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November 7th huh? I figured it would be better served as a Christmas release given that is is probably going to sell fantastically well.

Also something seems a little off with the rulebook and cards. Why call the book Conquest? Isn't that already a FW book? Also the card says Horus Heresy while the book says Great Crusade. The two always seemed to be a different period in my mind.

Whatever the case may be I look forward to moar plastic marines!

Nah, early November is spot on for a Christmas release, people don't shop all at the last minute, a good 7 weeks to shift product is a good idea.

November 7th may be the preorder date rather than the release date, and the first week of November marks the start of the holiday shopping rush here in the US. Stores start changing their hours to be open more--and last year, GW shops went from their normal schedule to being open all week.

The book may be detailing the fluff for the "Great Crusade", which technically was still ongoing when the Horus Heresy broke out.

Wow this could really go either way. Execution Force was a serious disappointment. Yes, the assassins were neat if you want to paint stuff to sit on the shelf or whatever. I prefer miniatures with less diorama built into them. But the real downside to that set was the board game side: the components were of very low quality. OTOH ... HH! and that is enough to keep me excited.

There I can be a ninja too.

Serious I saw this a couple years ago. It is fan made, and to top it all off book four of the Horus Heresy series is called Conquest.

here is a shot from that book...




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Very well made, but completely not whats coming hopefully sooner rather than later.

Thanks for that clarification. That pic I posted earlier made me think I had seen something like it before, so thanks for the confirmation.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Thanks for that clarification. That pic I posted earlier made me think I had seen something like it before, so thanks for the confirmation.

No worries the guy on BOLS was doing some serious trolling lol.

So, the book and the cards are fanmade? Lame! Hopefully we'll get some real news and actual photos soon enough.

I just can't see it being a board game with those sprews. Normally GW does snap fit for boardgames to widen the audience. Those sprews look more like a tabletop kit.

Figures that stuff is fan made. If it was a GW product we'd be seeing the company logo slapped on the front there etc.

@Daston: For future reference it's sprues not sprews

I guess this is off-topic, but does anyone have a link to a version online or a store where I can purchase for that Great Crusade fandex? I see mention of MegaArachnids, and now my interest is piqued.

I don't think it is something up for sale, otherwise GW legal would be all over it like a portly fellow over a delicious sandwich.

Thanks for clearing that up, Valace

On Warseer

Originally Posted by Mack

That is indeed the artwork from the Throne of skulls event at Warhammer world.

I'm thinking they gave out the objective cards and the campaign book at the event for the HH tournament they held.

Originally Posted by Art Is Resistance

It's a Fandex - nothing more than that.
It's been around for a few years now - well written, nicely put together, it includes rules for Megarachnids etc..
You can't buy it - FW allowed him to do it on the proviso no money exchanged hands for it, but copy pop up from time to time (I have one).

And:

Nope - physical book only....

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?414089-Great-Crusade-Expansion

November can't come soon enough

Although the Great Crusade book is fan made, it was given the blessing of the FW studio as long as it was never exchanged for money. Its a brilliant book and it's author is a true GW/FW devotee.

On the other side of things the cards ARE NOT fan made, but were given to the attendees of the Throne of Skulls Heresy Event that just happened this past weekend (3rd/4th Oct). I know this because i was there and have a deck of the cards myself. The have legion/faction specific rules and and many different objective types. As far as i could tell these will not be up for sale, but may be available to attendees of future such events, but they might also do a completely different set per event depending on how warhammer world want to run it.

There we go, Thanks Scrunty

'Leaks' like this will probably pop up more during the next weeks until we get some solid info from GW themselves

Can I ask what sort of cards the emperor's children got please?

Kind regards,
Nick

weirdly after looking over the cards again, emperors children and iron hands didnt have any specific cards for them. Im not sure exactly why,k but ti might be something to do with their additional objective ability being stronger than others,

Stores can expect a call around the second of November about something big coming their way. Both the White Dwarf Weekly and Warhammer Visions from somewhere around that time will come with a special pin each.

I'd throw money at FW for new aliens

Chances of them doing pre-heresy look very slim indeed.

bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

 Formosa wrote:
bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

one minute's silence please

but srsly, he should have known that he will get kicked out for that, or not?^^

 Formosa wrote:
bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

Source? Not that I don't believe it. I would get fired too for doing similar.

 Formosa wrote:
bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

Ouch! Does the source say what kind of employee he was? Factory? Print? Back Office?

Looks like an actual even stand off:

Legion Praetor in PA
Mk IV Maximus Marine Squad (x10)
Mk IV Maximus Marine Squad (x10)
Mk IV Maximus Marine Squad (x10)
Contemptor Dreadnought

vs.

(Using one of the non-legion specific Rites of War to turn terminators to Troops choices.)
Cataphractii Terminator Praetor
Cataphractii Terminator Squad (x5)
Cataphractii Terminator Squad (x5)
Contemptor Dreadnought

The odd things on the sprue, IMO, are the special and heavy weapons, unless they plan on putting 10 each of the same weapon per box. Tactical Support and Heavy Support squads require ten special or heavy weapons of the same type. Legion Tactical squads get no weapons upgrade, except to the squad Sgt.

Maybe they plan on using them for Veteran squads, I just can't remember off the top of my head if they get heavy weapons.

This reminds me of the Battle of Phall. Boarding action of the Iron Blood by Imperial Fists terminators.

Yes, you can take a heavy weapon in Veteran squads, but the squad base points + upgrades is points intensive compared to the trusty old Tactical squad.

Mat

 zedmeister wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

Ouch! Does the source say what kind of employee he was? Factory? Print? Back Office?

No they didn't, I didn't think to ask, they just told me about it when I went to visit them, I suppose I could ask tomorrow and as long as it wont be too obvious it can lead back to them, ill post it, it came up as I was asking if they (my friend) actually read forums, this person said they do, but company policy is that forums are a small section of their market and don't base any of there planning on what things like dakka says, hardly a revelation, I also asked about FAQ's, "Im not touching that question" was the response I basically got. I don't push it as they know im a fan of the game and I don't want to be rude, not when drinking is to be done!

 Formosa wrote:
bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

Well of course, generating buzz ahead of a release and exciting their customers far enough in advance they can have money standing by for a large purchase are unforgivable sins at GWHQ.

(Yes, yes, I know, there will have been NDA clauses in his contract and they are technically entitled to fire the person for breaking them, but it's still a sad state of affairs)

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

Well of course, generating buzz ahead of a release and exciting their customers far enough in advance they can have money standing by for a large purchase are unforgivable sins at GWHQ.

(Yes, yes, I know, there will have been NDA clauses in his contract and they are technically entitled to fire the person for breaking them, but it's still a sad state of affairs)

I know right, but at the end of the day a contract was signed and the person breached it, I like news and leaks as much as the next fella, but not enough to risk a job over, especially as it's incredibly easy these days to track where a picture has come from.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
bit of news, the fella that leaked the HH plastics was found and has since been fired/sacked/let go, quite a price to pay to leak said info.

Well of course, generating buzz ahead of a release and exciting their customers far enough in advance they can have money standing by for a large purchase are unforgivable sins at GWHQ.

(Yes, yes, I know, there will have been NDA clauses in his contract and they are technically entitled to fire the person for breaking them, but it's still a sad state of affairs)

Yeah, it'd be quite nice to have more than a 2 or so week window to plan for purchases like this, especially since I'd guess any sort of HH plastics, whether part of a separate "boardgame" or not, will pretty much sell out immediately. And GW being GW will claim "look how awesome we are, we sold out this entire run of 3,000 sets during pre-orders!" with absolutely no plans to do a second run.

 combat engineer wrote:

The odd things on the sprue, IMO, are the special and heavy weapons, unless they plan on putting 10 each of the same weapon per box. Tactical Support and Heavy Support squads require ten special or heavy weapons of the same type. Legion Tactical squads get no weapons upgrade, except to the squad Sgt.

I don't think it's very puzzling. This isn't going to be a Horus Heresy starter set. It'll be a game with older mark minis in the box that you can use to play that game, 40K, or 30K. The special and heavy bits can be useful in all those games.

And I think that if there's as many minis in the box as rumored, it's going to come with a very high price tag.