Warhammer 40,000 Conquest

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**Aeneades**

Rodzaju wrote:
Is that one of the models from the Japanese Heroes series?

Nope. Unless it’s the limited edition captain which I haven’t seen a picture off but I don’t believe it is.

**Rodzaju**

Aeneades wrote:
Rodzaju wrote:
Is that one of the models from the Japanese Heroes series?

Nope. Unless it’s the limited edition captain which I haven’t seen a picture off but I don’t believe it is.

OK. Shame though. I could have seen those 1 marine sprues fitting nicely on the magazine...

**Chikout**

Aeneades wrote:
Rodzaju wrote:
Is that one of the models from the Japanese Heroes series?

Nope. Unless it’s the limited edition captain which I haven’t seen a picture off but I don’t believe it is.

It is not. The heroes series is all old school marines. This is a primaris. It could be from series two which we haven't seen yet, but the hint suggested old school terminators.

**Aeneades**

I have found a photo of the Japanese captain, definitely not that model either.

The trouble with the Japanese collection is that they are slightly bigger than a regular marine but significantly smaller than the Primaris marines from issues 1 and 3. I think they will want to be consistent with the marine size for the moment at least.

**Insane Ivan**

Looks like the Ultramarine equivalent of Tolmaron and Zakariah.

Hoping they will eventually publish this outside of the UK as well - a 40k version of BGiME, oh yeah!

**phillv85**

I don't suppose anyone has heard anything more on this? Beginning to think it may be dead in the water.

**Aeneades**

Several months between trial and full release is the norm. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t see anything until July or August (or even later).

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Aeneades wrote:
Several months between trial and full release is the norm. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t see anything until July or August (or even later).

Indeed.

I’ve signed up for updates. Just hoping the Dredd Megacollection draws to a close (4 more months to go) before this kicks in,

**phillv85**

Aeneades wrote:
Several months between trial and full release is the norm. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t see anything until July or August (or even later).

Ah cool, cheers. I've never bought their publications before so wasn't sure.

**Danny76**

The gap with the book series one was 3 months I thought.
So June/ July should be about right.

Hope we hear something soon

**zerosignal**

Unsure if anyone else has picked up on this but Chapter Master Valrak is suggesting it may have been cancelled - just a head's up.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Who?

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I mean, the website is still up and taking registration of interest. If it’s been cancelled, I’d imagine that would’ve been taken down by now

**beast_gts**

I heard that there's a dispute between Hachette & GW - as GW can't provide the quantity of stuff Hachette want...

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

GW.

The company that can maintain a global supply chain of their goods.

Where are people getting the rumours from here? I’m not having a pop at peeps in this thread, you’re just reporting, but I do wonder who is making the original claims

**Aeneades**

Quantity was always my concern with this especially for the first couple of issues where they order a huge amount for a discounted amount.

**beast_gts**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Where are people getting the rumours from here?

That one was from a couple of people at a FLGS (one of which was a staff member, FWIW). They claimed that GW's production capacity was still maxed out (look at how much stuff is still "Temporarily out of stock") and they hadn't accounted for how much stock Hachette actually wanted.

**alphaecho**

beast_gts wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Where are people getting the rumours from here?

That one was from a couple of people at a FLGS (one of which was a staff member, FWIW). They claimed that GW's production capacity was still maxed out (look at how much stuff is still "Temporarily out of stock") and they hadn't accounted for how much stock Hachette actually wanted.

IF that is the case, could it be the supply of paints that would cause more of a problem. Some of those who managed to get a trial issue stated it was the full size pots as per the publicity photos.

Anyhoo, if there is normally a couple of months between trial and the main run, there would be some lead in time to produce more figures/ paints.

I'm still looking forward to it especially if, as per the preview for issue 5, you could end up with character figures for £7.99.

**ElvisJuice**

Just sounds like hearsay. If the demand was that big I expect they'd be even more likely to go ahead, not less.

**Aeneades**

Would be disappointing if it doesn’t go ahead as it’s a great way to get new people into the hobby and I enjoy the graphic novel partworks so a gaming partworks also appeals to me.

**Danny76**

I don’t know how a staff member in an FLGS would know anything about this. It’s not even the target store - rather WHSmiths and newsagents.

The website said all along what was going to be provided in the magazines.
Just imagine if GW ‘didn’t know’ what was expected of them. There will have been huge discussions between the two companies before undertaking the print and packaging of the trial, let alone the whole thing.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

The source does sound like it's not terribly believable,

but I could certainly see GW imagining they'd have solved their production bottleneck by now, but finding they haven't

(either because they still haven't been able to get the additional power supply to the site to run more machines, or because they're just selling so much more stuff that even when they've boosted production they still find it isn't enough to cover demand)

**Herbington**

Weren't the models from the First Strike starter set anyway? You'd assume they had a decent supply of them

**ritualnet**

Herbington wrote:
Weren't the models from the First Strike starter set anyway? You'd assume they had a decent supply of them

I imagine they get the first x issues created and ready, so that there's no delays, and then while they are sending out the first month or so's issues, they can be creating the next batch.

**richred_uk**

Update from the Games Workshop Annual Report: https://s19485.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2017-18-Press-statement-final-v.pdf

We have also been working on some new initiatives to help introduce people to Warhammer:
• Space Marine Heroes - Our push off the frame, push fit miniatures, sold as blind collectibles, placed in over 250 new outlets
in Japan. The series launches globally later this year along with series 2 in Japan.
• Partworks - We learnt a great deal from the Battle Games in Middle-earth partwork launched back in 2002. And some of
those lessons were painful! Now though, I think we are in the best position we’ve ever been to have another go.
‘Warhammer 40,000 Conquest’, a serialised product, will launch this summer.

Bold is mine.

**MaxPower2112**

richred_uk wrote:
Update from the Games Workshop Annual Report:

We have also been working on some new initiatives to help introduce people to Warhammer:
• Space Marine Heroes - Our push off the frame, push fit miniatures, sold as blind collectibles, placed in over 250 new outlets
in Japan. The series launches globally later this year along with series 2 in Japan.
• Partworks - We learnt a great deal from the Battle Games in Middle-earth partwork launched back in 2002. And some of
those lessons were painful! Now though, I think we are in the best position we’ve ever been to have another go.
‘Warhammer 40,000 Conquest’, a serialised product, will launch this summer.

Bold is mine.

That ties in nicely with the UK Forbidden Planet site listing the start date as 1st September!

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**Aeneades**

Excellent!

**Paradigm**

Nice. Cool to see Space Marine Heroes is getting a worldwide release as well.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

May actually be able to sign up for the complete run, seeing as my Dredd Megacollection has just one more issue to go!

Also noted in the BBC article ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-45019803 ) they’re focusing on increasing production capacity.

**Snrub**

So just for clarification. The marine heroes are getting a world-wide release, the conquest partworks isn't?

That Middle Earth partwork from '02 was my initial steps into this hobby. It was great value for money and was great in general for a newbie. I'd be interested in picking up this one too just for the hell of it if it were available.

**phillv85**

This is good news, I thought this had gone to the wall.