bought book 5 and the Mechanicum Red book. Hell, I even did the bundle that comes with that new Tech-Priest and his mechno friends.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Oh right, sorry. I hadn't realised that.


In the meantime, I bought book 5 and the Mechanicum Red book. Hell, I even did the bundle that comes with that new Tech-Priest and his mechno friends.

Does that mean that you have every Tech-Priest ever produced by GW?

Not impressed by the helmets, but those torsos are lovely.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

In the meantime, I bought book 5 and the Mechanicum Red book. Hell, I even did the bundle that comes with that new Tech-Priest and his mechno friends.

I first read that as "In the meantime, I bought 5 of the Mechanicum Red book" and thought "I knew H.B.M.C. liked Mechanicum, but wow".

At the risk of sounding ungrateful at my legion getting some love, is there any sign or rumours of mk3 heads and torsos for the BA? I mean these are cool, but mk4 just aren't my thing. Also, directed at those who went to the open day, are they planning on filling out the missing range of cataphractii pads? Thanks

 Sirius42 wrote:
At the risk of sounding ungrateful at my legion getting some love, is there any sign or rumours of mk3 heads and torsos for the BA? I mean these are cool, but mk4 just aren't my thing. Also, directed at those who went to the open day, are they planning on filling out the missing range of cataphractii pads? Thanks

Doesn't seem likely. So far every legion has received only one set of helmets and torsos.

MacMuckles wrote:

 Sirius42 wrote:
At the risk of sounding ungrateful at my legion getting some love, is there any sign or rumours of mk3 heads and torsos for the BA? I mean these are cool, but mk4 just aren't my thing. Also, directed at those who went to the open day, are they planning on filling out the missing range of cataphractii pads? Thanks

Doesn't seem likely. So far every legion has received only one set of helmets and torsos.

Correct.
I suppose the forthcoming FW fluff for BA will suggest that they predominately use MK.IV armour over anything else. The Raven Guard receive MK.VI upgrades, the Iron Warriors MK.II and so on, so forth.