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We'll find out soon enough eh.

 Baragash wrote:
I hope it’s nothing bad for FW, but it’s way past time that it was fully rolled in so that each game is being produced coherently by one team and FW models are fully integrated like they are in LotR, and GW scraps having two different websites.


As far as a lot of us are concerned, what you're suggesting would absolutely be bad for FW. I mean, you realise you're essentially arguing that FW should cease to exist? I can think of few things worse for it.

The whole point of FW is that it exists separate from the main studio, free to pursue oddities and passion projects with an inherently lower sales potential using a production media suited to that lower volume production. There's a case to be made that if one of those passion projects - the HH game for example - becomes more popular than the base remit of the company can support it should be spun off into its own team, but even then that team shouldn't be part of the main Studio, or else it risks losing the very qualities that made it that popular in the first place.

A this point, I'm just desperately hoping that the pretty wild rumour someone was peddling earlier in the year that FW are getting their own plastic pipeline in the new production facility is what this announcement refers to, because if it's something along the lines of what you suggest, FW as a venue for cool, interesting, campaign and model-focused products for "vet" gamers will be dead and gone within a year, reduced to an appendage for the main Studio pumping out whatever they're told to or worse, reduced to a mere brand label.

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Well, let’s feed in other stuff we know.

First and foremost, we know GW is increasing its production capacity, by extending the Foundry.

That’s underway so far as I’m aware, and may even be completed.

That could mean stuff like weapon expansions for AT and Necromunda heading to plastic. I for one would broadly welcome that, as I prefer plastic to resin.

We also know the Specialist Games stuff has been doing really, really well. Blood Bowl, Necromunda, Adeptus Titanicus. All hit to larger sales than they expected, to the point they retooled AT to plastic.

It could mean that success is seeing SG being split off into its own division, with personnel to match. That could mean FW proper returns to its roots, as ably described elsewhere in this thread.

   
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 Yodhrin wrote:
As far as a lot of us are concerned, what you're suggesting would absolutely be bad for FW. I mean, you realise you're essentially arguing that FW should cease to exist? I can think of few things worse for it.

The whole point of FW is that it exists separate from the main studio, free to pursue oddities and passion projects with an inherently lower sales potential using a production media suited to that lower volume production. There's a case to be made that if one of those passion projects - the HH game for example - becomes more popular than the base remit of the company can support it should be spun off into its own team, but even then that team shouldn't be part of the main Studio, or else it risks losing the very qualities that made it that popular in the first place.

A this point, I'm just desperately hoping that the pretty wild rumour someone was peddling earlier in the year that FW are getting their own plastic pipeline in the new production facility is what this announcement refers to, because if it's something along the lines of what you suggest, FW as a venue for cool, interesting, campaign and model-focused products for "vet" gamers will be dead and gone within a year, reduced to an appendage for the main Studio pumping out whatever they're told to or worse, reduced to a mere brand label.


Well said and well remembered. Ending Forgeworld will be a death knell for many gamers involvement in the GW universes. But, if as you remembered, they are getting expanded production and plastics facilities, well, that is something to be excited about. The potential to switch a lot of the more popular sculpts to plastics will boost 30k no end.
   
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Further integration with or further separation from GW seems sensible.
Due to the plastic production, the current split in product lines is quite odd - you can buy the plastic Blood Bowl teams or Necromunda gangs only via GW, not FW, but FW does sell some products that combine plastic kits with their resin upgrade parts. Half the recently released new characters sculpted for Middle-earth are FW, the other half plastics from GW, while rules for both can be found in the same book (incidentally sold in both webstores; the only shared article bar the starter set for some reason, something which is not the case for the other games from what I can see).
It all seems rather less organized than it could be.

Here's hoping for a revised shipping costs policy (worldwide this time) while they're at it...
   
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https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Legio-Custodes-Ares-Gunship-2019

The previewed Ares flyer is up for preorder, and it's 40k rules are available for download. Of note, Saggitarum Custodians are now TROOPS!!!! Thank God, I have 25 of them.
   
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Considering that the Specialist Games are already sold on GW site and most if FW's recent HH stuff has been rubbish, I really don't see much point in FW existing as a separate entity.

   
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Also interesting that there appear to be brand new LOTR models that are "made to order" and only available for one week, don't believe that's ever been done by them before.
   
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Tavis75 wrote:
Also interesting that there appear to be brand new LOTR models that are "made to order" and only available for one week, don't believe that's ever been done by them before.

They're not new - they've been Event Exclusives for a while.
   
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One would hope that maybe FW's retooling might enable them to keep expanding SKU's too... if some of the OOP models could come back that would be hugely appreciated, even if it was occasionally on a MTO model (but hopefully one a bit more regular and predictable than GW's).

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beast_gts wrote:
Tavis75 wrote:
Also interesting that there appear to be brand new LOTR models that are "made to order" and only available for one week, don't believe that's ever been done by them before.

They're not new - they've been Event Exclusives for a while.
For a while? These models weren't even known of until a few days ago - aside from Bard, who was shown in an old rulebook but never released at the time.
They are not new sculpts as such, but entirely new releases nonetheless.
   
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 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:
beast_gts wrote:
Tavis75 wrote:
Also interesting that there appear to be brand new LOTR models that are "made to order" and only available for one week, don't believe that's ever been done by them before.

They're not new - they've been Event Exclusives for a while.
For a while? These models weren't even known of until a few days ago - aside from Bard, who was shown in an old rulebook but never released at the time.
They are not new sculpts as such, but entirely new releases nonetheless.


I thought I recognised them, but asked a local Hobbit player as I don't play much - he said they'd been out a while. Their description says "These three miniatures are normally event exclusives, but they are available through our Made to Order service for one week only".

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 Crimson wrote:
Considering that the Specialist Games are already sold on GW site and most if FW's recent HH stuff has been rubbish, I really don't see much point in FW existing as a separate entity.


Exactly. Each game obviously gets a project team dedicated to making it happen, and a mixture of plastic and FW models produced for it. The old structure doesn't make sense any more. GW will still make "passion projects" if they make sense, and unlike back in the day they're happy to release ideas with only a handful of units and people can soup them up, so there's no reason the sort of things happening in the Imperial Armour series can't still happen.

HH is the one that's currently suffering but that's because it needs a team and a direction after Alan Bligh's untimely passing.

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beast_gts wrote:
 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:
beast_gts wrote:
Tavis75 wrote:
Also interesting that there appear to be brand new LOTR models that are "made to order" and only available for one week, don't believe that's ever been done by them before.

They're not new - they've been Event Exclusives for a while.
For a while? These models weren't even known of until a few days ago - aside from Bard, who was shown in an old rulebook but never released at the time.
They are not new sculpts as such, but entirely new releases nonetheless.


I thought I recognised them, but asked a local Hobbit player as I don't play much - he said they'd been out a while. Their description says "These three miniatures are normally event exclusives, but they are available through our Made to Order service for one week only".
They will apparently be event exclusives from now on (starting at NOVA). Online availability, albeit for a limited time, is a nice option for the many people never attending said events, seems a good move.

Shame they don't have 360 views on the website - both Elves could do with some additional angles to see what they're like.
   
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 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:
beast_gts wrote:
 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:
beast_gts wrote:
Tavis75 wrote:
Also interesting that there appear to be brand new LOTR models that are "made to order" and only available for one week, don't believe that's ever been done by them before.

They're not new - they've been Event Exclusives for a while.
For a while? These models weren't even known of until a few days ago - aside from Bard, who was shown in an old rulebook but never released at the time.
They are not new sculpts as such, but entirely new releases nonetheless.


I thought I recognised them, but asked a local Hobbit player as I don't play much - he said they'd been out a while. Their description says "These three miniatures are normally event exclusives, but they are available through our Made to Order service for one week only".
They will apparently be event exclusives from now on (starting at NOVA). Online availability, albeit for a limited time, is a nice option for the many people never attending said events, seems a good move.

Shame they don't have 360 views on the website - both Elves could do with some additional angles to see what they're like.


The WarCom article clarifies it - "The three amazing Defenders of Laketown models are available online for one week only! After that, they are going to be event-exclusive models – in fact, they’re available at the NOVA Open this weekend – but if you don’t want to wait until the next event you attend to get your hands on Bard the Bowman, Legolas and Tauriel make sure that you order them now."


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They do look similar to existing sculpts - but I suppose there's only so many ways you can have an Elf shoot a bow...

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It’s a shame the two other event exclusive middle-earth packs (Ring bearers and Bilbo) they have at Nova didn’t make it to the Forge World MTO.
   
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 cuda1179 wrote:
Of note, Saggitarum Custodians are now TROOPS!!!! Thank God, I have 25 of them.


That’s awesome.

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Aeneades wrote:
It’s a shame the two other event exclusive middle-earth packs (Ring bearers and Bilbo) they have at Nova didn’t make it to the Forge World MTO.
Indeed, had especially hoped for the Ringbearers to be a normal release (they're not quite the same as just a new pose after all).
Given FW's current shipping policy (very expensive when ordering just 1 blister), having spread-out limited time releases is.. not great. Though I'd prefer them to become available in a similar MTO way if the alternative is not at all...
Maybe seeing how the Bard/Tauriel/Legolas kit shifts is a bit of a trial for this system.
   
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They probably got complaints that people couldn't afford all the MTO at once (or GW did) so FW is doing it the other way.

 warboss wrote:
Is there a permanent stickied thread for Chaos players to complain every time someone/anyone gets models or rules besides them? If not, there should be.
 
   
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About that Ring Bearer pack. It's got Bilbo, Frodo, Sam and Gollem and... who?

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
About that Ring Bearer pack. It's got Bilbo, Frodo, Sam and Gollem and... who?


Isildur.

 warboss wrote:
Is there a permanent stickied thread for Chaos players to complain every time someone/anyone gets models or rules besides them? If not, there should be.
 
   
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Apparently the pack doesn’t have Sam as he doesn’t have the ring as an option to take in the game. The other model is old Bilbo instead.
   
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Oh, Bilbo and Old Bilbo? I mean fair enough, but it would've been more fun to have Sam.

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Oh, Bilbo and Old Bilbo? I mean fair enough, but it would've been more fun to have Sam.

What is needs is the old "Frodo with the ring" mini.
If you're wondering what that is, it was a scenic base with footprints.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. 
   
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Quick question.
Have they mentioned at all plans for Dark Angels cataphractii shoulder pads?

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 cuda1179 wrote:
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-AU/Legio-Custodes-Ares-Gunship-2019

The previewed Ares flyer is up for preorder, and it's 40k rules are available for download. Of note, Saggitarum Custodians are now TROOPS!!!! Thank God, I have 25 of them.


Quite a few other changes in those rules, actually.
Adrastus weapons lost overheat.

Adrasite/Pyrithite Custodians: Elite -> Troops
Sagittarum Custodians: Heavy -> Troops
Galatus Dreadnought: +d3 attacks with the warblade instead of extra hits on unmodified sixes
Agamatus Jetbikes: Adrathic Devastator is flat 3 damage
Caladius Grav tank- seems like it got a weapon rebalance. Acellerator cannon dropped to S7 and flat 2 damage to match the telemon version, blaze cannon beam is now D3+3 damage instead of flat 3 and +12" range for both modes

Points changes:
Aquilon +5 per model
Caladius +20
Orion +40
Venatari -8 per model

Telemon Caestus -10/-10
Adrastite Spear -1
Adrastite Bolt Caliver -5
Aracnus Storm Cannon +5
Iliastus Accelerator Culverin +10
Infernus Incinerator -1
Lastrum Bolt cannon -2
Pyrithite Spear -4
Twin Iliastus Accelerator Cannon -10
Twin Las Pulsar -5
   
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Zone mortalis its in last chance to buy!!

Plastic Necromunda terrain incoming?

   
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That would be nice!

Though given the Badzone isn't available (unsure if dropped, or just sold out), could be 2D Necromunda is offski?

   
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Sad to see the Zone Mortalis go, I've never had the chance to play on it and likely never will.

   
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zamerion wrote:
Zone mortalis its in last chance to buy!!

Plastic Necromunda terrain incoming?



Unsure what to do here. I’ve always wanted an extra set of tiles but if plastic is coming.... these tiles were the best thing I ever bought from FW or GW. Incredibly versatile terrain. I would also be concerned that GW tiles will be plastered in skulls and loose the FW look. The lack of usable doors is all that’s putting me off.

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