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CaptKaruthors wrote:

So they'll update the datasheet for a Forge World book that you can't get in stores? Again, the rules need to be readily available to really sell the kit.

it is like the terminus ultra or what ever the heck it is called

Heavygear wrote:

deitpike wrote:the 6 variants do not include Hellhammer /Baneblade
all new
all awesome (so you'll need 6 of them!)

I am wondering if the original baneblade/hellhammer turret comes in the kit as the other two options, or if they are two different otions. Possibly the Nurgle Snot cannon and some Orky bits?

This would pretty much cover all the variants listed in Apoc right? Aside from the Yarrick pope mobile.

that was my idea

Nice new pics of the new Superheavy kit courtesy of BoLS.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Ok, so, here are the name of the new tanks:

Shadowsword
Banehammer
Doomhammer
Stormlord
Banesword
Stormsword

LOL. I love your puckish sense of humor, HBMC.

...

Wait, you're serious?!?

!Stormblade == Sad Pariah.

Those picks redefine 'Snub-Nosed'...

BYE

Metsuri wrote:Nice new pics of the new Superheavy kit courtesy of BoLS.

Interesting, though something tells me the kit won't come with enough parts for easy swapping between a forward-mounted turret and a rearward-mounted one.

Really? It looked liek you COULD make one rear mounted and one forward and swap them out. And probably have the Gun on each houding being magneticly swapped....

So, none of the tanks in the new box have a demolisher cannon? In that case it might get a bit difficult to build a Pleaguereaper out of it.

Nice pics.
Looks like the new kit comes with different gun-barrels and a changed engine-section and a new front-section.
Not bad. Maybe the reason for 6 variants in one plastic kit and i like it.

Does anyone else notice that the Shadowsword is the exact same model the stormsword, except with a barrel extention?

cuda1179 wrote:Does anyone else notice that the Shadowsword is the exact same model the stormsword, except with a barrel extention?

Looked closer at the pics:the base of any gun-barrel is always the same.EXchange barrel for another main gun.

In the Apocalypse reloaded book, there is a pic of a Baneblade chassis with troop carrying capacity and a pair of Vulcan Mega Bolters. A guy behind the till at the Belfast GW store was enthusing about a plastic version turning up...

...big pinch of salt, I'd say...

Nope, at this point we're pretty sure that there WILL be a baneblade variant with transport capacity.

The questions is, where do they keep all the ammunition?

Three Baneblades with transport capacity, actually. Three 'big gun' tanks (Shadowsword, Stormsword & something else) and then three transport tanks (Stormlord + two others).

Which one is which (Doomhammer, Banehammer and Bladehammerswordshadow or whatever I wrote on the last page) is anyone's guess.

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Those twin-linked bolters tacked to the front look crappy though now that I've spent countless hours looking at those snappies.

BrookM wrote:Those twin-linked bolters tacked to the front look crappy though now that I've spent countless hours looking at those snappies.

You shall not look countless hours on the same chassis

Heavy bolters mounted in a fixed position are the new "move the tank to aim the HB" feature of all not-so-original SHT

I am going to scream though if GW is planning on passing off those crappily installed heavy bolters as a coax-mount.

Nah they'll be a front mounted mini-turret like the current Baneblade/Hellhammer. A Co-Ax would be like the Autocannon on the Baneblade.

I just wish we'd get a picture of the giant Mortar one.

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Heh, only these are mounted directly into the hull with no moving bits from the look of things. Oddly enough though the Stormsword seems to be missing the coax heavy bolter that the FW versions do have.

The loss of the coax weapon could come from the rules/pdf? we get to field this tank.
coax weapons do have apoc-rules.

I am aware of that, it's just that a coax weapon needs to be mounted next to the main weapon for it be to designated as a coaxial weapon. I was glad that the use of the autocannon on the Baneblade is now more in line with that of say, the good old real-world Centurion tank, I just hope that GW doesn't get slowed and decide that a hull-mounted weapon can do the same thing for their own designs.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Kinda reminds me that thread where we were coming up with different Baneblade types and Abadabadoodon came up with 'Hammerblade', 'Swordhammer' and 'Bladeblade!'.

You forgot the "Stormshadow".



When the new kit comes out I'm totally converting 3. With magnets!

Stormshadow sounds like something they'd do though. It sounds (almost) realistic. I must prefer Bladeblade. I named one of my Baneblades 'Bladeblade'.

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A few more pics of the Shadowsword/Stormsword are up on BoLS.

For something that doesn't start selling until March, GW is really pulling out all the stops, considering we're well ahead of the supposed 2-month release window...

Yeah... they're sure pulling out all the stops by putting a single picture in White Dwarf and then... not confirming anything.

If this is 'all the stops', one wonders what them being guarded/secretive would be like? Would it be them denying that they're even making new models?

This is no different to the first time a picture of the Leman Russ was published in White Dwarf. That was the first (and last) we heard about it for years.

BYE

GW only hypes the right stuff these days. Not a lot is the right stuff in their eyes though.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah... they're sure pulling out all the stops by putting a single picture in White Dwarf and then... not confirming anything.

If this is 'all the stops', one wonders what them being guarded/secretive would be like? Would it be them denying that they're even making new models?

This is no different to the first time a picture of the Leman Russ was published in White Dwarf. That was the first (and last) we heard about it for years.

BYE

Just tells you how starved the intarweb is for rumors since they cut their news leak window.

Isn't there comming a stormblade tank?

It's still possible, but seems more unlikely now.