FW Newsletter #315 (Get your HOT Realm of Battle Cityscape Tile talk here!)

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**Kroothawk**

Hi there,

In our second Games Day preview newsletter we’re not only revealing what new models we’re releasing on the day, but what new scenery we’ll have on sale too! We’re also now able to announce that the ever-popular Forge World seminars will be returning to Games Day UK. Read on for more!

Games Day UK Pre-release Kits: Space Marine Typhon Heavy Siege Tank

Named for the ‘Great Beast’ of Ancient Terran myth, this immense siege tank was developed by the Mechanicum alongside the Spartan, with which it shares a basic chassis design.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/Typhon.html £95.00

The Typhon’s primary armament is the massive Dreadhammer cannon, and was created in response to a request from the Primarch Peturabo, master of the Iron Warriors. He demanded a Legiones Astartes war engine that could rival the great batteries of the Imperial Crusade Army in firepower, but manoeuvre and deploy at the speed of a Space Marine force.

The Typhon Heavy Siege Tank is a detailed multi-part resin model, designed by Phil Stutcinskas which will be on sale in limited numbers at Games Day UK. This mighty siege tank makes for an intimidating centrepiece indeed, and rules for fielding it as part of a Space Marine Legion are printed in The Horus Heresy Book I: Betrayal.

Realm of Battle Cityscape Tiles

In a galaxy beset by war, Imperial architecture is by necessity brutal and fortified. Should the Alien, the Traitor or the Heretic attempt to assault an Imperial world, more often than not it is the great cities of humanity that become battlegrounds; open plazas turning into killing grounds while shattered hab-blocks and ruined Administratum complexes become garrisoned redoubts. The humble tools of civilian infrastructure are transformed into key objectives, with generatorum waypoints becoming vital sources of power and sewer networks being pressed into service as guerrilla highways and concealed ambush points.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/City_Sectors.html £75.00 each

Forge World scenery designer Blake Spence has been hard at work over the past few months creating four modular Realm of Battle Cityscape tiles. Each is light weight and durable thanks to the hollow resin method we use, and each 2' x 2' (610 mm x 610 mm) tile is a blank canvas which is fully compatible with your plastic Citadel scenery.

The Shattered Plaza, Generatorum Sector, Primus Sector and Concourse Sector will each be on sale in limited numbers for the first time at UK Games Day, in advance of their scheduled release.

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.

Tickets are still available for the biggest Games Workshop event of the year, so pop into your local Hobby Centre, call GW Customer Service on 0115 91 40000 or visit the Games Workshop online store to buy them.

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

**pretre**

That Typhon is cool!

**kronk**

Where does the driver and crew sit in that thing? How many rounds of ammunition can it hold...

Those tiles look sweet, but expensive.

**Kroothawk**

kronk wrote:
Where does the driver and crew sit in that thing? How many rounds of ammunition can it hold...

Guess the small window above the gun barrel indicates where the driver sits. But I agree, that realism was not a major consideration when designing this. Looks like a cheap toy from childhood to me, only that it costs £95.00. But fits with the cheap toy look of all SM flyers and the new CSM releases.

I also agree that the new boards look tempting, but not 75£ of tempting ATM.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

The barrel has what looks like vent holes, suggesting it's a siege mortar like the WW2 Sturmtiger.

This means very little recoil for such a huge gun, so it's won't take up as much space as it seems to.

But probably very little ammo carried (but then how often do bolters run out),

**Porkandbeans**

youve missed the jetbikes from the typhon hyperlink in the email, clever hidden it is...

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/UK_Games_Day_2012.html#typhon

scroll down for marinez on jetbikes with plasma cannons!

**Commander Cain**

Cool stuff! Typhon is pretty good and it probably has IG players across the globe a bit mad now.

Tiles are also very nice. I would have to see them painted first obviously but I think they work really well. In fact I think there was a thread not too long back where some big flat city tiles came into discussion. These would be perfect!

**Alpharius**

Please see the continuing discussion here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/476340.page#4767689

Thanks!

**MajorTom11**

City boards aren't specifically HH, so this does merit a bit of discussion... I just wish they were cheaper! And that I hadn't just bought the regular RoB board lol!

**Alpharius**

DAMN!

Those Realm of Battle Cityscale tiles are HOT!

"Talk of the Town" on Dakka Dakka HOT!

Wait... they cost how much?

No sale!

**pretre**

I was going to chide you on your negativity and then saw the price. Even my apologist heart melted at the sight. Holy schnapps!

**kronk**

I was calling them expensive before it was cool...

They do look pretty, though.

**Commander Cain**

I was thinking to myself that they weren't all that badly priced. Then I saw it said "each" and I went a bit pale.

**Lovepug13**

The tiles are pure win.......I am tempted to buy them.....gonna see how much enthusiasm I get from the gaming group on Wednesday evening....

**Alpharius**

Lovepug13 wrote:
The tiles are pure win.......I am tempted to buy them.....gonna see how much enthusiasm I get from the gaming group on Wednesday evening....

All £300's worth?!?

Good for you - and your gaming group!

**pretre**

Lovepug13 games with Romney.

**Brother SRM**

I would love those RoB tiles, but it would cost $730 for a 4x6 table! For that price they should at least take me out to dinner first

**pretre**

Brother SRM wrote:
I would love those RoB tiles, but it would cost $730 for a 4x6 table! For that price they should at least take me out to dinner first

Alright, but no kissing on the lips.

**Jackal**

Tempted to buy 1 or 2 tiles for a display board.
Just a shame they are bloody £75 each or i would have gone for a 4" x 6" block.

**logg_frogg**

MajorTom11 wrote:
City boards aren't specifically HH, so this does merit a bit of discussion... I just wish they were cheaper! And that I hadn't just bought the regular RoB board lol!

I'm on this train of thought myself but I'm still tempted to drop some cash on this >.< It will def have to be budgeted....

I boiught the first one they did that is some sort of underground bunker emplacement. I didn't mind shelling out for that because there is a lot of detail in it.
These on the other hand are fairly plain in comparison... They will def be taking second place to filling out my Chaos army with piles of new plastic.

**Bolognesus**

Alpharius wrote:
Lovepug13 wrote:
The tiles are pure win.......I am tempted to buy them.....gonna see how much enthusiasm I get from the gaming group on Wednesday evening....

All £300's worth?!?

Good for you - and your gaming group!

450 Quid you mean? at least, for the full 6'x4' table to play a nice, big cityscape game... I think for that kind of cash there's better terrain to be had (or built), but to each his own

**Alpharius**

I thought he was only talking about the 4 pictured here, Mr. Nitpicker!

4 x £75 = £300!

**Kroothawk**

pretre wrote:
Lovepug13 games with Romney.

But we are saving income tax

**ShumaGorath**

Porkandbeans wrote:
youve missed the jetbikes from the typhon hyperlink in the email, clever hidden it is...

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/UK_Games_Day_2012.html#typhon

scroll down for marinez on jetbikes with plasma cannons!

After having the wonderful master of the ravenwing design for so long, the HH jetbikes seem a little... Phallic and terrible looking.

**Kroothawk**

Porkandbeans wrote:
youve missed the jetbikes from the typhon hyperlink in the email, clever hidden it is...
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/UK_Games_Day_2012.html#typhon
scroll down for marinez on jetbikes with plasma cannons!

Actually, I didn't miss them because they are not part of this newsletter ... and have been dealt with several days ago in the HH thread.

**Brother SRM**

logg_frogg wrote:

These on the other hand are fairly plain in comparison... They will def be taking second place to filling out my Chaos army with piles of new plastic.

These definitely have less going on while being more play-friendly than the other one. I'd like to see some better (or painted!) pictures of them to assess the detail.

**ph34r**

75 pounds for one 2'x2' square? That does not come with buildings? Is anyone seriously going to buy this? I can make you a blank plastic 2x2 square for a whole lot less than $150+20% VAT+15% shipping.

**Ozymandias**

But I don't want a blank one ph34r. I want a sculpted one. Can you make 6 of those for me? Pretty please?

**Clang**

A darned shame the cityscape boards are so expensive - if they were the same price as the normal RoB set, they'd make a very attractive alternative for those who prefer 'urban' to 'rural' war. ( I'm aware the FW versions are a different manufacturing process to the GW RoB ones, so my wish will never come true unless GW decide to make them, which seems terribly unlikely.)

I know FW deliberately aim for niche products, but the price seems ridiculously elitist. :(

**AlexHolker**

ShumaGorath wrote:
After having the wonderful master of the ravenwing design for so long, the HH jetbikes seem a little... Phallic and terrible looking.

The kindest thing I can say about it is that it looks like he's riding an oversized plasma pistol.