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Knight heads for armigers.... I suppose I'll wait to build mine then!

Also what looks to be a Volkite weapon and siege claw

And now I have a reason to buy some of the new knights, will wait to see what the upgrade kits are.

Interested to see where FW go with these kits. Hopefully it will be something more than just smaller and bigger versions of the Styrix and Magaera.


Edit - Looks like new crotch and upper leg armour as well.

Armigers with a lancer loadout would be nice.

Either way, I expect the FW versions to be overpriced (points wise) but ultimately look cooler than the GW versions.

Oh well! We'll see what they come out with and if it fills any more holes in the IK codex.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also what looks to be a Volkite weapon and siege claw

Looks like a rad cleanser in the palm same as the Knight Styrix's Hekaton Siege Claw. Perhaps a Megaton Siege Claw?

Uh oh, more Last Chance to Buy:

 zedmeister wrote:
Uh oh, more Last Chance to Buy:

Spoiler:

Not live for me yet - hopefully it's just the Thallax pack without special weapons - but the Knight heads is an odd one.

We don't need new releases, just make more stuff go OOP!

I still think the Thallax were the coolest mechanicum unit FW or GW came up with, I much prefer them over the skitarii. The only issue is they aren't plastic, and seemed to be a HH thing and rare in 40k era. Weirdly enough 1-2 months ago I had a fearful thought more stuff including them would go out of production...

If the Thallax are going OOP then I fear for the legion of azgorh model range, they can't be too far behind especially considering one of their molds broke and FW said ah frack it and it's gone for good.

Most of the knight heads looked off, like they were from other ips than 40k. Not a huge loss there.

Thallax, hopefully they will just merge all the units into one bundle of 3 with the various options included. Or mod the legs slightly and they could make a plastic version.

Weirdly now the front page thing about OOP models is now gone, replaced by some AoS rules: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-CA/searchResults?N=778332139+1114623960

 zedmeister wrote:
Uh oh, more Last Chance to Buy:

Spoiler:

Odd - I could see the banner but not the list of items, and now the banner has gone... (I'm still seeing the AoS & Warhammer Fest banners)

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Most of the knight heads looked off, like they were from other ips than 40k. Not a huge loss there.

Yeah. I mean, points for trying, but most of those heads looked worse than the stock options. I'm not really surprised that at least some of them would go OOP.

 Peregrine wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Most of the knight heads looked off, like they were from other ips than 40k. Not a huge loss there.

Yeah. I mean, points for trying, but most of those heads looked worse than the stock options. I'm not really surprised that at least some of them would go OOP.

Indeed. I'd rate only two of the Questoris heads. The Cerastus type heads were alright though


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Well, just had the newsletter in, and no LCTB this week. Looks like it has been deferred for now

What's new this week, zedmeister?

Rules. That's it for now

So we've had new releases, we've had unreleases, and this week is just no releases.

Yep rules up for free for Sigmar - though a shame that they've not revised any of the beasts alliances (was very sure the myrewurm was going to end up at least allowed into Deepkin). Quite a few are also past the 400 point limit on a 2K list ally so a good few are only going to be for much larger Sigmar games.

and a shame that the chaos dwarfs still can't take grots as allies

 Overread wrote:
Yep rules up for free for Sigmar - though a shame that they've not revised any of the beasts alliances (was very sure the myrewurm was going to end up at least allowed into Deepkin). Quite a few are also past the 400 point limit on a 2K list ally so a good few are only going to be for much larger Sigmar games.

I think they'll wait for a proper book to expand on the current rules (it was already said by the AOS FW team they wanted to made the Merwyrm available to the Idoneth)

This release is probably only a (quite good IMO) stopgap.

What the %I&I^%^(

Dozens of Necroumnda bits and Blood Bowl star known to be in the pipeline - needed even to make teams and gangs playable - and yet another week of sweet hee-haw.

Continued ridiculous scheduling by FW, really ticks me off.

Clockpunk wrote:
What the %I&I^%^(

Dozens of Necroumnda bits and Blood Bowl star known to be in the pipeline - needed even to make teams and gangs playable - and yet another week of sweet hee-haw.

Continued ridiculous scheduling by FW, really ticks me off.

They need to build up a buffer of stock before putting things up for sale, so it could be they're having trouble with a mold, or something else is taking up casting time (the last chance stuff, for example).

Clockpunk wrote:
Dozens of Necroumnda bits and Blood Bowl star known to be in the pipeline - needed even to make teams and gangs playable - and yet another week of sweet hee-haw.

Continued ridiculous scheduling by FW, really ticks me off.

I've got two boxes of Orlocks and two boxes of Van Saars just waiting for their conversion kits.

The wait is painful.

I'm still waiting for them to fix sw terminators, redo the
preator, make a deathsworn kit, release priests, give us boot pistols that Arnt upside down.

That’s going to suck if Thallax go OOP. They’re a troops choice for Mechanicum armies, and a good one at that. Even if it’s just the pack with no weapon upgrades, that sucks for players who use the Ferrox upgrade as they can’t take special weapons.

FW is basically telling people to go to recasters if they want to buy a troops choice for a Mechanicum army.

 Thanatos73 wrote:
That’s going to suck if Thallax go OOP. They’re a troops choice for Mechanicum armies, and a good one at that. Even if it’s just the pack with no weapon upgrades, that sucks for players who use the Ferrox upgrade as they can’t take special weapons.

FW is basically telling people to go to recasters if they want to buy a troops choice for a Mechanicum army.

One of the problems is that Mechanicum players are already going to recasters - the last major HH event I was at half the Mech players were boasting about having fully recast armies :-(
People complain about Fires, but if FW aren't seeing the sales they're not going to invest resources into a new book.

Nobody’s buying Mechanicum stuff because FW won’t release Fires.

Forgeworld won’t release Fires because they hate money.

 Verviedi wrote:
Nobody’s buying Mechanicum stuff because FW won’t release Fires.

Yeah...these two things are not really the same. He's saying that at the last major HH event(read: one where Fires doesn't matter) had people boasting about fully recast armies. This is an issue surrounding not a book, but rather the fact that an army of these things gets expensive fast.

That's always been the case with FW 'exclusive' stuff.

Forgeworld won’t release Fires because they hate money.

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 HorticulusDK wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Yep rules up for free for Sigmar - though a shame that they've not revised any of the beasts alliances (was very sure the myrewurm was going to end up at least allowed into Deepkin). Quite a few are also past the 400 point limit on a 2K list ally so a good few are only going to be for much larger Sigmar games.

I think they'll wait for a proper book to expand on the current rules (it was already said by the AOS FW team they wanted to made the Merwyrm available to the Idoneth)

This release is probably only a (quite good IMO) stopgap.

If that's the case, then they need to redo the Merwyrm. Kit is awful to build.