Forge World News letter #241

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**LunaHound**

Hi There,

This newsletter reaches you on the very brink of the launch of the new edition of Warhammer, bigger, better and nastier than ever before. The 8th edition is the perfect setting for the range of resin Monsters available from Forge World, while updated and expanded terrain rules now make our Warhammer Scenery even more useful.
We also have some changes to our Customer Service opening hours and a reminder of our upcoming shows.

Thanks,
Ead Brown

Forge World Customer Service now available on Saturdays
We are pleased to announce that the Forge World Customer Service Team is now available on Saturdays as well as Monday to Friday, via telephone and e-mail. Tris, Simon or Ead are on hand from 9am to 5pm (UK time) to offer help and advice on anything from placing your very first Forge World order to how best to prepare a Titan for assembly and painting.
Just call 0115 916 8177 within the UK; 011 44 115 916 8177 from the US and Canada; or 00 44 115 916 8177 from much of Europe and the team will be pleased to assist you.

Hmm.. basically no new models , http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer/Warhammer_Monsters

**Kroothawk**

And they actually added this to the so called NEWS-letter:

Warhammer Monsters Available Now
The Warhammer World is a grim place; a land of towering mountains and shadowy forests that are home to all manner of foul and dark beasts. Fire Dragons and Giants march to war alongside, the armies of many races and their sheer power can break the back of mighty regiments in minutes.

The Chaos Wastes are home to even more terrifying the Dark Gods manifest their will in the form of the hideous Greater Daemons of Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh, while the brutal tribes of the Khazak have for generations ridden to war upon fell War Mammoths. Hideous Chaos Beasts and Spawn shamble across this nightmare land, and when the tribes of Chaos unite against the lands of men, they drive such twisted creatures before them as sacrificial targets for the enemy to waste shot and shell upon.

The savage warriors of the Ogre Kingdoms often field thunderous Rhinox Cavalry - particularly powerful Bull warriors venture deep into the mountains to bludgeon a Rhinox into submission before taking it as a mount. These Ogre Bulls band together into loose units, led by the biggest and strongest of the Ogres who takes the title Thunderlord.

The full range of Forge World's Warhammer monsters can be found here, and in light of the new edition we have compiled the rules for many of these mighty resin kits into a new Downloads section that you can find here.

Warhammer Scenery

Forge World's range of finely detailed Warhammer Scenery has come into its own with the release of the new edition. Expanded rules for all types of terrain features allow your wizards to channel additional magical energy through a High Elf Monolith, while Orcs and Goblins can draw courage from Orc Totems dedicated to Gork (or possibly Mork). The Empire, bastion of courage and honour, is dotted with small settlements and towns, and expanded rules for buildings and Arcane Architecture mean that Watchtowers are even more useful in your games, while our range of Walls, Cannon and Mortar Emplacements and Earthworks represent many of the different types of obstacles detailed in the extensive Terrain section of the new rulebook.

They could have mentioned at least that they plan new models in a newly created subdivision of Forge World instead of this "Now these 5 year old models are available for 5 years" thing.

**reds8n**

Not much there yet..no DKoK update yet anyway..but FW have added a download section to their site now

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/Downloads.html

**Malika2**

Is it just me or are the FW Newsletters getting duller every time?

**BrookM**

Man, you guys hate them even more than I do. Did FW ship you a broken Baneblade and set your house on fire?

I think they are just having a breather.

**Agamemnon2**

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they haven't even updated the rules for those monsters, have they? Nice going, FW.

**TyraelVladinhurst**

BrookM wrote:Man, you guys hate them even more than I do. Did FW ship you a broken Baneblade and set your house on fire?

I think they are just having a breather.

no, but they did ship me a broken warhound which did set my house on fire

**Kid_Kyoto**

Malika2 wrote:Is it just me or are the FW Newsletters getting duller every time?

No doubt saving news for Games Day season.

**LunaHound**

I really hope with the new edition of warhammer fantasy , FW will introduce some new Fantasy Monsters ( doesnt have to be as many as 40k of course , just start slowly... )
hopefully by FW letter #242!

I dont know like some Chaos Ogres ( Im sure they'll sell , not like the current GW version is any hot... )

Chaos Characters... so many: Valkyria , the Troll King , Dragon Ogre king etc etc.

new Hydra , Hellpit Abom , Jabberwocky?

**Kanluwen**

They said they're not doing any "gap filling" for the Fantasy range.

Which means no Valkyria, Troll King, Jabberwocky, or anything that's in the army books.

Silly? Yes. But it frees them up to do their own stuff, of which Chaos Dwarves, The Sundering era Elves, and the like are supposed to be a part.

**LunaHound**

Kanluwen wrote:They said they're not doing any "gap filling" for the Fantasy range.

Which means no Valkyria, Troll King, Jabberwocky, or anything that's in the army books.

Silly? Yes. But it frees them up to do their own stuff, of which Chaos Dwarves, The Sundering era Elves, and the like are supposed to be a part.

Im assuming "gap filling" you mean they wont produce any "new" miniature of existing units in the current army books?

**TyraelVladinhurst**

maybe something new for vampire counts? i'd be happy if that happened

**Kanluwen**

LunaHound wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:They said they're not doing any "gap filling" for the Fantasy range.

Which means no Valkyria, Troll King, Jabberwocky, or anything that's in the army books.

Silly? Yes. But it frees them up to do their own stuff, of which Chaos Dwarves, The Sundering era Elves, and the like are supposed to be a part.

I'm assuming "gap filling" you mean they won't produce any "new" miniature of existing units in the current army books?

No, it means they will not be producing any miniature that exists in the current army books.

From their wording, it sounds like their plan is to do big critters, terrain, variant army lists/kits of things that already exist.

But nothing that would interfere with GW producing a model for general release.

**Kroothawk**

What he said. No Hellpit abomination or other army book stuff GW left out. Just their own new stuff as featured in new FWFantasy books resp. on datasheets.