FW Open Day News and Rumours Thread

[eldargal]

If I were a Necron player I'd be mightily miffed, that's a minute selection of units and most are just variants of codex units.

[Anggul]

These new HH vehicles are all looking like Tau vehicles, especially that Fellblade variant.

[eldargal]

Not really.

[Anggul]

It's the smooth curves and the indented lines running around them, they look very similar. That Fellglaive turret almost looks like it could be a Hammerhead turret.

Those Palantines are lovely, I hope the EC also get Fulgrim's Phoenix Guard, it would be great to see them battling Morlock Guard.

[Gotthammer]

If I were a Necron player I'd be mightily miffed, that's a minute selection of units and most are just variants of codex units.

This is my face at that news:




It's like IA11's treatment of the Corsairs all over again.

[eldargal]

Yup, but IA11 had the redeeming virtue of also having the phantom titan, lynx, hornets, wasps, shadow spectres, phoenix lord, warp hunter as well as the corsairs. I was actually looking forward to IA12 if only because it brings a hopefully Dark Eldar laden IA13 closer. Now I'm not sure I want to set myself up for such disappointment.

[Heroka Vendile]

Glad to see I'm not the only one noticing a slight... "whiff" of familiarity to the land speeder
A lot of nice stuff there though, I admit to having always been a little indifferent to the Heresy range, but I'll never deny they're a nice addition.
In a way I sort of wish Fw would do for 40k what they've been doing for WFB lately - oddities, monsters and mercenaries - be nice to see a bit more of that in 40k (substituting "monsters" for new aliens of any kind).

That Dread Maw is a very tempting "surprise" for my games of Inquisitor

[Kirsten]

If I were a Necron player I'd be mightily miffed, that's a minute selection of units and most are just variants of codex units.

not really, there is a lot of necron stuff there, far more than minotaurs for example.

[4Krieg]

Nothing for guard :-( not a single new Krieg mini :-(

[eldargal]

not really, there is a lot of necron stuff there, far more than minotaurs for example.

The Minotaurs list is odd in that there are only HQ and heavy support. But the Minotaurs still have access to virtually the entire FW SM range, Necrons have a handful of things.

Don't misunderstand, I like that hte Minotaurs are getting some attention (classical themed chapters ftw) it's just that Necrons seem to be getting much less attention that even xenos armies usually get. For a book that is ostensibly focusing on war across an entire sector is just seems really sparse.