Forgeworld 2014 News & Rumours - p#132 Questoris Knight Magaera

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**shade1313**

Vash108 wrote:
ausYenLoWang wrote:
Any word on when the Thousand Sons will be making a 30k appearance?

i want/NEED rules to play an army that not as tedious as my current 40k thousand sons army

There's a 40k Thousand Sons army?

*sigh* You mock our pain.

We do the best we can, us Thousand Sons players, with the huge turd sandwich we're given to make our armies from...

**Lockark**

Darth Bob wrote:
TalonZahn wrote:
So I came across this in a thread on B&C - http://www.blacklibrary.com/Images/Product/AlternativeBL/xlarge/timetable.jpg

HH 4 - Conquest

Huh. I wonder what conflict this one is going to cover.

Of the 3 or 4 rumored books, sounds like it would be the mark of calth or the "conquest" of the ultramar sector by the world eaters and word bearers. If the latter could mean the 1st deamon primarch rules.

**Koppo**

An easier to read version

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/FW/Events/weekender%202014/hhschedule-2014.jpg

Spoiler:

From the Forge World Newsflash - The Horus Heresy Weekender email sent yesterday, does not seem anybody has posted this.

SATURDAY 17TH AND SUNDAY 18TH MAY 2014

A fantastic two day Horus Heresy experience, held in the lavish surroundings of the Nottingham Belfry Hotel. This two-day event is the ultimate getaway for fans of the Horus Heresy. Tickets are available in strictly limited numbers to create an exclusive and personal event.

All Weekender tickets include full access to both days of the event and a goody-bag upon entry, including a programme with exclusive gaming content, stories and Horus Heresy rules.

ONLY A HANDFUL OF TICKETS LEFT - PLEASE CALL 0115 9004995 TO ORDER YOURS NOW!

MEET AND CHAT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO BRING THE HORUS HERESY TO LIFE

Authors Full list now announced
Model designers including Simon Egan, Mark Bedford and Phil Stutcinskas
Artists including Neil Roberts and Rhys Pugh

A PACKED SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

Seminars with Forge World and Black Library guests
Workshops and demonstrations from Forge Worlds master modellers and painters
Horus Heresy author and artist signings
Horus Heresy gaming
Unmissable evening entertainment
Full schedule now announced

EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTS ON SALE

Brand new Forge World Horus Heresy models
Unique art prints
Limited edition Black Library anthology, with five brand new stories
Event-exclusive audio drama
Special Horus Heresy T-shirt

PAINTING COMPETITION

We're also running a Horus Heresy painting competition. Entries must be a Horus Heresy model of either a single figure, vehicle, squad or a diorama. Judging will be carried out by the Forge World Studio and the winner will receive a prestigious trophy at the Event wrap-up on Sunday.

**Ashiraya**

Where were the Tyranid rumour pics?

**reds8n**

The Krios Battle Tank is a vehicle of arcane and ancient design that fulfils a tactical role within Mechanicum armies similar to that of the Predator tank more widely used by other forces of the Imperium. Its durability is provided by interlocking defensive energy fields, rather than physical armour, lending it a deceptively skeletal appearance.
The most common armament mounted upon the Krios is the lightning cannon. This configuration takes advantage of the tank’s powerful on-board reactor’s vast energy capacity to create a laser-path guided electromagnetic beam, able to vaporise flesh and rupture heavy armour with ease.
The rules for the Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank can be found in the The Horus Heresy Book Three: Extermination.
The Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank is a multi-part resin kit, designed by Stuart Williamson, and is available to pre-order now for despatch on Thursday 1st May.

Tech-thralls are created by the Mechanicum through basic augmetics and cranial surgery as the need for them arises and, in the case of the Legio Cybernetica, the use of captured prisoners and criminals requisitioned from local authorities is common.

Considered a lower order of being than most servitors by their masters, the ultimate fate of most tech-thralls is to end their lives recycled into servitor components and their implants harvested for use in future thralls as their bodies fail under the relentless toil to which they are subjected.
In times of war Tech-thralls are formed into expendable units called Adsecularis and armed with basic weapon systems such as the mitra-lock, a compact multi-chambered variant of the las-lock, designed to discharge a simultaneous volley of las pulses in a fan effect.

The Mechanicum Tech-thralls with Mitra-locks are a multi-part resin kit comprising five models armed with mitra-locks. Designed by Mark Bedford this kit is available to pre-order now and will be despatched from Thursday the 1st May.

Contemptor Dreadnoughts can be armed for a variety of differing battlefield roles. Sometimes they are tasked with spearheading assaults against enemies in fortified positions. In these circumstances the chainfist is a formidable tool for breaching bulkhead doors and cutting a path through the armoured hulls of tanks.
The Contemptor Chainfist, designed by Will Hayes, is a multi-part resin weapon arm for our range of Contemptor dreadnought bodies. The arm includes a meltagun and graviton gun options as secondary weapons.
This kit is available to pre-order now and will be despatched from Thursday 1st May.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/MECHANICUM_KRIOS_BATTLE_TANK.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/TECH-THRALLS_WITH_MITRA-LOCKS.html

**Nicorex**

The "New" Contemptor Chain fist has to be one of the weediest pieces of garbage to ever come out of the FW workshop. It looks like they literally took the basic fist, cut a notch and added a plastic chain sword to make the master.

**zedmeister**

Even though we've already seen it - Gimmie!

**Snrub**

Damn. I really want to use that Krios as an Ad-Mech Earthshaker.

**CalgarsPimpHand**

Nicorex wrote:
The "New" Contemptor Chain fist has to be one of the weediest pieces of garbage to ever come out of the FW workshop. It looks like they literally took the basic fist, cut a notch and added a plastic chain sword to make the master.

Wow, you're right. That's truly an awful model, obviously lazy and looks like garbage:

Spoiler:

**CthuluIsSpy**

CalgarsPimpHand wrote:
Nicorex wrote:
The "New" Contemptor Chain fist has to be one of the weediest pieces of garbage to ever come out of the FW workshop. It looks like they literally took the basic fist, cut a notch and added a plastic chain sword to make the master.

Wow, you're right. That's truly an awful model, obviously lazy and looks like garbage:

Spoiler:

It looks like it's giving the finger.

**Daston**

Love the thralls, will be using them as count as meltas with my count as stormtrooper thralls lol

**badgermeister**

love the tank but it only has Str7 AP3 weaponry so i'll wait out for the stubbier more lethal version.

The tech thralls are as impressive as the las-locks but 8" range on the mitra-lock doesnt fit with my army list

**Haighus**

badgermeister wrote:
love the tank but it only has Str7 AP3 weaponry so i'll wait out for the stubbier more lethal version.

The tech thralls are as impressive as the las-locks but 8" range on the mitra-lock doesnt fit with my army list

So what are the stats of the Mitra lock? It isn't in the options for thralls in Book 2.

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

Yay! More Mechanicum. Now bring on those other tanks!

Nicorex wrote:
The "New" Contemptor Chain fist has to be one of the weediest pieces of garbage to ever come out of the FW workshop. It looks like they literally took the basic fist, cut a notch and added a plastic chain sword to make the master.

I was hoping that an example shown on a completed Contemptor would make it look better but no, it's probably the laziest thing FW have done in a while.

**zedmeister**

badgermeister wrote:
love the tank but it only has Str7 AP3 weaponry so i'll wait out for the stubbier more lethal version.

The tech thralls are as impressive as the las-locks but 8" range on the mitra-lock doesnt fit with my army list

There are 2 Krios tanks. This one is, I believe, Str9 AP2 Ordnance 4.

The Krios Venator is Str7 AP3, large blast, rending

**badgermeister**

isnt this the lightning cannon though?

im sure its the venator thats the plasma powered Str9 AP2 beast.

Anyone else know? obviously im still waiting for my HH3 to turn up in the mail

**Lockark**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yay! More Mechanicum. Now bring on those other tanks!

Nicorex wrote:
The "New" Contemptor Chain fist has to be one of the weediest pieces of garbage to ever come out of the FW workshop. It looks like they literally took the basic fist, cut a notch and added a plastic chain sword to make the master.

I was hoping that an example shown on a completed Contemptor would make it look better but no, it's probably the laziest thing FW have done in a while.

I was confused when i saw it. It looked like a half assed converstion.

**B0B MaRlEy**

This one appears to be the lightning cannon.
The Plasma Fusil one is a "Krios Venator Tank Destroyer"

**ace101**

Lockark wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yay! More Mechanicum. Now bring on those other tanks!

Nicorex wrote:
The "New" Contemptor Chain fist has to be one of the weediest pieces of garbage to ever come out of the FW workshop. It looks like they literally took the basic fist, cut a notch and added a plastic chain sword to make the master.

I was hoping that an example shown on a completed Contemptor would make it look better but no, it's probably the laziest thing FW have done in a while.

I was confused when i saw it. It looked like a half assed converstion.

Everyone is all up in arms about this it seems.

But isn't an ordinary chainfist just a PF with a chainblade on the underside

What more could you expect?

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**whalemusic360**

The chain fingers would have been a much better solution. Or an actual chain blade like the ironclad. Or an undermounted chain blade. Or something not made but the least creative converter ever.

**Lockark**

The chain saw looks to small/out of scale to the reat of the fist. It looks like it would break off if he hit a tank with it. It should be larger and more reinforced like the rest of the contemptor dred.

If it was a larger termie chain fist I actully would of been happy.

**Tannhauser42**

Not a fan of the chainfist, either. It doesn't look imposing enough for a dreadnought sized chainfist.

**shade1313**

Mechanicum look nice, and are mighty tempting, but I've got an enormous backlog of armies that already need painting, soooo...no. Sadly.

But I am socking money away for Thousand Sons. Drooooool.

**Darth Bob**

The chainfist is pretty meh, but no big deal since the other two releases are pretty awesome.

**reds8n**

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_14.html

Monday 28th of April, 2014

FORGE WORLD BULLETIN #14

With the number of events I’ve been to over the last few weeks, there’s barely been time for me to stop and take a look at what’s currently being worked on in the Forge World Studio. Now I’ve caught my breath, I’ve spotted something that Keith Robertson has been working on which looks pretty close to completion. Keith certainly doesn’t waste any time as this comes hot on the heels of the Tyranid Twin-Linked Devourers and Salamanders Legion Pyroclasts that he recently sculpted.

Keith’s latest work, soon to be handed over for casting.

Will Hayes hasn’t been idle either. After recently finishing the Thallax Cohort’s new weapons, he’s just put the finishing touches on the Space Marine Combi-weapons set that some of you may have seen at our recent Open Day. The set includes Tigrus pattern combi-flamers, combi-plasmas and Tigris combi-meltas, which will make perfect additions to Legion Seekers, Space Marine Sergeants and Veteran Squads. Will has already been adding them to squads of his own — keep an eye on future bulletins for pictures of them in all their painted glory.

The three types of combi-weapons in the set.

Matt Murphy-Kane has been putting his batch painting skills to the test over the last few weeks working on an Alpha Legion army, and those of you who already have your copy of The Horus Heresy Book Three: Extermination will know exactly how awesome the Alpha Legion are! Rumour has it too that if you managed to get a ticket for the Horus Heresy Weekender on the 17th-18th May, you might well be seeing more of this duplicitous Legion at the event.

ust a small part of the Alpha Legion force Matt has painted.

That’s all from me for now. Make sure you check back soon for more from the Forge World Studio.

Chris.

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**Haighus**

My Collectors edition has been dispatched! Can't wait!

Excitement growing....

**Dr. Bizarre**

Mechanicum stuff looks awesome

**Joyboozer**

What happened to the Emperors children heads and torsos?

**redbristles**

I'd love to know where they get that lovely pearlescent paint they use on their Alpha Legion, anyone have any ideas?

**MajorWesJanson**

Joyboozer wrote:
What happened to the Emperors children heads and torsos?

Nothing. They will probably show up in the next few weeks.