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FW Catachan stuff would be cool

 Kanluwen wrote:


Not waving their stupid swords around.

That's just how EM have assembled the kits, if you don't like it don't copy them.

 Sinful Hero wrote:
Update the hierodules for Tyranids. Also more dark Eldar stuff, such as haemonculi.

Didn't the nids get done in the FW apoc book?

The riders for the Skaven Wolfhounds would be nice.

Very nice drawing, You made this very beautifully.

 sing your life wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:


Not waving their stupid swords around.

That's just how EM have assembled the kits, if you don't like it don't copy them.

There's no alternatives. Go and look at the sprue breakdown on the GW site. The only "firing bow arms" in the box are the Sisters of Avelorn, and several of those are actually attached to the front torso.

I second the call for Mk. 8 Errant armour.

I'd like to see more Xenos, perhaps new xenos specific to Forgeworld.

Their own take on Thunderwolves

Bjorn the fell handed

rogue trader army stuff - bodyguards etc

I'd like them to speed up production so we're not still waiting for primarchs in 2020.

bring out BFG fleets for 30k and maybe some epic stuff the way ebay prices are it would be cheaper

I'm fine with how their prices are at the moment, in some cases it's better than GW (3 of those wonderful Thallax models for £28 that make excellent Obliterator proxies when actual Obliterators are £33 at GW?), so I'm ok with that.

Less focussing on 30K stuff. We've got all the main things like MKII-VI armour, but now they're releasing stuff that's too specific, like the Sons of Horus Reaver Attack Squad. Why couldn't they just make an upgrade kit and leave it at that?

Re-release the huge range of terrain they once had. You could get buildings, bunkers, little extras like minefields or roads etc. Now there is a grand total of 2 items that don't need a bloody RoB board, one of which costs >£700.

 Valkyrie wrote:


Less focussing on 30K stuff. We've got all the main things like MKII-VI armour, but now they're releasing stuff that's too specific, like the Sons of Horus Reaver Attack Squad. Why couldn't they just make an upgrade kit and leave it at that?

Re-release the huge range of terrain they once had. You could get buildings, bunkers, little extras like minefields or roads etc. Now there is a grand total of 2 items that don't need a bloody RoB board, one of which costs >£700.

This.

Also, I would like to see a range of models for behind the frontline. Give me Imperial Nobles, gangers, Arbites, Administratum Savants, Navigators, the common citizenry, weird servitor constructs, local transportation, commercial shuttles, mutant slaves, Ork Freebooters, Loxatl mercenaries, etc.

Bring the 40k universe's rich tapestry of everyday to life, rather than focusing on minor variants of Marine armour.

As I understand it they stopped the terrain because it just didn't sell.

Anyway, I would like to see them do more smaller forces. Give us forces that are just too small for GW to make a codex for.
Eldar Exodites & Pirates. Just some upgrade kits would be nice.

Arbites. 1 or 2 judge minis, some cyber mastiffs, a few upgrade kits for guard (Arbite troops & SWAT elites) and rhinos (Some sort of battering ram/crowd control heavy slot), a some guys on bikes (Fast attack).

Stealer Cults. Magus, some hybrid upgrade bits and job done.

Lots more of these allies forces. They don't need many minis, mostly upgrade packs and rules. If your buying FW you are likely to be wanting to do allot of scratch building anyway.

Well, I think the HH stuff is sexy as heck, and that the books are great too. So full speed ahead there as far as I'm concerned. I play xenos armies almost exclusively now, but I'd rather see more primarchs and new units than the odd new big bug or ork vehicle. The armor variants people are complaining about are basically done already...now they're working on the speciality units.

Regarding the terrain, that had to have been more of a strategic, corporate decision to put FW's focus on minis and push plastic terrain through GW proper. You can't tell me that none of the FW terrain pieces sold well. Our club has tons of them. Some of them go for *insane* prices on eBay. Maybe the range needed a strong culling, but there's no way that the top 10-20 pieces weren't good sellers or profitable. It's probably just more profitable for GW to sell plastic terrain, and they don't want FW playing in that sandbox other than to support the GW RoB board.

Epic

Hell, just hand over all the Specialist Games.

 Valkyrie wrote:
I'm fine with how their prices are at the moment, in some cases it's better than GW (3 of those wonderful Thallax models for £28 that make excellent Obliterator proxies when actual Obliterators are £33 at GW?), so I'm ok with that.

I think the problem is GW prices you can then get a 15-20% discount on top when shopping around. Plus with Forge World there is a fairly high shipping cost.

 gorgon wrote:

Regarding the terrain, that had to have been more of a strategic, corporate decision to put FW's focus on minis and push plastic terrain through GW proper. You can't tell me that none of the FW terrain pieces sold well. Our club has tons of them. Some of them go for *insane* prices on eBay. Maybe the range needed a strong culling, but there's no way that the top 10-20 pieces weren't good sellers or profitable. It's probably just more profitable for GW to sell plastic terrain, and they don't want FW playing in that sandbox other than to support the GW RoB board.

Take this with a pinch of salt if you want, but I was told pretty early on that the reason for culling it back to RoB tiles had nothing to do with the plastic terrain.
It had everything to do with stock management--and I can believe it. Some pieces like the Hydra Flak Emplacement and Tarantula Sentry Dugout(Hydra having released around Imperial Armour: Guard and Navy and the dugout releasing with Taros) were purportedly "popular" but they did two or three runs on the items before stopping production and still had stock going into 2010.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:


Not waving their stupid swords around.

That's just how EM have assembled the kits, if you don't like it don't copy them.

There's no alternatives. Go and look at the sprue breakdown on the GW site. The only "firing bow arms" in the box are the Sisters of Avelorn, and several of those are actually attached to the front torso.

You could give them bows from the HE archers.

 sing your life wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:


Not waving their stupid swords around.

That's just how EM have assembled the kits, if you don't like it don't copy them.

There's no alternatives. Go and look at the sprue breakdown on the GW site. The only "firing bow arms" in the box are the Sisters of Avelorn, and several of those are actually attached to the front torso.

You could give them bows from the HE archers.

Not without significant resculpting work seeing as how the HE Archers and Spearmen are absolute garbage.

I'd like to see more renegades, in particular more devotees of nurgle and/or slaanesh. Also, more guard tanks and planes. And more guard super heavies.

And make the malcador/macharius better.

I would love if the Damocles rhino became a gw kit (and stick it in the codex). but it is hella easy to convert, anyway. Also, plombing the xenos races a bit more would not hurt anyone. Also. drop the prices


ouch sorry about that epic quadruple post. internet problems....

Still waiting on the Tzeentch and Slaanesh upgrade kits.

What ever happened to that rumour of an Imperial Armour book based around Tzeentch forces and a giant asteroid prison? Sure it had something to do with the Thousand Sons, may have completely made the asteroid prison up.

 Largeblastmarker wrote:
I would love if the Damocles rhino became a gw kit (and stick it in the codex). but it is hella easy to convert, anyway. Also, plombing the xenos races a bit more would not hurt anyone. Also. drop the prices


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I would love if the Damocles rhino became a gw kit (and stick it in the codex). but it is hella easy to convert, anyway. Also, plombing the xenos races a bit more would not hurt anyone. Also. drop the prices

You can say that again.....

I would like to see some more elder corsair kits. Corsair Prince (especially since Autarch kits are monopose...)
Corsair Venom upgrade kit. maybe a couple of other unique options.

Also Special Characters that are already published. The farseer from Mymeara and Bran Redmaw (with wolf form)

Lower the prices.

Make sure people understand the rules are legal.

More Chaos stuff.

 Imposter101 wrote:
Lower the prices.

Make sure people understand the rules are legal.

More Chaos stuff.

This is a people issue, not a forge world issue.

 Kirasu wrote:
I'd like them to speed up production so we're not still waiting for primarchs in 2020.

For that they'd have to hire more sculptors, but in order to do that they have to restructure their hiring procedures. It's pretty hard to get past a GW recruiter these days, even if you are a good/great sculptor.

I know of several excellent sculptors who've applied for positions at FW but just get the "run around" from the GW recruiters. One guy I know was being led on for several months before he just gave up and went back to freelancing. They need to leave hiring of sculptors and artists to the studio managers themselves and get it out of the hands of a grunt-recruiter who might not know what to look for.

I know you need to make the hiring process a certain way so you can recruit/hire the people who truly want the job and will work for it, but if you can't look at someone's portfolio of work and make a decision as to whether or not they are a good sculptor then there's a problem with the people reviewing the applications/portfolios.

I know some people will say that sculpting GW models takes different skills and they have a different style that needs to be learned, but most sculptors can learn and adapt to new styles, that's why you have a training period (which GW does).

 Steve steveson wrote:
Stealer Cults. Magus, some hybrid upgrade bits

 paulson games wrote:
Some wicked looking genestealer and cult models would be great.

One of the sculptors I know is working on some "not-Genestealer" cultists right now, he's trying to get them done before Christmas. Oddly enough he also used to sculpt for GW/FW/SG in the past, but was also one of the guys I mentioned above that recently applied to FW and got led on by the recruiter.

Increase quality control.

And bulk out the Elysian range.. Give us the missing heavy weapon options already! And that drop commissar!

Slaanesh and tzeentch terminator and squad upgrade options, add a heavy weapon to the kakophoni set to represent blastmasters, oh and drop the points on a decimator by about 30-50. I'd also love if they would get on with that second warhammer forge book, started assembling stuff for an orcs and goblins army and that book could well be just what I need to really have fun with it.