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STORMHAMMER! My favourite epic IG super heavy. Sold!

 zedmeister wrote:
STORMHAMMER! My favourite epic IG super heavy. Sold!

Same here!

It was, in fact, my love of the STORMHAMMER that led me to look for commission builders long ago, and therein lies a tale!

I'm excited to see FW's 40K scale version, but dreading the price and the potnetial for warped resin hulls and track pieces!

I'm hoping for some news on the Renegades lists in IA13 to see if its viable at all, heading down to warhammerfest tomorrow and planning to grab the book and some models but like to plan ahead.

I'm curious as to how well attended the event was..

That Alpha legion contemptor looks more like an Avengers contemptor haha.

 Wilson wrote:
That Alpha legion contemptor looks more like an Avengers contemptor haha.

How?

 sockwithaticket wrote:

 Wilson wrote:
I was gonna moan about the lack of chaos releases but Kurze looks awesome.

To be fair, the Traitor legions are pretty well catered for at this point. It's the Loyalists that need their lines fleshing out.

Kurze looks great even from that incomplete photo.

Spoiler:

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http://battlebunnies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/forge-word-seminar-at-warhammer-fest.html

Holy gak, the Seminar post has so much awesome in it my brain nearly exploded. Waaaaay too much to transplant over here, but my highlights are






New dreadnought has me very excited.

Have to say, that Reaver Chainfist just looks awful. It's nice that they've finally got round to making the Volcano Cannon (even if it's not as good as a Laser Blaster) but it looks like they've taken the Chainfist off a spare Armourcast Reaver and just chucked it on. However, judging from those photos we may get some proper carapace weapons for them, rather than having to convert our own.

Also, 4 books in and they're still doing Sons of Horus? Yes, it's nice to have updates etc but surely they could focus on releasing new Legions instead of constantly updating and releasing new stuff on ones already out?

Johnny, please use spoiler tags or simply prune your quotes. You quoted a large post with multiple large pics just to post a tiny sentence of only a few words about one of the pics.

Johnnytorrance wrote:


Tell us about the Ultramarine?

It looks cool and they're playing up the Greco-Roman aesthetic?

I'm not actually there, I was just posting some of my favourite bits from the Battle Bunnies blog, so unfortunately I don't have anything to say other than go check out the blog. There's not much actual info on the Ultras, but there's some more cool pictures!

Also, 4 books in and they're still doing Sons of Horus? Yes, it's nice to have updates etc but surely they could focus on releasing new Legions instead of constantly updating and releasing new stuff on ones already out?

It enables them to "milk out" all the other stuff. I mean, 4 books and still Sons of Horus? Imagine when the other Legions all come out, they could spread those over multiple books as well. FW could make dozens upon dozens of books and still won't be finished covering all the Legions.

This is just long term planning, allowing FW to work on the Horus Heresy project for a couple of decades!

 Valkyrie wrote:

Also, 4 books in and they're still doing Sons of Horus? Yes, it's nice to have updates etc but surely they could focus on releasing new Legions instead of constantly updating and releasing new stuff on ones already out?

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From what they said about Book 4 at the last event the Legion content is going to focus on consolidating them, the major new stuff is Mechanicum, Titans and Auxilia. They need a chance to catch up with the Legions they've got out already before they start on new ones.

With the GW stores' rebranding in the UK to "Warhammer" on the store front signs, I wonder if Forge World will do the same and change their name and logos to "Horus Heresy". That does indeed seem to be the focus with only a few exceptions for the past few years and the foreseeable future. Black Library is milking the HH just as much though. I guess since it took 20 years for GW to get around to covering the HH in detail, it'll take 20 years for GW to finish covering the HH in detail.

That said... Curze looks nice. I'm not a fan of Sevatar though. The contemptor used to be one of my favorite FW models but the sheer number of them they've come out with for the past few years has largely dulled that enthusiasm. It's like eating pizza one a day for years.

Imperial Fist shoulder pads! Finally!

Now they just have to get them on the website so that I can buy them before Kronk.

Stormhammer ey? Well isn't that interesting...

I'm curious about the CSM above the Ultramarine. Wordbearers? Looks a bit to CSM'y to be part of the heresy.

Gal Vorbak?

I want an argel tal model....
even though I don't play word bearers. or chaos. or horus heresy.

We already have Gal Vorbak so I doubt it'll be them. Has the look of a (chaos) chaplain to it, so perhaps it's some Dark Apostle precursor.

 JB wrote:
Imperial Fist shoulder pads! Finally!

Now they just have to get them on the website so that I can buy them before Kronk.

Good catch. I was too busy looking at the models in the foreground. I have to admit though based on the pics we have so far of the templars im not impressed. I honestly don't know what I was expecting ,but it wasn't that for some reason.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Have to say, that Reaver Chainfist just looks awful. It's nice that they've finally got round to making the Volcano Cannon (even if it's not as good as a Laser Blaster) but it looks like they've taken the Chainfist off a spare Armourcast Reaver and just chucked it on.

Agree that it looks awful, but it looks nothing like the Armorcast Chainfist: http://www.ordofanaticus.com/index.php?/topic/992-h-titans-wtitan/

The teeth are too small; they are going to cut two grooves in the target and then stop going any deeper because of the wide support frame. Chainsaws have blades that are WIDER than the support bar do they can actually cut through things.

It actually looks like the rear of a Leman Russ track unit and has the same traction problems as one.

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That Leman Russ shown a page back, is it sporting a Volkite turret?

I should just stop expecting new 40k minis from Forgeworld, shouldn't I...

Well, IA13 is in the works and it's WH40k. *shrug*

In perfect honesty that Word Bearers Dark Apostle artwork has me worried. I absolutely LOVE the HH design flares and the more subtle signs of treachery. I'll be a bit sad if the traitors start hurtling back towards the god awful current 40k chaos aesthetic.

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
In perfect honesty that Word Bearers Dark Apostle artwork has me worried. I absolutely LOVE the HH design flares and the more subtle signs of treachery. I'll be a bit sad if the traitors start hurtling back towards the god awful current 40k chaos aesthetic.

Honestly, I think the Chaos Aesthetic in that picture is great. I wish more of the stuff had that kind of quality to it!

That word bearer is probably the diabolist from the HH army list I reckon

New Dreadnought. Not "More chapter specific Contemptors", but "New Dreadnought". We have the MK V, MKIV, Contemptor. The old skool Rogue Trader dreads were the Fury (Furibundus), Chuck (Contemptor) , and Eddy (Deredeo). Of course they were all the same chassis, just different arm combos and leg lengths. I wonder where they're going?

I'm a fan of pretty much all of the new stuff - looks great. Yes, the Reaver Chainfist looks like a couple of tracks off of a Leman Russ.

Still waiting on my Dark Angels.

 BrookM wrote:
That Leman Russ shown a page back, is it sporting a Volkite turret?

Certainly appears that way.

Would match with its name, 'Incinerator', seeing as Volkite is a heat based weapon.

Madocyw wrote:
New Dreadnought. Not "More chapter specific Contemptors", but "New Dreadnought". We have the MK V, MKIV, Contemptor. The old skool Rogue Trader dreads were the Fury (Furibundus), Chuck (Contemptor) , and Eddy (Deredeo). Of course they were all the same chassis, just different arm combos and leg lengths. I wonder where they're going?

I'm a fan of pretty much all of the new stuff - looks great. Yes, the Reaver Chainfist looks like a couple of tracks off of a Leman Russ.

Still waiting on my Dark Angels.

Could also be the lucifer pattern dreadnought mentioned in passing in the HH books. A few have speculated that this will be based off the space crusade dreadnought. As for the flyers, I heard a rumour that the orgus flyer is one of them. 100 internet points if you remember when the orgus flyers were first mentioned!