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According to Dakka Dakka Games Workshop will release sometime this year, probably for the Apocalypse expansion a new Ork Mek with Supershoota.
Sounds like a fun model, no pictures.
I quite like the way that GW sometimes release models even though they are not releasing a codex or army. Reminds me of GW from yesteryear.
Games Workshop to close 35 shops after second profit warning…
Games Workshop yesterday issued its second profit warning this year and said it would close 35 loss-making shops. The warning sent shares in the company crashing by 21% to 260p.
The company plans to reduce its workforce by more than 10%, about 250 people, in an effort to save £7m a year, and will not be paying a full-year dividend, using the savings to pay for the restructuring of the group.
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Hello All,
Well the wait is finally over and we at Forge World are proud to present Imperial Armour Volume Five: The Siege of Vraks, the first part of an epic campaign for Warhammer 40,000. Following on in the tradition of our previous Imperial Armour releases, Volume Five is a lavish, large format 192-page hardback that also includes a massive double-sided poster map. It`s available to pre-order now and this newsletter is a sneak preview of what you`ll find inside.
Alan Bligh
Forge World
Cover In the Strife-Torn Scarus Sector, a World Falls into Darkness…
When the sector authorities realise that world of Vrax had fallen silent, no one could imagine the terrible war that would eventually follow. Vrax, a fortified Munitorium supply depot and storehouse for millions of tons of arms laid by against the eternal threat from the Eye of Terror, has succumbed to the megalomaniacal ambitions of one man; the treacherous and heretic Cardinal Xaphan. Its population isolated and led astray by Xaphan’s lies, its people are slowly corrupted and duped into the service of Chaos. In the gruelling war that follows the task of re-taking the world for the Imperium is given to the grim and relentless soldiers of the Death Korps of Krieg, but as the bloody siege develops other secretive and sinister forces gather, and soon the mysterious and dreaded Dark Angels appear with an agenda of their own…
The Siege of Vraks: Part 1 comprises an exhaustive and detailed narrative of the opening stages of the brutal war on Vraks, accompanied by many full-colour and black-and-white illustrations and maps, all finished to high standard you’ve come to expect from us. You`ll find included detailed background features for the forces that contest the rebel world; the Death Korps of Krieg, the Vraxian Renegade Militia and the Dark Angels intervention force including unit organisation charts, vehicle schematics and full colour layouts for each (not to mention some fantastic colour plates by the iconic artist Karl Kopinski). To help you fight your own war for Vrax the book includes two complete army lists; The Death Korps of Krieg Siege Regiment list and the Renegades & Heretics army list, along with all the new rules you’ll need (including those for the Marcharius Heavy Tank, Thudd Gun, Heavy Mortar, Gorgon Assault Carrier, Death Riders, Leman Russ Annihilator, Centaur Carrier, Ogyrn Berserkers and more.) The book also contains seven historical re-fight scenarios and appendices featuring up-to-date rules for using Forge World super-heavy vehicles and flyers in your battles.
Also with the book we`ve included a full-colour double-sided poster map A0 in size (that`s 33.1 inches [841mm] by 46.8 inches [1189mm] or 1m2!) One side is a detailed map of the Vrax siege battle zone illustrated by our own Paul Rudge, while the other features pages from the book detailing the Death Korps Siege Regiment`s organisation, uniforms and wargear. We`ve also made this poster available separately (supplied unfolded in special protective tube packaging), for those of you who`d like an extra one (or two) for your wall.
Order Now!
Imperial Armour Five: The Siege of Vrax Part 1 and the special poster is available now for pre-order and release from the 21st of May onwards, and what`s more the first 500 copies pre-ordered online will be individually signed by the book`s principle writer Warwick Kinrade!
All-in-all Volume Five I think is our most exciting and jam-packed publication to date, and remember that the epic story of the struggle for Vrax will continue in Imperial Armour Volume Six as the bitter conflict escalates and the forces of Chaos show their true hand…
New Forge World 2007 catalogue now available
We have just taken delivery of the brand new Forge World 2007 catalogue and started to send it out. If you have requested a free catalogue in the last few weeks then one will be on its way out to you very soon. If you haven’t and would like to receive one, just send us your name and postal address to forgeworldcatreq@games-workshop.co.uk and we’ll get one in the post to you just as soon as we can.
Forthcoming Events Forge World will be attending Games Day Atlanta on the 28th of April, and Games Day Canada on the 5th of May, where you’ll get a chance to get a sneak peak at some new releases and get hold of our Show Only Models. Unfortunately our reservation window for Games Day Atlanta has now closed, but if you`d like to place a reservation for Games Day Canada you still have until April the 29th to get that in to us, (just send an email titled `Games Day Canada` to forgeworld@games-workshop.co.uk telling us your name and a list of what you want to order, you’ll receive an email confirmation, and simply pick up and pay for it on the day).
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Games Workshop
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Nottingham, NG7 2WS
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The Warhammer buildings which I mentioned in a previous posting will be released (in the UK) on the 26th of May as a whole box set costing £75.
The first release for the new Warhammer Scenery, this set gives you a fantastic amount of scenery ot use in your games of Warhammer. This set contains the following items: 1 Fortified Manor, 1 Watchtower, 1 Chapel and 3 sets of Walls and fences. Not only does this save you £27 off buying the items individually, you also get the Watchtower and Chapel over a month before those items are released by themselves!!!
I do like these buildings and I am very tempted.
The future is assault submarines and the future is now…
If you look deep into my website you can find references to a set of rules I started writing called Crazy Ivan, which was a set of near-future submarine rules.
I never really got them finished (maybe I should create a wiki for them).
However I was reading The Register and found this wonderful article about how the US Navy is converting old Trident subs into troop (frogmen) carrying assault subs.
The rebuilt vessels can nowadays carry 66 elite special-forces frogmen, who will typically be Navy SEALs or possibly members of the new US Marines MARSOC outfit. Some reports suggest that up to 102 underwater warriors may be able to cram in for short periods. The subs will have a “dry hangar”, an underwater docking bay allowing the frogmen to deploy from their mother ship aboard SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDVs), minisubs which can carry them in to enemy coastlines.
The future is assault submarines and the future is now.
Though I am still not that far ahead in painting my Kommandos, I got the blister pack with the Ork Kommando with Burna today in Glasgow.
This is a nice model and I am impressed with the sculpting and casting.
I got chatting with the manager and he was talking about the new Ork vehicle(s) that *may* be released next year.
He talked about how the vehicle uses a single chassis, but you can use multiple chassis to build bigger Ork vehicles such as a Battlewagon.
It will be interesting to see how Games Workshop pulll this off, I can’t quite seeing how this would work myself, but I guess that it will work.
These are the upcoming new Warhammer Fantasy Buildings which Games Workshop will be releasing at some point in the future. There seem to be three buildings and there will also be a release of other terrain such as hills, fences and graveyards.
This is a boxed set looking like it contains both buildings, lots of other scenery and even the hills.
These are the other two buildings, which will be available as separate boxed sets.
I do quite like these, they don’t really fit in with my Steve Barber models, but they are nice.
Eldar Jetbikes.
Nicely painted.
From the display cabinets at GamesDay 2006.
Looking for some real Power Armour? Now available for real…
Finally all this research into artificial limbs and human strength augmentation — as if we’d want to lift stuff — has resulted in a robotic exoskeleton that doesn’t help your muscles do more, but instead allows them to do less. It was designed by researchers at University of Michigan, and is currently being tested on healthy subjects.
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Hello everyone,
And welcome to the first newsletter of 2007, and the first newsletter of what you can be sure will be a packed year of cool new stuff and hobby goodness from us here at Forge World. So without further ado, onto the news …oh, and a Happy New Year!
Alan Bligh
Forge World.
All Good Things..
One urgent piece of intelligence we have for you this newsletter is the ending of our holiday period postage offer. This offer will end at 9am on Monday January 8th. So, if you wish to benefit from our offer of free first class shipping to anywhere in the world on orders of £100 or more in value, including pre-orders for the new Death Korps of Krieg models released on January 29th, your orders must reach us by this date and time. (No exceptions, even for bribes and pledges of your eternal soul!) However, just to remind you that our offer of free express shipping on orders of £250 or more in value will continue as normal.
Screaming Jets!
The thunderous release of our new `Aeronautica Imperialis` game continues apace, and just to let all of you who have already ordered know, we started shipping them out en masse at the beginning of the week, with new stock of the various aircraft coming into us all the time. (And if you haven`t ordered a copy of our spiffy new game yet, why not? …all the cool kids are doing it). But just in case you need even more tempting you can take a look at some of the plush page spreads from this mighty lexicon of all things air war in the 41st millennium Here.
Some good news for Aeronautica players is that a free PDF formatted download of the Fuel & Ammo record sheet is available from our website for use in your games Here. This will save you having to photocopy the one in the back of your rulebook, -just download and play.
Also, packs of the full colour `Aeronautica Imperialis` manoeuvre cards (containing 2 sheets each) are available to purchase separately now from our online store Here. These are the same cards that you get with the rulebook, but we thought they’d be handy if for those of you with budding squadrons on the way and wanted extra.
Keep an eye out of for more `Aeronautica Imperialis` releases in the coming months, which will include every aircraft that`s included in the new rulebook, from the Thunderhawk Gunship to the Phoenix Bomber, more details on just `what and when` you will find in forthcoming newsletters.
Thudd Guns (and an apology)
As you may know, the new Imperial Quad-Launcher, better known as the Thudd Gun, is currently available to pre-order from us (you can find it on our online store Here), unfortunately a mistake on our part meant that you couldn’t download the advertised experimental rules, so our apologies for that, -you can quite definitely get hold of them Here, (and those responsible for the hiccup will be kept away from an over-abundance seasonal `cheer` in the future, fear not!).
Also to whet your appetite for these devices of battlefield slaughter, you can find a painted example of this new artillery piece Here. More Death Korps of Krieg stuff coming soon
Forge World
Games Workshop
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Nottingham, NG7 2WS
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