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Man... GW has gotten really good at culling out all the inside leakers.

We would have seen pictures of this a long time ago and started groaning then. Now we have to wait for "leaked" pictures from White Dwarves. Ug....

I think they've replaced most of their staff with servators.

Even though it's nice to have a new assault transport, anything short of TH/SS terminators will see it as their own special wolf grey flying coffin.

Does the WD have any decent pictures of the Iron Priest pilot head in this week's issue?

I like it. It also looks like it won't be too hard to essentially make it into a vanilla Caestus proxy, but in plastic: we're all winners.

If I were a Space Wolf player, I'd probably be going nuts with joy, but even as not, I like it.

Now I'm just waiting to see how the Dread/Bjorn combo kit looks, as well as the Wolf Lord kit. I hope to God its a combo kit with Ragnar, that would be an excellent trend for GW to start.

My fervent hope is that Bjorn has an old school sarcophagus and a very awesome wolf claw. The rest of the kit can be whatevs.

 dienekes96 wrote:
Does the WD have any decent pictures of the Iron Priest pilot head in this week's issue?

check the sprue?

 pretre wrote:

 dienekes96 wrote:
Does the WD have any decent pictures of the Iron Priest pilot head in this week's issue?

check the sprue?

Only shows it from the back, sadly.

Truth. I was hoping for a shot of the front of the helmet.

I'll figure out a way to make both versions from one kit. Maybe make the gunship version a drone or something.

I like the thrusters on the bottom. At least now it looks like it can fly in atmosphere. Figure it stays up with some combination of the thrusters and anti-grav plates on the front maybe?

 Vasarto wrote:
SPACE WOLVES DO NOT fething FLY.

I mean...omfg.

Then how to they travel to different words? Willpower?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
SPACE WOLVES DO NOT fething FLY.

I mean...omfg.

Then how to they travel to different words? Willpower?

Much like B.A. Baracus, someone tricks them and/or drugs them.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
SPACE WOLVES DO NOT fething FLY.

I mean...omfg.

Then how to they travel to different words? Willpower?

He just doesn't know the fluff, young pup.

 Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
I like the thrusters on the bottom. At least now it looks like it can fly in atmosphere. Figure it stays up with some combination of the thrusters and anti-grav plates on the front maybe?

It looks like they added plating to the underside of the main body to help protect it as it bounces along the ground to its target, propelled by its engines. Just helps ensure at least some of the crew make it to the destination with their shins.

Close enough to anti gravity.

I ordered the model. I will have it in a week or so.

After looking at its rules. Having a Blast jaws of the world wolf cannon seems pretty fething cool.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
SPACE WOLVES DO NOT fething FLY.

I mean...omfg.

Then how to they travel to different words? Willpower?

This reminds me of the old 3.5 CSM codex and the rules for Blood Rage on MoK units - to summarise, on a 1-2 each turn they would get out of their vehicle and start running.

In theory this meant the World Eaters would never have gotten from planet to planet...

As someone rolls the 1 and the entire warband jumps out the ship and starts running through space....

Got to the point where a friend was willing to pay 15 points for child locks on his vehicles if he could.

Yeah it looks much better when it's flying straight, might even pick one up at some point to convert it to chaos.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
SPACE WOLVES DO NOT fething FLY.

I mean...omfg.

Then how to they travel to different words? Willpower?

The native power of Fenris, which totally isn't flying, you guys!

I am making a Khorne wolves list. Very barbaric, I will have tons of fun tacking on crucified loyalists to the sides with various stages of re-entry burns on them

someone else said it right. they look like flying coffins. really not much imagination put into their designs, it lo
looks like.
'just glue some cannons to a box, put a ramp on the front, and include lots of wolfy bitz. they'll buy it.'
gw impresses me less and less, lately.

 Vasarto wrote:
I ordered the model. I will have it in a week or so.

After looking at its rules. Having a Blast jaws of the world wolf cannon seems pretty fething cool.

Yeah the rules on the gunship are epic, I'll enjoy rocking it. The roof-mounted weapons worry me though, I have a feeling it won't be worth upgrading them to lascannons cuz you'll rarely hit anything with them.

I cease to be amazed at the GW design team. How the FETH does that thing fly?! I mean seriously.

Looking forward to seeing a Ork Looted version

 Ouze wrote:
I like it. It also looks like it won't be too hard to essentially make it into a vanilla Caestus proxy, but in plastic: we're all winners.

If I were a Space Wolf player, I'd probably be going nuts with joy, but even as not, I like it.

Conveniently they have a double kit for sale...things that make you go "hmmm."

 Brother Payne wrote:
I cease to be amazed at the GW design team. How the FETH does that thing fly?! I mean seriously.

38,000 years into the future I'm going to guess they figured out a way to handle not needing to worry about aerodynamics. They even have expressed that it uses some sort of anti-grav plating. Especially since atmosphere is not the only arena they fight in.

We went from riding horses to rockets to the moon in about 100 years. I'm sure it's not hard to imagine them figuring something out in 38 thousand years.

Realistically speaking, very few sci-fi flyers(including outside of 40k) are anything close to what we consider air worthy today.

 Brother Payne wrote:
I cease to be amazed at the GW design team. How the FETH does that thing fly?! I mean seriously.

How does a Landspeeder fly? A Thunderhawk? Even the vaguely 'plane-shaped Forgeworld fighters are hardly sleek aerodynamic designs.

Seriously people will happily sit down and play a game opposite flying metal pyramids and French breakfast pastries, but the Stormwolf is the line that cannot be crossed? GW deserves a LOT of flag for a LOT of reasons, the plausibility of the flight model of Space Marine aerobricks in a sci-fantasy universe with antigrav tech is not one of them; if you don't like the aesthetics, just say so, you don't need a technical reason for your dislike to make it a valid opinion.

Except this is very much not how anti-gravity technology works, as established in the fluff. Handwaving it with "anti-grav" doesn't work unless it's suddenly an Eldar skimmer.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
Except this is very much not how anti-gravity technology works, as established in the fluff. Handwaving it with "anti-grav" doesn't work unless it's suddenly an Eldar skimmer.

So how does the fluff define anti-gravity technology?

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 Vasarto wrote:
I ordered the model. I will have it in a week or so.

After looking at its rules. Having a Blast jaws of the world wolf cannon seems pretty fething cool.

Yeah the rules on the gunship are epic, I'll enjoy rocking it. The roof-mounted weapons worry me though, I have a feeling it won't be worth upgrading them to lascannons cuz you'll rarely hit anything with them.

The ship actually looks to be angled toward the dirt so I am betting it has better LOS then most other fliers out there.

The flying brick is not supposed to be like a conventional aircraft as it clearly lacks landing gear. It looks like something that would drop in to the atmosphere from an orbiting space ship and 'fly' using brute force to smash through an enemy fortification and unload troops.