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http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/apocalypse/default.htm

According to the page, it's set to open today (8/27/2007).  Hopefully it will have something we haven't seen yet

Maybe theyre working on it, because it says page cannot be found.

Nope, just Dakka mangling my link. Try it now. At present, all you'll get will be the splash page and the Baneblade preview.

Prolly be up late tonight then.

Heres to hoping that there will be actual news, or at least some designers notes or something.

It's only been "today" for an hour in the US. It'll come.

I hope.

bear in mind as well it appears to actually be hosted in the uk and we're on a bank holiday today! i would imagine it wont go properly live to earlyish (0900 gmt) tomorrow
millest

Bank holiday? What's today?

It's the Feast of St. Farthington, silly. 

Nothing on the UK Apocalypse site yet but the following is posted at the German Apocalypse site:


According to Babelfish, that translates as follows:


Looks like we may be in for a long wait...

Ha! 1 month off, good stuff!

- Salvage

Stolen from another forum!



They reduced the access, the menu is not as complete as a few minutes ago! Here's other links:

http://ca.games-workshop.com/Apocalypse/gaming/apocalycize/default.htm

http://ca.games-workshop.com/Apocalypse/background/default.htm


Phil

Us site now appears to be live:

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/apocalypse/default.htm

Apokalypse i like the way germans spell.

i cant get to it from the GW site but the links here are working for me not much to see thow 

One thing at least is that we get a nice look at exactly how diverse Chaos Spawn can be (check out the "Tide Of Spawn" box). OK, they suck rules-wise, but they do all look fairly individual.

Me want get augmetic surgery to boos my brain power. It will make me think good better. And me will take lots Ogryns in my armys.

All funnys aside, that Ogryn is going to be my Blood Axe Spek-Opz Warboss.

Nice, an ork deal! It'd better be under $200.

I checked around, but has anyone else noticed the lack of beaky marine in the veterans.
if i totally glossed over this and its been there done that already then sorry.

This morning the Canadian site had a ton of Apoc content for about an half an hour. Now it's all gone, but I'm going through my cache to see what I still have.

I got this out of my internet cache so far.


Games of Warhammer 40,000 under the Apocalpse Expansion are huge! The minimum size is 3,000 points per side, and it goes up from there to as many models as you can fit on a table without it collapsing under their weight.
The size of such an undertaking might be a little intimidating to even the most veteran of hobbyists. Rest assured that there are a lot of different ways to gather forces at the Apocalypse scale. Read on to get ideas on how you can "Apocalycize" your army.



Collecting an Apocalypse-scale force of your own can take a little time regardless of whether it's heavy on vehicles, troops, or a mix of both. However, you can start playing Apocalypse right away if you team up your standard 1,500-point force with another player's army of similar size.This allied approach works well under the Apocalypse expansion. Since the battlefields are so vast, it helps having more than one commander per side. Plus, the expansion book lays out a few guidelines for you as you ally your forces, including an Allies Matrix chart that allows you to team up in a way that's appropriate to the Warhammer 40,000 background (e.g., no Space Marine-Tyranid armies, unless your house rules say otherwise). If you look closely at the picture above, you'll see that this army is a mix of Witch Hunters, Space Marines, and Eldar Harlequins. Of course, if you're the kind of avid hobbyist who has more than one 40K army, you can mix them up to get the 3,000 points you'll need for Apocalypse without another player's help. One really cool side effect of the Allies Matrix is that it allows players to try out units from armies other than the one they already have. For example, let's say you're an Imperial Guard player with a collection of about 2,000 points. You've always been interested in Tau, but you haven't been able to start a whole new 40K army for them. Now, with Apocalypse, you can take your 2,000 points of Imperial Guard, acquire 1,000 points of Tau, and you'll have an Apocalypse-scale force (and you're on your way to building a regular 40K force of Tau). That's not a bad way to start a new army while still playing games with it.

The United States preview(?) link below is awesome. I think(?) that that covers everything?

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/apocalypse/catalog/40K_BasingKit.htm
The new basing kit looks fantastic.

yeah that basing kits looks uber duber
way better than the stuff before. hope its not a limited release thing, cause i might have to get 2 or 3 then

As much as I hate to buy GW basing material, I'm getting one of those kits. That is, if the price is right.

The basing kit is $20.00. I think I'll be picking up a couple just for the snazzy photo-etch.
Those armor panels will make great Schürzen for my vindicators

I was checking out the imperial guard company, 36 special weapons seemed like a lot so I emailed GW and the guy said it's a missprint, it actually comes with 12 metal special weapon guys.. i guess maybe 6 of each? Still a decent deal though. I think I got enough guardsmen right now at around 70-80 so it won't take me much to build up to the 120 I'd need for that formation if I wanna try it. I think I'm more interested in the ogryn auxilia out of all the guard stuff they listed.

And yeah that basing kit looks sweet too. I got the hero basing kit a while ago, had some nice stuff in it

@Necros: I'm sure that the other 24 special weapons are the plastic flamers and grenade launchers that the Cadian Box set comes with. Yah! GLs for the win!

alright i know i'm new and that means one dumb question right?
well so what happened to the beaky veteran marine with chainsword and bolter?
i don't see any randomly picked marine in the veteran boxset, so does that mean we saw a mini
that will be unreleased or is it a random mini that you will get?

Ho ho ho!
A new release for every species, and the picture only shows four!
Ho ho ho!

Does anyone know the prices?

Posted By Da Boss on 08/28/2007 1:31 PM
Ho ho ho!
A new release for every species, and the picture only shows four!
Ho ho ho!

Well, only homos play orks, everyone knows that.

Besides, there are only four species:

Human - IG, SM, =][=, CSM

Elf - Black and White

Ork - lame army for the Sir Whine-A-Lots

Tyranids - Orks with 6 arms.

Necrons aren't a species - they are a race, big difference (science for the win).  Tau are commies and don't count.

Hey GW! About your brass-etched components in the basing kit. You probably designed the brass sprue in some sort of CAD program, which is wonderful because CAD programs often have a "create gear" tool that allows you to draw gears! You should find this tool and use it. It's faster and easier than creating a circle and adding a radial array of squares. More importantly, the results actually look like a gear.

Also- please be noting that a curved blade on the end of a pole is not a scythe. It is a badly made pick.