Latest Forge World news and rumour thread : page 99 Quad mortar, pintle weapons, transfers

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**kronk**

Ashiraya wrote:

When these are released, sixteen Legions will have been kitted out for the Horus Heresy!

Excellent.

Please don't screw up Thousand Sons and Space Wolves! Or make them break the HH game.

*Crosses Fingers*

**shade1313**

kronk wrote:
Ashiraya wrote:

When these are released, sixteen Legions will have been kitted out for the Horus Heresy!

Excellent.

Please don't screw up Thousand Sons and Space Wolves! Or make them break the HH game.

*Crosses Fingers*

I am somewhat encouraged that they're taking so long on what are going to be monstrously good sales for them, as they wrestle with making sure the rules are good. Staving off instant cash satisfaction in order to do it right.

That said, I would LOVE some of what the BA and DA are getting, in terms of torsos, heads, and shoulder pads, so I could get the ball rolling on at least building a bunch of infantry for the Thousand Sons I'll be doing.

**BrookM**

Hopefully the Prospero book won't be as much of a rushed product as Tempest is.

**aka_mythos**

shade1313 wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
SickSix wrote:
Every time I see an argument about scale or realism...

LEMAN RUSS BATTLE TANK!

It's 40k folks.

The Leman Russ Battle Tank is also a tractor with a gun strapped to it.
I think its terrible design is perfectly realistic

I think he's more referring to there being NO room in the turret for both the breech of the gun and the tank commander who waves his sword out of the hatch, much less for a loader and/or gunner. And we won't even get into the ammo supply, and shells that would be sized to go down that huge bore.

He obviously rides that cannon like a mad man rides an atom bomb.
As far as ammo capacity goes aren't we lucky 40k only lasts so many turns? It is heroic scale... Objects in Heroic scale are less stubbier and wider than they appear. Take a bolter which people accept as decently proportioned; you scale it to life size and you have a 2" muzzle launching a .75cal projectile.

**kronk**

BrookM wrote:
Hopefully the Prospero book won't be as much of a rushed product as Tempest is.

True. I've seen a few typos in the Guard list from Tempest.

**BrookM**

kronk wrote:
BrookM wrote:
Hopefully the Prospero book won't be as much of a rushed product as Tempest is.

True. I've seen a few typos in the Guard list from Tempest.

Still waiting on that FAQ for those fixes and the point costs of the psykers entry.

**timd**

MajorStoffer wrote:
The Russ is based of the French BDR G1B, one of a series of similar interwar proposed designed for a new standard infantry tank for the French army, which would reach its conclusion with the ARL 44, designed in secret under Nazi occupation as a rapid-build tank using existing hardware reserves and a new gun to re-arm the French army post-liberation as quickly as possible, but was never followed past the prototype stage.

They were objectively bad tanks, which is why they were never adopted, but even so were better designed than the russ, with the proper barrel/turret ratio, and actual space for suspension and movement of roadwheels under the side armour, which is the Russ's biggest failing; it'd get stuck on the slightest of rough terrain.

I had always thought that the Russ was based more on the Vickers No 1 interwar tank. The track configuration (both shape and lack of fenders) and hull shape are very close and the turret is an early predator style turret. No sponsons, but sponsons were pretty much done by the end of WWI.

Pic:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205191029

**aka_mythos**

I don't think it's based on any one tank but on the general aesthetic commonalities of tanks from that era.

**Lockark**

I always wad told the Russ was based off a wwi tank kit that didn't have a turret and that GW added one.

**BrookM**

Maybe the discussion regarding the iconic look of the Leman Russ should be continued elsewhere, before certain parties get involved?

**Kepora**

As mush as I dislike the Dark Angels as a chapter, I might have to get some of those heads and torsos and remove the iconography. They look amazing!

**Bronzefists42**

Looks like Blood angels, dark Angels, and White Scars get their day in court next book.

**angelofvengeance**

Kepora wrote:
As mush as I dislike the Dark Angels as a chapter, I might have to get some of those heads and torsos and remove the iconography. They look amazing!

Seems an awfully expensive way of doing things lol.

**Kepora**

angelofvengeance wrote:
Kepora wrote:
As mush as I dislike the Dark Angels as a chapter, I might have to get some of those heads and torsos and remove the iconography. They look amazing!

Seems an awfully expensive way of doing things lol.

Maybe, but I honestly like them better then the actual Iron Warriors upgrades. It's a shame, the IW offerings were just..really underwhelming, IMO. :T

**MajorWesJanson**

Kepora wrote:
angelofvengeance wrote:
Kepora wrote:
As mush as I dislike the Dark Angels as a chapter, I might have to get some of those heads and torsos and remove the iconography. They look amazing!

Seems an awfully expensive way of doing things lol.

Maybe, but I honestly like them better then the actual Iron Warriors upgrades. It's a shame, the IW offerings were just..really underwhelming, IMO. :T

Iron Hands torsos and heads are even more tragic.

**Kepora**

MajorWesJanson wrote:
Kepora wrote:
angelofvengeance wrote:
Kepora wrote:
As mush as I dislike the Dark Angels as a chapter, I might have to get some of those heads and torsos and remove the iconography. They look amazing!

Seems an awfully expensive way of doing things lol.

Maybe, but I honestly like them better then the actual Iron Warriors upgrades. It's a shame, the IW offerings were just..really underwhelming, IMO. :T

Iron Hands torsos and heads are even more tragic.

Some of those are good - though the full-body conversion sets are indeed better. XD And even then they make for better Iron Warrior figures - post-heresy, at least.

**ImAGeek**

Kepora wrote:
angelofvengeance wrote:
Kepora wrote:
As mush as I dislike the Dark Angels as a chapter, I might have to get some of those heads and torsos and remove the iconography. They look amazing!

Seems an awfully expensive way of doing things lol.

Maybe, but I honestly like them better then the actual Iron Warriors upgrades. It's a shame, the IW offerings were just..really underwhelming, IMO. :T

Its not any more expensive than using the IW sets anyway..?

**Kepora**

ImAGeek wrote:
Kepora wrote:
angelofvengeance wrote:
Kepora wrote:
As mush as I dislike the Dark Angels as a chapter, I might have to get some of those heads and torsos and remove the iconography. They look amazing!

Seems an awfully expensive way of doing things lol.

Maybe, but I honestly like them better then the actual Iron Warriors upgrades. It's a shame, the IW offerings were just..really underwhelming, IMO. :T

Its not any more expensive than using the IW sets anyway..?

yeah, but the GW one is kinda...meh. The shoulderpads and torsos were made for 3rd ed. marines, so they look weird on current models. The lascannon arms' left arm never fits right either; the set's only really good for some of the helmets and the meltagun.

**ImAGeek**

No I mean, angelofvengence said it was an expensive way to go about it, but it isn't any more expensive than using the upgrade parts for your actual legion, and it's no more expensive than using any upgrade parts. So I don't really get why it's an 'awfully expensive way to do things'.

**Rygnan**

The new Forge World site is up along with AoS compendiums for Tamurkhan's Horde and the Legion of Azgorh, and there's an exclusive new Heresy Centurion. No regional pricing but the website looks easier to navigate now

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-tamurkhans-horde.pdf

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-legion-of-azgorh.pdf

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Space-Marine-Legion-Centurion-Web-Exclusive

**Eldarain**

Looks like he took a hammer to the face. Yikes! Might make an ok Death Guard character.

**Formosa**

Well done fw, give it articifer armour and a 3+ save on its profile

**shade1313**

Formosa wrote:
Well done fw, give it articifer armour and a 3+ save on its profile

Don't care about a special write up for this guy, but I AM interested in getting him and putting a Mk 3 Salamanders helmet on him, and shoulder pads if possible.

**Formosa**

shade1313 wrote:
Formosa wrote:
Well done fw, give it articifer armour and a 3+ save on its profile

Don't care about a special write up for this guy, but I AM interested in getting him and putting a Mk 3 Salamanders helmet on him, and shoulder pads if possible.

Then your a bloody loyalist scumbag fool!!!!!!!!58194!!!!

World eater bunny ears for the win!

**MajorWesJanson**

Rygnan wrote:
The new Forge World site is up along with AoS compendiums for Tamurkhan's Horde and the Legion of Azgorh, and there's an exclusive new Heresy Centurion. No regional pricing but the website looks easier to navigate now

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-tamurkhans-horde.pdf

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-legion-of-azgorh.pdf

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Space-Marine-Legion-Centurion-Web-Exclusive

Love the new Centurion, and even with shipping, he is only a tad more than a plastic clampack marine HQ.
Dislike the new site thouh. I liked the old one- plain, simple. Not a fan of these nested animated lists that are "flashy" and more "mobile friendly"
Least it is easier to find the downloads.

**Formosa**

MajorWesJanson wrote:
Rygnan wrote:
The new Forge World site is up along with AoS compendiums for Tamurkhan's Horde and the Legion of Azgorh, and there's an exclusive new Heresy Centurion. No regional pricing but the website looks easier to navigate now

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-tamurkhans-horde.pdf

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-legion-of-azgorh.pdf

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Space-Marine-Legion-Centurion-Web-Exclusive

Love the new Centurion, and even with shipping, he is only a tad more than a plastic clampack marine HQ.
Dislike the new site thouh. I liked the old one- plain, simple. Not a fan of these nested animated lists that are "flashy" and more "mobile friendly"
Least it is easier to find the downloads.

I am working in Nottingham this week at Chetwynd Barracks so I will be picking up 4 of them for me and my mates, 20 quid without postage is a fair price to me.

**casvalremdeikun**

I really wish they would allow us non-Brits to select the currency we want to see the prices in.

I don't think this guy's rules work very well for 40K (allegedly they are supposed to be available...). 85 pts for him is WAY underpriced. I would like to see better rules for standard 40K. Not for that schmuck, but so I can run my Power Fist and Bolt Pistol Captain using these rules. That relic isn't the worst, stubborn is a fun rule.

**MajorWesJanson**

I would be ordering one right now if it would let me log in!
Anyone else having problems logging in? It doesn't recognize my email/password that worked a couple days ago, and two attempts to "I forgot my password, send me a link to fix it" have resulted in 0 emails. Not doing much to make me happy with the new site.

casvalremdeikun wrote:
I really wish they would allow us non-Brits to select the currency we want to see the prices in.

I don't think this guy's rules work very well for 40K (allegedly they are supposed to be available...). 85 pts for him is WAY underpriced. I would like to see better rules for standard 40K. Not for that schmuck, but so I can run my Power Fist and Bolt Pistol Captain using these rules. That relic isn't the worst, stubborn is a fun rule.

The 85 point profile is for the HH version. Note that he is a 2 wound consul, and priced to match. Base + artificer + power fist is 80, and those extra 5 cover the master crafting on the fist.

**Hanskrampf**

MajorWesJanson wrote:
I would be ordering one right now if it would let me log in!
Anyone else having problems logging in? It doesn't recognize my email/password that worked a couple days ago, and two attempts to "I forgot my password, send me a link to fix it" have resulted in 0 emails. Not doing much to make me happy with the new site.

I can only assume that they didn't transfer their existing customer database and you need to make a new account, just like when they switched the GW site to the same framework.

**MajorWesJanson**

Doing that now. Makes it hard to look up old orders and such though.