The Forgeworld 2017 News & Rumors Thread

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**Rayvon**

mortar_crew wrote:
Well I can't say I am too excited to see more
HH marines...

Especially when I saw today that most of the Elysian line
went down with even the basic squad
made " Sold Out-No longer available"...

They will be back, they are selling more than they thought they would due to the shadow war kill teams they have been advertising.

**Ashiraya**

Top tier primarch sculpt as per. Good on ya FW.

**Shadow Walker**

Awesome sculpt. More like him FW! I wish we could have all these details in plastic.

**Darth Bob**

There's a lot of good in this model, but unfortunately the proportions are completely jacked up and the lack of nipple horns is a travesty.

**em_en_oh_pee**

Darth Bob wrote:
There's a lot of good in this model, but unfortunately the proportions are completely jacked up and the lack of nipple horns is a travesty.

The amount of pro-Nipple Horn people here are... perplexing. I expect the end result will be akin to this:

**Theophony**

Rippy wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
Eventually the Primarch's are going to be standing on towers of resin.

I heard Sanguinius is standing on top of a wrecked Warhound Titan.

It will be a flying deep strike warhound so that it can come in along with the flying land raiders

**Elbows**

Or Sanguinius is going to be leaping off the wing of a Thunderhawk crashing into the head of a Warlord titan...

**hotsauceman1**

I cant help but feel a lack of excitement for 30k with everything FW is releasing being ONLY 30k
Its boring, if, for 6mo, they stopped releasing 30k, the game would be fine and still made money.
Honest to god why are there stuff we have seen previewed a year ago not come out.....but Magnus is coming out after we saw him like a month ago.
Its honestly boring. They didnt need to give so much time to a damn marine carrying Two pistols now.
Its BORING

**Alpharius**

Alpharius wrote:
OK.

This thread is for the discussion of Forgeworld New Releases and Rumors.

It really isn't to complain about what they haven't released, or make posts that are only "LULZ" posts to that effect.

Please start a thread in the appropriate sub-forum if you wish to discuss those topics.

Any posts like this going forward in this thread will be viewed as spam and dealt with accordingly.

**tneva82**

Edit. Whoops

**beezley1981**

So do the Magnus and Russ models supposedly fit together in some way?

**Hbbyaddict**

beezley1981 wrote:
So do the Magnus and Russ models supposedly fit together in some way?

What this guy asked. I bought Russ in anticipation of him having a battle diorama with Magnus. Looks plausible based on the pose and base, would explain ruses "circling prey" pose a lot more if its his circling to the non magical fire side. Hes trying to get into Magnus's blind spot.. ultimate psychic powers, reduced field of vision

**Caederes**

Hbbyaddict wrote:
beezley1981 wrote:
So do the Magnus and Russ models supposedly fit together in some way?

What this guy asked. I bought Russ in anticipation of him having a battle diorama with Magnus. Looks plausible based on the pose and base, would explain ruses "circling prey" pose a lot more if its his circling to the non magical fire side. Hes trying to get into Magnus's blind spot.. ultimate psychic powers, reduced field of vision

Rules-wise he ignores line of sight for the purpose of psychic power targeting...so no, no blind spots with him

**EmberlordofFire8**

Caederes wrote:
Hbbyaddict wrote:
beezley1981 wrote:
So do the Magnus and Russ models supposedly fit together in some way?

What this guy asked. I bought Russ in anticipation of him having a battle diorama with Magnus. Looks plausible based on the pose and base, would explain ruses "circling prey" pose a lot more if its his circling to the non magical fire side. Hes trying to get into Magnus's blind spot.. ultimate psychic powers, reduced field of vision

Rules-wise he ignores line of sight for the purpose of psychic power targeting...so no, no blind spots with him

Yeah, and rules-wise Magnus would probably have broken Russ' back.

**Fireball**

New today: Thranduil and the Space Wolves contemptor!
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-DE/New

Was the Contemptor previewed before?

**Inquisitor Gideon**

Wow, Thranduil is only £40? I was expecting him to push at least £50-60. I think i'll have to pick him up now.

**nudibranch**

Spoiler:

I'm sorry, I know it's supposed to be a bullet wound, but I can't help but see the wolf pelt as having cartoony 'X' dead eyes...

**H.B.M.C.**

Damn it. Now I can't unsee that.

**AllSeeingSkink**

It's just that specific angle it looks like that. If you view the 360 the eye slit and the cut slit are in slightly different planes so that it's only that specific angle that it looks like an X.

For whatever reason FW haven't been great at picking angles to photograph their models in recent times.

**nudibranch**

Yeah, now I'm home and seen the 360 shot, yeah it's only that angle, and it's a scar, not a bullet wound (that was silly of me...)

**Verviedi**

Hobbit thing looks pretty cool, and there's also a Contemptor.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

nudibranch wrote:
Yeah, now I'm home and seen the 360 shot, yeah it's only that angle, and it's a scar, not a bullet wound (that was silly of me...)

You can always add to the effect by greenstuffing a tongue lolling out the side of it's mouth?

**Drakheart**

Anyone know what happened to the bolt pistol version of the moritat? Is it still coming?

**EmberlordofFire8**

Drakheart wrote:
Anyone know what happened to the bolt pistol version of the moritat? Is it still coming?

Lost in the Warp, presumably...

**Dysartes**

Email/ring FW and ask? They are some cool-looking bolt pistols, after all.

**Fireball**

I do not remember having seen these Moritat versions ... I just bought the one with volkite weapons and wanted him to be a RG. But the pistols would fit much better tbh ... well, I will not buy a second one if it is released.

**RiTides**

Rumor from Volkmane85!

Volkmane85 wrote:
Afternoon all,

Before I begin please don't assume that just because this is a new account that what you are about to read is false (I can't remember the password/email of my old account so I've made a new one). While what I've typed out below might be slightly adjusted due to memory it is all true.

Yesterday I visited Warhammer World as a treat for myself as it was my 32nd Birthday. Late in the evening a group of guys (who I am guessing were mostly Games Workshop staff) started playing an old game that GW used to make (I believe it was called Wastelander and used a mixture of rules). I started chatting to one of the guys and at the time I didn't realise I was talking to Andy Hoare himself. At some point in the evening I mentioned the ongoing theories behind why Cyraxus has been delayed and after hearing them he laughed and told me the actual reason.

It is all Andy Hoare's fault.

He was given the task of writing the first draft of the book and after he finished it (or around the time) he became the Manager for Specialist Games. Due to this the second draft was passed onto Alan Bligh who at the time was busy writing Inferno and as you can imagine there would naturally be delays in the second draft being completed. Add to this the fact that Alan Bligh has been ill for some time (I was told this by a member of Forge World Customer Service, something which Andy Hoare said shouldn't have happened). Then about a year ago they heard about 8th and so the delays for it to be completed kept piling on.

He agreed with me that it would not be surprising if Fire of Cyraxus became the first 8th edition IA book which most likely would delay it even further.

While also talking to Andy Hoare he told me (in not too great a detail) of how the Red Scorpions Lord Commander got himself interred in a Leviathan Dreadnought. Apparently when explaining to fellow staff members at Forge World he would say that he wasn't so much as placed into the Leviathan, more like being poured from a big bucket. Also the twin-linked Assault Cannon he is armed with is a Relic with some fancy rules.

So, we finally have the answer.

**Volkmane85**

Thanks for the move RiTides, I wasn't 100% sure where to put it.

**RiTides**

No problem, thank you very much for the scouting info!

**Verviedi**

I suppose that makes sense. Liquid Space Marine is a hilarious mental image.

Don't worry, Forgeworld. I'm still here when you release it. Waiting, for the opportunity to use beautiful robots.