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It’s big, it’s Tau and it’s here…

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With Games Day UK just a few weeks away, we at Forge World plan on sending out a newsletter each week with details on many of the new models and products we should have on display for you to drool over. This is the first of these ‘teaser’ newsletters and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to writing for quite a long time.
Thx,

Ewen Little,
Forge World.

40K Tau Manta – It’s finished!


For over a year now, Will Hayes has been working on a 40K scale Tau Manta and recently he was finally able to say it was finished. The Manta is by far the largest model that Games Workshop has ever produced, and by a long way too! The Manta measures 630mm/25 inches long and has a wingspan of 860mm/34 inches! Weighing in at 12.5 kilos/28 pounds, this beast weighs six times as much as a Thunderhawk Gunship, and that is before we put all the tanks and Battlesuits inside! Take a look at the pictures and you can see how massive this model truly is as it dwarfs the Thunderhawk sat next to it. Some people said it couldn’t be done, others that we could only make the Manta to a reduced scale. Piffle and poppycock. The Tau Manta is an exact 40K scale model and matches all our painstakingly drawn plans in every detail.

40K Tau Manta – In Detail

The overall shape of the Manta was finished months ago, but adding all the fine detail to a model of this size was a task of Herculean proportions for Will. More so that the Manta was always designed to have a fully working and detailed interior. The Manta has two decks: the upper deck is where you will find forty-eight seated resin Fire Warriors and six Gun Drones, overseen by a seated Tau Ethereal. They exit through doors that retract into the walls and then down to the landing zone via the hidden extendable ramp. On the lower deck are eight Tau Battlesuits, two Devilfish troop carriers and two Hammerhead battle-tanks. Once the Manta is near the ground, this whole deck drops down so the vehicles and Battlesuits can disembark and deploy rapidly. Further forward, towards the nose, four Air-Caste systems operators and two pilots control the prodigious amount of firepower that the Manta can bring to bear on the enemy. Sixteen Long-Barrelled Burst Cannon will scour any infantry or light vehicles from the landing zone while the Long-Barrelled Ion Cannon, Heavy Rail Guns, Missile Pods and battery of Seeker Missiles will make pretty short work of anything heavier. It is no word of a lie when I say that the Manta and the Hunter Cadre it carries is an entire Tau army! I want to make this perfectly clear; the two Devilfish, two Hammerheads, eight Battlesuits and six Gun Drones are all included in the Tau Manta kit.

40K Tau Manta – Availability


The Tau Manta is available to pre-order now for release from Monday October 9th, but if all goes according to plan, we should have a very limited number available to buy at Games Day UK. If you are serious about wanting to get a Tau Manta and collecting it at Games Day then please contact us and reserve one as these are not the quickest or easiest kits for us to manufacture and each one will be pretty much made to order!

Games Day UK

Forge World’s next show is the biggest and busiest of them all, Games Day UK at the NEC in Birmingham on Sunday September 24th. At a busy event like a Games Day Forge World can run out of some models very quickly, but we are happy to offer a free reservation service. Having what you want to buy from Forge World reserved for you means you don’t have to rush over first thing because we pick and pack your order a few days before the show and it is sitting waiting for you at our dedicated reservation collection point marked with a big red sign and flashing orange light. To place a reservation, just email us your name and a list of what you want to buy to forgeworld@games-workshop.co.uk or give us a call on 0115 916 8177 and we shall take care of the rest. Reservations must reach us by Monday September 18th so we have enough time to pack them up for you.

Forge World
Games Workshop
Willow Road, Lenton
Nottingham, NG7 2WS

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Welcome to the latest Forge World Newsletter. In today’s issue, amongst other things, I have details on ‘Imperial Armour Update 2006’ to share with you, some new 40K terrain pieces for your battlefields and a fleet list for our popular Battlefleet Gothic range of Tau spaceships. First of all we have a great new conversion set for some Chaos Renegade Militia for you to take a closer look at.
Thx,

Ewen Little,
Forge World.

Chaos Renegade Militia


Coming straight from the forthcoming Imperial Armour Volumes 5 and 6, the new Chaos Renegade Militia pack contains ten replacement head and torso pieces to convert Cadian Imperial Guardsmen into corrupted pawns of the Dark Powers. Complete with tattered uniforms and heavy breathing equipment to pump mind-corrupting chemicals and spores into the lungs of the deluded minions of the Ruinous Powers, these pieces were originally designed to be used along with the Cadian Shock Troops sprues, but, as we’ve discovered after playing with a few other kits, they have almost unlimited possibilities for conversions. Combining them with the Catachan and Warhammer Chaos Marauder sprues creates some very intimidating opponents for your enemy whilst, with a little bit of work, combining them with the Space Marine Scouts sprues can create some great infiltrators for the Alpha Legion. If you prefer your chaotic hordes a little more mutated, why not combine them with the Chaos Mutations and Warhammer Chaos Beastmen sprues? The possibilities don’t just end with the denizens of Chaos either, Savlar Chem-dogs and any Guard regiment using the Chem-inhalers doctrine, would be represented brilliantly by these pieces just by filing away or filling the Chaos Stars and raiding your bits box may provide you with all the bits you need to create some very sinister Servitors for your Inquisitor’s retinue.

Imperial Armour Update 2006

The new ‘Imperial Armour Update 2006’ book is quite different from previous editions as it brings together all the rules for the Imperial models and kits released since IA Volumes 1 and 2 and any ‘alien’ or non-Imperial models and kits not covered in IA Volumes 3 and 4. The book also contains all the vehicles, aircraft and monstrous creatures from the old paperback book ‘Imperial Armour 2’, updating them where necessary and bringing them into line with new Codexes. ‘Imperial Armour Update 2006’ is packed with forty-seven Imperial, Ork, Chaos, Tau, Necron and Eldar vehicle variants, as well as monstrous Tyranid and Ork creatures. The link below will show you a picture of the front cover so that you know what to look out for and a scan of the contents page which clearly shows how comprehensively ‘Imperial Armour Update 2006’ supplements the encyclopaedic Imperial Armour Volumes 1 through 4.

40K Tank Traps

Mark Bedford is a keen gamer as well as a model maker and he recently completed some new 40K Tank Traps and Sewer Entrances for use in 40K and Cities of Death games. Mark wanted his Tank Traps to have a heavier, more obviously 40K look than the older set Forge World have made for the last few years, and I for one think he has succeeded and given us a difficult choice between the two sets. Each new 40K Tank Traps set contains three pieces which, by using several sets, can be joined together to form complex defences and channel enemy vehicles towards your waiting heavy weapons teams.

Cities of Death – Sewer Rats Entrances


The Cities of Death supplement adds that extra dimension and character to playing games of 40K in a savage urban environment. For me, having models and scenery to accurately represent the Stratagems makes the game more realistic and enjoyable, so I was quite happy to discover Mark working on a set of Sewer Entrances for one of my favourite Stratagems; Sewer Rats! Having parts of your fighting force safe from enemy fire deep underground until they burst out from under the very feet of the enemy and blasting them to bits is a very nice thing.

Important Pre-order Information


The packs of Chaos Renegade Militia, ‘Imperial Armour Update 2006’, 40K Tank Traps and Sewer Entrances are all available to pre-order now both over the phone and online at the Forge World online store. All pre-orders will be shipped out in the order that we receive them from the release date of Monday September 11th, stocks allowing. Just click on the link below to be taken to the New Releases section of our online store.

Imperial Armour Volume 4 – Q&A


A few months ago Forge World released ‘Imperial Armour Volume 4 – The Anphelion Project’, the second of our large, super-detailed 40K campaign books. Quite a few avid readers and gamers have contacted Warwick with questions, some of which we received several times. With this in mind, it made sense for Warwick to write up a Q&A for the most popular questions, .pdf it and pop it onto the Forge World website. Here it is!

BFG Tau Fleet List

Next today we have the long awaited Tau fleet list for use with Battlefleet Gothic. In this .pdf document you will find brief background details on each ship, rules for each and the organisation list required to field entire fleets of Tau spaceships in games of Battlefleet Gothic.

Games Day UK

Forge World’s next show is the biggest and busiest of them all, Games Day UK at the NEC in Birmingham on Sunday September 24th. At a busy event like a Games Day Forge World can run out of some models very quickly, but we are happy to offer a free reservation service. Having what you want to buy from Forge World reserved for you means you don’t have to rush over first thing because we pick and pack your order a few days before the show and it is sitting waiting for you at our dedicated reservation collection point marked with a big red sign and flashing orange light. To place a reservation, just email us your name and a list of what you want to buy to forgeworld@games-workshop.co.uk or give us a call on 0115 916 8177 and we shall take care of the rest. Reservations must reach us by Monday September 18th so we have enough time to pack them up for you.

Forge World
Games Workshop
Willow Road, Lenton
Nottingham, NG7 2WS

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Today’s Forge World Newsletter contains some news on our huge 40K scale Tau Manta, a suggestion for how to use our new Tau DX-4 Technical Drones and last order dates for some of our forthcoming shows. The main news feature for this issue is the release of several new Tyranid Carnifex biomorphs: Read on and enjoy.
Thx,

Ewen Little and Alan Bligh,
Forge World.

Tyranid Carnifex Biomorphs
A monstrous new development for your Tyranid collection is our new range of Wrecker biomorphs for Carnifexes designed by Daniel Cockersell. Available as either complete models or as several conversion kits, these new additions can easily be used to represent the Wrecker Stratagem option in Cities of Death games allowing you to smash your way through barricades and smash buildings to rubble. They are also perfect for representing numerous biomorphs taken from the Tyranid Codex such as Crushing Claws, Reinforced Chitin, Thornback, Tusked, Tail-Weapon Scythe and more. We have taken the opportunity to present an example of a fully biomorphed ‘Stone-Crusher’ Carnifex below using all of our new upgrades. Also, those among you with a taste for Chaos might consider using our new wrecker components to make for a particularly monstrous daemon possessed Dreadnought or brutal Daemon Prince! Each of these great new conversion parts and the complete Carnifex models are available to pre-order now for release from Monday July 31st.

Stone-Crusher Carnifex
Stone-Crushers are seen at the vanguard of the swarm’s assault against besieged positions where their strength and savagery make a mockery of the strongest fortifications to slaughter the defenders within. Carnifex (85 points) + Crushing Claws (25 points) + Thornback (15 points) + Tusked (10 points) + Extended Carapace (25 points) + Toxin Sacks (6 points) + Tail Weapon – Scythe (10 points) + Rending Claws (3 points) = 179 points. Alan has told me that this beast could get up to eight S10 attacks when charging!

40K Tau Manta – The wait is nearly over…
Earlier this week, Will Hayes finished work on the master model of our long awaited Tau Manta. This monstrous model is now going off into the mysterious world of ‘pre-production’ where they do all that is necessary to prepare each part for casting. When we last weighed the Manta, it measured in at over 13 kilogrammes/29 pounds! We don’t know how much it will cost just yet, but any further news and photos of this amazing model will appear in the Forge World Newsletter soon. As of today, Forge World hope to be able to release the 40K Tau Manta in October and if we are lucky, we also hope to have a few pre-release Mantas on display and for sale at Games Day UK at the end of September. There, the Manta will be just one of many new and exciting models and releases we hope to have completed.

Tau DX-4 Technical Drones
We showed these cool little models to you in our last newsletter and judging by the amount of pre-orders they are quite popular. A long-time customer emailed us to suggest using them as the spotter/controller for Tau Sniper Drone teams! We thought was a great idea and decided to share it with you all in this issue. Cheers Shep!
Photos are only a click away…

Shows and Events
These are the last order dates for show reservations so we can pick, pack and get your order out to the show in time for collection: The War and Peace Show 2006, July 16th. Games Day Chicago, July 21st. Games Day Germany, July 28th. Just send us an email titled ‘War and Peace Reservation’, ‘Games Day Chicago Reservation’ or ‘Games Day Germany Reservation’ with a list of what you want to collect, and your name to forgeworld@games-workshop.co.uk, or call us on +44 115 916 8177 and we’ll take care of it for you.

If you would like to place a pre-order the link below will take you to the ‘New Releases’ section of the Forge World online store.
Click here to go to the Forge World online store

Forge World
Games Workshop
Willow Road, Lenton
Nottingham, NG7 2WS

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