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 Veteran Sergeant wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Interestingly enough, back when Forge World started doing the Solar Auxilia?

Forge World was adamant that they were not going to do any Imperial Army's basic troops because of the "buy-in cost that would be associated with an Imperial Army force". Things like the Solar Auxilia were still on the table as Forge World considered it more practical to have "elite variations".

Doesn't really seem to make much sense, considering they already produce two lines of ridiculously expensive Imperial Guard, unless the sales of those lines hasn't performed up to expectation I guess.

Actually it makes perfect sense. The Death Korps and Elysians are very much a labor of love. If the molds go down, it takes them a long time to ensure that everything is up to snuff for the next mold run.

The same reasoning was given as to why Warhammer Forge did not release Hobgoblins for the Chaos Dwarfs.

They could bring back the squats, they hadn't been eaten at that point.

Squats are not coming back ever.

i really want some plastic 30k, at the moment i am scavenging around and rounding up some mark 5 armour from the tactical squads (i know they aren't 30K but i still like them) i also think they should do armour upgrade kits for instance for mk4 you could have a set which includes 5 mark4 heads, 10 mark4 shoulder pads, any needed leg upgrades, 5 mark4 torsos and arms along with another set which includes all the necessary weapons and back packs

plastic 30k, or FW style plastic guardsmen, or only jussst behind plastic sisters on my (shut up and take my money already) list....

hope this rumour is true

I cannot tell you how much i hope the rumour is true

 the clone wrote:
i really want some plastic 30k, at the moment i am scavenging around and rounding up some mark 5 armour from the tactical squads (i know they aren't 30K but i still like them) i also think they should do armour upgrade kits for instance for mk4 you could have a set which includes 5 mark4 heads, 10 mark4 shoulder pads, any needed leg upgrades, 5 mark4 torsos and arms along with another set which includes all the necessary weapons and back packs

Err Mk V is "Heresy" pattern armour. Not really used til later in the Heresy but still very much 30K era stuff. The Mk VI Corvus (the bits you get in tac squads) I think was just about 30K era and dubbed that in honour of Corax IIRC


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 Laemos wrote:
Squats are not coming back ever.

The only way I could see that happening, is if they were included in the Imperial Army/Solar Auxilia stuff. Which doesn't seem likely.

The great thing is, we don't really need to wait for GW to release Squats any more!



I think the Forge Fathers are pretty much what GW would do if they released Squats again in the modern era, minus a giant plastic kit of a tank thing with lots of guns and skulls on it that costs £90

There are a number of rule sets out there for using these in 40k, and of course Warpath is going to have a big Kickstarter at some point in the not-too-distant future.

Hmm...not so sure about that one...I mean...

 Malika2 wrote:
Hmm...not so sure about that one...I mean...

Spoiler:

http://ironsleet.com/2015/01/17/the-brotherhood-of-steel-story-so-far/

Counts as sisters....

 Malika2 wrote:
Hmm...not so sure about that one...I mean...

Spoiler:

http://ironsleet.com/2015/01/17/the-brotherhood-of-steel-story-so-far/

Those are amazing!

Although, think they are much better than anything GW would do as an official release, should they ever re-visit the dwarf in space line (which I think is extremely unlikely at this point).

Think that if you want to get stock 'Dwarves in Space', either Mantic of Bob Olley's Scrunts are the way to go.

Looks like a Space Marine armylist to me...

soooo more Space Marines - awesome

I have more than enough Astartes - so many other cool stuff to do in the 30 or 40k universe and we get more Marines............. Least FW ones looked interesting.

I dont think i will hurt FW. china forge is cheaper and doesnt hurt FW, GW has come out with models that were first started with FW and it hasnt hurt FW.

plus FW is GW and GW is FW. this will make getting into the game easier and buy other items like contemptors and Sicarans and Jetbikes.

 Johnnytorrance wrote:
I dont think i will hurt FW. china forge is cheaper and doesnt hurt FW, GW has come out with models that were first started with FW and it hasnt hurt FW.

plus FW is GW and GW is FW. this will make getting into the game easier and buy other items like contemptors and Sicarans and Jetbikes.

now that you mention it, if priced right would stop as many sales from going to China forge.

If this happens I'd buy into it I reckon.

Although I thought Sisters are rumoured for May?

Either way, the life force of my wallet will flow.

D

No, AdMech is rumored for April/May

Who are these "sisters" you speak of. Sisters of Sigmar?

 Lockark wrote:

 Johnnytorrance wrote:
I dont think i will hurt FW. china forge is cheaper and doesnt hurt FW, GW has come out with models that were first started with FW and it hasnt hurt FW.

plus FW is GW and GW is FW. this will make getting into the game easier and buy other items like contemptors and Sicarans and Jetbikes.

now that you mention it, if priced right would stop as many sales from going to China forge.

I may be wrong, but I really think this was part of their thinking.

 Accolade wrote:
Who are these "sisters" you speak of. Sisters of Sigmar?

Sisters of battle.

Right over his head.........

Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are to fast! I would catch it!

Another hoping this rumors are true

 Malika2 wrote:
Hmm...not so sure about that one...I mean...

Spoiler:

http://ironsleet.com/2015/01/17/the-brotherhood-of-steel-story-so-far/

Now thinking about it there is a total lack of abhumans in the 30K novels, as far as i can remember only Ogres have been mentioned.
No Halflings or Squats or even Imperial beastmen which were used in the early fluff.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

Now thinking about it there is a total lack of abhumans in the 30K novels, as far as i can remember only Ogres have been mentioned.
No Halflings or Squats or even Imperial beastmen which were used in the early fluff.

Retcon...

T

 Jehan-reznor wrote:


Now thinking about it there is a total lack of abhumans in the 30K novels, as far as i can remember only Ogres have been mentioned.
No Halflings or Squats or even Imperial beastmen which were used in the early fluff.

Easy explanation for that would be that abhumans were less tolerated in 30K so they aren't present in any official capacity. I know a few marine chapters still don't tolerate them, namely the Dark Angels.

Interestingly Demiurg were part of an Alpha Legion short story.

What Alpha Legion story, and what was said about the Demiurg?

timd wrote:


Retcon...

T

Not really, given that Rogue Trader, etc.. wasn't a "30K"-setting. It had Calgar with 4 bionic limbs as ex-Tyranid slave, Macragge as giant desert planet full of sand-shrimp and Inquisitors in skin-tight body armour along with Imperial Beastman, Squats and all the rest, firmly set in the 41st Millenium.

The retcon is FW (selectively) palming off Rogue Trader retro-designs like Deimos Patterns, old-shool Land Raiders, etc... as allegedly "30K", which wasn't originally the case.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
Hmm...not so sure about that one...I mean...

Spoiler:

http://ironsleet.com/2015/01/17/the-brotherhood-of-steel-story-so-far/

Now thinking about it there is a total lack of abhumans in the 30K novels, as far as i can remember only Ogres have been mentioned.
No Halflings or Squats or even Imperial beastmen which were used in the early fluff.

Can't really use rogue trader fluff for anything as it was from a drastically different time period in terms of writing. Anmost stuff pre 2nd ed is fairly irrelevant at this point. Back then 40k was just an add on for fantasy

I learned from the 1st HH weekender that the HH storey was basically 1 paragraph to fill a hole in the Slaves to Darkness book....