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Hi There,
Today we have the long awaited release of our latest Imperial Armour book for you, as well as a great new transfer sheet and some events news, but without further ado, onto the new book!

Alan Bligh

Upcoming Events

Imperial Armour Volume Seven, The Siege of Vraks Part Three
Our new Imperial Armour book tells the story of the gripping conclusion to the nightmarish war for the world of Vraks. Lavishly illustrated in full colour with technical drawings and artwork. This 220 page hardback book features extensive new background text, rules and information on numerous war engines for both the forces of the Imperium and Chaos, as well as Apocalypse Battle Formations, and two new army lists.

Preview: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/iav-7.htm

You can see some previews and page spreads of the book: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/iav-7a.htm

Interactive page spreads: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/iav-7flip.htm

The story of the book details the final climatic struggle to decide the fate of Vraks; as the forces of the feared Inquisitor Hector Rex and the Grey Knights add their weight to the battle in a desperate attempt to stem a rising tide of Daemons and the restless dead. Dark entities are summoned by the ceaseless bloodshed from the depths of the Warp to aid the forces of Chaos, and the hellish plans of their leader Lord Zhufor, master of the Skulltakers.

The book contains detailed background descriptions and rules for many vehicles and units including the Greater Brass Scorpion, Blight Drones, Blood Slaughterer, Chaos Reaver Titan, the Minotaur and the Valdor Tank Hunter, as well as characters and unique creatures and daemons such as Inquisitor Hector Rex, Lord Zhufor, Necrosius, Mammon, the Gorefeaster and others. It also contains two complete variant army lists; the Servants of Decay and the Krieg Armoured Battlegroup and eight new Apocalypse battle formations such as the Venatarii Titan Maniple and The Purge. It features colour scheme illustrations for numerous Chaos Warbands, the Grey Knights, Angels of Absolution and Red Hunter Space Marine Chapters as well as various war machines used in the epic conflict.

The book also comes supplied with a double sided (size) poster which you can see Here: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/iav7poster.htm

The first 500 copies sold of Imperial Armour Volume Seven, The Siege of Vraks Part Three will be signed by the book’s principle writer, Warwick Kinrade.

The first print run of the book will come with a great free slipcase (which fits all three volumes of the Vraks series.)

Siege of Vraks Imperial Space Marine Transfer Sheet: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/vraksdecs.htm

Siege of Vraks Special Offer
If you`ve not yet bought the previous books telling the story of the terrifying war for Vraks, we are also offering a special bundle of all three volumes of the Siege of Vraks together (Imperial Armours Five, Six and Seven) in the new slip case. This offer includes free Express shipping to anywhere in the world for this bundle item only for the total price of £130.





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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 4

Section 1 – The Siege of Vraks

Chapter 12 The Conclave of Scarus 6
Chapter 13 Closing the Ring 9
Sorceror of Nurgle
14
Chapter 14 The Daemons Set Loose 26
Chapter 15 The Hill of Perdition 40
Titan Princeps
48
Grey Knights Space Marine 54
Chapter 16 Where Daemons Tread 61
Khorne Terminator Champion 66
Chapter 17 Expulsion of the Heretics 76

Section 2– Forces of the Imperium

Grey Knights Terminator Squad 98
Grey Knights Squad 101
Red Hunters Terminator Squad 104
Red Hunters Tactical Squad 106
Red Hunters Tactical Squad 108
Kreig 261st Siege Regiment 110
Grey Knights Land Raider Redeemer 112
Minotaur 115
Valdor Tank Hunter 119
Ordo Malleus Inquisitor Lord
122
Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex 124
Kreig Armoured Battlegroup Army List 125

Section 3 - Forces of Chaos

Chaos Space Marine Warbands 138
Necrosius 143
Defiler 144
Brass Scorpion of Khorne 147
Blight Drones 151
Blood Slaughterer 154
Gorefeaster 157
Jibberjaw 159
Chaos Reaver Titan 161
An'ggrath The Unbound 164
Scabeiathrax the Bloated 166
Uraka Az'baramael 168
Mamon 170
Renegades and Traitors 172
Zhufor the Impaler 174
Renegades and Heretics Army List 175
Plague Marine 182

Section 4 - Scenarios

Historical Refight Scenarios 190
The Siege of Vraks multi-player campaign system 201

Section 5 - Appendices

Appendix I: Apocalypse Battle Formations 206
Appendix II: Super-Heavy Vehicles 214
Appendix III: Flyers 216
Appendix IV: Special Rules 218

Quite intrigued. Even enough so to perhaps get the collection of all 3.

On the plus side, the heretics get a third armylist, which will probably be slightly better suited for 5E than the previous two. On the minus side, the Minotaur and Valdor are certain to each be 100-120 points overcosted.

Just pre-ordered mine! Can't wait.

Preordered!

How much fluff is in these things guys? I might just be interested in the 3-pack, however, 130 is quite a bit of dough really.

The Imperium better not lose again, like they did in all the other books so far




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Flachzange wrote:How much fluff is in these things guys? I might just be interested in the 3-pack, however, 130 is quite a bit of dough really.

A lot. I think Vraks 1 has at least 35 pages telling the background story, and these books truly are packed with every single piece of information about the vehicles, weapons, regiments, uniforms, etc etc. They also have coloured illustrations of basically every single vehicle, uniforms, regiment formations etc, and a lot of "photos", which are the miniatures in pictures that actually look like realistic photos. Everything is very detailed and the illustrations are top quality.

And the rules for everything of course.

I have all of them except Vraks 2 downloaded, but I will definitely start buying the real books in the near future. They are expensive but definitely worth the money Imo.

Finally! This rocks for two reasons:

1. Imperial Armour books are awesome, even with all the mistakes and silly copypasta nonsense.
2. The Siege of Vraks is over and we can finally move onto something more interesting.

Once September hits I'll be ordering this alongside the Khornate Daemon Prince, and a few loyalist Dreads.

H.B.M.C. wrote:2. The Siege of Vraks is over and we can finally move onto something more interesting.

You mean Orks v. Elysians? Here's to hoping the rumors concerning the first part(I'd heard it covers 2 book, not sure how reliable that is, though) containing Orks attacking Ad Mech before the Guard show up is true.

TBD wrote:

I have all of them except Vraks 2 downloaded, but I will definitely start buying the real books in the near future. They are expensive but definitely worth the money Imo.

That's not cool.

TBD wrote:The Imperium better not lose again, like they did in all the other books so far .

Considering the last chapter is called 'Expulsion of the Heretics' I have a good feeling about the imperium winning... Or they'll just blow the whole planet up!

I'm really interested to see what some of these chaos units are that I've never heard of, like Jibberjaw, and Uraka Az'baramael (i'm hoping this is the big Lord of Change), Gorefeaster (gotta be the khorne deamon prince). And it's nice to see updates fro an'ggrath and papa Ga'ap's rules (maybe they actually gave him FNP like every other nurgle big'un).

Also, saw in one of the pictures, there's a plague marine holding a heavy bolder (i think). When did they learn to use heavy weapons?

Anyone got an eta on the big lord of change btw?

There's quite a bit of fluff in those books- the first part is dedicated to it.

Reading it makes me feel like I'm listening to a WW2 history report. It's really well written.


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Alpharius wrote:

TBD wrote:

I have all of them except Vraks 2 downloaded, but I will definitely start buying the real books in the near future. They are expensive but definitely worth the money Imo.

That's not cool.

Agreed. Downloading w/o paying = stealing. Not cool at all. I really don't like the attitude of, "I want it but don't have the money for it = I'll steal it." If you can't afford it you can't afford it. End of story.

And yes they're worth the money.

Piracy, not stealing. Stealing implies you've taken something and that they no longer have that something. This is copying, which is piracy. But let's not get into that here.

Buy the books! They're worth it, and they're really good when you get into an argument because they're so heavy!!!

Platuan4th wrote:You mean Orks v. Elysians? Here's to hoping the rumors concerning the first part(I'd heard it covers 2 book, not sure how reliable that is, though) containing Orks attacking Ad Mech before the Guard show up is true.

Man I hope so. I'm at the point where anything other than Vraks will do, but Orks/Elysians means that Orks are finally getting a look in and we'll see updated rules for all their stuff. Then once those two books are over maybe we can finally get an Eldar book going.

I've got a hunch that the Eldar might be cropping up in the Orks v. Elysian book as "advisors" to the Orks.

Frickin' pointyears nudging the greenskins the Imperium's way

skullking wrote:
I'm really interested to see what some of these chaos units are that I've never heard of, like Jibberjaw, and Uraka Az'baramael (i'm hoping this is the big Lord of Change), Gorefeaster (gotta be the khorne deamon prince). And it's nice to see updates fro an'ggrath and papa Ga'ap's rules (maybe they actually gave him FNP like every other nurgle big'un).

According to people on Warseer who have seen the book, Uraka is the Khorne DP and Gorefeaster is the Khorne Herald.

Kanluwen wrote:I've got a hunch that the Eldar might be cropping up in the Orks v. Elysian book as "advisors" to the Orks.

That'll do to be honest. Personally I was hoping for a two-part series that started with Imperium vs Eldar, and then in the second book the Orks show up and the Imperium/Eldar has to put their war on hold to fight the common enemy.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:I've got a hunch that the Eldar might be cropping up in the Orks v. Elysian book as "advisors" to the Orks.

That'll do to be honest. Personally I was hoping for a two-part series that started with Imperium vs Eldar, and then in the second book the Orks show up and the Imperium/Eldar has to put their war on hold to fight the common enemy.

It really could go either way.

Eldar are pretty much the Commies of the 40k universe

They can be behind anything/everything bad.

Preordered

I am so getting that, probably at the end of the month. The three books and the smaller demon engine will do me for now. I have been wanting to read those books for a while. Looking forward to their later books so long as they can keep away from TAU.

IA 8 will feature the Red Suns, Blood Axes and another major Ork clan, IA 9 will feature the other three.

Tacobake wrote:I am so getting that, probably at the end of the month. The three books and the smaller demon engine will do me for now. I have been wanting to read those books for a while. Looking forward to their later books so long as they can keep away from TAU.

I think they should do more Tau books. Every book after IA7 should feature Tau in some way, and we should get a constant stream of new models to go with it.

"Let the hate flow through you..."

I see the BoLS is stating that the book is out NOW and well, from what I gather from their post you get the slipcase with it regardless of production number.

fething tau. I will admit it would be fun for their GW codex to get another look but I do not think they really need anything new from Forgeworld. Just save up for the Manta XD.

They get that Markerlight Crisis suit guy, what more can you ask for.

...what?

The Taros campaign book was, imo, one of the better ones.
Personally, I think they could have done MORE for the Tau in regards to IA.

The Tau, Tyranids, and Orks are some of the best races to match against the Guard--and the scenarios from Taros and Anphelion show it. They're fairly balanced against the Guard, and you can easily scale it to better suit Guard v. whomever.

They should stay away from Marine viewpoints, they're just not...interesting.

Looking at the table of contents, i am slightly disappointed that they don't go into the Grey Knights all that much, but i will take what I can get for them. The GK's need some more support in a bad way.

Kanluwen wrote:The Taros campaign book was, imo, one of the better ones.

And also the heaviest. Really good for arguments that one.

The book was nice, except that it was nothing but Tau fanwank from the word go. The final straw in the book for me was when the four Titans - something most Tau consider to be Imperial propaganda - are attacked by the special Tigershark (the Deus Ex Machina-Pattern Tiger Shark) which tears them a new one and the rest run away.

WTF????

Well I never said GW was all that good at writing about them, just that they should write about them more.

fething tau. I will admit it would be fun for their GW codex to get another look but I do not think they really need anything new from Forgeworld. Just save up for the Manta XD.

They get that Markerlight Crisis suit guy, what more can you ask for.

I don't think Imperial Guard or Space Marines need anything new from Forge World, either, but we don't always get what we want do we? fething IG really don't need anything more, how many different fething Leman Russ variants or superheavies do you really need? It won't be long before FW has to start pulling stuff out of its ass just to keep pumping out IG tanks.

"Buy the new Banebloodhammertaur Extermivanquishinator today!"

In either case, every race could always use more models. When every race has as many different models and variants to choose from as the Space Marines do, then you can stop and work on the next Stormbladehammer Demolexecutionator variant.

Anyway, I admit, maybe GW could get a little more creative with their Tau writing, something besides "Tau face overwhelming odds, pwn face as usual." But honestly GW have kinda written themselves into a corner with Tau fluff to begin with. Realistically the Tau can't suffer any major loss, since a loss for them would be too devastating. Of course the Imperium loses all the time, a world here or there doesn't matter when there are a million more. But if the Tau lost a sept world or two it would pretty much be "Game Over". Which I'm sure a lot of fucksticks would absolutely love, but nevertheless...

I'd like to see how the Tau deal with Chaos worship spreading through a gue'vesa colony, or a possible genestealer cult even. They're the only race in the game that welcomes alien species into its Empire, but besides a few alien units in the army list (one of them decent, the other useless) they don't really focus on that aspect all that often. No doubt we'll be getting a bigger fluff section with the next book, I'm curious to read more about race relations in the Empire.

They should stay away from Marine viewpoints, they're just not...interesting.

No, they really aren't. If they're going to insist on forcing more and more Imperial crap down my throat then I want to see what the Tau-haters are all clamoring for: major losses. Stuff that actually counts, not just "Nameless world is destroyed, billions die, but there are thousands of other ones like it so the Imperium won't really feel the loss anyhow." Make something interesting happen. Kill off an entire Chapter of Marines, for instance. Have the Dragon wake up and destroy Mars or something.

The Imperium is included in all books for multiple reasons. Number one is the title of the books, the second being that humans are easier to identify with than a pointy-eared prick or a neo-space commie and finally there's the whole thing that FW is Imperial from the start.

IA 3 was a fun read, very biased however and very poorly written, you know what I'm talking about.

Thank Gork n Mork that's over with... now, onto the ORK vs tiny droptroop umies goodness...

I hear it's gonna be clan based, now GIMME my blood axe Kommissarz!!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Thank Gork n Mork that's over with... now, onto the ORK vs tiny droptroop umies goodness...

I hear it's gonna be clan based, now GIMME my blood axe Kommissarz!!

No doubt!

As has already been noted, I love them Space Marines, but I also would love to get FW making some clan specific Ork stuff!

Especially Blood Axes and Bad Moons!

(Not to mention some Eldar toys too.)