Hi there,
We have two new releases to announce this week for Chaos players: Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord himself, mounted upon the horrific Toad Dragon Bubebolos, and the nefarious Sorcerer Sayl the Faithless.

Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord on Bubebolos the Toad Dragon

The fell legend of Tamurkhan has been whispered for many centuries amongst the tribes of the Chaos Wastes. Some tales speak of him as a scion of the Great Kurgan, one of four sons each cast to the four winds to conquer and enslave. Others claim that he was once no more than vermin – a corpse-canker grown fat and clever on the spoils of the battlefield, swelled and transformed by the light of the Ruinous Powers.

Whatever the truth, the Maggot Lord sits at the head of a great horde of decaying and bloated monstrosities, his mortal form cloaked in the flesh of an Ogre Tyrant, leading his warriors south to seek the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy.

Perhaps the most fell creature under his command is the mighty Toad Dragon Bubebolos, a huge, reeking, primeval horror and greatest of all its bloated kind. Blessedly few in number, the Toad Dragons are lumbering horrors from a forgotten age whose flesh festers with unwholesome rot and whose black blood is clotted with maggots and carrion worms.

Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord on Bubebolos the Toad Dragon is the largest model Warhammer Forge has so far released. This truly enormous full resin kit, sculpted by Mark Bedford, is packed with revolting detail and makes a perfect centrepiece for any Warriors of Chaos army. This immense kit is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing 26th April, and writer Alan Bligh has supplied these experimental rules http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/t/tamurkhan.pdf to allow you to field this powerful warlord and his horrific mount. Full background and details of Tamurkhan’s Chaos host will be published in Tamurkhan: The Throne of Chaos, which will be released later this year.

Sayl the Faithless and Nightmaw

His name synonymous with treachery and betrayal amongst the warriors of the Ruinous Powers, Sayl the Faithless is an infamous arch-sorcerer. Too proud and too paranoid to swear fealty to any single god amongst the Chaos pantheon, he has pursued pacts and bargains with innumerable petty godlings and daemons, betraying each in turn.

Sayl is pre-eminent among the Dolgan tribe, and his rise to ascendancy began with his allegiance to Schalkain the Vile, as one of his seven seer-apprentices. Sayl’s honeyed lies turned each acolyte against the others, and fanned the flames of suspicion into murderous strife. Eventually Schalkain was manipulated into conducting a dark rite involving Sayl and three fellow ‘loyal’ apprentices which resulted in his horrific death at the hands of a daemon beholden only to Sayl, while the three surviving acolytes were twisted into a terrible beast known as Nightmaw. Hated and feared, Sayl the Faithless and Nightmaw now march alongside Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord.

This full resin set, sculpted by Mark Bedford and Dan Cockersell, contains two incredibly detailed models that are available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing 29th April. Experimental rules taken from the forthcoming Warhammer Forge expansion book Tamurkhan: The Throne of Chaos are now available to download courtesy of Forge World writer Alan Bligh.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/s/sayl.pdf

Warhammer Forge at Forge World Events

Salute – 16th April 2011

London’s ExCel Centre is the location of Salute 2011 on Saturday 16th April, and Forge World will be in attendance with a Sales stand bursting with resin kits, modelling supplies and books from both the Forge World and Warhammer Forge ranges.

You’ll be able to purchase our MkIII Armoured Boarding Space Marine and Chaos Dwarf Hellsmith Event Only models, as well as the recently released Eldar Lynx with Pulsar and Eldar Lynx with Sonic Lance, and the mighty Phantom Titan.
Warhammer Forge models such as the Marienburg Land Ship, Theodore Bruckner on Reaper and the Nuln Ironsides Handgunner Conversion Kit will also be available alongside limited numbers of both this week's new releases.

If you’ve placed a reservation order for collection at Salute, you can expect to receive a confirmation e-mail in the next few days. You must bring this with you in order to collect your order, so please check your Spam and Junk e-mail folders just in case.

Games Day France – 22nd May 2011

Warhammer Forge sculptor Edgar Skomorowski and graphic artist Sam Lamont will both be attending Games Day France, which is held on Sunday 22nd May at the Parc Floral de Versailles in Paris. They will be bringing a display of work in progress miniatures and artwork with them, as well as future releases that have recently been handed to our Production team.

We are now accepting reservation orders for Games Day France, and this is the best way of ensuring that we will have exactly the models you’re looking for, packed up and waiting for you to collect and pay for on the day. To place a reservation order, please send an e-mail entitled ‘Games Day France Reservation’ to fwreservations@games-workshop.co.uk, making sure to provide your full name and a list of the items you’d like to reserve. You can also phone the Forge World Customer Service team on 0044 115 916 8177.

Thanks,
Ead Brown

Forge World Customer Service Manager

Captain Jack wrote:To be honest they have to start somewhere, and at least we no know that if your army of choice comes into the story arc you will be getting a boatlaod of shiney. I agree that there is too much focus on Nurgle, but that is the aspect of the first book, and the rumors are that each book will follow a different chaos lords assault on the old world. The Chaos Dwarf stuff previewed looked great and I'm happy as a Tzeenchy to be able to buy that stuff before my wallet gets wasted later.

For a new starter (as an institution), Warhammer Forge is certainly putting out stuff that is well above the quality line.

johnnyrumour wrote:Warwick says that they will be doing a Bretonnian vs Tomb Kings book at some stage

Ixquic wrote:

johnnyrumour wrote:Warwick says that they will be doing a Bretonnian vs Tomb Kings book at some stage

Sweet that's awesome to hear.

johnnyrumour wrote:Warwick says that they will be doing a Bretonnian vs Tomb Kings book at some stage

Bubebolos the Toad Dragon

HungryTaz wrote:That toad is awesome... not sure I could find a way to sneak it into my O&G army.

Orinoco wrote:

Ixquic wrote:

johnnyrumour wrote:Warwick says that they will be doing a Bretonnian vs Tomb Kings book at some stage

Sweet that's awesome to hear.

That sounds awesome. I wonder how the story is going to work with the two lands being so far apart. I picked up the nurgle toad monster as I am going to convert it to something lizardman like. Mother cold one or something? I dunno. Is there an expected date on the rulebook with all the nurgle stuff?

Kroothawk wrote:

johnnyrumour wrote:Warwick says that they will be doing a Bretonnian vs Tomb Kings book at some stage

To be precise, he said that it will be the next book after Tamurkhan.

And it is not difficult to imagine a plot for questing knights in the desert.

Jackal wrote:
Also, the rules seem really fethed up and need some work.

kenshin620 wrote:

Jackal wrote:
Also, the rules seem really fethed up and need some work.

FW is known for pretty subpar rules the majority of the time