FW Imperial Armour Apocalypse II and Sneak Peek

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**Ozymandias**

From their newsletter:

Hi There,
At Forge World the Christmas countdown continues and everybody here is busily making sure your orders are getting out on time! This newsletter we have a few sneak previews for you as well as some last minute shipping updates.

Thanks
Alan Bligh

Sneak Peek: Imperial Armour Apocalypse II
Today I have the first preview of our latest book, Imperial Armour Apocalypse II. This is a brand new supplement, featuring no fewer than 46 new datasheets for legendary vehicles and battle formations, bringing together all our recent releases and some brand new models as well. It also features some updated sheets from the first book, hints and tips, optional rules for your games, and five new Apocalypse Missions for you to play. The book is lavishly illustrated with some fantastic colour photographs of our models. This book supplements our first Imperial Armour Apocalypse book, which is still available and should help you get the most out of your Forge World models in your games of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse.

We`ll have full details of the book for you next week, when hopefully the book will also be available to order, but meanwhile Here are a few preview pages.

Special Mystery Preview
With Christmas getting close we thought we`d put together one of our ever-popular mystery jigsaw previews of a forthcoming model for you. You can see the first of our three part preview picture Here. All I can tell you is it’s a new special character for the forthcoming Imperial Armour Volume 8, so you`ll just have to guess what it is! Lookout for more pieces of the jigsaw in our newsletters leading up to Christmas.

Preview looks Orky to me.

**Kanluwen**

Oh definitely, Ozymandias.

Looks like a Big Mek character, which fits with the supposed locale being a Forge World.

**aka_mythos**

Who knows what they'll call it? Big Mek? 'Uge Mek? Mega Mek? It looks like an ork-a-fied servo-harness.

**Kanluwen**

Well, I'm guessing he'll be gigantic just going from the size of the servo-harness alone.

Maybe 'Umongos Mek in 'Uge Platez?

**Platuan4th**

IA:A2 looks like another must buy for me.

Maybe we'll finally get rules and a model for Orkymedes after all his mentions during Armageddon 3.

Thanks, Ozy.

**Neith**

Finally a Witch Hunters datasheet? I don't play them but I can't remember seeing any previous to this.

Seeing as I play primarily Apoc, this is a tempting buy.

**Sarge**

Appears to be an Ork character for me too. Will be neat to have another Big Mek model to use.

**CaptKaruthors**

Sweet. Finally the WH get some decent datasheets.

**Breotan**

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**Malika2**

**Alpharius**

Are the Blood Axes involved in this book?

Looks like a Blood Axe Big Mek Techmarine wanna-be!

**JohnHwangDD**

Yay for the little puzzle.

Looks like a Mega-Mek Dredd

**TobyDog**

Defiantly a Big Mek of some sort, make a lot of seance if you have seen some of the picts for the boards they built for IA8.

Ork Junk yards...

**Kanluwen**

Up from Big Mek.

He's a 'Uge Mek! Or a 'Umongous Mek!

With 'Uge Plate Armor and a 'Ugantic Choppa!

**lord_blackfang**

Looks like I'll have to increase my Ork budget for next year. Yes, yes it is a separate entry in my personal finances spreadsheet.

**BrookM**

Looks like a really big Mek, or a very deranged mad dok.

**Empchild**

I believe the big mek is already for sale brook on their site. Not sure though off hand, but I agree it's hot!

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

I wonder if IA2 will be filled with copypasta mistakes, formations with no rules, and other obvious mistakes that would have been fixed with even a single read-through.

**lord_blackfang**

H.B.M.C. wrote:I wonder if IA2 will be filled with copypasta mistakes, formations with no rules, and other obvious mistakes that would have been fixed with even a single read-through.

IAA was truly the pinnacle of incompetent editing. Best one was the 3 structure points on the Remora drone.

**Pete_scete**

As long as this book dosent have any rules that will stop me from collecting a new gaurd armie i really couldnt care less, But saying that i will go and buy it.

**BrookM**

Hmm, for me it really depends on what the new Guard and Ork datasheets are. I'll wait until I see a contents listing instead of a few previews.

**cygnnus**

lord_blackfang wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:I wonder if IA2 will be filled with copypasta mistakes, formations with no rules, and other obvious mistakes that would have been fixed with even a single read-through.

IAA was truly the pinnacle of incompetent editing. Best one was the 3 structure points on the Remora drone.

Wait, what? You mean the Remora's having 3 structure points was a typo? Crud... There goes a bunch of wasted money on FW stuff!

I kid...

Vale,

JohnS

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

lord_blackfang wrote:IAA was truly the pinnacle of incompetent editing. Best one was the 3 structure points on the Remora drone.

No, the best one was the Kreig Deathrider formation that payed 50 points for... uhh... umm... well... for nothing. They have no rules. None. They are a formation that garners no benefits. It's like Warwick just copypasta'd the format for an Apoc formation, copypasta'd in the pictures, wrote some fluff and then... forgot to add rules.

**Platuan4th**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
lord_blackfang wrote:IAA was truly the pinnacle of incompetent editing. Best one was the 3 structure points on the Remora drone.

No, the best one was the Kreig Deathrider formation that payed 50 points for... uhh... umm... well... for nothing. They have no rules. None. They are a formation that garners no benefits. It's like Warwick just copypasta'd the format for an Apoc formation, copypasta'd in the pictures, wrote some fluff and then... forgot to add rules.

They pay 50 points to become a single choice for Strategic Reserves.

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

Platuan4th wrote:They pay 50 points to become a single choice for Strategic Reserves.

Yeah, you keep tellin' yourself that.

It would also make them the only formation out of all the Apoc formations that paid for that rule alone, whereas all the rest got some sort of rule.

**Platuan4th**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:They pay 50 points to become a single choice for Strategic Reserves.

Yeah, you keep tellin' yourself that.

It would also make them the only formation out of all the Apoc formations that paid for that rule alone, whereas all the rest got some sort of rule.

But it doesn't change the fact that that 50 points does indeed do it. I'm not saying they didn't forget extra rules(my post was mostly being facetious, but internet and tone and all that).

That said, I'd never use it(if I had more than 11 RRs between my various IG/LatD armies), especially since GW's RR formation on their site actually has a reason to exist.

**The Power Cosmic**

When I saw it, my first thought was Orkimedes.

**Panic**

yeah,
My first thought was fragile!

Panic...

**jackvolerich**

Whatever it is it looks orky.

**thesilverback**

More Ork stuff so its a must have here.