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Am looking forward to getting my hands on the Caestus Assault Ram, boarding actions - drool, discorging black templars assualt terminators into the heart of the enemy! Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

terribletrygon wrote:Notice the giant meltaguns. I think they might help get into warships, but that's just me.

You mean the weapon in the middle of the vehicle? BETWEEN the parts that actually make contact with the enemy ship? Great stuff, lets make a hole in the enemy ship and have the assault compartments smack into the hull on either side of the hole, brilliant! Especially brilliant as there are no deflective surfaces other than those wing things at the back which look designed to shear off on impact should the vehicle actually make it that far.

One transport compartment, a pointed front and meltas whatever mounted toward the front would be more practical. I'm sure even the Imperium doesn't use square torpedoes with flat ends.

Well you'd need to damage the location opposite the center of mass, to penetrate a hardened surface. I agree its not the best design, but if you were designing something like this, and you could only mount 2 meltaguns, mounting them there makes sense. You forget that Imperial Vehicles fly by generating and gravitic fields that create an envelope that makes aerodynamics moot. There is nothing to say a similar field method isn't used to shear material. When it comes to the wings, the simple fact is the Caestus doesn't need to penetrate so deeply that their shearing becomes a concern.

The torpedoes have been discussed, they're more like the Termites and Mole pods, just equipped for space.

again with people forgetting that in most circumstances of boarding actions, the ships are in space, where there is no air and so no air resistance, and so no need for aerodynamic designs.

Also, the melta gun would melt a large hole between the two rams, and weaken/soften the hull where the rams would make contact.

Also Also, the whole point of a boarding craft is that it doesn't just land inside the ship, it lands/embeds itself on the outside and disgorges it's troops through holes in the hull.

Also, ya know... it's fake.

cadbren wrote:

terribletrygon wrote:Notice the giant meltaguns. I think they might help get into warships, but that's just me.

You mean the weapon in the middle of the vehicle? BETWEEN the parts that actually make contact with the enemy ship? Great stuff, lets make a hole in the enemy ship and have the assault compartments smack into the hull on either side of the hole, brilliant! Especially brilliant as there are no deflective surfaces other than those wing things at the back which look designed to shear off on impact should the vehicle actually make it that far.

One transport compartment, a pointed front and meltas whatever mounted toward the front would be more practical. I'm sure even the Imperium doesn't use square torpedoes with flat ends.

Torpedoes, perhaps not. But Imperial Shark Assault Boats Do indeed have a flat tip. In fact, looking at the really small miniatures in front of me, it looks rather like a single-hull Caestus! Whoulda thunkit!?

More stuff:

MK IV Maximus armour and UMBRA FERROX X10 bolters.

Gotta admit, I like the pace at which FW is releasing these things. I'm hoping next week or the week after is gonna be mark V. At that point, every mark will be commonly available, except for complete Mark 8 I think...

Smoething looks off about the Mk IV, they just look to tall

but I'm probably gonna get some and the box clip bolters,they look cool and they come with chainsaw bayonets

Maybe they're attempting truescale.......


....... Nah! Who am i kidding!

Look awesome though, better than cannibilising red scorps imo!

Rules look interesting
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/c/caestus.pdf

Assault Vehicle: Models disembarking from the Caestus Assault
Ram can launch an assault on the turn they do so (providing the
Caestus did not Deep Strike).
Caestus Ram: The Caestus Assault Ram is purpose-built to
survive smashing into a heavily armoured structure, and its
forward prow is augmented with field generators. When
conducting a ram attack, the Caestus can roll 2 dice and pick
the higher number when determining if it has penetrated their
target’s armour and add +1 to any rolls on the damage chart
that they inflict. In addition the Caestus has an invulnerable save
of 5+ against any attacks against its front armour, including
any damage it suffers as a result of carrying out a ram or being
rammed itself from the front.

Loving the Maximus Armor! Almost there.....

At this rate a set of armour each week.

I know, right?! Maybe even some non-RG Corvus armor!

And the classic bolter patterns are also wicked.

Another Friday, another order. I didn't get last weeks bolter pack, but i got this one. And there is another coming. One of the images shows ANOTHER new bolter type, a bit more snub-nosed...looks awesome.

I can only assume that MK6 will be coming as well, regardless of the RG release. The MK4 are basically the Scorpions set without the chapter iconography.

Good to hear that they'll be showing the IA project at GD Baltimore. Guess I'll be going now. I can only assume the overarching release is a selection of armor MKs and bolter patterns. Maybe we'll get lucky and see some old Terminator armor and jump packs as well.

Any which way you cut it, Forgeworld is about to make some major bank.

While I'm not an Astartes fan I do like where this is going.

BrookM wrote:While I'm not an Astartes fan I do like where this is going.

I'm not sure about you, but I hope this is going to eventually extend out to reintroducing the Necromunda Spiders regiment and the old pattern lasguns...

Having said that... it's always good to get more bits to use for my Scorpions!

Look at the Mk IV page, second row middle picture, behind the guy with the melta. that's another type of bolter.

hopefully that'll come out with the mark 5 which i'll probablly get eventually.

forge world have really outdone themselve this time with the amount of releases.

Indeed, though mind you that melta shown there is also as of yet unreleased. It doesn't look anything like the one from the weapons pack from last week. So next week, maybe at least two extra weapon packs: one with more bolter patterns and the other with another heavy weapon and two assault weapons, maybe even, dare I say, classic plasmas?

I'm pretty sure that's the same melta as last week. If you look at the weapons pack, they are showing a picture of this new Mk IV armour, carrying the melta (second row, middle picture on the weapons pack page).

Don't forget classic pattern pistols and power swords too.

The only thing missing from these armour packs is a set of heavy weapon arms. It's going to look a little odd if you try to add the to the Mk III armour and have to use modern style arms

Hmm, odd that. Looks different to me, or is that crude thing next to the melta supposed to be cleaned up and put on it somewhere?

BrookM wrote:Hmm, odd that. Looks different to me, or is that crude thing next to the melta supposed to be cleaned up and put on it somewhere?

The bit to the right of the melta goes on the back of the missile launcher

Buh, wut. Okay, curses to FW for such odd pictures then.

edit.



Ohhhh.

This is just too much awesome for me

BrookM wrote:Hmm, odd that. Looks different to me, or is that crude thing next to the melta supposed to be cleaned up and put on it somewhere?

No it is the same melta, you can see the ridges on the front and rhe disk on the top, it's just the other side

I was hoping that we'd get this from FW this week - another set of Pre-Heresy armor!

Of course, I was hoping for MKV, but OK!

I do hope this means we'll get a complete MKVIII set, but for some reason, I don't think so.

I think FW is milking the Pre-Heresy crowd now, and that's OK.

And seriously, long live whomever decided to start including legs!

Sure it drives the price up to ridiculous levels, but that's FW prices for you - ridiculous!

Here's hoping it is MKV next week!

FM Ninja 048 wrote:Look at the Mk IV page, second row middle picture, behind the guy with the melta. that's another type of bolter.

hopefully that'll come out with the mark 5 which i'll probablly get eventually.

forge world have really outdone themselve this time with the amount of releases.

Good eye! Cannot wait to see what else they come out with. Man, I could SO go broke....

Scottywan82 wrote:

FM Ninja 048 wrote:Look at the Mk IV page, second row middle picture, behind the guy with the melta. that's another type of bolter.

hopefully that'll come out with the mark 5 which i'll probablly get eventually.

forge world have really outdone themselve this time with the amount of releases.

Good eye! Cannot wait to see what else they come out with. Man, I could SO go broke....

I loled cause i've not got my glasses on

lol.

well that IS (as far as i can tell) a silenced(there's a silencer on it, duh!) mk.V bolter as depicted on p.20 of codex: space marines.

FM Ninja 048 wrote:

Scottywan82 wrote:
Good eye! Cannot wait to see what else they come out with. Man, I could SO go broke....

I loled cause i've not got my glasses on

You = Eltharion