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 Crazyterran wrote:
Sitting here as an UM player, which hasn’t even got its jump or terminator unit yet, nor all it’s characters, listening to other people complain about their legion options...

(Got Guilliman and the Invictarii and that’s it - no unique Contemptor, no Leviathan(fair though, wasn’t out yet) and our alternative head options got taken away)

I found a simple headswap conversion for the HH FW Guilliman that turns him into something reminiscent of the Planet Hulk gladiator just this weekend and I decided (ironically given your post above a day later) to investigate the FW UM HH options. Seeing that tiny selection was admittedly a surprise for me... and I'm not even an UM player (although I do bastardize some of your chapter/legion's figs admittedly for my own).

alexkon3 wrote:
Man I'm still salty about the White Scars... they are such a unique Legion with a super distinct aesthetic. I was looking so much forward to them being one of my fav legions since "Scars" and... they look more vanilla then the fracking Ultramarines. A Tartaros pattern Termi unit which just has Glaives and nothing more and the golden Keshig who are just normal bikers with lances... wow how amazing. They couldn't even give them the Bullock patern from the books?

I don't know if I agree - I kind of like their no-nonsense attitude and keeping the armor utilitarian instead of festooning it with junk. I also feel you're a bit unfair to Termies, not only chest and leg decoration is plenty characterful, the belt armor plates are among the nicest unique details in the whole FW range.

As for Bullocks, I don't see the problem. GW Dawneagle Jetbikes look very similar, all you need to do is replacing the torso of the Custode with Scar one (you can even keep arms and legs, WS art has plenty of SM with leather gloves/boots) and presto, you have Bullocks for half the price of FW junk...

 Crazyterran wrote:
Sitting here as an UM player, which hasn’t even got its jump or terminator unit yet, nor all it’s characters, listening to other people complain about their legion options...

To be perfectly fair, while FW did indeed peed all over Ultramarine range, you at least have rules for them, and 'roman-ish' bits are easy to come by (if only from multiple plastic upgrade sprues GW sells). If anything, Blood Angels have it even worse because they already have 3 kits that are supposed to be HH era relics, very cheap ones at that compared to FW resin, representing their most important units/characters from the books, yet they continuously get middle finger by not getting any rules for them so they could actually be used. Sure, I suppose you can field them as generic units, but it's like FW pretended 'Armless and Justaerin didn't exist or played any role in HH and told you to use generic praetor and termies just to deny GW sales...

 warboss wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
Sitting here as an UM player, which hasn’t even got its jump or terminator unit yet, nor all it’s characters, listening to other people complain about their legion options...

(Got Guilliman and the Invictarii and that’s it - no unique Contemptor, no Leviathan(fair though, wasn’t out yet) and our alternative head options got taken away)

I found a simple headswap conversion for the HH FW Guilliman that turns him into something reminiscent of the Planet Hulk gladiator just this weekend and I decided (ironically given your post above a day later) to investigate the FW UM HH options. Seeing that tiny selection was admittedly a surprise for me... and I'm not even an UM player (although I do bastardize some of your chapter/legion's figs admittedly for my own).

That just made that model 100% better. Clap emoticon .

Where's that head from? that's a marked improvement by far!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Where's that head from? that's a marked improvement by far!

It's not a "Simple head swap" as he says, it's a moderately complex conversion using the Minotaur chaplain head (cut, plastic face stuck on, then built back up with putty).

JWBS wrote:

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Where's that head from? that's a marked improvement by far!

It's not a "Simple head swap" as he says, it's a moderately complex conversion using the Minotaur chaplain head (cut, plastic face stuck on, then built back up with putty).

Thanks dude, I'll give it a shot, that should be in my realm of skills.

Be prepared to splash some cash on the helmet. Its about 9 quid on egghead miniatures.

New GW job advert

https://jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-apply/lead-content-writer-horus-heresy-nottingham-uk

Do you eat, sleep and breathe the Horus Heresy? Would writing and coordinating books and other written material based on Mankind’s galaxy-spanning civil war be your dream job?

If so, we are looking for an excellent communicator with a high standard of English and an in-depth knowledge of all-things Horus Heresy to not only write rules and background for our Horus Heresy game system, but also to take the lead in coordinating writing projects for the range. Having already had your work professionally published will be beneficial when applying for this role.

You will be a part of our in-house Horus Heresy Writing team based at our Nottingham HQ. As well as writing content for our books, you will coordinate writing projects from start to finish. This will include not just books but also content required for promotional purposes, packaging, events, etc, ensuring that the work is done to schedule and maintains our high-quality standards. You will also promote the Horus Heresy range at select events and on GW social media.

We know that enthusiastically delivering consistent, accurate and error-free products to deadline and being the go-to person for the team is what makes this job hard.

I guess they may have internal candidates in mind? but maybe nobody there wants to do it and are busy on other stuff like the specialist games

That... doesn't bode well. That sounds like, what, a half-dozen roles and probably best for 2-3 people? Seems like a really intense workload, and a fairly high level of expectation. Even if I were qualified, I wouldn't touch that job with a 10' pole.

 Theophony wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
Sitting here as an UM player, which hasn’t even got its jump or terminator unit yet, nor all it’s characters, listening to other people complain about their legion options...

(Got Guilliman and the Invictarii and that’s it - no unique Contemptor, no Leviathan(fair though, wasn’t out yet) and our alternative head options got taken away)

I found a simple headswap conversion for the HH FW Guilliman that turns him into something reminiscent of the Planet Hulk gladiator just this weekend and I decided (ironically given your post above a day later) to investigate the FW UM HH options. Seeing that tiny selection was admittedly a surprise for me... and I'm not even an UM player (although I do bastardize some of your chapter/legion's figs admittedly for my own).

That just made that model 100% better. Clap emoticon .

This model is awful, he is probably the worse Gulliman I have ever seen ! It's crazy how a tiny part can have such an impact on a model.

I strongly prefer the FW version (stock or especially with the head swap above) to the gaudy, misshapen plastic one GW proper came out with.

It sounds like about a third of Alan Bligh's workload, which is probably why FW has been so slow to recover firefighting things with existing staff

a lot of whom will be being poached to do stuff for specialist games

 godardc wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
Sitting here as an UM player, which hasn’t even got its jump or terminator unit yet, nor all it’s characters, listening to other people complain about their legion options...

(Got Guilliman and the Invictarii and that’s it - no unique Contemptor, no Leviathan(fair though, wasn’t out yet) and our alternative head options got taken away)

I found a simple headswap conversion for the HH FW Guilliman that turns him into something reminiscent of the Planet Hulk gladiator just this weekend and I decided (ironically given your post above a day later) to investigate the FW UM HH options. Seeing that tiny selection was admittedly a surprise for me... and I'm not even an UM player (although I do bastardize some of your chapter/legion's figs admittedly for my own).

That just made that model 100% better. Clap emoticon .

This model is awful, he is probably the worse Gulliman I have ever seen ! It's crazy how a tiny part can have such an impact on a model.

I think its a good idea, but to me Bobby G is less yelly, and practical enough to wear a helmet that actually has all the stuff Space Marine helmets have.

I think its well done, but not for me.

It's here.. https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Mechanicum-Acastus-Knight-Asterius-2019



And a new bundle as well: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Lords-of-War-Knight-Lance-2019

 BrookM wrote:
It's here..

Wow... there's an actual discount in that FW bundle. Nearly 10% if my math is right...

 xttz wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
It's here..

Wow... there's an actual discount in that FW bundle. Nearly 10% if my math is right...

FW are pretty good at offering bundles with an actual discount.

Every time I see the revised version, I really wish they'd just upped the size of the single "barrel" version rather than doubling it up. Looks derpy. The regular Acastus can pull off the twin barrels because of its big chonk shoulders.

That gun design is ugly as sin to begin with no matter how hard they try. Couple with the pivoting arm. Leviathan Dread have very cool gun design, maybe they should try upscale some of those gun if they ran out of idea.

Althought, Gameplay wise that gun would be a beast once it's in AT.

I love the look of this, now if only it was in plastic

The cbeams are a bit too big, looks silly.

That plus no 40k rules... eh.

Shame they didn't stick to the Porphyrion design and had the cannons directly clamped to the side. Would have looked much better

Huge, ugly and super expensive...

YMMV

Honestly as a long time knights player in 30k, I would NEVER field this unit.
Sure turn 1 you "May" get the 7in sunder ap1 templates however most of the time you are shooting 2 shots at 10/2 5in where as for 20 more points Porphyrion is putting out twice the shots at the same profile -wrecker which is basically useless.
And if you ever need to shoot just past your own toes you lose your ap2, the mortar is cool and all but the primary weapon profile makes this thing DOA for me, this seems more like a long range anti infantry platform.

That standing I wish the armour set was compatible with the normal Porphyrion.

As much as I would love to, this thing is just way too expensive money wise. I'd rather buy a new 1k pts Mortalis army for the same price. If not cheaper...

I'm obviously in a minority here, I quite like mine but I agree the arms should have been more like the Poly than the regular knights.

The rules work best on large tables played length ways, two 7" S10 AP1 shots for a couple of turns is going to hurt. While wrecker is very situational sunder for that 7" template is pretty amazing when combined with ordinance and twin linked, you should always be wounding whatever you hit and twice if you desire it. On the other hand the mortar is just not very good, 3 small blast templates doesn't really do much at AP4, always seems pointless having fleshbane and a AP coupled together as anything I actually want to wound for the rad-phage will have a 2+ or at worst a 3+. It needs a larger blast template to generate more wounds and have a greater chance of forcing a failed save.

Obviously on a smaller table, particularly playing width ways you are going to get one good turn in if you are lucky. I agree the Poly is better, but I think the Poly is still under costed in 30k. Every time I use mine in 30k it is the Knight of the game and not by a small margin.

Based on what we've seen for AT I'm expecting another couple of weapons options for the Acastus chassis, particularly interested in what the gravaton option will look like in 30k.

These don't seem like some good news, no? I mean, they must've already written some of the book 9, and now they are looking for a new lead. This could lead to more inconsistencies between 8-9-10.

Edit: lol, broken image links.

My first thought when I saw that picture was "a lead writer? But I thought they used resin?"

 CragHack wrote:
These don't seem like some good news, no? I mean, they must've already written some of the book 9, and now they are looking for a new lead. This could lead to more inconsistencies between 8-9-10.

Edit: lol, broken image links.

They could be just adding another. Or perhaps they are replacing one. Just have to make a good hire and they'd carry on okay.

HOWEVER...this is why l laugh when they talk about 20-something black books. It's *ludicrous* to think that's achievable given the amount of changes that will take place (staff, management, business plans, etc) over the 15(?) years it'll take to produce them. There's no way that they can't know that. Forge World as we know it might not exist in 3 years, let alone 15.

I could have sworn I saw a preview of a new white scars transfer sheet. Did I imagine that or is it coming?

Ammo-jack & Dome Runner and the Delaque upgrades (Weapons 1, Weapons 2 & Heads) up for pre-order.