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Here's some photo's I took from the day. Sorry they are only from a camera phone...

Forge world Gobbo Shamen


Forge World Necron Tesseract?


Forge World Necron Flyer


Side View of Forge World Necon Sentry





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 Dysartes wrote:

 Rayvon wrote:

 Zweischneid wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:


Don't take this the wrong way, Rayvon, but I really hope you're wrong about this - else I'm going to have to have some severe words with my "friend"...

There were definitely loads of them. I left at about 3.30 pm, half an hour before the official close. There were scores of "yellow-shirts" with vendor trays trying to get rid of them (the GW-one that is, not sure about the FW-event-only stuff).

I didn't buy any, but I doubt they would've stopped you from taking 10 - or 50 - from the look of it.

Already up on Ebay too.

Yep, I got three, i saw one chap get 10.

Apparently when my friend was getting his, the salesmonkey told him they were restricted to one per person to stop them going up on eBay.

Good job, GW

I saw a guy take an entire tray!

They're on ebay already

Ooooooh dear. That Thallax looks rather nice... I can sense a lot of money vanishing as soon as these things go up for sale :/

 The_Chaplain wrote:

There were definitely loads of them. I left at about 3.30 pm, half an hour before the official close. There were scores of "yellow-shirts" with vendor trays trying to get rid of them (the GW-one that is, not sure about the FW-event-only stuff).

I didn't buy any, but I doubt they would've stopped you from taking 10 - or 50 - from the look of it.

Taking them, as in, for free? Cause, the models on ebay are going for at least 30 bucks before shipping. Jesus christ, I can feel my heart shrivelling up, just kill me now.

They were not free, we had to pay for them.

Anyone see who / what won the Golden Demon? Did Winterdyne's Warhound Titan get a trophy?

 Ruglud wrote:
Anyone see who / what won the Golden Demon? Did Winterdyne's Warhound Titan get a trophy?

I saw it being photographed. But didn't hang around to see who won what. it was in the finalist cabinet though.

I hope that Necron flyer is just meant to be a Doom/Night Scythe and not something unique, it looks exactly like them.

Anyway I hope FW can give the Necrons justice after GW gaking on them fluff wise.

They were not free, we had to pay for them.

Oh, that puts my mind at ease. I got the mental picture of the staffers just trying to get rid of the things by days end and handing 'em out to whoever wanted them instead of loading them back onto the truck.

Now I just have to find one on at a reasonable price, haha.

There didn't seem to be any restriction on the Games Day figure, apart from that he was made from Finecast (eugh) and cost TWELVE POUNDS. No one at the tills or on the stalls dishing them out in the sales area seemed to give a crap how many you took, but take-up didn't seem to be massive, mainly because he is overpriced and disappointing.

FW Skin-Wolves were 1 per customer though, but you did have the option to pay for more and have them delivered to your home at a later date at no extra charge if you desparately needed more wolves.

The FW Imperial Enforcer was beautiful but the crappy dog he came with was horrendous (didn't have a face, just a blob) so I resisted buying him seeing as I have no use for him. If the cyber-attack dog thing actually had a mouth and eyes I probably would have crumbled.

For any of you guys who are still undecided about the Horus Heresy FW book, it's unbelievably awesome, makes GW books like Apoc etc look like a kindergarten pamphlet. Also the rate they will be released (roughly one a year, probably around the Games Day mark) means you can plan in advance if you want to make the set. Horses for courses but for some of you the books will be worth more than the models.

I queued for hours to get my FW stuff, and was very happy when I did, and I met some lovely people in the queue, (couple from Oswestry, but they are Warseer-ites... no one's perfect huh?)

Angron sold out in less than 2 hours. So did the jetbike squadrons, although single bikes still available but not at the same price for 3.

Picked up my copy of Pariah by Dan Abnett, was going to wait for him to sign it for me but the queue was huge and growing and Dan wasn't even there so I'll catch him at the BL Weekender.

Rummaged through the GW sales area but found bugger all, really poor effort by them in terms of bringing stock that you can't normally buy in the shops, They had two racks of 40k blister packs and a couple of square tables with odds and ends on, but nothing much. No new Sternguard veterans weapon upgrade sprues, which would have sold like hotcakes. Poor show.

Had a look round the show and the gaming tables, some cool stuff, some not so cool, plenty of effort all round though... likewise with the costumes. Some awesome, some not so much. The guy who was supposed to be an Imperial Commissar but failed slightly and ended up looking more like a Steampunk Milkman was a particular favourite of ours!!

Had a really nice chat at the WD stand, have a warm comfy feeling for now, everything seems ok. As for new WD girl Beth, looked great with green hair and tight leggings, definitely seemed to enjoy walking around a lot and being a modern day geek pin-up, geeks and gamers were dribbling in her wake wherever she went. Dakka's Heraldic order of Chivalrous Noble Knights can get back down off their horses and go back indoors, that girl is perfectly capable of looking after herself!! I had a chat with her and she did think the whole forum buzz of boys getting excited about a female WD contributor was very funny though.

Went to the FW seminar in the afternoon, really entertaining and informative, best bit of the day by far. Was less impressed by the two monstrously fat people in front of me sharing three seats and blocking the view, but never mind.

A few points to clarify

Dark Eldar will get some FW book action BEFORE Vanilla Eldar get another look in. Now, that doesn't give you DE guys much I know, as they are very busy with Heresy era Power Armour and all the rest of it, and Fantasy O&Gs at the moment, but there you go.

The Loken vs Abaddon piece that will be released, the pictures shown here show Abaddon nearly complete, but Loken has not been started yet and the Marine shown is just a placekeeper in case anyone wasn't clear on that and was worried that Loken looked average and/or boring.

The next book is expected on or before the date of Games Day 2013. The next book will cover the first part of the Isstvan V massacre. The second part will be covered by the following book the following year, in the third book. The third book may move on from the massacre, which opens up the scope somewhat.

I asked the dreaded question in the afternoon seminar, (no, not the Squats one) about wether or not the Big E would be covered. After much gasping and pointing and cries of dismay at uttering the E word, they did confirm that when the books eventually get to Terra, then the EMPOROR WILL GET A MODEL. They also stressed that this will be a good few years away yet.

Alan Bligh stated that he does see ALL of the Primarchs getting models. Some of the more prominent characters WILL BE GETTING MORE THAN ONE MODEL as befits their storyline. Horus, Fulgrim and Abadabadoodon were all mentioned under models that will be covered more than once in the series. He also mentioned both Alpharius AND Omegon, but admitted that he wasn't sure how they would cross that particular bridge yet.

ALL PRIMARCHS HAVE RULES WRITTEN ALREADY. They did this at the outset to ensure everything would roll out smoothly in the future with no glaring gaps or mis-matches as later Primarchs are released. Obviously, no real details were revealed other than that the Primarchs don't all share a common statline. More details will come book by book.

The question was asked about information regarding the two un-disclosed Legions. No information was given, but the answer did not say "no information will EVER be given" so that door remains ajar for another day. They did say that whilst they have the entire Heresy era to cover, there would be no need to look into the other two legions.

Pre-Heresy stuff WILL NOT BE COVERED. No Megarachnids on murder. No Luna Wolves. They said they had to draw a line and start to move forward, so whilst the fluff in the FW books may hint at historical references provided by BL books, they will not be getting rules, models etc.

Books 2, 3 and onwards will feature a significant amount of Mechanicum and Dark Mechanicum stuff, including rules, fluff and models for things we haven't heard of yet. THERE WILL BE ROBOTS. Plenty of action on Mars.


I will try and add more stuff as I remember it.

Overall, really enjoyed Games Day, but did get the feeling it was really ForgeWorld Day with a bit of GW Hobby Stores and the WD stand tacked on. GW themselves really did bugger all. Also, didn't get much more than a distant fleeting glimpse at Golden Demon, Armies on Parade etc. They really need to sort out a decent way to show this stuff, as it's billed as one of the main attractions but there's always a huge scrum of ankle biter height children than it would be socially unacceptable for me to kick and throw out of the way, so I can't get anywhere near. Also FW need to stock more stuff and have more outlets so we don't all have to tackle the Queue of Doom and miss half the day doing it. As a guide, I arrived at 10:25 and headed straight to the sales area queue. I didn't exit the sales area until almost 13:00... 90% of the time was queuing.

Thanks for reading!!

Anyone hear anything on when Thousand Sons would be covered for the Heresy? Really hoping they're all psykers when they do.

Also any word on the Custodes?

Those Dark Future blog pictures show two bits of pure awesome: 1. Heavy bolters with round drum mags 2. Some different chainaxe designs to the existing ones. Those plasma guns look pretty cool too, similar in aesthetic to the Puppetswar ones actually...

That ork with the Leather Jacket and Hair. He reminds me of someone, but can't quite put my finger on it.

I had a pretty similar experience to Nuclear Mekanik, apart from the interesting bits.

Yes, the queuing issues to pay were sorted out from last year... they just shifted the queue to GET to the product instead, but I have to say that everyone was very good natured about it all. I did think that the main hall was very quiet when I first went in - that's because everyone had headed straight for the sales area. An hour and a half of queuing later, I finally reached the Forgeworld stand and asked for some Fimir an a Curs'd Ettin. "We don't have any." I was told.
Bugger.
I settled for an Event Skin Wolf (couldn't be fagged ordering the Fimir and the Ettin - they were supposed to be my impulsive treat to myself!), then had to wait for another 20 minutes to pay at the SLOWEST tillpoint in the universe. I was grinding my teeth at that point, and when one of the guys in front of me paid by vouchers, that added MORE time... and then the next guy had about a BILLION items. I'm actually pretty impressed with myself that I didn't just deck him and steal his place.

The rest I thought was pretty average, Nothing too special that I hadn't seen before. I didn't really see much of the Golden Demon entries as it was a constant fight to get anywhere near them.

Doubt I'll go next year.

 MandalorynOranj wrote:
Anyone hear anything on when Thousand Sons would be covered for the Heresy? Really hoping they're all psykers when they do.

Also any word on the Custodes?

Custodes confirmed by the FW team as definitely IN... but possibly not until we get to Terra, which could be years off. So, yes, but not yet.


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 finnan wrote:
I had a pretty similar experience to Nuclear Mekanik, apart from the interesting bits...

An hour and a half of queuing later, I finally reached the Forgeworld stand and asked for some Fimir an a Curs'd Ettin. "We don't have any." I was told.
Bugger.
I settled for an Event Skin Wolf (couldn't be fagged ordering the Fimir and the Ettin - they were supposed to be my impulsive treat to myself!),

THIS!!

"Oh, sorry, we don't have those, but you can order them and we won't charge you postage"

NO. Just no ForgeWorld, and the rest of you... I tell you to shut up and take my money, you give me shiny things.

If you DON'T HAVE the shiny things, you can't take my money anyway, that's not how it works. All I seemed to hear all day was people wanting to take my money in exchange for a promise. That's not how impulse excitement buying works. If you can't press some plastic/resin/paper crack into my sweaty palms then and there, then the rational part of my brain is going to win and I'm not going to pay up.

People make the effort to drag themselves to Birmingham from the length and breadth of this country, and from plenty of others... the least you could do is bring a few lorry loads of stuff down the road for them to buy, you do want their money after all, that's the whole point!


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Oh!! One more thing.

Someone asked if we were likely to get Forgeworld doing BloodBowl teams and other Specialist Games support...

the response was "we can either do a series of Primarch models and rulebooks to support them, OR a series of BloodBowl teams, but we don't have time to do both. Shall we vote?"

Nice GW coverage in two parts by theresponsibleone:
http://the-responsible-one.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/games-day-2012-news-rumours-and.html (General, GW)
http://the-responsible-one.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/games-day-2012-news-rumours-and_23.html (FW seminar)

Lockark wrote:

That ork with the Leather Jacket and Hair. He reminds me of someone, but can't quite put my finger on it.

Could be worse. See the Space Marine?

Zwan1One wrote:

 Ruglud wrote:
Anyone see who / what won the Golden Demon? Did Winterdyne's Warhound Titan get a trophy?

I saw it being photographed. But didn't hang around to see who won what. it was in the finalist cabinet though.

Turns out he got the Silver - congrats to winterdyne!

winterdyne wrote:
Silver in diorama. Gold was the zombie dragon just in shot to the left, which also took the sword. Apparently it was a very close call. I'm rather pleased with myself at the moment. :-)

Spoiler:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/456441.page#4801256

Books 2, 3 and onwards will feature a significant amount of Mechanicum and Dark Mechanicum stuff, including rules, fluff and models for things we haven't heard of yet. THERE WILL BE ROBOTS. Plenty of action on Mars.

*cries [manly] tears of joy*

Any word on white scars showing up?

 Nuclear Mekanik wrote:
Oh!! One more thing.

Someone asked if we were likely to get Forgeworld doing BloodBowl teams and other Specialist Games support...

the response was "we can either do a series of Primarch models and rulebooks to support them, OR a series of BloodBowl teams, but we don't have time to do both. Shall we vote?"

*Votes for the one that's not more Space Marines*

That goblin shaman is pretty groovy! Can't wait to get a better look.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Books 2, 3 and onwards will feature a significant amount of Mechanicum and Dark Mechanicum stuff, including rules, fluff and models for things we haven't heard of yet. THERE WILL BE ROBOTS. Plenty of action on Mars.

*cries [manly] tears of joy*

Quite a lot of grown men in the room all suddenly got things in their eye at the same time at this point.

Might wait on converting AdMech models and see what they are coming up with then..as well as wait eagerly for Raven Guard in book 3.

Fantasy related news:

t-tauri wrote:Right then, O square based ones.

From the Forgeworld seminar. Black Fire Pass. Orcs and Gobbos, Dwarfs, Empire, assorted Monsters.

Those worried that the Horus Heresy cash cow is going to put pressure on Forge production should feel happy that they've recruited more designers though they could still do with more writers and designers. Tony Cottrell seemed to suggest the next book would be undead, either Vampire Counts or Tomb Kings. Suggestion only not definite. Not much else for Warhammer.

The only "new releases" were the Chaos Space Marines and the White Dwarf. These were being pushed. No hints of anything upcoming from main GW. The licensees, Black Library and Forgeworld were the only ones with anything new. Or, more simply, main GW had nothing new, everyone else did....

75hastings69 wrote:Can't wait for blackfire pass and the FW minis to go with it. Can't say I'm surprised that GW didn't show anything new/upcoming, GD really would be rubbish if it weren't for FW.

Roscopackman wrote:Cottrell also suggested in the FW seminar that fantasy counterparts to the 40k Realm of Battle sections might be released around the same time as 'Black Fire Pass'.

RanaldLoec wrote:The night goblin shame is connected to the black fire pass book, its more rampent waagh energy streaming out his mouth and lifting him up.
The mournghoul is half an enlarged corpse upper torso large open disjointed mouth screaming one thin spindley arm on an imperial out riders horse with its guts half ripped open reapter gun still on the saddle but no rider.
It looked lovely.
Also Cruddence said I should be very excited about the next couple of months.
I mentioned I was an Empire and WoC player. We know its coming but he was giddy as a kid.
On a foot note the Perry twins where wearing hobbit ears, lol really great guys just a fantastic day.

(...)
I didn't get to speak with Kelly, is it Troke? One of tvihe model designers got talking to my long suffering mate who plays Bretonnian talking about center piece models and army themes.

He stopped the conversation and asked "actually what do you think we could do with bretonnia", once my mate got over his nerdgasam about being asked his opinion on new models he got onto grail pilgrims and religious reliqurys!?

He was fairly open that ideas for bretonnia are lacking.

To be fair games day is a celebration of the HOBBY which is so much more than what's new. The fact that golden demon and armies on parade take up most of the main hall. It's also a chance to get insights such as I spoke "andy" the chief guy with the faq & errata team.

He admitted that they do wade through the forums looking for rules issues. Although he did state that some times its just beyond comprehension how some rules debates get a little too over analytical. He even mentioned a Warseerite by name I just laughed.

Once you have been in this hobby over 20 year (yikes 2/3's of my life) wfb & 40k is your bread and butter. Warhammer Forge and Forgeworld are like "insert personal fantasy here" covered in chocolate, whipped cream, cherries holding a pint of Stella artois.

Who could say no?

Sorry back on topic.

WoC, Cruddance very tight lipped on the matter, one studio member was very excited about the big stuff that's all I got. I did get chance to read through the new CSM codex but other than there wasn't any indications of anything other than what Harry or Hastings haven't already told us about.

Hey guys

I just uploaded about 500 pics and a video from the award ceremony from the Golden Demon at the Games Day UK 2012.

As a heads up, there is more content coming today and later this week:

- unpacking Angron (vid)
- unpacking some of the new items. (vid)
- Forgeworld Adventure video (me in a 3 hour line )
- Review Horus Heresy Book
- Review Unreleased Artwork book "Might of the Emperor"
- and probably more

Also, I will give away a signed copy of ANGRON - yes that's right, the 50 GBP primarch from Forge World! Rules will be up later today.

So, if you like, please drop by!

He admitted that they do wade through the forums looking for rules issues.

But nooooo, all our bitching and whining online is useleeeeeeess! GW doesn't even reeeeaaad it!

...but then that means they just don't care. Oh. :(

OK, I got Part II of my Games Day UK Coverage up. Maaany more pictures.

Please note this link is different from the last one You don't wanna miss out on the first link.
There is more to come later - I am working as fast as I can

 Sidstyler wrote:

He admitted that they do wade through the forums looking for rules issues.

But nooooo, all our bitching and whining online is useleeeeeeess! GW doesn't even reeeeaaad it!

...but then that means they just don't care. Oh. :(

No no, they didn't say that, they just think you're all overly-analytical nitpickers who need to chillax

Zaphod - you missed out my Wraithseer on your 40k Vehicle Finalists pic gallery : (

@ Zaphod again , thanks for posting the pics ... i see my stonehorn is there in the monsters finalist page.. was stunned to be a finalist , my first ever games day and GD entry...

 Nuclear Mekanik wrote:
(couple from Oswestry, but they are Warseer-ites... no one's perfect huh?)

Wait, oswestry, as in the one in shropshire on the welsh border?