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 OneManNoodles wrote:
So much for Dark Angels not receiving some work ... looks like that rumour a week or two ago was right.

Looks like my guard will be getting a new Enginseer.

Quite - Maybe an apology due from Mr Stompa?

The Mastadon's basically "What if we merged the CAD files for the Land Raider, the super-heavy Land Raider and a Thunderhawk together!".

And I see they're padding out treading water stalling writing lots of new HH books.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The Mastadon's basically "What if we merged the CAD files for the Land Raider, the super-heavy Land Raider and a Thunderhawk together!".

And I see they're padding out treading water stalling writing lots of new HH books.

Quite annoying that they're stalling now isn't it? I wish they'd just get all the Legions done and expand from there.

Thamor wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The Mastadon's basically "What if we merged the CAD files for the Land Raider, the super-heavy Land Raider and a Thunderhawk together!".

And I see they're padding out treading water stalling writing lots of new HH books.

Quite annoying that they're stalling now isn't it? I wish they'd just get all the Legions done and expand from there.

Is that not what they're doing putting WS, DA and BA in the next book...?


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Thousand Sons upgrades should be released in September apparantly.


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Book 6 will be shattered legions plus basci legiones asartes rules for DA, BA and WS.
Having some issues with rules balance on shattered legions front.
Prospero pretty much sorted, waiting for models to be done.
End of year for book 6.
No prospero till next year
Will get a horus heresy era marine red book.
Then a seige of terra/scouring/protochaos redbook.
Those are both far off though.
Legions can change their spots (ala word bearers). Some specific ones mentioned were fists and alphas.
Some juicy alpha stuff hinted at being in the pipeline. (Mr blighs words were yes they will change/split but i cant tell you any more).
Space wolves will be very different from 40k wolves when they arrive. Bligh is expecting :cuss to hit the fan.
Will post more soon

The Mastadon looks boss.

The Tau knight is slowed, it's another huge leap in FW's design ethos of basically covering a model in superglue and rolling it in a box of weapons. I don't know why they're so insistent that every new release has to outgun every older model in its size class.

I can actually imagine that new Tau Super Heavy as being designed to fight the Tyranids, certainly has enough weapons for it

 ImAGeek wrote:

Thamor wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The Mastadon's basically "What if we merged the CAD files for the Land Raider, the super-heavy Land Raider and a Thunderhawk together!".

And I see they're padding out treading water stalling writing lots of new HH books.

Quite annoying that they're stalling now isn't it? I wish they'd just get all the Legions done and expand from there.

Is that not what they're doing putting WS, DA and BA in the next book...?


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Thousand Sons upgrades should be released in September apparantly.


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Book 6 will be shattered legions plus basci legiones asartes rules for DA, BA and WS.
Having some issues with rules balance on shattered legions front.
Prospero pretty much sorted, waiting for models to be done.
End of year for book 6.
No prospero till next year
Will get a horus heresy era marine red book.
Then a seige of terra/scouring/protochaos redbook.
Those are both far off though.
Legions can change their spots (ala word bearers). Some specific ones mentioned were fists and alphas.
Some juicy alpha stuff hinted at being in the pipeline. (Mr blighs words were yes they will change/split but i cant tell you any more).
Space wolves will be very different from 40k wolves when they arrive. Bligh is expecting :cuss to hit the fan.
Will post more soon

I suppose they are getting the rules out but no rules for specific units like other Legions.

So Thramas/Signus is in between book 6 and prospero?

I don't think so, it might be but it doesn't say that there.

Lovey stuff. White Scars, Taghmata red book and the Mastadon which reminds me of these:

Any one else notice the price of perturabo if £70. Wasn't the first Primarch £45?

At this rate by the time Russ / Dorn come they will be he price of a titan.

And it does really feel like they are dragging out the series now.

 Tamereth wrote:
Any one else notice the price of perturabo if £70. Wasn't the first Primarch £45?

At this rate by the time Russ / Dorn come they will be he price of a titan.

And it does really feel like they are dragging out the series now.

The first was £50 I think. His price does annoy me because you're basically paying for the base which is bigger than Perty himself.

I still don't get the impression that they're dragging it out though.

Thanks to everyone who took pictures and are nice enough to share with us, I look forward to every event from forge world.

So perturabo makes it primarch #10 to be released, I think forge world have been keeping up the pace with all character releases so far, I know it blows when the one you want hasn't been released, but they are coming.

Loving everything so far.

I see no reason why Perturabo should cost more than Gulliman or Horus. Hopefully Eidolon will be 32£ and not 45£ like Sigismund.


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 ImAGeek wrote:

 Tamereth wrote:
Any one else notice the price of perturabo if £70. Wasn't the first Primarch £45?

At this rate by the time Russ / Dorn come they will be he price of a titan.

And it does really feel like they are dragging out the series now.

The first was £50 I think. His price does annoy me because you're basically paying for the base which is bigger than Perty himself.

I still don't get the impression that they're dragging it out though.

No, they are really speeding up with regards to models. It is tough for me to finish all models of the character series and put some special units in between because of the sheer number they are releasing right now. Its just not possible for them to do the books faster ... and I am alright with that.

 Fireball wrote:
I see no reason why Perturabo should cost more than Gulliman or Horus. Hopefully Eidolon will be 32£ and not 45£ like Sigismund.


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 ImAGeek wrote:

 Tamereth wrote:
Any one else notice the price of perturabo if £70. Wasn't the first Primarch £45?

At this rate by the time Russ / Dorn come they will be he price of a titan.

And it does really feel like they are dragging out the series now.

The first was £50 I think. His price does annoy me because you're basically paying for the base which is bigger than Perty himself.

I still don't get the impression that they're dragging it out though.

No, they are really speeding up with regards to models. It is tough for me to finish all models of the character series and put some special units in between because of the sheer number they are releasing right now. Its just not possible for them to do the books faster ... and I am alright with that.

Agree with both points.

Mastodon: want. Should make a lovely command vehicle/mobile lab for my Archmagos after I fiddle with the interior a bit. From the pics it's a bit hard to tell the scale; do you think a Centaur would fit into the front bay if you removed the dividing wall?

Macrotech Enginseer & skitters: WANT. I have no idea what I'd use the automata for, but I want them anyway, and the Enginseer is fantastic - it's an update of one of the ancient AM sculpts you could get through the Skullz programme right?

Techmarines; first impression is "meh", although that might just be the poor lighting in the pic and the fact they're competing with the Enginseer.

Perturabo; eh, nice enough, but not for me - always liked the IW as a Legion, but Perty always seemed a bit of a berk. Plus, the trend of giving them HUEG bases and then making us pay through the nose for them is getting tiresome - release them with the 40mm insert and sell the display 60mm separately to folk that want them IMO.

I'll ask my wee favour again; could someone ask the designers if there's any prospect we could see a revival of the Old World and real WHFB rules as a Heresy-style project from FW? Not soon obviously, but maybe in future?

That Tau model is so stupid. I really want to like it, it's a much better look than the riptide, but it's so fething over-the-top it's just not funny anymore. Three giant cannons on the back (don't look like rail weapons, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was a new look for them), what appears to be six ion accelerators with three on each arm (people cry enough as it is about just one), multiple smart missile systems and burst cannons on the torso, god only knows what else. It also looks ridiculously top heavy; way, way worse than the old broadside ever was. Personally I love back-mounted guns like that and miss the old silhouette the broadside used to have, but this is just stupid.

I was pissed off enough when the riptide came out. Even more annoyed when FW started putting out multiple new kits based on the riptide instead of, you know, cool models I'd actually like to buy like new vehicles and aircraft (or how about something out of left field and release a new infantry unit for once?). And now this, with rumors that GW is going to be releasing another big plastic robot like the riptide but with a ton of missiles. THIS ISN'T TAU. Tau relied on man-sized units like stealth suits and crisis suits/broadsides were as big as they could get, standing only two to two and a half times the size of a man. Anything bigger than that was too impractical and the role better filled by tanks and aircraft. They didn't need gak like this before to bust titans with, the tigersharks retro-fitted with starship-sized railguns were good enough, and if I'm not mistaken they even canonically have super heavy grav tanks and stuff that have yet to materialize as models, even though they would probably look really cool (if the hammerhead is anything to go by, which is still my favorite Tau model) as well as being perfectly fluffy. It was good fluff, made sense, and also had the bonus of not being trope-y, with the giant super robot theme being exactly what you'd expect from something that's meant to be anime-inspired. Tau USED TO BE one of the only exceptions, but GW threw that out the window because apparently Gundams = $$$.

Only thing that's missing now is a new warlord-sized suit with a dock for a smaller suit. Maybe we can get a new unit of riptide-sized suits specifically designed to fight daemons that are all piloted by emotional female Tau. Or how about a battlesuit the size of a GALAXY. Give me a god-damned break, I'm so fething mad now between this and AoS. Just kill everything I like about your games why don't you, who gives a gak anymore?

 Yodhrin wrote:
I'll ask my wee favour again; could someone ask the designers if there's any prospect we could see a revival of the Old World and real WHFB rules as a Heresy-style project from FW? Not soon obviously, but maybe in future?

I wouldn't count on it. I'm surprised they even had that Tau model to show off because they're almost completely dedicated to pushing out Horus Heresy stuff. I remember there being rumors of that thing in the works a while ago but just assumed it would have been scrapped so we could get MORE MAHREENS. Obviously, I'm a little upset that it wasn't...or at least that it turned out to be another fethhueg battlesuit instead of something not stupid.

 Wilson wrote:
Gunz

Ooofff

I a big fan of that bad boy, Liking purterabo apart from the price tag, not really a fan of that ridiculous lord of skulls with legs, but i guess I cant have everything !!

Just got back, picked up the new Chaos Knight and the Khorne Walker on top of my pre order of destroyers, assault marines and scallax. Both the Knight and the Walker have good quality paper rules in the box, I really hope this trend carries on as it is really useful, I'd like to see the paper replaced with laminated cardboard though.

The new Tau walker is just massive, really impressive model.

The Masterdon looks almost finished now, had two options for weapons on display, missile launcher or some sort of auto cannon variant. It is massive, 40 marine capacity, looks to be very good.

They had a painted warlord with the missile launchers in the participation game so looks like those will be available very shortly.

Okay. I spoke to his Bligh-ness about a few things. (very cool bloke ^_^ )
The reason why some models and kits come out sooner than others is due to the main models being completed as a priority. Once a sculptor is free, they might be inclined to do a certain thing over another. As long as the main models etc are done, there is a little room to accommodate this. Hence Eidolon appearing seemingly out of nowhere, for example.
There WILL be a Ventanus model. The intention is there to do Thiel at some point too :wub:
The book that deals with Calth and the aftermath (along with Angrons' assention and other stuff) will be the book after the next AT THE EARLIEST.
Also Hyaenidae - the Tyrant Siege Termis. They will be along SOONER than later

Looky Likey, roughly how big is the Tau thing? Knight sized? Looks huge.

ahaa now that looks much better in the flesh !!

 ImAGeek wrote:


Looky Likey, roughly how big is the Tau thing? Knight sized? Looks huge.

As tall as a FW Knight but much broader at the top.

 Looky Likey wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:


Looky Likey, roughly how big is the Tau thing? Knight sized? Looks huge.

As tall as a FW Knight but much broader at the top.

Nice, that is massive.

Okay, so in the dark angel upgrade pics, the blank shoulder pad has a thicker rim to match the upgrade pad. Does anyone else think and hope that this is an indication of an update to the legion armour kits? It was so frustrating the first time I ordered a set of shoulder pads only to find out that they had a thick rim that looked out of place with the regular pads

by the by, thanks to those taking and uploading the pictures

 ImAGeek wrote:

MECHANICUM LRB!!!

A massive thank you (and exalts) from me to all those who are taking and posting pics!!

The rules for the Ordinatus will be in the red book apparantly.

I didn't take any of the photos btw, they're all from people on B&C. I just ported them over here for you guys too.

Pretty certain theses pics are all from Battle Bunnies.

My god. It's my Perty!!!!! SOLD!

stormboy wrote:
Pretty certain theses pics are all from Battle Bunnies.

Some are, others are from people who are there from B&C.

So... Do I get an unequivocal apology in regards to the dark angels that are "nowhere on the horizon"