Kilgore wrote:Mark 4 assault squads, older mk apothecarys, new imperial flyer, tartaros character upgrade kits, new city fight boards, forgeworld have outdone themselves!

philbrad2 wrote:Right spotted....

Stromeagle Indeed a resin plastic hybrid
Mk iv assault troops
New CC termis upgrades hammers and claws
New termi combi/heavy weapons
New apothecarys - these are absolutely gorgeous
New IG 'A10' attack flyer
Land Raider Spartan
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Its a whole kit and included plastic Storm Raven. Fuselage top, ramp, cockpit and outer wing panels are SR sourced. Engines use resin centres (with inner wings) and plastic SR intakes and exhausts. Rules (from memory) Armour 12/12/12 (yes 12 rear) 20 troop capacity, weaponry quite similar to SR for nose, TL lascannos on wings, hellstrike missles, missile launcher pods were I think 2 S5 AP5 large blast.

kragnorak wrote:Hi had a 5 minute chat with EDGAR SKOMOROWSKI, who sculpted most of the chaos dwarf range. He said that he has just finished making the new Chaos Dwarf Bull Centaurs and that the K'daai Destroyer is being sculpted as we speak.

Once he had finished them he was moving onto the new "Battle for the Fire Pass" campaign book.

SotonShades from BoLS wrote:The Warlock Titan. Sorry eldargirl, but they won't be upgrading your beloved Phantom until the next time they do a major Eldar book (I'll explain when that is likely to be in a bit).

You want terrain kits? Blake Spence is working on them. He's the gentleman you can thank for the Zone Mortalis boards. Mostly going to be working on Realm of Battle Boards and more expansions for ZM, but other stand alone pieces are planned. Race specific RoB sections are planned, for most armies in 40k AND Fantasy! Could be a while before we see them though. This will include proper Cityfight terrain, possibly trenches in the future and linking pieces between RoB sections and ZM modules, such as stairs/subway entrances.

SotonShades, sorry for this very late question but did you hear anything about new stuffs for Elysian IG?

Yep. I'm afraid there are no plans to revisit them at the moment, or any other IG regiments or previously pulished lists. There are a few kits from previous books in the pipeline, most notably Bran Redmaw, but for the most part what is out is out. Apart from whomeveer gets in to IA12. Speaking of which;

IA12 is Minotaur Space Marines Vs Necrons. Focus is on sectorwide conflict rather than specific system/planet, so will incorporate IG and probably other races as well. Looking at a facet of Imperial war we haven't really seen before.

To go with the book expect a BIG expansion of FW's Necron range. I have seen Minotaur shoulder pads. Simon Eagen wants to work on helmets, torsos and backpack bits as well (in fact that is where the 2 Minotaur characteers came from).

Speaking of conversion bits, new style Terminators WILL be getting full set of weapon options, possibly including some more esoteric ideas (graviton gun perhaps?) and Assault Terminator options. Assault Termies were on display in Will Hayes's Case.

There are also stirings within the studio for doing Chapter specific Contermptors, similar to their current range of Dreadnoughts. Nothing officially started yet, but it is something various designers said they wanted to work on.

Similar story for Iron Hands but less so. As for Mk VIII armour, the Errent pattern... No real interest I'm afraid. Maybe if their is enough demand for it, but designers are doubtful it would be different enough from the plastic kits to be worth doing.

During the Q&A session, a question was raised regarding some SM chapters getting certain equipment and other not (such as the Thunderfire Cannon). Chaos Marines were also mentioned. Basicly, GW & FW want to keep some disparity between the MEQ lists based on the way they are supposed to play, so not all equipment will go to everyone. This includes chaos not getting a Caestus Assault Ram.

Minotaurs will probably appear in several unlinked books, with an overal unfolding mystery about them. The Tzeentch/penal colony stuff will most likely be IA13 now (possibly with a Fantasy Book inbetween) and will most likely cover a Tzeenchian Cult across several legions and renegade space mainres.

No plans for any further Enforcers/Arbities rekeases. In fact, a point was made that if you see it as a show only model, it is probably because they don't feel it would work as an army. Same goes for Primarch models, but for a slightly different reason.

No plans to release any more models for Badab characters, whichwas why such detailed descriptions were given, to give you chance to convert them.

Next fantasy book is most likely going to be a campaign between Orcs and Goblins and the Emprire; the Third Battle for Blackfire Pass.

There are fairly well developed ideas for the next 3 or 4 IA story lines. In fact the DE one is having to be rewritten because it is currently too Grim-Dark and bleak for 40k!

Speaking of which, Adeptus Mechanicus MAY appear in the next 2-3 books. Not certain, and probably more as part of a faction than as a force in their own right. They really want to do Knight Titans, but will be a while away yet.

Several people asked about a bulk land pod for the Thunderhawk Transporter. Again, it's another case of "something we'd like to do, but have no plans or concepts for it yet.

For those of you who aren't so pleased with the WD SoB codex... well, FW haven't got that on their radar yet, but really want to do a War of Faith style IA book, with Sister and lots of screaming fanatics. Earliest would be several years down the pipeline though.

Some points were raised about Blakc Library and FW cross-overs. Basic reply was that they love to draw inspiration from each other, but neither party wants to do any tie-ins because it screws with their creative freedom. Specifically, can you imagine how a BL author would feel if one of his favourite characters to write had a bullet put in the back of his head by a FW writer?

THERE WILL BE MORE MODELLING MASTERCLASS VOLUMES!
Hopefully they will be putting a new one out every year or year and a half. Most likely the next one will be a Fantasy release. That said, it was doubtful they would be releasing and more hobby supplies such as their weathering powders any time soon.

Despite the release of so many older marks of armour and relic style vehicles/weaspon, FW will not be doing any pre/heresy stuff any time soon. To do a book would essentially mean SM vs SM, and would be such a big project it would be very very difficult to manage around doing other releases. They also don't feel it would work too well along the lines of the game set in the 41st millenium, so wouldnt work with/against 41st millennium codicies. Afterall, the great crusade was humanity expanding across the whole galaxy in a few hundred years, wipining out all but a handful of sentient xenos races.

FW also apologised for dropping a lot of their older scenery kits recently, particularly the old trench system. Basically comes down to not being able to constantly stock enough, with terrain beaing some of the worst selling stuff and too expensive to manufacture for what they can reasonably expect to sell it at. The old foam bits were also too damagable. Hopefully the new hollow terrain casting methods will mean they can stock and create a much greater variety (as I've already mentioned.)

FW want to convert more of the deamon engines and superheavies from epic in to 40k sclae. however, simply blowing up the old models is not a realistic option, so they would need to be completely redesigned, probably keeping little more than the original name. they also pointed out that scale ratios in epic do not work in 40k. mostly, especially on tall models such as titans, they are too short! And the taller the model, the worse this difference is (so my warlord at 40+ inches isnt too far off what they should be)

The FW design team want to keep IG using tracked vehicles, grinding forwards, rather than wheels like trrop trucks or bikes. Don't expect to see too many exceptions like the tauros for the elysians. They will only do it where it makes sense for a regiemtn in their books.

FW won't be doing any Fellblades for the Space Marines. They dont feel it fits with 40k since the reorganisation of the Legions to chapters. There was however talk of doing weapons packs, such as 10 combi-meltas for example only, that would be popular. Similar to the Chapterhouse kits. No firm confirmation on this though.

As they've pointed out before, FW have very few links with the main design studio, so theyk now nothing of 6th Ed and how their stuff will integrate. As far as FW are concerned, anything stamped with the 40k approved logo is balanced enough for regular games, but always ask your opponant (no reason to say no, but...) They haven't even had a chance to get a hold of the new paints yet (so I had to tell Phil what they were like!) Similarly, there is no connection between the FW Demigryphs and the new empirs plastics as far as the FW team are aware.

FW are happy with the rate at which they put out books. They want to cover all the race before they cover any again (though expect Imperials to be in all books, quite possibly mostly Minotaurs for the next few), so we are now expecting Necrons in IA12, Tzeentch later (prob IA13) then DE and Slaanesh before anyone else gets re-done. Necrons are in very early concept phase, so will be a while before we get out hand on them, but there are all ready plans afoot for a BIG kit for Orks when they come round again. They will almost certainly get either a Bomma or a Gargant. Quite possibly both.

VaUgHaNy86 from Dakka wrote:I was talking to a couple of the design team today with regards to the Necrons, apparently they are currently working on some small constructs atm which are referenced as dragonfly like with segmented bodies, 4-5 to a base, with regards to ia 12 they are planning on releasing a titan like model undecided on war machine or construct, something to tie in with tomb stalker but spyder sized, possible upgrade sprues for crypteks/ overlords including possible alternate heads with different styles of death mask, the ia12 will be an entirely new dynasty with very different fluff and a couple named characters possible c'tan shard and they are planning on doing something between tomb stalker/ titan size, possibly a flyer, no plans on doing anything with regards to troops or anything like that, only characters as troops and infantry they believe there is no need to do anything with

Lovepug13 from Dakka wrote:Other items from Q&A....

Warlord Titan will be a go.....Late 2013 is the earliest you will see this.

Likewise....Gargant will be a go when Orks get another book....whenever that is.

For IA12 they want to focus on the bigger things for Necrons, a superheavy or superheavys could be on table

The prison planet "morros incident?" still going to be going ahead.....just not yet.

Zone Mortalis board to stay at Warhammer world for usage in main gaming hall....

Tzentch and Slanesh to get some love at some point in future in 40k

Thats all I can remember...had a great day, even got a Grot Mega tank lol :-)

Dysartes from Dakka wrote:One thing I forgot to mention - Modelling Masterclass Volume Two uses the old/current paint range, not the new one.
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I spoke to one of the sculptors, who commented the Blackfire Pass would have Empire, Dwarf and Orc & Goblin stuff in it - a relief for me, given the lack of obvious Dwarf content in Monstrous Arcana.

When I flicked through the art pamphlet with the Blackfire Pass cover, one piece of art that stuck out was a Dwarf Zeppelin. There was also a range of empire art, and a couple of O&G pieces.

One of the digital artists was working on a Night Goblin Fanatic piece, and I think the other was working on a River Troll.

The FW (as opposed to Warhammer Forge) digital artists were working on a technical drawing of a Deimos-chassis Rhino (I think - certainly that chassis, but I didn't see a plate over the top hatch), and there was a SM and Contemptor being coloured in Minotaur colours, presumably for IA 12.

Slaaaaaanesh from Warseer wrote:

Very nice stuff all around. Did anyone happen to catch the actual release date for the Stormeagle kit?

I overheard 6-8 weeks from the designer.

Could someone please tell us, how many parts have one of the new terminator models? Are the heads single pieces?

The kit is two sprues, one with torso and legs seperated, and the other with the following seperate parts, right arm, storm bolter, left arm power fist, head, and even the shoulder pads are in two pieces that slot over each other to give the layered armour look. Ooh and a saw bit to turn the powerfist into a chainfist.

Regarding the Storm Eagle, I don't know about a conversion kit but they give you enough of the storm raven kit to make it, but not a complet storm raven plus the forgeworld parts.

Sorrowshard from The Dark City wrote:Hello Ladies,

Back from my fact finding mission at WH world today, it was a bit of a marine fest really, very little indeed to report on anything solid.

However I do have a couple of things for you.

DE wont be in the next IA as thats already set, possibly the one after or the one after that, Alan did say he had done some stuff towards it already.

I said we would all very much like a t hawk sized ish or bigger galleon/barge pirate ship thingy to fill our 'titan' slot, he said that was one thing they would probably look at and that also (he seemed quite keen on this idea) an extra large talos-like Heamo construct. Sounds pretty ace to me, but as I feel it is important that we have some nice big toys but I think we need something kabalite first an foremost, hell they could do a variant on the barge for Coven too (slave cages, autopsies etc)

I also explained that the Tantalus is utter garbage, Alan was surprised he said (and I quote) "well it was carving things up in test games" I said I don't see how thats possible unless ther testers can roll 5's on demand ? I also explained the the douche canoe does it better and is significantly smaller and does not mount "pulse dissonance projectors" and blades.

He kinda muttered something about looking at it so I guess its possible it could see a review for the eventual IA DE book, two things folks, FW will need your feedback if it is to improve and not just "it's gash make it better" I personally will be sending an email explaining the problems with it and offering solutions with explanations, I'll prob do up another data sheet, last time I snet them one of these and an email things DID get changed, some of my ideas made it into print on the phantom so things can be changed and fed back on , at least where FW is concerned.

Also I noticed today the 'original' Tantalus had two Dark lance mounts which we never got in the end, is not like dark lances are the b0rk3n, wonder why ?

Ok so this next bit is pretty big.

Will (Phantom Titan) Hayes was completely down with the idea of a DE super heavy barge/ship, he even told me about some of his ideas for it , he was very enthusiastic, in fact apparently he had made a start on it, but no one could agree on how it should be and became a bit of a committee / too many Chefs affair and he has put it aside currently with no plans to pick it up at any point, he said it was too big a project to realistically do in his own time, so he/FW could really do with a shove to get it on the boil again as it is technically 'dropped' at the moment,

They should just let Will/Jes get on with it , there is literally no way it could go wrong with them on it.

Talima suggested hitting up the FB page and seeing what the response was like, I think we should defo do that and also I think an open letter from the Dark city to Will/FW would maybe help get the project of life support, remember just because Alan does rules does not guarantee we will see model for it any time in the next ten years....

I'm happy to deal with the letter, I'll have a word with sky about getting a poll up so we can essentially collate the opinion of the entire DE community here into one easy to ingest result, Ill forward that along with the open letter.

Lastly and it's a pretty loose rumor really, but Simon Egan seemed fairly enthusiastic when I asked if he would be doing DE models anytime soon, there are no plans but I think he would really like to, if the Shadow Spectres are anything to go by I think any DE he does end up doing will be fething marvelous.
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In the meantime expect to be spammed to death with marines marines and just for a change more marines.....

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Eldorad wrote:So I had a good look at the Black Fire Pass mock up (as it was, not much yet).

There was (mixed in with the WH online art) some brand new are including some empire knights, a jade wizard, some big orcs, a sea troll and... a Dwarf airship.

Spoke to the scuplters and airship is definately on the cards.

Keith mentioned that each sculpter is working on a different race - one for dwarfs, one for empire, one for orcs - to give consistency.

Exciting times!!!

PS Magma dragon looked badass and the new book is sweeeeet.

Petay1985 wrote:Ok, additonal things that i discussed with the Forge World designers:

Mark Bedford:
- Currently working on command squad, (i seem to recall it will be mostly MkIV) with plumed helmets, cloaks, etc... Will include a captain, apthecary, champion, standard bearer as one would expect.
- Apothecarties designed to show the evolution of the apothecary specific kit.

Blake Spence:
- Working on more Zone Mortalis boards, diagonals and other more interesting specific boards.
- 'dressing' kits being worked on; so that'd be like 'engine room' 'medical-bay' 'command and control' etc, etc..
- 3D boards being considered/wanted, logistics still uncerain though. i.e. multiple levels.
- City Fight realm or battle boards being worked on, very nice progress. Will accommodate the GW 40k buildings.

Alan Bligh
- Imperial Armour 12 to be a 'snap shot' of a day in the Imperium, based around a predefined piece of space, sub-sector/system. It aims to show that the Imperium is torn apart by War, with multiple threats and conflicts in short periods of time. It endeavours to give a feel for how chaotic the universe really is.
- Necrons main protagonist.
- Minatours & Guard main Imperial assets, Minatours logical as fleet based and models/upgrade kits on the horizon.
- Orks likely involved.
- Consideration to other races such as Eldar/Dark Eldar and minor Chaos elements still in progres.
- Alan alson confirmed that the prison planet idea is not lost, and will feature in a future book with a Tzeentch cult (involving multiple warbands).

Simon Egan:
- Literally just finished the Minotaurs characters.
- Wants to do Torso's (terminator), storms shields (round and oval), thunder hammers.
- Wouldn't elaborate on current/next project.

Will Hayes:
- Had a fantastic dicsussion regard Power Armour; in that a Mark is defined by the chasis and systems, which is then clad in armour plate, so any mark could in theory have different aesthetics of armour plate over the defining systems and chasis. So mark doesn't neccessarily refer to aesthetic, but are characterised by it.
- Mk IV is the ultimate power armour, most advanced systems, etc.. So will be given a full suite of items; most of which we've seen. Infanty, Jump Infantry, Terminators, etc...
- New Boltgun, Bolt Pistol and Storm bolters coming out in the same style as the new termiantor storm bolters. however only the Boltguns will be an individual kit.
- Terminator Character Upgrade kit will feature all items shown, but not the terminators themselves.
- Intends to have a Terminator Assault Kit, which will likely be the Terminators + Lightning Claws + Thunder Hammer & Storm Shields.
- Chapter specific Contemptors on the cards at the moment.

Phil Stutcinskas:
- Land Raider Spartan likely to be capacity 20, Rapier Laser Destroyer Sponsons, assault vehicle, etc...

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Thats all i can remember for now... hope it's of interest to some.

Vogon from ChaosDwarfs wrote:I've just had a chat with Steve Whitehead who is in the process of sculpting a K'Daai Destroyer.

He is doing this in his free time as a Freelance piece he expects to finish it in a couple of months but doesn't think we'll see it for sale for at least 6 months.

He seems to be extremely enthusiastic about the project and was genuinely pleased to talk about it. He did say that there are no Hobgoblins in the pipeline as things stand right now but did talk about a conversion he's seen with a skaven stormvermin on the back of the new wolves and suggested that would be a great place to start from. Now I wonder where he got that idea Happy

Edgar has finished the Fireborn and is working on the Bull Centaurs which are a lot bulkier and more "bull like" than the current incarnation also about 6 months away.

Once these three releases are complete this will be it for Chaos Dwarfs for quite a while as the staff move on to other projects

I can't remember who asked but I also had a chat with Tamila Fox about the unused CD background. She said she doesn't have it as she is currently working on the next book The Battle of Black Fire Pass (Orcs, Dwarfs and Empire)
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Ok a little bit more of an update from the Q&A with Tony Cottrell and Alan Bligh

I asked them directly about the future of Chaos Dwarfs and they said there is nothing planned after the release of the Fireborn, Destroyer and Bull Centaurs

Tony Cottrell then went on to say the the Fireborn will be out at least to pre order towards the end of April. I also asked about the base size of the Bull Centaurs and after much umming and ahing Tony and Alan came to the conclusion that they were on the same base as the Chaos Daemons Juggernaughts. The confusion this question caused was a joy to witness Happy

The pair of them were also very candied about the way FW works, basically there is no long term plan beyond the books currently being worked on (so Black Fire Pass and Minotaurs V Necrons for 40K). They have multiple projects on going in the back ground any one of which could become the next book or fade away to nothing it seems a much more organic process than GW which is why there is apparently random stuff coming out at odd intervals.

DazzaB from Warseer wrote:The book is based on the 3rd battle for blackfire pass, so there is definitely no Sigmar model. I had a good chat with Talima Fox about the story, An Orc Waaagh through Blackfire Pass, With a heavy involvement of Dwarves of course Averland Empire.

Marius Leitdorf is likely to feature though in the story as he's such a great character which Talima agreed also Averland is just a stone's throw away from The Moot, So you never know there could be some Halflings in there too.

She also said as The Empire have such a good range of models, WF are likely to concentrate on large models and new characters, as they did with Tamurkhan.
the whole design team seem to be quite excited about designing stuff for dwarves in particular.

Oh and when talking about the Greenskins she mentioned Night Gobbos, forest Gobbos and of course Orcs

Petay1985 wrote:Mark Bedford said that the two apothecaries pictured will be released as a matched pair. He inferred that the apothecary that would come in the Command Squad kit will be different, but i cannot be sure.
Will Hayes indicated that the storm bolters will only be released with the Tartaros Terminator Set and likewise the bolt pistols would come with the MkIV Assault Marines Kit, it was also suggested that they would be in the Command Squad kit when it comes out - but this depends on what Mark Bedford chooses to include.
Mark Bedford was very specific that the helmets in the command squad would have crests and inferred that the 'roman' influence would be present through the squad.
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I had a conversation with Alan Bligh about using Meso-american influences for a Forge World created Necron Dynasty, Alan was very excited at the prospect, or so it seemed. All in all very exciting, the idea of a stepped pyramids, mass sacrafice etc... were discussed. Alan also talked about wanting to do a super heavy unit in a similar vein to a monolith and a super heavy flyer!! which he seemed to have grand plans for...

With regard to the inclusion of Orks, Alan intimated that they would almost certainly be included.
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Another few bits and pieces: Talking to Darren Parwood regarding the Imperial Avenger; he said that it is very much a ground attack craft designed to elliminate tanks and armour. Thus sitting well in the family of Thunderbolt, Marauder Bomber, Marauder Destroyer... Darren said that he had originally set out to re-design the Lightning, aiming to bring it's aesthetic more in line with the aforementioned list to create a more coherent STC aesthetic, it would not be a replacement for the current model, but an alternative varient. With the Imperial Avenger taking over as something new and exciting he was not sure when he'd be working on the Lightning Varient again, but was optomistic that it'd be sooner rather than later.

EDIT: Darren talked alot about developing the lightning around a single central engine, which sounds pretty cool.

fragrock44 wrote:We were told by Mark Bedford that its actually Bran (Flake) Redmaw

Earthbeard wrote:Preyton is likely a similar concept to the peryton, mythological creature which is like a eagle with stag syyle head.

It was put up for a while and then hidden again as I went to grab some friends to go see it. Good thing I too pics, there were plenty of please to release the model but they were being a bit cagey about it.

The current models are being done but the designer is not happy with how they look at the moment which is why they were not on display today.

bhsman wrote:Not sure if April 1st material or... =(

Kroothawk wrote:

bhsman wrote:Not sure if April 1st material or... =(

It's not. FW Open Day is always first Sunday in April. And FW never made any April's Fool jokes AFAIK (only GW did).

Kroothawk wrote:
Whatever

Charax wrote:Khorne Flake

H.B.M.C. wrote:And twin-linked twin-linked Lascannons. Awesome.

BrookM wrote:That Imperial flyer sure am ugly. Makes me wonder who is behind that one.

BrookM wrote:That Imperial flyer sure am ugly. Makes me wonder who is behind that one.

Wyrmalla wrote:

BrookM wrote:That Imperial flyer sure am ugly. Makes me wonder who is behind that one.

But Punisher Cannon, Twin Lascannons, and twin missile pods. 0.0

BrookM wrote:

Wyrmalla wrote:

BrookM wrote:That Imperial flyer sure am ugly. Makes me wonder who is behind that one.

But Punisher Cannon, Twin Lascannons, and twin missile pods. 0.0

It's ugly. And not in the A-10 sort of way. This is an ugly model. Oh, IMHO. IMHO. IMHO. IMHO. IMHO. IMHO.

Makes me wonder who is writing the rules for it now that Warwick is busy pimping his overly detailed WWII skirmish set.