What is Spearhead?

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**scarskull5**

'Ello, I've been seeing alot about something called spearhead. I have no clue what this is about. Anyone care to enlighten me?

**Erasoketa**

I guess it might be either a limited edition box including a bunch of minis of Space Marines representing the 2nd Company of Ultramarines, Sicarius's Spearhead, or also I think it's the name of some aditional rules for 40k that are rumoured to appear in the next months in White Dwarf.

**reds8n**

It's a rules supplement accompanying some new plastic tank kits that rolls out in WD, if you read the thread here, you'll get a bit more info on the releases.

**Boss 'eadbreaka**

Warhammer 40,000, at it's core is about tanks.
Spearhead is an expansion about even more tanks.
Do I need to say anything else?

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

scarskull5 wrote:What is Spearhead?

It's a classic marketing plot.

Company X wants to sell Product Y. Therefore Company X creates a market for Product Y.

In this case, GW wants to sell more tanks. So they create a game where tanks are the focus. End result, more tanks sold.

Nice idea. It worked with Apoc.

**bhsman**

A miserable pile of secrets.

**LunaHound**

bhsman wrote:A miserable pile of secrets.

Why do people keep using that phrase this morning!

**Defiler**

**BrassScorpion**

As I've often asked before, does anyone ever actually go to the Games Workshop website for the actual information they're seeking rather than asking for it and maybe or maybe not getting what they want on forums?

What is Spearhead?! GW put up this description about it approximately one month ago at this link

Gather your tanks and ready your lascannons – in June the pages of White Dwarf magazine and the Games Workshop website join forces to bring you a whole new expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Spearhead.

Spearhead is a new way to play Warhammer 40,000 that enables you to unleash exciting tank battles and daring breakthrough missions on the tabletop, bringing the full mechanised fury of the 41st Millennium to bear in your games. June's White Dwarf will contain the main part of the supplement, including new rules, missions and plenty of inspirational hobby advice. Alongside this, the Games Workshop website will feature additional material exclusively for registered members, such as details of how to assemble your Spearhead formations along with even more painting, modelling and collecting tips.

As if a whole new Expansion wasn't exciting enough, it's going to be accompanied by a range of new miniatures including some stunning new plastic kits – more details of these kits, and the Spearhead Expansion, will follow in White Dwarf and here on the Games Workshop website.

A word of advice, however – because it contains a new Expansion, June's White Dwarf promises to be very popular. If you're not already a subscriber now's probably a very good time to correct that, and to register on the Games Workshop website to hear all the news first.

**Praxiss**

I'm lookign forward to the new tank kits. Hopefully they will realease a plastic kit for the Medusa and Collossus.

**TobyDog**

search is your friend..... is another phrase that comes to mind.

GW's page was the first place that any one saw any mention of it.... It kind of came out of the blue when announced.

**Gargskull**

Praxiss wrote:I'm lookign forward to the new tank kits. Hopefully they will realease a plastic kit for the Medusa and Collossus.

Nope, not this time. Confirmed new plastic kits are:
Manticore/Deathstrike (no hydra)
Fire Prism/Nigh Spinner
Leman Russ
Eldar heavy weapons

**Kroothawk**

Robin Cruddace revealed that it is a small variant of 40k (with WD rules), where ONLY tanks (and monstrous creatures) are used. So there will be lots of tank squadrons and other tank/monster units not legal in normal games. Sounds like fun!

**Skarboy**

Gargskull wrote:
Praxiss wrote:I'm lookign forward to the new tank kits. Hopefully they will realease a plastic kit for the Medusa and Collossus.

Nope, not this time. Confirmed new plastic kits are:
Manticore/Deathstrike (no hydra)
Fire Prism/Nigh Spinner
Leman Russ
Eldar heavy weapons

I thought the ork warbuggy/wartrakk kit was also confirmed... ?

**Praxiss**

Gargskull wrote:
Nope, not this time. Confirmed new plastic kits are:
Manticore/Deathstrike (no hydra)
Fire Prism/Nigh Spinner
Leman Russ
Eldar heavy weapons

DOH! I want squad of Medusas and Colossus's for my apoc army! Long range ordnance death!!!

**Necros**

I'm gonna make an army of 27 monoliths!

**Defiler**

Necros wrote:I'm gonna make an army of 27 monoliths!

My 30 Defilers only need 4's to hit them, at best!

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

So mechanized 40k? What an innovative concept...

**Shep**

Not mechanized.... Vehicle 'only' combat.

No transports involved it seems.

**Balance**

Kroothawk wrote:Robin Cruddace revealed that it is a small variant of 40k (with WD rules), where ONLY tanks (and monstrous creatures) are used. So there will be lots of tank squadrons and other tank/monster units not legal in normal games. Sounds like fun!

Seems like it would be a neat idea if they were willing to do it in a smaller scale, and add more superheavies...

(And call it Epic...)

Seems like a wild hare one of the writers got. The 40k rules have always seemed to get extra clunky when dealing with vehicles, and I feel the game really is still designed with a single big vehicle, a handful of transports, or a couple squads of bikes as about he most it's designed for. The damage tables have a lot of 'swing' and vehcicles barely 'feel' right if you imagine them as creeping through a blasted city... Armored charges are a it sad as unless you're ona huge table. This kind of variant seems a bit weird, and I admit I won't be surprised if it's basically just rules to justify a wave of kits for normal 40k.

(Being optimistic, this could be a good thing. Maybe doing the rules as a one-off was a way to justify the kits to the bean counters as it'll "help sell more kits" and the studio knows that they can abandon the rules with everyone relatively happy.)

**whalemusic360**

I don't buy its an expansion that wont have some sort of space marine. I personal look forward to blasting away with some land raiders and preditors.

**Gargskull**

Skarboy wrote:
Gargskull wrote:
Praxiss wrote:I'm lookign forward to the new tank kits. Hopefully they will realease a plastic kit for the Medusa and Collossus.

Nope, not this time. Confirmed new plastic kits are:
Manticore/Deathstrike (no hydra)
Fire Prism/Nigh Spinner
Leman Russ
Eldar heavy weapons

I thought the ork warbuggy/wartrakk kit was also confirmed... ?

It was very briefly mentioned and then shot down just as quick. The word is it's coming but no one knows when just yet.

**Llamahead**

Hopefully It's a way to get the time to right the new Warhammer Rulebook properly!

**spartanlegion**

That was nickname by my old girlfriend in high school!

**Tim the Biovore**

Defiler wrote:

Need anymore clarification?

**CT GAMER**

Shep wrote:Not mechanized.... Vehicle 'only' combat.

No transports involved it seems.

Why let facts get in the way of a good trolling?

**Albatross**

I think Orks are going to get seriously screwed by this expansion...

/sadface

**Bear LaMorte**

Tim the Biovore wrote:
Defiler wrote:

Need anymore clarification?

A Chrome Pie Server?!

**Brother SRM**

Albatross wrote:I think Orks are going to get seriously screwed by this expansion...

/sadface

Have you read the Ork FAQ on Deffrollas? Orks are going to be having the times of their lives here.

**mcfly**

I'll tell you who is going to be screwed
Dark Eldar