Forge World News and Rumour Thread : p212 Knight Porphyrion

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**spiralingcadaver**

ImAGeek wrote:

Well... that's interesting! Good on FW for having the balls to do that.

**angelofvengeance**

I quite like the artwork. Nice to see some variety in my opinion.

So is there a fluffy reason for why Red Scorpions have all this Legion gear then?

**Mr. Grey**

Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness Army List book = the old Crusade Army List book, correct? Did they announce a general release date for that yet?

**ShaneTB**

Deployed to the planet to use the forge world as a main port of call against the naughty hive fleet.

Culln got a good kickin' previously. So they drilled his remains into a walking metal coffin. As is tradition.

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Mr. Grey wrote:
Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness Army List book = the old Crusade Army List book, correct? Did they announce a general release date for that yet?

They talked about so many books I lost track. No firm dates were given. One of them will be ready for the next Open Day.

**zedmeister**

angelofvengeance wrote:
I quite like the artwork. Nice to see some variety in my opinion.

So is there a fluffy reason for why Red Scorpions have all this Legion gear then?

From what I've seen, the entire chapter is supposed to be deployed, relics and all. I reckon, these relic weapons will get army list entries for your standard codex...

**Mr_Rose**

angelofvengeance wrote:
I quite like the artwork. Nice to see some variety in my opinion.

So is there a fluffy reason for why Red Scorpions have all this Legion gear then?

Not exactly. They don't acknowledge a founding chapter, nor do they venerate a particular Primarch, and none of the usual suspects admit to a link, which means they were someone's special project. Temperamentally they are friendly with the Inquisition, obsessed with purity, emphasise infantry, refuse cover, and disdain witchery so there's a decent chance they descend from tithed Death Guard geneseed and may be way older than people think.
But it's far more likely that Forge World will never acknowledge or address this, because they feed on fanboy intrigue and frustration in the same way Khorne feeds on rage.

**zedmeister**

Seen some comments that Adeptus Titanicus and future Epic will be 8mm scale. Usual dose of the proverbial required...

**Co'tor Shas**

ImAGeek wrote:
Also from Garro:

Spoiler:

**stormboy**

Did I miss an appropriate release date for the Tau vs Imperium Imperial Armour book? Or are they still not mentioning it?

**Yaraton**

Copied from the BL thread the now official Alpharius and Dorn concept art from the upcoming BL book cover

As an AL collector I am not impressed by the Mk II backpack and the Pale Spear which was supposed to be an alien-origin artifact but looks like a Sorcerer's staff.

**Lockark**

ImAGeek wrote:
From Garro on Facebook:

So much yes on these guys. It look like they are armred with a man sized vestion of the lance gun the Knight lancer uses. I can't wait to see the WIP of the other guys get finished.

**Wilson**

Alpharius really looks messed up in that image. Like sloth from the goonies messed up.

**Frozen Ocean**

Culln makes me really want some Relic or Legion variants of Leviathans now. Those massive frames really suit decoration.

As for the Scorpions deploying them, it could have something to do with their fluff; modern Chapters do have relics from their Legion days, but they're treated with particular dread due to the tendency of the Leviathan's ill-understood subsystems to drive the occupant insane. The Scorpions, or Culln himself, may have less compunction about doing so. That said, I'd love to see a Minotaurs one someday.

**TheCustomLime**

Let me guess the plot for the new IA book. The Tau invade a Forge World. Then FW specific Imperial armies come in to beat them back. The Imperium loses, takes heavy losses and we get a ton of awesome new resin crack.

All in all, the new Tau and Ad Mech stuff look pretty cool. The Red Scorpions is more Spehs Muhreens but, hey, you can never have enough Spess Muhreens.

**Haighus**

Yeah, there is an unfortunate Imperial Armour hierarchy going something like Xenos>Imperium>Chaos/renegades which persists throughout their books.

**Co'tor Shas**

Haighus wrote:
Yeah, there is an unfortunate Imperial Armour hierarchy going something like Xenos>Imperium>Chaos/renegades which persists throughout their books.

Well, unless it's the eldar, who only get to have pyrrhic victories.

**BrookM**

Vraks ended in a pyrrhic victory for the Imperium. I mean, they won, but the cost was so high with nothing gained from it, may as well have been a loss.

**Ratius**

Well DoM had them win but consciously trade a vast amount of resources for a Pheonix Lord. Maybe Eldar trade that for pyrrhic.

Didnt think it was a great book overall though, mind you.

**OgreChubbs**

Well forgeworld let me down big time this year. The flyer looks like it is from transformers 1888 and the mechanus models are as sifi 1860 as ever, just need a robot with pipe cleaner arms screaming danger and it be perfect. Guess I will just buy another reaver titan.

**Buttery Commissar**

I can't get over how fething huge this is.

I also got a few pics of the new big boys if people aren't sick of them by now.

**BrookM**

Sick of them? Never!

**zedmeister**

More please!

**TheCustomLime**

OgreChubbs wrote:
Well forgeworld let me down big time this year. The flyer looks like it is from transformers 1888 and the mechanus models are as sifi 1860 as ever, just need a robot with pipe cleaner arms screaming danger and it be perfect. Guess I will just buy another reaver titan.

I didn't even know they had Transformers in the 19th century. Were they steamships in disguise?

**Buttery Commissar**

BrookM wrote:
Sick of them? Never!

Well the DCM perk is seeing them before my phone battery died.

I'll go in order of what's in the album.

**Gamgee**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
ImAGeek wrote:
Also from Garro:

Spoiler:

**Buttery Commissar**

Full shelf.

**Gamgee**

Buttery Commissar wrote:
Full shelf.

We're not worthy!

Spoiler:

**Co'tor Shas**

Gamgee wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:

Unless I'm very much mistaken, those are updated XV9s. Me likey.

That's the two Riptide variants. The lovely and super powerful Y'vahrah on the left and the R'varnah on the right.

Are you sure? Because the guy o the right definitely looks like the XV9 with phased ion guns.

Spoiler:

R'Varna for refernce

Spoiler:

**Gamgee**

Your right. I didn't know the XV9 were so big. The one on the right is and the one on the left is a Y'vahrah.

**Buttery Commissar**

Now closer on the tau.