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 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
I wish they'd hurry up and release the commas upgrades...

It bothers me that I momentarily thought you wanted them to release semicolons.

Looks like the jet bikes are up now.


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And the Typhon heavy siege tank

Hello wallet.

Any news on the world eater contemptor? its in the latest catalogue but not on the site. Other bits in the catalogue say coming soon but not the contemptor, that has a price and looks as if it can be ordered straight away?.....

£70 for 3 Jetbikes??? I'll pass, thanks.

 Valkyrie wrote:
£70 for 3 Jetbikes??? I'll pass, thanks.

But 1 is 25lbs! You save 5lbs if you order 3! Woot Woot! Go savings, it's your birthday!

They are nice, big chunky models, having seen them with me own eyes. Sure, not worth 70 quid for the whole deal, but still nice models.

Well look at it this way, those jetbikes are acctually a little longer than a standard SM Landspeeder and is almost 2/3 of the speeders width. So you could call it Landspeeder-sized. With the weapon options of a Multimelta, Plasmacannon or Volkite culvarin to replace the heavy bolter they fulfill the same role as a landspeeder squadron with the same speed, jink defence and manuverability. You'll have to cough up around 70 quid for a landspeeder squadron of 3 so.. Here you get beautiful, very cool heavy jetbikes of the forge world quality for the same price.
So comparatively they are not really overpriced. That said we pay outrageous sums for little resin or plastic kits in this hobby so I do concider all GW/FW products overpriced. However, FW is the Rolls Royce of the hobby and if you want to drive the Rolls you'll have to expect it to cost you.

Rolls do cost more than Porches, don't they?

 Alpharius wrote:
Rolls do cost more than Porches, don't they?

I suspect you want another 'S' in there, Alphy.

It's also funny, because Porsches are ugly.

That's what I get for trying to be funny while posting from my phone!

Yeah you do that and I'll go back to angsting over what to buy with my £500 FW-fund, without a proper look on the legion army list it's not that easy since all I can manage is educated guesswork and it would suck to spend ~£60 on a squad you later realise you have no use whatsoever for.

 STC_LogisEngine wrote:
Yeah you do that and I'll go back to angsting over what to buy with my £500 FW-fund, without a proper look on the legion army list it's not that easy since all I can manage is educated guesswork and it would suck to spend ~£60 on a squad you later realise you have no use whatsoever for.

Just wait for more releases. I don't intend to buy any of it until they put it all out, I've made the mistake with Forgeworld far too many times of spending hundreds only for them to release something I would prefer far more.

I have been putting this off since they released the contemptor dread dammit! I can't wait any longer! *has a mental breakdown in a closet filled with eels*

Forge World Newsletter #323



Hi there,

In this week’s newsletter we’re excited to bring you another fantastic batch of releases that were first available at Games Day UK. These are the mighty Fellblade super-heavy tank, twelve sets of Legion specific vehicle doors and four awe-inspiring Realm of Battle Cityscape tiles, all available to order now for immediate despatch. Phew!

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.

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 Horus Heresy.

The mighty Space Marine Fellblade is a huge multi-part resin and plastic kit designed by Stuart Williamson, which contains two Space Marine crew designed by Mark Bedford.

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.

Each set contains a front plate and two side doors for the relevant Legion, and the various sets are designed to complement our full range of vehicle kits:

• Legion Land Raider Doors are compatible with the Thunderhawk Gunship, Thunderhawk Transporter, Land Raider Achilles, Land Raider Proteus, Spartan and Typhon as well as the plastic Land Raider Phobos.
• Legion Rhino Doors are compatible with any Rhino-based tank as well as our Storm Eagle and Fellblade kits. Please note, however, that the side doors supplied in the Rhino Door Sets will not fit onto our Deimos Pattern vehicles, but the front plates can be used.
• Legion MkIIb Land Raider doors are designed to fit our MkIIb Land Raider and Land Raider Armoured Proteus.

Realm of Battle Cityscape Tiles

In a galaxy beset by war, Imperial architecture is by necessity brutal and heavily 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.

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 lightweight 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 designed to work with your plastic Citadel scenery.
The Shattered Plaza, Generatorum Sector, Primus Sector and Concourse Sector are each sold individually, and we are also excited to release the Cityscape Battlefield Sector, which contains one of each tile for a total playing area of 4' x 4' (1220 mm x 1220 mm).

These detailed tiles were the basis for the Istvaan III display board that we built for UK Games Day, showing just what can be achieved with the combination of Citadel terrain and these tiles. If you missed it, we recently added a showcase video to our YouTube channel.

All these kits are available to order now for immediate despatch.

Thanks,
Ead Brown
Customer Service Manager
Forge World

Was the Fellblade not £150 at Games Day?

Its a cool looking tank but i couldn't justify £155 for it.

God help me, but those new Realm of Battle tiles are tempting...

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Was the Fellblade not £150 at Games Day?

More to the point, I mentioned when it was announced that it was almost double the price of the FW Baneblade and Shadowsword kits.

It was pointed out to me that they were hybrid kits which kept the cost down. Fair enough.

It's now listed as a plastic and resin kit, and the price has gone up.

Anyone?

 Alpharius wrote:
God help me, but those new Realm of Battle tiles are tempting...

They really are, aren't they?!

 azreal13 wrote:

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Was the Fellblade not £150 at Games Day?

More to the point, I mentioned when it was announced that it was almost double the price of the FW Baneblade and Shadowsword kits.

It was pointed out to me that they were hybrid kits which kept the cost down. Fair enough.

It's now listed as a plastic and resin kit, and the price has gone up.

Anyone? [/quote

Could be the most egregious example of the "Heresy Tax" to date - even eclipsing the previous standard set by the "Betrayal" book!

 azreal13 wrote:

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Was the Fellblade not £150 at Games Day?

More to the point, I mentioned when it was announced that it was almost double the price of the FW Baneblade and Shadowsword kits.

It was pointed out to me that they were hybrid kits which kept the cost down. Fair enough.

It's now listed as a plastic and resin kit, and the price has gone up.

Anyone?

"Plastic and resin kit" does not necessarily mean what you think it means.

It does not mean that it utilizes a large amount of an existing plastic kit such as in the case of the Vulture Gunship which has a resin hull changing the kit entirely from the Valkyrie to the Vulture, with the addition of some smaller resin details to the plastic tail booms and plastic cockpit.

It means that it utilizes some plastic parts, period.

I can't tell what on the Fellblade would be plastic, but it's likely it uses bits and bobs from the Baneblade.

Yeah, like most of the hull, track units and possibly bits of the turret.

Even the fluff says it uses the same chassis!

It really doesn't seem to use that much plastic, inside of the track sections, wheels and fuel barrels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvodMyoRi20

I can't wait to order mine, but it'll have to wait after chrismas :(

I'd like to know what the Deathhammer super-heavy looks like.

Fellblade looks like a plastic GI Joe toy. I don't mean that in a good way.

155 Pounds British Sterling sounds rather high for that tank...

Granted from that video it looks to use a greater portion of resin than I thought at first glance. Still cannot see how it comes out at double the cost of their other Baneblade kits, even with that in mind.

Still, is my choice to not buy one, and I hope that those that do are very happy with them.

You're referring to the Arkurion pattern Stormsword, Shadowsword, and Stormblades right Azrael?

Because those look to be almost entirely plastic kits, barring a resin gun which is closer to the "old" FW resin kits.

1.) The pics of the Newsletter post are not showing.
2.) As before, I posted the Cityscape part in a non-HH thread, with new pics:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/477196.page#4939539

 Ouze wrote:
Fellblade looks like a plastic GI Joe toy. I don't mean that in a good way.

Fine, then it fits the new SM and CSM releases

They're nice and everything and the Fellblade in particular looks fantastic IMHO, but all that's really going through my head is "they're not another Primarch model."