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

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**Snrub**

You missed the "the" before three. That's why it seems a bit off.

**Theophony**

sockwithaticket wrote:
Malika2 wrote:
And then there's this!

Again, this one looks great because it's fairly understated. There's enough to establish the Legion identity and then it just stops.

To me the word bearers seem to be space marine fraternity boys who all woke up after an intergalactic kegger and found that someone wrote all over them with sharpies. Maybe that's why they started the hersey

, Roboute wrote "tosser" on the aureulians forehead the emperor couldnt stop laughing for days, now its personal

**angelofvengeance**

Haha! +1'd

**sockwithaticket**

Having worked in a school for the past two years they make me think of the odd kids who sit in a corner doodling on themselves and get kind of aggressive if you try to make them stop. Yours is much funnier, though.

Re: Vorax. I still feel like the insect head is a bit incongruous. Neither the Thallax nor the Castellax (or Thanatar for that matter) have a face, the latter barely have a 'head', and I like that. It emphasises that they're killer robots. The rest of the model remains super cool.

**WrentheFaceless**

I appreciate the winner modeling his Warhound to step on a Wave Serpent.

**STC_LogisEngine**

Well, the Vorax is in essence the re-make of the old Rogue Trader Crusader robot and as such draws heavily from their design and distinctive features just as the new Castellax battle-automata is the evolution of the Castellan robot.

Updated Crusader concept-scetch by Jes Goodwin (1993)

Imperial Robots (released 1988)

Another of Jes' updated robots, this time the Castellan, the ancestry of Forge Worlds robots becomes quite clear.

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

Interesting how the Crusader sketch has old-style Warhound legs, especially the feet.

**agnosto**

Well. I emailed forgeworld whinging about lack of xenos releases and was told that a large Tau mech will be forthcoming in the next several weeks. Anybody know anything about this?

**beast_gts**

agnosto wrote:
Well. I emailed forgeworld whinging about lack of xenos releases and was told that a large Tau mech will be forthcoming in the next several weeks. Anybody know anything about this?

Just that it's the XV-108 Y'Vahra and was previewed a few weeks ago...

Spoiler:

**agnosto**

beast_gts wrote:
agnosto wrote:
Well. I emailed forgeworld whinging about lack of xenos releases and was told that a large Tau mech will be forthcoming in the next several weeks. Anybody know anything about this?

Just that it's the XV-108 Y'Vahra and was previewed a few weeks ago...

Spoiler:

Ah. Thanks. So nothing too exciting just another riptide variant

**Haighus**

A pretty exciting Riptide variant though. IMO, it looks better than the standard one.

**agnosto**

Haighus wrote:
A pretty exciting Riptide variant though. IMO, it looks better than the standard one.

Oh, I agree but it's not what I expected when the email stated that it was a very large mech unless this is like the Knight variants and is somewhat larger than the original. Still, I like the look of the guns on the arms.

**Wilson**

Two riptides now from FW... wonder if theres a new Tau book in the works?

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

Unlikely. FW products neither dictate nor predict the random lurching strides of GW proper.

**whalemusic360**

I think he meant more like a new IA book with Tau.

**BrookM**

They could always to a third edition of IA3

**Haighus**

Seems a bit of an odd choice though, when there are still loads of FW books that haven't had a 2nd Edition yet. Vraks part 1 is still 4th Ed for a start.

**Bobthehero**

Yes, but Siege list has a free 6th ed pdf.

**Haighus**

The Heretics and Renegades list doesn't though. The original one, for Chaos undivided.

**OneManNoodles**

Haighus wrote:
Vraks part 1 is still 4th Ed for a start.

Nope the Vraks books are all updated to be current with the 5th - 6th ed IG codex,

I bought mine earlier this year and they were all updated in 2010.

**angelofvengeance**

Wilson wrote:
Two riptides now from FW... wonder if theres a new Tau book in the works?

Probably just an update to the Taros Campaign.(IA Vol 3)

**Shandara**

IA Vol3 got an update not long ago (second edition).

**angelofvengeance**

Shandara wrote:
IA Vol3 got an update not long ago (second edition).

Wasn't there another Tau campaign somewhere?Or am I imagining things?

**Haighus**

OneManNoodles wrote:
Haighus wrote:
Vraks part 1 is still 4th Ed for a start.

Nope the Vraks books are all updated to be current with the 5th - 6th ed IG codex,

I bought mine earlier this year and they were all updated in 2010.

Oh, that's cool! Stealth update, I didn't know that. I've only ever seen the original copy of Vraks 1, so didn't know. Even so, 5th Edition is still pretty outdated though, and whilst the Siege list has been updated to 6th, the Renegades list and some of the special characters (Belphegor and Arkos) are still at a 5th Edition level.

**reds8n**

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

some of these bundles are new yes ?

NOTE : THIS THREAD WILL BE LOCKED AND A NEW ONE STARTED SOON.

**Haighus**

Yeah, those are some cool bundles. Interesting how they have made bundles for the main Rites of War.

**Baragash**

Yep, the newsletter just came out.

The change in FW newsletters to a more begging stance over the last 6 months or however long is becoming tiresome though, given that I can get such info from forums anyway I think it's time to unsubscribe.

**Looky Likey**

The bundles always annoy me as I've already brought most or all of the ones I'd want. They also highlight just how much I have spent.

The vraks bundle of three books for £50 is good value if you just want the fluffy bits. I know the rules will be updated soon (probably in time for Christmas I would guess) but if you don't plan on running the rules or can obtain them from elsewhere then the books are lovely resources for that amount.

**Davespil**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Unlikely. FW products neither dictate nor predict the random lurching strides of GW proper.

I think GW is a lot more predictable and less random than FW. FW just throws out random models each month with no rhyme or reason. GW would have put out all of the Imperial Knights at the same time. FW is just holding on to them and mixing up their releases. And, FW will go and do a whole IA update then release more models for that army 6 months later and have to provide a PDF for that unit's rules. I love what FW does but it needs to get its s--- together in the model/rules release schedule.

**Co'tor Shas**

reds8n wrote:
NOTE : THIS THREAD WILL BE LOCKED AND A NEW ONE STARTED SOON.

Aww, you don't want it to get up to 200 pages?