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Am I the only one to notice the phosphex shells on the new quad mortar rules are unlocked by a consul called a "Siege Master"?

Also, I'd love a closer look at those support vehicles in the stormbird diorama. I love references to the infrastructure in the grimdark future.

No, the Thunderhawk does look pretty idiotic. The Stormbird looks equally unflightworthy, but does add a few style points that are far better than the THawk, and so I may actually get one for my Thousand Sons.

 Breotan wrote:
I'm actually one of the few who thinks the Thunderhawk looks completely idiotic with the front end dipping down like that. The Stormbird fixes that pretty nicely.

But I'm sure many will disagree with my assessment and that's fine.

I like the thunderhawk as is (mostly) but if they pulled the bottom of the nose back to make a single large compartment, and then made a smooth taper up to the rear engine rather than the drop-nose it has now, I would be fine with it.

Barring the missile pods on the roof, I think the Storm Eagle is the best looking of the SM fliers. I would have liked to see the Storm-bird look like a scaled up version of that, rather than a stretched thunderhawk.

It's probably a design necessity of using resin that the wings on the thunderhawk and stormbird are so thick and blocky- they look bad but have to support weight. Plastic would let them make much thinner, more wing looking wings.

 Zuul wrote:
Am I the only one to notice the phosphex shells on the new quad mortar rules are unlocked by a consul called a "Siege Master"?

Probably a typo or rename of the Siege Breaker, who gives phospex shells to Legion Medusas as part of his rules.

Stormbird's vertical fins are supported only by the upper engines? Seems like a bit of a structural fail...

T

timd wrote:
Stormbird's vertical fins are supported only by the upper engines? Seems like a bit of a structural fail...

T

And a maintenance nightmare.

ImAGeek wrote:Some cracking pics of the new models on this blog:
http://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/horus-heresy-weekender-2016-part-1.html

Those are some great pictures! Thanks for linking them.

Re. the Stormbird, I really didn't like the design from the mock-ups we saw ages ago until I saw this picture which now has me craving one. Great design on the nose of the ship and I'm a big fan of the bulkiness of the whole thing.



Also I love all the new robots and TSons stuff. My wallet is screaming considering I am collecting a rapidly growing army of both...

Seeing what a great job FW did of de-plagueifying the Nurgle Drone, I would love to see them tackle the Decimator next. Maybe even followed by a few other Chaos engines.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

timd wrote:
Stormbird's vertical fins are supported only by the upper engines? Seems like a bit of a structural fail...

T

And a maintenance nightmare.

Pssst... the wings are also supported only by the engines. That's a bigger problem than the upper fins, I'm afraid.

So I have some second hand information from a person who's friend is at the Weekender: apparently FW plans to continue on with the 30k books after the Emperor has been put on life support.

Personally I'm taking that with a salt mine, but it could be that at some point in the far future FW gives us some 30k-era xenos rules (even if they are just Orks and Eldar).

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
So I have some second hand information from a person who's friend is at the Weekender: apparently FW plans to continue on with the 30k books after the Emperor has been put on life support.

Personally I'm taking that with a salt mine, but it could be that at some point in the far future FW gives us some 30k-era xenos rules (even if they are just Orks and Eldar).

Aye, that was mentioned in the seminars yesterday, they'll like to do the scouring. Also, Black Library are going to start on the beginnings of the siege of terra!

Well I'll be selling my salt mine off to pay for those books, then!

 Breotan wrote:
I'm actually one of the few who thinks the Thunderhawk looks completely idiotic with the front end dipping down like that. The Stormbird fixes that pretty nicely.

But I'm sure many will disagree with my assessment and that's fine.

The thunderhawk is one of the dumbest looking models I've ever seen. The stormbird looks much better.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Still think the Stormbird is a major miss. Looks better than the WIP version, but still far from the "elegant work of art" vs the "blocky, mass produced" Thunderhawk. This just looks like a heavy-duty thunderhawk that borrowed parts from a Fire Raptor.

This is the Sokar pattern stormbird, which apparently was one of the later patterns that the mass produced Thunderhawk is based off of.

Also, this pattern is a wee bit smaller than the original Stormbird IIRC.

so has anyone seen any updates for Night lords ?

The redcoats Skitarri are coming!

Upgrades for the plastics then?

Only worth buying if they have 30k guns and unique looks. Otherwise might as well stick to plastic.

Looks like it.

More Skitarri goodness:

Those spear and shield Skits are awesome! Love the new helms too.

tidy stuff eh - yet more mech stuff i really want now lol.

Unless they show off Dorn, I have to give this weekender to the Mechanicum, who win by miles on awesome models.

Yes but why are they Secutarii.

Apparently it's because they're the special ground troops of the Titan Legions. They are basically the human-sized guards of the Titans.

Epic 30K in a new scale makes me happy and glad my squat I'll be more inline

 VeteranNoob wrote:
Epic 30K in a new scale makes me happy and glad my squat I'll be more inline

New scale makes me sad for my existing epic Knights and titans, but if we get models of the quality of the mini-warlord I will be happy. Will have to buy Newepic models at least of my 28mm titans and knights.

New Knight is kind of cool looking, but even FW can only do so much to make the egg with guns design of the old Wards look good. Think I'll go for a Macroraid Explorator and some of the Secutarii kits before I do the new new Knight.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 VeteranNoob wrote:
Epic 30K in a new scale makes me happy and glad my squat I'll be more inline

New scale makes me sad for my existing epic Knights and titans, but if we get models of the quality of the mini-warlord I will be happy. Will have to buy Newepic models at least of my 28mm titans and knights.

New Knight is kind of cool looking, but even FW can only do so much to make the egg with guns design of the old Wards look good. Think I'll go for a Macroraid Explorator and some of the Secutarii kits before I do the new new Knight.

Nice. Really looking forward to Chaos versions as well down the line.

Did I miss something being announced about epic? :/

Vorian wrote:
Did I miss something being announced about epic? :/

The 'Epic' reboot is going to be a different scale apparently.

Ah, I thought I'd been following quite closely, but veteran's mention was the first thing I'd seen in the subject.

Do we know if it's bigger? Smaller? Is scale the only news?

Pretty much the same info is dancing around all the forums now but Battle Bunnies was main source from this, updating their blog constantly through sessions. Battlebunnies.blogspot.com should do it.