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Loving the Contemptor more and more. Honestly starting to consider that model for CSM simply to give more variety to my gameplay. Taking something with a decent armor value and good anti-tank in an Elite slot would just make the army much more interesting. I'm looking at you, Obliterators.

So, here's Forge World's sneak peek of something they'll have at their stand for GDUK. They posted it in celebration of having 10k 'Likes' on Facebook.



So what do you guys think it is? To me, it looks like a piece of scenery. It appears that there's sandbags behind it.

Its techy on top of some sort of organic structure. It looks like part of some sort of chaosy daemon engine thing.

The inside of a dread sarcophagus?

I've always wanted a marine army with lots shields in it, and those boarding shields are exactly what I'm looking. Now if only they were cheaper...

Kanluwen wrote:So, here's Forge World's sneak peek of something they'll have at their stand for GDUK. They posted it in celebration of having 10k 'Likes' on Facebook.



So what do you guys think it is? To me, it looks like a piece of scenery. It appears that there's sandbags behind it.

I think it looks more like some bit of Tech stuck to a part of a giant maggot. So it could be some type of demon thing.

At the risk of being picky they posted it as part of their Games Day UK countdown thingy... nothing particularly special about the 10k likes has emerged yet.

Alright...sorry to all of you who love the contemptor soooooo much, but enough is enough. I am sick of seeing yet ANOTHER weapon pack release. I want to know where is my f**cking tantalus??? Give us something else besides more marines, FW.

Hey, I think they are both crappy, I Do like the boarding marines though


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If you dont like the conversion beamer backpack why not get a vox caster backpack and use the contemptor conversion beamer in a position like the chapterhouse one?
problem solved.

No need to rain on the Contemptor Parade!

Do send FW and GW an actual letter about it though, and remember to really show your appreciation using your wallet when they do produce something you've asked for.

Alpharius wrote:No need to rain on the Contemptor Parade!

Do send FW and GW an actual letter about it though, and remember to really show your appreciation using your wallet when they do produce something you've asked for.

LOL, what do you think that little $70 on my sig under FW is that broke my personal GW embargo? On a side note, FW has started using Scibor type large sprue on at least the contemptor. I don't know if that facilitates better quality control as I got minimal thin flash and no bubbles with my contemptor (whereas before EVERY forgeworld model I had gotten had multiple easily noticable problems). Prior models had small sprues of extra resin on the bottom with the FW stamp but the contemptor had every sprue connected to a large triangular beam of solid shiny resin. There was easily more than double the amount of resin by weight on the "sprue" than on the actual model. If they need to waste more resin to prevent problems like the one below (which happened to me on my GK icons early this year), I'm all for it.

DraconicGuardian wrote:Alright...sorry to all of you who love the contemptor soooooo much, but enough is enough. I am sick of seeing yet ANOTHER weapon pack release. I want to know where is my f**cking tantalus??? Give us something else besides more marines, FW.

The tantalus is for the next book and being one of the larger models it takes that much more time to finish. So until they get closer to that books release next year, you're likely not going to see anything, leaving us with two options.
A)Have FW sit around for 4 months releasing nothing.
B)Releasing models to accompany their current book.

with a side helping of:

c) releasing models that sell well and make them lots of money.

With the recent success (right?) of the Dark Eldar re-launch, I'd guess we'll start seeing more for them soon too...

IA12 is looking to be Dark Eldar v. Elysians, so that's not too impossible to believe.

Kanluwen wrote:IA12 is looking to be Dark Eldar v. Elysians, so that's not too impossible to believe.

Don't forget that the space wolf mark of the wulfen wolflord leading wolf packs with wolfguard will also be fighting there.

Kanluwen wrote:IA12 is looking to be Dark Eldar v. Elysians, so that's not too impossible to believe.

The following question is said entirely free of gakky sarcasm negativity etc etc etc, and full of hope:

Any facts / source reference on this?

warboss wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:IA12 is looking to be Dark Eldar v. Elysians, so that's not too impossible to believe.

Don't forget that the space wolf mark of the wulfen wolflord leading wolf packs with wolfguard will also be fighting there.

That's IA11, "The Doom of Myrmea".

kitch102 wrote:Any facts / source reference on this?

Forge World themselves were batting it around at GDUS.

Kanluwen wrote:

warboss wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:IA12 is looking to be Dark Eldar v. Elysians, so that's not too impossible to believe.

Don't forget that the space wolf mark of the wulfen wolflord leading wolf packs with wolfguard will also be fighting there.

That's IA11, "The Doom of Myrmea".

Ah, my bad.

What exactly is a tantalus? Is it some type of IoM super-heavy?

Ordered the boarding marine pack. Don't have a clue how I'll use them in-game but, oh man, do they look cool.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:What exactly is a tantalus? Is it some type of IoM super-heavy?

It's the Dark Eldar 'katamaran' styled vehicle.

Kroothawk wrote:

kitch102 wrote:Dark Eldar Katamaran? What's that then? Need to know more!

This beauty here, shown completed on GD USA (pic only) and on the FW website for some time:


Edit. Looking at the pic, I think I now know why it isn't released. They still have to make the crew.

I dont do DE, but I want one of those...that thing is beautiful.

Those blades under the hull of the DE katamaran make it look like it's wearing high heels.

Breotan wrote:Those blades under the hull of the DE katamaran make it look like it's wearing high heels.

Haha, it kinda does. I can't wait to see more DE releases, preferably things I can also use in standard 40k.

Kanluwen wrote:So, here's Forge World's sneak peek of something they'll have at their stand for GDUK. They posted it in celebration of having 10k 'Likes' on Facebook.



So what do you guys think it is? To me, it looks like a piece of scenery. It appears that there's sandbags behind it.

I'm betting either a terrain piece or the first re-envision Legio Cybernetica Robot!

When I look at that Tantalas, I just can't help but feel the sail is going to have soooo many casting issues. Yes FW has done wings as large as that, but things as flat as that sail is going to show off and accentuate miscasts and warping. Lets cross our fingers.

Another sneak peek, guess it's from the tantalus:

FW facebook wrote:Games Day UK T-Minus 19 Days:
We've got another intriguing preview image for you today, which you'll be able to see in all its glory alongside designer Daren Parrwoood... any guesses?

Maybe the deck of another dark Eldar craft? Or is it part of the same model as the last preview picture?

Fantastic, I should be able to reserve the Master of the Forge for Aussie Gamesday and have it in hand faster than shipping. Personally I like the model, it may be static but it's a beautiful concept and will go perfectly with my pre-heresy iron warriors soon as I find out whether those shoulderpads are removable or not.

I see a lot of issues with trying to add boarding shields to anything other than Heresy armour or later (as the forgeworld sculpts have them holding their arms far too close to their body to work for this). I'd like to see how well bolters/flamers/meltas/pistols fit in with this kit rather than just showing the kit-specific weaponry (which only arms 4 of the 5 marines)

Not really a fan of the conversion beamer. THe boarding party stuff looks great though. I think some of FW new releases have been unappealing to me because they have been trying to move their product line back to match with the old, stiff rouge trader marines. The HW packs they release were really distastfull in my eyes, and the new dread is not to my fancy either.