Forge World Newsletter #230‏

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**Flachzange**

Hi There,
First up a Happy New Year from Forge World! And an exiting year it's shaping up to be, with some fantastic new models, books and other surprises in store from us for the coming months. We have a brand new Imperial Guard vehicle released for our Elysian range this newsletter as well as some good news about shipping rates, some more updates.

Thanks
Alan Bligh

New Shipping Offer
Thanks to the continued efforts of our shipping and dispatch department, we can now offer a change to our shipping rates, which should save you money on larger purchases from us.
Starting immediately, all orders with a total product value of £150 and over will automatically qualify for free standard rate shipping anywhere in the world.
As previously, all orders with a total product value of £250 or more will automatically qualify for free Express rate shipping anywhere in the world.
Orders with a product value of less that £150 will be charged our standard rates.

Tauros Venator Rapid Strike Vehicle
New for the Elysians is the Tauros Venator, a six-wheeled rapid strike and scout vehicle. Light, fast and heavily armed, these all terrain attack vehicles are used for rapid reconnaissance and savage lightning raids in support of the drop troop landings. Designed by Will Hayes, with Elysian crewmen by Simon Egan, this full resin model comes with the choice to mount either a twin-linked multi-laser or twin-linked lascannon as well as optional hunter-killer missiles. This is a great model and something genuinely new for the Imperial Guard and Elysian range, as you can see Here.

The Tauros Venator is available now to pre-order Here for dispatch the week commencing the 25th of January.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/taurven.htm

Rules for the Tauros, as well as other new Imperial Guard vehicles for the Elysians (including a new Valkyrie variant) can be found in our forthcoming book Imperial Armour Volume 8, and we'll have some experimental rules for you to download soon.

New Catalogue
We are in the final stages of preparation for our brand new 2010 Catalogue, (which means that orders shipping out at the moment will not include a free catalogue as we've run out of the old one). If you would like one of our 2010 catalogues, all you need to do is send us your name and full contact details and we will send you out one for free as soon as we get them into stock over the next few weeks. You can either email us your details at forgeworldcatreq@games-workshop.co.uk or give us a ring on 0115 916 8177.

Events
Our packed schedule of events for 2010 begins this weekend at the Frenzy event in Amsterdam Saturday 23rd of January. Forge World will be in attendance with a sales stand and previews of some of our forthcoming models.

You can find more details of this event here.

**Fateweaver**

Now that's sweet. If I played Elysians I'd find a way to get a few.

**Maverick421**

Sweet looking vehicle.

**oni**

It looks like a children's toy.

**MeanGreenStompa**

Nice, is it just me or did they raise it a bit? I thought the original we saw looked a lot lower to the ground.

**Agamemnon2**

That's one sexy beast. At £34, it's placed in the "expensive for what it can do on the battlefield, but not too expensive to own" category for me. After all, it's just one fast-moving heavy weapon in an army that can field lots of cheap heavy weapons.

**Empchild**

Im so down on turning that renagade!

**aka_mythos**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Nice, is it just me or did they raise it a bit? I thought the original we saw looked a lot lower to the ground.

Its forgeworld... chances are the suspension pieces for the wheels allow you to adjust them to some minimal degree.

Most of the early pictures were also taken at a steeper angle from above. That would make it look lower.

oni wrote:It looks like a children's toy.

Don't most 40k models? Most people, who know nothing of 40k, would assume most 40k were toys if you didn't give any explanation.

For what its suppose to be it looks the part.

**Kanluwen**

I think the turret makes it look higher than it is, really. The wheels look the same height.

Either way, already ordered 3x with leftover hobby funds from last year.

**aka_mythos**

You mean you weren't going to wait till FW released the transport version of it or the Heavy Lift Valkyrie?

**Kanluwen**

Hell no. I want some guntrucks.

**Harms66**

Now that just sweet, I wonder if the crews removable so that they can be replaced with another Imperial Guards regiment

**Kanluwen**

Crew will probably be attached to the seats, and there's no real figures from other IG regiments that would work anyways.

**kendoka**

Will order a few Tauros Venators (and upcoming variants).
They will look great as escorts for my unlooted Mad Max-inspired fuel transports:

**Death By Monkeys**

I love the look of that thing. Make me need to resist investing in an Elysian army. And if I was an Ork player with enough money I'd be all over looting that sucker.

**aka_mythos**

Harms66 wrote:Now that just sweet, I wonder if the crews removable so that they can be replaced with another Imperial Guards regiment

Kanluwen wrote:Crew will probably be attached to the seats, and there's no real figures from other IG regiments that would work anyways.

Look a picture without the crew:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Imperial%20Guard/Elysians/tv9.jpg

Also, the description pretty much says they're separate.

**warpcrafter**

Da hommiez haz gun tu far dis tiem! We'z da wuns wiv da trukks! Iz secksie, inni?

**Kanluwen**

aka_mythos wrote:
Harms66 wrote:Now that just sweet, I wonder if the crews removable so that they can be replaced with another Imperial Guards regiment

Kanluwen wrote:Crew will probably be attached to the seats, and there's no real figures from other IG regiments that would work anyways.

Look a picture without the crew:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Imperial%20Guard/Elysians/tv9.jpg

Also, the description pretty much says they're separate.

Still doesn't mean there's anything else that'll fit in there

**Keldon_Uk**

I NEEEEED it

As mentioned would make a great Ork conversion too, but FW already does great orky stuff

**RogueMarket**

Looks just... ok. nothing fantabulous.

**Breotan**

Damn. I want to buy them for my Marine army. They're a perfect fit amongst my large contingent of bikes.

**spacewolflord**

GW could easily make that in to plastic. Hopefully it will sell well enough so that they do.

**aka_mythos**

Kanluwen wrote:Still doesn't mean there's anything else that'll fit in there

True... but it can't be too hard to convert. You cut the Elysians at the waist and use a any torso combined with gunner arms. Scale issues are mitigated by the fact that both the gunner and drivers legs are pretty much not visible while in the vehicle so the waist down is really just to help the rest fit into it.

**BrookM**

Holy fething gak. Do I ever want a few of those. I'm going to have to brave the Frenzy for one of those. feth Thousand Sons, I need me one of those!

**Dal'yth Dude**

"Tauros Venator Rapid Strike Vehicle
New for the Elysians is the Tauros Venator, a six-wheeled rapid strike and scout vehicle."

Not to be confused with the Taros campaign which IIRC also involved the Elysians.

**Breotan**

Dal'yth Dude wrote:Not to be confused with the Taros campaign which IIRC also involved the Elysians.

Tauros is the British spelling of Taros.

**anticitizen013**

That thing looks awesome! If only Daemons could ride it...

**loki old fart**

OMG I want that for my boys

**Dal'yth Dude**

Nice catch Breotan. I do have the signed version with all the typos in it. Yeah, that's it.

**Reecius**

It looks like a children's toy

Hahaha, and what in our game doesn't look like a child's toy?

That thing is hot sizzle, I am getting one fo sho!