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Afternoon all,

Before I begin please don't assume that just because this is a new account that what you are about to read is false (I can't remember the password/email of my old account so I've made a new one). While what I've typed out below might be slightly adjusted due to memory it is all true.

Yesterday I visited Warhammer World as a treat for myself as it was my 32nd Birthday. Late in the evening a group of guys (who I am guessing were mostly Games Workshop staff) started playing an old game that GW used to make (I believe it was called Wastelander and used a mixture of rules). I started chatting to one of the guys and at the time I didn't realise I was talking to Andy Hoare himself. At some point in the evening I mentioned the ongoing theories behind why Cyraxus has been delayed and after hearing them he laughed and told me the actual reason.

It is all Andy Hoare's fault.

He was given the task of writing the first draft of the book and after he finished it (or around the time) he became the Manager for Specialist Games. Due to this the second draft was passed onto Alan Bligh who at the time was busy writing Inferno and as you can imagine there would naturally be delays in the second draft being completed. Add to this the fact that Alan Bligh has been ill for some time (I was told this by a member of Forge World Customer Service, something which Andy Hoare said shouldn't have happened). Then about a year ago they heard about 8th and so the delays for it to be completed kept piling on.

He agreed with me that it would not be surprising if Fire of Cyraxus became the first 8th edition IA book which most likely would delay it even further.

While also talking to Andy Hoare he told me (in not too great a detail) of how the Red Scorpions Lord Commander got himself interred in a Leviathan Dreadnought. Apparently when explaining to fellow staff members at Forge World he would say that he wasn't so much as placed into the Leviathan, more like being poured from a big bucket. Also the twin-linked Assault Cannon he is armed with is a Relic with some fancy rules.

So, we finally have the answer.

Thank you very much for posting this here! I have copied it over into the Forgeworld thread, and if you'd like to follow up there that'd be great

See direct link below for further discussion on this:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1530/713351.page#9329836

Cheers!