Latest Forge World news and rumour thread : P99 Bulletin #50

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**Snrub**

Malika2 wrote:And a Necron Catacomb Command Barge being pulled by some Tomb Blades or something?

~~Command barge~~ Tomb Blade getting pulled by tomb spyders.

BlaxicanX wrote:Frankly, I prefer its UI to the new GW site. lol

Me too. The GW site is unnecessarily fiddly. I can see why they've done it like the way they have. But there was really no need for it.

H.B.M.C. wrote:The FW website is currently down for maintenance, so maybe you'll get your wish of a needlessly complex cascading storefront like the GW one.

I certainly fething hope not.

**Looky Likey**

They are removing the web store and going back to mail order only with payment by postal orders.

Have they said when they are taking pre orders for Warhammer fest yet?

**Rygnan**

Looky Likey wrote:
They are removing the web store and going back to mail order only with payment by postal orders.

Have they said when they are taking pre orders for Warhammer fest yet?

Are you serious?

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

Looky Likey wrote:
They are removing the web store and going back to mail order only with payment by postal orders.

I do so hope you are kidding.

**Baragash**

I assumed it was an "internet is a fad" joke.......

**TyraelVladinhurst**

Baragash wrote:
I assumed it was an "internet is a fad" joke.......

He may not have been as i tried going to their site and it directly says webpage no longer exists

**angelofvengeance**

The Forge World website is currently unavailable due to essential maintenance. The website will be available again shortly. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

If your order is urgent, you can place it over the phone by calling the Forge World Customer Services team on 0115 9004995

**Eldercaveman**

Don't worry it's back up now.

**Looky Likey**

Baragash wrote:
I assumed it was an "internet is a fad" joke.......

Exactly, GW's policies sometimes do seem like how can we inconvenience our paying customers even more.

I can't be the only one who is old enough to have had to do "proper" mail order? Quite nerve wracking wondering if they actually got your order.

**Shandara**

Looky Likey wrote:
Baragash wrote:
I assumed it was an "internet is a fad" joke.......
Exactly, GW's policies sometimes do seem like how can we inconvenience our paying customers even more.

I can't be the only one who is old enough to have had to do "proper" mail order? Quite nerve wracking wondering if they actually got your order.

I feel young, I could already use that newfangled phone thing to place my orders.

**Looky Likey**

Never had a bank card I could pay over the phone with till I was 18. My kids had one at 12, how times change.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Peregrine wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Why for the love of #$^& isn't GW releasing those Solar Aux in plastic?

Do they hate the sight and smell of money?

Niche market product that can't justify the cost of plastic molds and time on GW's plastic production equipment, level of detail issues that prevent the kit from translating well into plastic, etc. A handful of dedicated collectors might love them, but I can easily see GW deciding that releasing them in plastic would just split the current sales of plastic Cadians between two separate product lines instead of generating additional sales.

Putting on my serious hat for a moment, with Cadians and Catachans so poor and honestly lacking much in the way of 40k flavor my purchases of them is zero. A well sculpted grimdark gothic IG regiment would get me to open my wallet.

Clinging to outdated models that were never that good is not a way to grow the hobby.

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Rygnan wrote:
Looky Likey wrote:
They are removing the web store and going back to mail order only with payment by postal orders.

Have they said when they are taking pre orders for Warhammer fest yet?

Are you serious?

The intertubes are just a fad.

**Sinful Hero**

I'm disappointed that even only a couple of people thought Forgeworld was going to mail order only. That says quite a lot.

**RedSarge**

Guardsmen with VOLKITE weaponry! Vol-KITE Deathrays, searing and scorching traitors, xenos and mutants left and right... ACK-ack-A-DACK!

Crusade Era Imperial Army - wow.

**Mr. Burning**

I may be tempted back GWs way if the vehicles for the Solar Auxila are cool looking.

I begrudge paying FW prices for infantry though.

**sockwithaticket**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Clinging to outdated models that were never that good is not a way to grow the hobby.

Since when has that bothered Gee Dub? How old and outdated are the Chaos Marines, Bezerkers, the bikers for both Marines, zombies, Eldar Jetbikes, etc. ?

**Jidmah**

Add ork warbuggies to that list

**stormboy**

Mr. Burning wrote:
I may be tempted back GWs way if the vehicles for the Solar Auxila are cool looking.

I begrudge paying FW prices for infantry though.

Me too - but with prices the way they are... FW isn't looking too bad, especially for specialist troops.

Scions are 35USD for 5 models (great models IMO) and FW Death Korps Command Squad is 25lbs(about 40 USD) - 5 bucks isn't so bad for cool looking models.

When you get into the basic infantry guy... prices start to separate though... Elysian squad of 10 = 39lbs (about 64 USD) and 10 Cadians are 29 dollars. I guess we will have to wait and see what the price for the Solar Auxilia ends up being.

**sockwithaticket**

I'd be surprised if the Elysians were 39 lbs given that they're cast in resin rather than some new hyper dense substance, but not all shocked to find that they were £39

/pedantic Brit.

If Solar Auxilia pricing is in line with other FW Guard stuff then I'll have to settle for occasionally staring at them longingly on my laptop screen.

**Looky Likey**

Sinful Hero wrote:
I'm disappointed that even only a couple of people thought Forgeworld was going to mail order only. That says quite a lot.

I thought it was a really obvious joke when I made it but I was also surprised when people took it seriously.

**Davespil**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Peregrine wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Why for the love of #$^& isn't GW releasing those Solar Aux in plastic?

Do they hate the sight and smell of money?

Niche market product that can't justify the cost of plastic molds and time on GW's plastic production equipment, level of detail issues that prevent the kit from translating well into plastic, etc. A handful of dedicated collectors might love them, but I can easily see GW deciding that releasing them in plastic would just split the current sales of plastic Cadians between two separate product lines instead of generating additional sales.

Putting on my serious hat for a moment, with Cadians and Catachans so poor and honestly lacking much in the way of 40k flavor my purchases of them is zero. A well sculpted grimdark gothic IG regiment would get me to open my wallet.

Clinging to outdated models that were never that good is not a way to grow the hobby.

Those Solis Auxiliary (or whatever they are called) look so damn silly. GW/FW needs to get their s*** together and not release crap like that. The Cadains and the Elysians are excellent. I like my armies with a little bit of common sense sprinkled in. Though the Elysians need some more models. I can't honestly think that they would sell enough of this new army to make it worth producing in plastic. And, I wish they'd focus on the armies that already exist instead trying to create a whole new game and then 18 legions that are just slightly different enough that they must waste several years on releasing 18 comtemptors and 3 variations of the same armor. Armor, that ironically, gets upgraded how many times but never gets any better? Did they change nothing but the appearance? Was it for vanity's sake?

**Bobthehero**

stormboy wrote:
.
Scions are 35USD for 5 models (great models IMO) and FW Death Korps Command Squad is 25lbs(about 40 USD) - 5 bucks isn't so bad for cool looking models.

10 Grenadiers are 62USD, 10 Scions are 70, you get more bits vs more details.

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

stormboy wrote:
... is 25lbs...

... 39lbs...

lbs?

£ (ALT+0163).

**JBSchroeds**

^ Or GBP if you don't want to memorize the alt code.

**Midnightdeathblade**

I just got Vulkan a week ago and im super happy with it. Im super pumped for Konrad Curze.

**godswildcard**

I like the HH stuff, but I hit my 'enough with the SM already' limit a book ago. I know it's a cash cow, but I'm ready for some love that isnt Space Marines or a new riptide/ knight variant (the latter for use with HH!)

Clearly people are buying it, but outside of a Primarch or the odd contemptor(rare) specialty legion squad(more rare) I've never seen a true HH army.

And as someone who owns a DKoK army, I'll buy stuff if I like it, but for space marines I just can't get that pumped about them.

Maybe when they release 1000 Sons...

**Snrub**

There's a /tg/ thread at the moment that has leaked "pictures" of the supposed rules for the new riptide.

Here is the thread. Bring salt.
Standard 4chan caveats apply, blah blah blah.

Here's the OP's summery too.

Apparently, there are leaked rules for Forgeworld's soon to be released "gottagofast" riptide variant.

(even though the rules look plausible, salt is still required as some things seems suspicious , more on that later)

Basically,
>riptide stat line
>gets Fleet and Hit & Run
>jet pack MC but can also move 12" in the movment phase with its improved jet pack
>can nova charge to get a 3+ invuln, become flying MC, shoot twice with the pulse submunition inductor (but can't use it the next turn) or boost its triple barreled flamer
>same restrictions on equipments as the R'varna, and can't FnP reactor overheats

Pulse submunition inductor
>template S5, AP4, heavy 2, torrent, cluster fire (same as R'varna)

Flamer cascade cannon
>template, S6, AP3, Assault 3
>(Nova charged) Template, S6, AP3, Assault D3, Torrent

**Looky Likey**

godswildcard wrote:
I like the HH stuff, but I hit my 'enough with the SM already' limit a book ago. I know it's a cash cow, but I'm ready for some love that isnt Space Marines or a new riptide/ knight variant (the latter for use with HH!)

Clearly people are buying it, but outside of a Primarch or the odd contemptor(rare) specialty legion squad(more rare) I've never seen a true HH army.

And as someone who owns a DKoK army, I'll buy stuff if I like it, but for space marines I just can't get that pumped about them.

Maybe when they release 1000 Sons...

Does depend on your local meta, everybody I know and play regularly has at least one 30k army, with more than a few having at least SM and mechanicum. However my group started dabbling in 30k before the FW books so I'm guessing we are at the start of the curve.

**AlmightyWalrus**

Snrub wrote:
There's a /tg/ thread at the moment that has leaked "pictures" of the supposed rules for the new riptide.

Here is the thread. Bring salt.
Standard 4chan caveats apply, blah blah blah.

Here's the OP's summery too.

Apparently, there are leaked rules for Forgeworld's soon to be released "gottagofast" riptide variant.

(even though the rules look plausible, salt is still required as some things seems suspicious , more on that later)

Basically,
>riptide stat line
>gets Fleet and Hit & Run
>jet pack MC but can also move 12" in the movment phase with its improved jet pack
>can nova charge to get a 3+ invuln, become flying MC, shoot twice with the pulse submunition inductor (but can't use it the next turn) or boost its triple barreled flamer
>same restrictions on equipments as the R'varna, and can't FnP reactor overheats

Pulse submunition inductor
>template S5, AP4, heavy 2, torrent, cluster fire (same as R'varna)

Flamer cascade cannon
>template, S6, AP3, Assault 3
>(Nova charged) Template, S6, AP3, Assault D3, Torrent

So it's more or less a Tau Heldrake?

**angelofvengeance**

I thought that gun on the new Riptide variant looked a bit flamey. Sounds fun though