40k Void Shield Generator (Limited Release) plus craters (pics in first post)

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**Kroothawk**

Seems GW pushed back April releases to April and we get another week with surplus releases to fill a WD:
Preorders are up, Void Shield generator already sold out.

anonymous source on faeit212 wrote:Pre-Orders March 22nd Released March 29th
Void Shield Generator $100
Quake Cannon Crater $37
Clan Raukaan $49.50 (online only)
Clan Raukaan Limited Edition $90 (online only)

Void Shield Generator
Limited edition - 1000 copies numbered in fancy box
Made of 10 hard resin pieces, and extremely detailed. Its a square structure with a platform on which emerges 4 towers with the void shield generator in the center of them. The structure looks as tall and wide as a bastion.
Its listed at $100

Quake Cannon Craters
These are plastic, and come with 4 craters. Each of the craters come in two halves, so that they can be pulled apart and used as a rough battlefield barricade using battlefield debris as a wall. There is a lot of detail and wreckage on these, and being able to use them as a barricade of sorts makes them nice.
Listed at $37

On this weeks WD:

reader on faeit212 wrote:there is no mention of the new IG anywhere. Cover is the generator, there's about 15 pages devoted to Lord of the Rings, a quick Nids vs Imperial Knights battle report (Looks like Nids get hammered, 1 knight wipes out half of the Nid list) and the aforementioned how to deal with knights discussion with the developers.

BTW current WD also uses 2 pages to describe how awesome an old Gandalf miniature is.

**Lone Cat**

Don't say that there will be no normal packages release for void shield generator.

**Jehan-reznor**

Void shield generator for 100$? must be a huge kit or the real thing right?

**Kroothawk**

Bastion sized, the rumour says. Bastion costs 41.25 $ BTW.

**Melcavuk**

$100 would be what... £50-60 that seems like alot for the void shield generator. Still having seen one proxied a good few times in my local store I'm guessing people wanted the model. And it'll be nice to have some official proportions

**BrookM**

Interesting, chances are my FLGS will get one for the store at the very least.

**Saxon**

£60 for a largish resin building isn't bad. Making it in resin and making it a limited edition suggests that GW don't think it will sell. Have any 3rd parties made a suitable model for it yet?

**Ragnar69**

Are there any rules how big quake cannon craters have to be? I wonder if they could be used for exploded Rhinos/Droppods

**Bull0**

Makes me unhappy whenever models are LE but OTOH sounds like it'll be easy enough to convert and having an official model to refer to for shape and size will be nice. I also expect 3rd parties will be more than happy to do a non LE one.

**Shandara**

Why Limited.. why oh why, GW?

If it's resin, turn it over to FW I say.

**jonolikespie**

So hard resin.. being sold through GW.
Could that have to do with the rumour FW will be available on the revamped GW site? Could lines of communication be getting crossed and it's a FW piece?
I can't really think of a better explanation unless GW are removing the distinction between GW actual and FW and throwing everything in together.

Also man the idea of limited edition models still amuses me to no end, isn't the expensive part of making a model the mould?

**Moopy**

Sooooo....

They retired the "moon crater" bag full of big blast craters and put up ONE crater for $37?

Huh.

**Melcavuk**

Moopy wrote:
Sooooo....

They retired the "moon crater" bag full of big blast craters and put up ONE crater for $37?

Huh.

Pack of 4, that come apart for various uses apparently.

**wowsmash**

Any pics yet?

**Kanluwen**

jonolikespie wrote:
So hard resin.. being sold through GW.
Could that have to do with the rumour FW will be available on the revamped GW site? Could lines of communication be getting crossed and it's a FW piece?
I can't really think of a better explanation unless GW are removing the distinction between GW actual and FW and throwing everything in together.

So, the Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith walls released for LOTR years and years ago were a harbinger of FW/GW blurring the lines?
Or maybe the weird little resin chapel bit with a fake stained glass thing was?

**Jadenim**

The Ork and CoD barricades are both hard resin and they've been part of the GW catalogue for years, so I wouldn't read too much into this.

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

Kanluwen wrote:
So, the Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith walls released for LOTR years and years ago were a harbinger of FW/GW blurring the lines?

Those were cosmetic recasts of the existing castle walls, and you know that.

**Kanluwen**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
So, the Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith walls released for LOTR years and years ago were a harbinger of FW/GW blurring the lines?

Those were cosmetic recasts of the existing castle walls, and you know that.

Except they were hard resin versus plastic.

But you know that.

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

Truth is we don't know what's happening, so jonolikespie isn't wrong when he says what he says, nor is he right. And neither are you.

**Peregrine**

Lol. Only GW could think it's a good idea to release powerful new fortification rules that lots of competitive players are taking three copies of, and then make it a limited-edition kit. I'm struggling to even begin to understand the sheer ignorance and stupidity that goes into that kind of decision.

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

Peregrine wrote:
Lol. Only GW could think it's a good idea to release powerful new fortification rules that lots of competitive players are taking three copies of, and then make it a limited-edition kit. I'm struggling to even begin to understand the sheer ignorance and stupidity that goes into that kind of decision.

"They'll buy what we make."

**kronk**

If the craters look cool, I'll think about getting them.

Void Shield generators... probably not for that much. I don't recall what the Void Shield Generators do from Stronghold Assault. I vaguely remember a 6" or 12" bubble of 4++ goodness from the Apocalypse data sheet.

**CthuluIsSpy**

kronk wrote:
If the craters look cool, I'll think about getting them.

Void Shield generators... probably not for that much. I don't recall what the Void Shield Generators do from Stronghold Assault. I vaguely remember a 6" or 12" bubble of 4++ goodness from the Apocalypse data sheet.

void Shield generators create a void shield. 12" radius from the generator.
It's AV12, is removed on glance or pen, and can be restored on a 5+.
Each generator can buy another 2 shields, iirc.

**pretre**

I want pictures!

**Uriels_Flame**

You know there will be uber rules for the generator listed in a $50 data slate and if you take three you'll get a super rule...

**Kroothawk**

Peregrine wrote:
Lol. Only GW could think it's a good idea to release powerful new fortification rules that lots of competitive players are taking three copies of, and then make it a limited-edition kit. I'm struggling to even begin to understand the sheer ignorance and stupidity that goes into that kind of decision.

Possible explanations:
1.) They are not certain that GW will be around a year from now and that plastic moulds would pay of until then

2.) They will release a new data slade on fortifications, invalidating the half a year old rulebook, nerfing fortifications

3.) Two plastic kits per month is the current maximum capacity as they had to sell most infrastructure to make the half-annual look at least half-decent.

pretre wrote:
I want pictures!

I want world peace!

**BrookM**

Kanluwen wrote:
Or maybe the weird little resin chapel bit with a fake stained glass thing was?

I have that one and I am not completely sure why.

**pretre**

Kroothawk wrote:
Peregrine wrote:
Lol. Only GW could think it's a good idea to release powerful new fortification rules that lots of competitive players are taking three copies of, and then make it a limited-edition kit. I'm struggling to even begin to understand the sheer ignorance and stupidity that goes into that kind of decision.

Possible explanations:
1.) They are not certain that GW will be around a year from now and that plastic moulds would pay of until then
2.) They will release a new data slade on fortifications, invalidating the half a year old rulebook, nerfing fortifications
3.) Two plastic kits per month is the current maximum capacity as they had to sell most infrastructure to make the half-annual look at least half-decent.

pretre wrote:
I want pictures!

I want world peace!

4) They made the kit 6 months before SHA and still need to release it to recoup costs. Unfortunately, SHA wasn't as popular as they thought so they figure demand will be low. They decide to do a limited release for now just to try to recoup and keep the option to rerelease later.

**kronk**

pretre wrote:

4) They made the kit 6 months before SHA and still need to release it to recoup costs. Unfortunately, SHA wasn't as popular as they thought so they figure demand will be low. They decide to do a limited release for now just to try to recoup and keep the option to rerelease later.

Nah. They would have released it with Stronghold Assault if it was ready.

**pretre**

kronk wrote:
pretre wrote:

4) They made the kit 6 months before SHA and still need to release it to recoup costs. Unfortunately, SHA wasn't as popular as they thought so they figure demand will be low. They decide to do a limited release for now just to try to recoup and keep the option to rerelease later.

Nah. They would have released it with Stronghold Assault if it was ready.

They could have released it with SHA, but it wouldn't be the first time they staggered things that were already ready to go. Just giving an alternate theory besides all the silly ones.