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Latest from FW:

Last chance to get Imperial Armour 5!

This product has limited stock remaining. Imperial Armour Volume Five – the Siege of Vraks Part One will be removed from sale on Monday 1st December or sooner.

I wish they sold IA7. I still don't have that one.

Won't be long before its reissued at this rate.

 Looky Likey wrote:
Really comes down to if you want the cards and poster I guess.

Black Library can't match FW at all even with the material used for the cover, not sure if that's visible on the photo.

Your artbook is the wrong way in. The stripes are on the inside of the box.

Hell, I didn't know Visions of Heresy matches the HH from FW. Would you say it's worth getting it?

Depends, it's a little pricey for an art book but it's an invaluable reference and inspiration for me so I wanted the best edition.

New stuffs spotted:

Solar Auxilia Leman Russ Incinerator



Veletaris Storm Section



Imperial Fists Contemptor Dreadnought

Regular edition of the fourth HH book is also up for pre-order, it won't ship until the 17th though, well past the cut-off date on regular outside of the UK.

But £78!! It makes the special edition tempting to those who want to by HH4.
I'm going to wait for the little books myself as my book shelves (& wallet) are now under considerable strain!

I see that the new Russ has a twin-linked volkite demi-culverin, pretty potent.

I wonder if they will make just the turret available, if not it will be a while till I pick one up then :(

Conquest is on the top of my shopping list though, I know where the last paycheck I get this year is going

I don't know how many more variants of Contemptors I can stand to see!

At least one for each Legion?

Because that is what you WILL be seeing!

 Johnson101 wrote:
I wonder if they will make just the turret available, if not it will be a while till I pick one up then :(

Conquest is on the top of my shopping list though, I know where the last paycheck I get this year is going

Forge World has not been selling any new conversion kits for awhile, as far as I've noticed.

 Alpharius wrote:
At least one for each Legion?

Because that is what you WILL be seeing!

Until they run out of Legions. Then they'll start on the Venerable Contemptors.

Well, caved in and decided to get the special edition of Conquest, after hearing all the stuff about the Knight list, I'm mighty tempted to see what that's all about. Wow, my first FW Horus Heresy purchase.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
At least one for each Legion?

Because that is what you WILL be seeing!

Until they run out of Legions. Then they'll start on the Venerable Contemptors.

Don't forget the late-Heresy "obviously ebil now" Traitor Legion variants.

Dat Leman Russ though, it's a lovely tank. Vehicles like that are pretty much the only thing that makes me regret preferring to play 40K at smaller points levels, because a squadron of those in Mechanicus red livery would look amazing.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
At least one for each Legion?

Because that is what you WILL be seeing!

Until they run out of Legions. Then they'll start on the Venerable Contemptors.

Haven't they already stated a new dreadnought variant is in the works, and people are guessing it's the space crusade version? Wait till all the legion versions of that start coming out as well

Yup a bigger version. I guess there will be at least twenty versions of that as well.

That new leman russ is pretty sweet looking.

I like the Fists dreadnought, not too much bling, all decorations in all the right places, very down to business and ornate at the same time.

The Russ is pretty sweet too, nice to see something that isn't too "faux WWI silly".

^ This.


Not only are the adornments located smartly, but there's a great diversity of them and the whole thing doesn't look overly busy despite there actually being a hell of a lot of various decorations. I rather like the the crossed swords on the leg myself.

I like the IF dreadnought a lot too, and I have a small IF HH force, so that may be in the pipeline in the future

As for more Contemptors, there are 10 Legion specific ones out atm, we can expect 2 more in the short term (Alpha Legion and Word Bearers) to round out the 12 currently released Legions, and then we can expect 6 more in the future when more HH books are released. So that will leave us with 20 in total
I will be honest, whilst I like the Contemptor, and have no problems with it having all it's Legion specific variants, I'm not sure if another 20 dreadnoughts of a new type will work. There may just be too many dreadnought varieties for any one dreadnought model to make a profit at that point surely?


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Btw, does anyone have the stats for the twin-linked volkite demi-culverin that Leman Russ is packing? How does it compare to a normal volkite culverin, because a twin culverin is a bit worse than an Exterminator autocannon tbh, so I'm expecting the demi-culverin to be up-gunned.

 Haighus wrote:

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Btw, does anyone have the stats for the twin-linked volkite demi-culverin that Leman Russ is packing? How does it compare to a normal volkite culverin, because a twin culverin is a bit worse than an Exterminator autocannon tbh, so I'm expecting the demi-culverin to be up-gunned.

Same as the Culverin for range and AP, but 5 shots at S7.

Nice, that is certainly decent. I would take one over an Exterminator for those stats. Not sure what it's ideal targets are though, because deflagrate is wasted on light vehicles, and most higher toughness infantry units in the HH lists have good saves that negate the effectiveness somewhat. Maybe against daemon allies for a Word Bearers list it would be really good.

Note that there are some big disadvantages for the volkite LRBT:

1) It's expensive. You're paying almost 200 points, compared to 150ish for the exterminator.

2) It is not a heavy vehicle. If you move you can only snap fire your other guns, so unless you want to use your LRBT as a stationary gun emplacement the exerminator's HBs make up for the lost shot.

3) No sponson options. Again, HB sponsons (and the option to move and shoot them at full BS) makes up for the lower number of shots from the main gun.

The Exterminator is 170 pts in this list.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
At least one for each Legion?

Because that is what you WILL be seeing!

Until they run out of Legions. Then they'll start on the Venerable Contemptors.

And then ironclad contemptors. And then venerable ironclad contemptors...
I wonder whether they'll reintroduce the two lost legions only to make more contemptors.

And then Possessed Ironclad Venerable Contemptors. And then Possessed Ironclad Venerable Relic Contemptors. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they re-introduced Eldar Dreadnoughts just so they could make Contemptor Wraithlords.

Word of note to any gamers from my part of the UK, Northern Ireland. Just had an email from forge world telling me we have been reclassified as part of Western Europe and no longer part of the UK for Christmas shipping dates...... Nice. GW, accepting the UK's intellectual property tax brakes, but not the stamp service..... big applause. Oh and I didn't get my free shipping coupon with my last order that arrived on Thursday. Lovely

Knockagh wrote:
Word of note to any gamers from my part of the UK, Northern Ireland. Just had an email from forge world telling me we have been reclassified as part of Western Europe and no longer part of the UK for Christmas shipping dates...... Nice. GW, accepting the UK's intellectual property tax brakes, but not the stamp service..... big applause. Oh and I didn't get my free shipping coupon with my last order that arrived on Thursday. Lovely

I'm not saying it's fair, because it's bollocks for everyone else too, but it is at least consistent; all the other parts of the UK not on the British mainland are already treated that way, and some companies(not sure about GW) even do the same for the Highlands.

Knockagh wrote:
Word of note to any gamers from my part of the UK, Northern Ireland. Just had an email from forge world telling me we have been reclassified as part of Western Europe and no longer part of the UK for Christmas shipping dates...... Nice. GW, accepting the UK's intellectual property tax brakes, but not the stamp service..... big applause. Oh and I didn't get my free shipping coupon with my last order that arrived on Thursday. Lovely

How exactly is this FW's fault? The shipping dates are nothing more than a statement of "based on the average time for your post office to deliver a package this is the latest you can order and expect it to arrive in time for christmas". Nobody at FW is saying "if you order later than this we'll maliciously hold your package until we can be sure that it won't arrive before christmas", and the order dates tend to get adjusted as it gets closer to the end and FW gets a clearer idea of how long the packing and shipping process is taking. If you want to blame someone then blame your local post office for being so slow at delivering packages that FW has to say "sorry, but your average shipping times are closer to western europe than the rest of the UK".