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Yes?

It is a clever word play - WARDens.

Get it?

 Breotan wrote:
Who are the Imperial Wardens? Am I missing the joke?

The Imperial Wardens are the most prestigious chapter in the Imperium, and in fact all other loyalist chapters look up to them due to their many heroic acts. You could even say that the Chapter Master of the Imperial Wardens acts as a spiritual liege to every Astartes, even.

I put it in bold because I thought it would be too subtle. Apparently it wasn't enough for some people.

I heard the Imperial Wardens once liberated a planet by sending a single Scout Marine. He slaughtered the Sisters of Battle garrisoned there, and then used a relic they guarded - a sacred bobby pin once worn by by Saint Celestine on a date night - to kill the invading Daemons in hand to hand, one at a time, until the planet was free.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I put it in bold because I thought it would be too subtle. Apparently it wasn't enough for some people.

It was fine. I simply missed your post. Actually, I frequently miss most peoples' posts because I usually just skip to the end of a thread and go from there.

Latest White Dwarf has photos of Mechanicum Myrmidons on a workbench.
They're being sculpted by Mark Bedford and he's doing two types, Secutors and Destructors.

There's also photos of the Lizardmen Dread Saurian on the same page.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Latest White Dwarf has photos of Mechanicum Myrmidons on a workbench.
They're being sculpted by Mark Bedford and he's doing two types, Secutors and Destructors.

And we saw 'em both a while back. Dunno what's taking so long.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Latest White Dwarf has photos of Mechanicum Myrmidons on a workbench.
They're being sculpted by Mark Bedford and he's doing two types, Secutors and Destructors.

And we saw 'em both a while back. Dunno what's taking so long.

They're still being tinkered with, according to the sculptor. Almost ready, though.

They'll probably be released in January, the WD previews have gone from being this will be out in a couple of months to this will be out this month.

 Breotan wrote:
Who are the Imperial Wardens? Am I missing the joke?

I think it's a reference to Matt ward, the writer of the necron dex

Edit; wow bit of a time delay on my end. At least I was right though

Ok, I couldn't view the Iron Warriors pads on my (bad) phone over the weekend, and I thought the comments about them were just over-reacting a bit, but seriously! They look like something has gone wrong with the casting process or some other issue- the tops of the skulls are sloped for example, and the detail is awful. Worst HH release I have seen so far IMO.

When is the Tau R'Varna going to get approved? I think that that thing looks awesome! Could I get some help on this subject?

 Commander_Farsight wrote:
When is the Tau R'Varna going to get approved? I think that that thing looks awesome! Could I get some help on this subject?

I would think that we don't know. By the time a new book comes out that has tau in it?
Or maybe a new apoc warzone with tau in it?

Its an awesome model (I just finished mine yesterday) and a lot of fun to play and build.

It does need an adjustment however, this thing is a bit too powerful in my opinion, it needs either a AP increase or a hit reduction - I won't even field it against nids in anything but apoc, as its just way too brutal.
Of course, most of the other FW tau stuff is just rubbish (barracuda and remora excepted) which makes me very sad.....

davethepak wrote:

 Commander_Farsight wrote:
When is the Tau R'Varna going to get approved? I think that that thing looks awesome! Could I get some help on this subject?

I would think that we don't know. By the time a new book comes out that has tau in it?
Or maybe a new apoc warzone with tau in it?

Its an awesome model (I just finished mine yesterday) and a lot of fun to play and build.

It does need an adjustment however, this thing is a bit too powerful in my opinion, it needs either a AP increase or a hit reduction - I won't even field it against nids in anything but apoc, as its just way too brutal.
Of course, most of the other FW tau stuff is just rubbish (barracuda and remora excepted) which makes me very sad.....

I agree that it is too overpowered. When I fielded mine for a game, I failed my nova charge every time, yes EVERY time. It made the model a lot more fair. If it was a little better than that, and it didn't take a wound every turn, I think that it was fair. I still ended up winning that game 2-1 but not because of the R'Varna. Hopefully Tau does get a new book or something soon, because I agree with what you said. Tau really don't have much in the way of FW models.

 Commander_Farsight wrote:

davethepak wrote:

 Commander_Farsight wrote:
When is the Tau R'Varna going to get approved? I think that that thing looks awesome! Could I get some help on this subject?

I would think that we don't know. By the time a new book comes out that has tau in it?
Or maybe a new apoc warzone with tau in it?

Its an awesome model (I just finished mine yesterday) and a lot of fun to play and build.

It does need an adjustment however, this thing is a bit too powerful in my opinion, it needs either a AP increase or a hit reduction - I won't even field it against nids in anything but apoc, as its just way too brutal.
Of course, most of the other FW tau stuff is just rubbish (barracuda and remora excepted) which makes me very sad.....

I agree that it is too overpowered. When I fielded mine for a game, I failed my nova charge every time, yes EVERY time. It made the model a lot more fair. If it was a little better than that, and it didn't take a wound every turn, I think that it was fair. I still ended up winning that game 2-1 but not because of the R'Varna. Hopefully Tau does get a new book or something soon, because I agree with what you said. Tau really don't have much in the way of FW models.

I know that next book from FW is going to be part III for the HH, but has forgeworld said what the next imperial armour is going to be? With all the HH stuff, I think they need to focus on something like the Far sight enclaves fighting the orks or something. lol

I'd probably buy that book. Sadly I don't think it would ever happen, because it doesn't seem like FW are "allowed" to produce anything but Horus Heresy material anymore.

It is a crazy vicious cycle - they produce what makes them the most money.

Of course there was a huge pent up demand for HH stuff...

 Lockark wrote:

I know that next book from FW is going to be part III for the HH, but has forgeworld said what the next imperial armour is going to be? With all the HH stuff, I think they need to focus on something like the Far sight enclaves fighting the orks or something. lol

The last 'project brief' for Imperial Armour was for an Imperial prison colony having a Tzeentchian Cult starting an uprising that had to be put down.

As it stands, we're not likely to ever see a "Xenos v. Xenos" Imperial Armour book.

Well, part of the Issue is that it wouldn't really be Imperial Armour without some Imperial armour in the book somewhere, so they are bound to have one of the forces being Imperial as long as they use that series name.

However, there is nothing stopping them having a story with more than 2 factions (Imperial vs xeno vs xeno for example) or with a temporary alliance between a xeno force and an Imperial force to fight a common enemy (SM+ Eldar vs Chaos, or IG + Tau vs nids) except the fact they will have to deal with rules and models for more factions at once.

I think that an IA book on Farsight Enclaves and the Orks would be awesome! I agree though, it won't happen. So I guess we will just have to keep waiting and see what happens?

I think that to be more accurate they should do an IA book on the Tau vs. Hive Fleet Gorgon. That is when the Earth Caste developed the R'Varna. If you look at the lore above the stats on the rules being "tested" it says all of the fluff going on at the time.

look at the new medusa, mechanicus, land raider variant and Mk2 + Mk3 command variants!!!!

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/W/winter13-14%20Cat-Supweb.pdf

So the Achilles Alpha has double Plasma Cannon sponsons? Interesting.

And why don't I have those Destructors yet? They're amazing!!!

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Forge__World_Bundles?page=1

some Tyranid bundles re up as well.

That Mark II command set in Raven Guard colors is such a tease!

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/I/Irillyth.pdf

revised Shadow Spectre PL rules.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
So the Achilles Alpha has double Plasma Cannon sponsons? Interesting.

And why don't I have those Destructors yet? They're amazing!!!

Look more like Volkites.

Those two command squads are amazing looking can't wait to paint them up in IF colours and those mechanicum are just waiting to be converted.

I need prices for those AdMech figures, now. Oh dear, these next months are going to be very expensive for me.

 reds8n wrote:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/I/Irillyth.pdf

revised Shadow Spectre PL rules.

Am I the only one to whom these rules seem to be written by someone with no knowledge of the game?

- Night vision on a unit with 18" range
- Acute Senses on a unit that can't outflank
- A 12" ability on a unit that never wants to get close
- Power glaive of the Phoenix lord is missing
- No warlord trait (every PL has one)
- No ++ Save
- Using the Ghostlight ability while within his own squad, ruins the use of him being on the table
- Points increase (most expensive PL now, but one of the worst)

The rules are not just bad, they are not correct for 6th edition. They seem to be an edition behind.. or maybe they know something we don't ?

its looking like the thallax weapon upgrades are complete models or is that a resin add-on?

difficult to tell from the pic but i suspect i'm going to end up with about 20+ thallax now

Koenbeest wrote:
Am I the only one to whom these rules seem to be written by someone with no knowledge of the game?

You can say that about a lot of FW rules.

I personally love the new Malanthrope bundle. Has anyone at FW read their Malanthrope rules? Why would you want one, let alone three?