THE ForgeWorld Horus Heresy News and Rumors Thread!

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**SickSix**

I will stick with my planned Fellblade using Machinator's resin pieces.

I prefer his style but FW did a pretty good job on this. I do like the main turret but having exposed sponsons just seems silly on such a heavy vehicle.

**HungryTaz**

Why is Forge World doing this to us? Every day they reveal something new that we want.

I promised my nephew a Fellblade. I want one. That is going to be expensive. Throw in the book, some bikes. Each Primarch and all other types of goodness and I'm going to have to get a second mortgage.

**aka_mythos**

The book releases at UK GD and FW always does a build up of previews and releases leading upto that.

**Daston**

Sooo want the fellblade shall have to start a pre heresy space wolf force now

**Thamor**

Why do you do this to me forgeworld!

**Doomhunter**

I fear I may have to initiate a monetary transfer into Forge Worlds bank account.

**Kroothawk**

From October WD onward, Forge World (and Black Library and FFG) new products will be covered in the same way as GW new products. Horus Heresy has a separate article. HH news get more text on the WD cover than GW news (but the GW gets the pic as usual). Guess that's good news.

Also Newsletter #316:

Games Day UK Pre-release Kits: Space Marine Fellblade Super-heavy Tank

Based upon the same STC data as the Baneblade and Deathhammer super-heavy tanks, which are a mainstay of the vast brigades of the Imperial Army, the Fellblade is a more advanced variant that first saw widespread service with the Legiones Astartes in the last decades of the Great Crusade.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/fellblade.html (£155.00)

It is most noted for its use of Mechanicum atomantic arc-reactor technology and a reinforced metaplas alloy chassis superior even to that of the Baneblade, alongside an advanced accelerator cannon as its primary armament. These systems are all fruits of Dark Age technologies rediscovered and restored to humanity shortly before the nightmare of the Great Heresy.

The mighty Space Marine Fellblade is a huge multi-part resin kit designed by Stuart Williamson, containing two Space Marine crew designed by Mark Bedford. Packed with detail, this immense vehicle will be available to buy in limited numbers at Games Day UK on Sunday 23rd September.

Space Marine Legion Land Raider, Rhino and MkIIb Land Raider Door Sets

Simon Egan and Edgar Skomorowski have designed sets of Land Raider, Rhino and MkIIb Land Raider Doors for the Death Guard, Emperor’s Children and World Eaters Legions. These door sets will be available to buy in limited quantities at Games Day UK on Sunday 23rd September.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/Legion_Doors.html

Each set contains a front plate and two side doors for the relevant Legion, and are fully compatible with our full range of vehicle kits. Please note that the doors supplied in the Rhino Door Sets will not fit onto our Deimos Pattern vehicles.

Games Day Exclusive Horus Heresy T-shirts

Forge World Seminars at Games Day UK

At this year’s Games Day, Tony Cottrell and Alan Bligh will be hosting two sessions of the ever-popular Forge World seminar; a short presentation followed by a Q&A session, in which you’ll be able to grill Alan and Tony about almost any aspect of Forge World to your heart’s content.

Each seminar is limited to 150 people and tickets will be available free on a first come, first served one-per-person basis as soon as Games Day opens. You can get your ticket from Games Workshop staff at the doors to the Lakeside Gallery Restaurant, which is near the Forge World Studio area.

Seminar 1 begins at 11am and seminar 2 begins at 2pm – once you’ve got your ticket there’s no need to queue or wait around, simply return to the Lakeside Gallery Restaurant in time for your chosen seminar and you’ll be able to go straight in.

Games Day UK

We’re going to be bringing you a Forge World newsletter every day this week with details of what we’ll be showcasing, displaying and pre-releasing at Games Day UK on Sunday 23rd September.

With less than a week to go, tickets to Games Day 2012 have now sold out! However, it's worth checking with your local Hobby Centre to see if they have any Games Day tickets still in stock.

We’ve also added a Games Day UK page to the Forge World website, and beside our daily newsletters it’s here that you’ll find all the latest information about everything we’ll be doing, pre-releasing and displaying at Games Day.

Thanks,
Ead Brown
Customer Service Manager
Forge World

**geordie09**

And there I was saving up for a FW Bloodthirster, Ka'bandha was going to rock! He may have to wait while Angron, and my pre-heresy World Eaters return to the gaming board!

**H.B.M.C.**

I love the Fellblade, but I've been burned by 100% resin FW tanks in the past (yes Stormblade, I'm looking at you)... so I won't touch it until I have some idea of how the track assembly is done.

Big single-piece affair with moulded-on tracks? Sold.
Separate track sections and individual drive wheels? Die in a fire.

**geordie09**

For the price I can't imagine its a plastic kit with a resin upgrade either which would be the best way to prevent those issues!

**Choose Nothing**

I honour no false god, only the reality of imperial truth. Pretty br00d.

**Pacific**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Fellblade, but I've been burned by 100% resin FW tanks in the past (yes Stormblade, I'm looking at you)... so I won't touch it until I have some idea of how the track assembly is done.

Well, it's made simple for me. I won't touch it simply because I can't afford it!

**akkados**

The Big Question for me! Can i only use these in warhammer 30k. Since black templars wasn't around back then.

**Marrak**

akkados wrote:
The Big Question for me! Can i only use these in warhammer 30k. Since black templars wasn't around back then.

Considering how many ancient relics survive till recent times in 40k, I think you'll be fine.

It would be absolutely insane of FW to not make these compatible with the standard game.

**TechMarine1**

Now I must sell some of my Space Marines to make room for pre-heresy Salamanders.

**Orinoco**

they reference a deathhammer on the page, google doesn't find anything. will this be a new super heavy?

Automatically Appended Next Post:

H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love the Fellblade, but I've been burned by 100% resin FW tanks in the past (yes Stormblade, I'm looking at you)... so I won't touch it until I have some idea of how the track assembly is done.

Big single-piece affair with moulded-on tracks? Sold.
Separate track sections and individual drive wheels? Die in a fire.

May I recommend the arkurion pattern baneblades. minimises resin required and thus minimises room for forgeworld errors.

**Valkyrie**

More goodies

**Eiríkr**

NEUEUEUEUEUUEUEUEUE...

I have been waiting for these for so, so long. God DAMN they are beautiful.

Edit! Those Command upgrades too. Holy feth me sideways Batman. FW have blown me away this week.

**Harriticus**

Where are you guys getting the fluff description for Fellblade and so on? Can't find them on the actual links...

**Jadenim**

Dear Forgeworld, please STOP! I just can't cope anymore...

**Madocyw**

Oh boy. Well, I have no excuses now, gotta start saving pennies for an assault chapter

**carabine**

Harriticus wrote:
Where are you guys getting the fluff description for Fellblade and so on? Can't find them on the actual links...

Newsletter 316

Also nice Valk you beat me by about 30 seconds. Post up the whole batch though won'tcha?

**Commander Cain**

I don't want to buy all this stuff but I must! Command upgrades are very nice, I have been waiting for them to bring something like that out for a while now.

Those termies... Wow, just what I wanted, I hope they bring some more variants out as well. (I know, never enough is it!)

**Madocyw**

Am I the only one seeing the plasma gun in the terminator combi/special weapon set?

**kronk**

Nope.

We can all see it.

**Vitruvian XVII**

Well there goes the entirety of my student loan.... Sigh

Serious eyegasms, im sorry, but these gak all over the 3rd party stuff so much.

**carabine**

Madocyw wrote:
Am I the only one seeing the plasma gun in the terminator combi/special weapon set?

Plasma BLASTER

Assault 2 range 18" plasma gun. Contemptor can carry one s'where I remember the name from

**Valkyrie**

carabine wrote:
Harriticus wrote:
Where are you guys getting the fluff description for Fellblade and so on? Can't find them on the actual links...
Newsletter 316

Also nice Valk you beat me by about 30 seconds. Post up the whole batch though won'tcha?

Done :-)

**bubber**

Now those termies are lovely.
£42 for 5 (complete) compared to GW's £28 (& + another £18 if you want a Khorne or Nurgle FW upgrade kit = £46).

As the girls from Loreal say -
'Because you worth it'

**Pacific**

They're awesome, but again the prices are crippling. On first look I did think that £33 for the terminators was reasonable, then I realised that they wouldn't have any arms

I think it's important to point out that with only minimal modelling skills it's possible to convert your own pre-heresy stuff, as most of us have been doing for years, for perhaps 1/4 of the cost. I put in spoiler tags so as not to de-rail the thread:

Spoiler:

Yes these guys don't look as good, but they are probably around £2 each, just buying from bits sites and 3rd party bits makers.

The prices FW are asking for some of this stuff is fething hilarious. I work and earn enough money to support a pretty strong liking of wargaming and miniature collection, but it's more the case of not being able to justify the big expenditure for stuff alongside other miniatures I want to collect. The book will no doubt be awesome, but for that money I could get 3 Flames of War rulebooks. For the price of one jetbike I could buy an Infinity starter pack. And £95 for the 'Typhon Seige tank'? After collecting plastic kits of tanks for many years, many of which are far more detailed (and no doubt better made) than the Typhon for a third of the price, it's pretty hard to reconcile the price of that tank. Or by comparison that's 2 armies for Dropzone commander right there.

So can the modern, multiple-system collecting miniature wargamer collect an army of this stuff? Sure. but it means leaving everything else, every other gaming experience in this hobby (which has never been so rich), on the shelf if one is to make comparison with prices. To be honest, other than going mental and buying both options (then suffering scurvy from eating only instant noodles for a month), it's not very hard for me to make this 'either/or' choice. And, I can't imagine that I'm alone in this matter.