IA 12: Fall of Orpheus now available

[Gotthammer]

[URL="http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/IMPERIAL_ARMOUR_VOLUME_TWELVE_THE_FALL_OF_ORPHEUS. html"]from the Frog World:[/URL]

On the edge of the Segmentum Tempestus, the Orpheus Sector has stood as a bulwark against the outer darkness for millennia. Forged in war and preserved by the blood of the Imperium’s soldiers, it has stood against the privations of the Orks from without and the treachery of the Ruinous Powers from within, but now a new terror has risen that is beyond anything it has faced before.

From their cold tombs beneath forbidden and dead worlds rise the Necrons of the ancient Maynarkh Dynasty. Tainted by madness and abominable hunger, undying warrior-legions and the fearsome war engines of a lost age strike without warning, seeking to exterminate the humans that now infest their former domains. The Space Marines of the Minotaurs Chapter and the relentless armies of the Death Korps of Krieg stand ready to defend the sector, but can even these forces hold before the nightmare that has come to Orpheus?

[URL="http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/IMPERIAL_ARMOUR_VOLUME_TWELVE_THE_FALL_OF_ORPHEUS. html"]Imperial Armour Volume Twelve: The Fall of Orpheus[/URL], written by Alan Bligh, is a mighty 232-page, full colour tome, packed with lavish maps, colour profiles and photographs. The horrors of the Orphean War are recounted in detail, alongside a new variant Necron army list – the Dark Harvest – which represents the tainted Maynarkh Dynasty, and full rules for new Necron units such as the Night Shroud Bomber, the Canoptek Acanthrites and the mighty Tomb Citadel.

The book also contains a new Death Korps of Krieg army list – the Assault Brigade – updated background, units and characters for the Minotaurs Space Marine Chapter, as well as rules for numerous Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine units.

Imperial Armour Volume Twelve: The Fall of Orpheus is available to pre-order now, for despatch from Friday 3rd May. Our YouTube channel contains [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSku1oKFc1M"]an interview with writer Alan Bligh[/URL].

[Kirsten]

like the cover, definitely have to get one soon. Clearly Mr Garrison has designed the new necron skimming thingy there

[Tyrendian]

yeah I'll probably get one too... although there is far less Necron stuff in there than we all hoped...

[Mr Mystery]

Fortnight today and it'll be ordered.

Roll on pay day!

[Defenestratus]

LEMME GUESS

The imperials win :P

[Deadlift]

LEMME GUESS

The imperials win :P

Odds on I reckon, could be all their sparkly new stuff compared to the necrons handful of new units. I thought about buying it but after the lack of new stuff for the crons, I won't bother. And that thing on the front cover looks like a flying c-string thong.

[eldargal]

LEMME GUESS

The imperials win :P

Probably. At least with IA11 the Eldar goal wasn't destruction/conquest so both sides could convincingly be written as winning, hard to see how this could be the case with the Necrons who are much more about conquest in general. Maybe FW will surprise us and have the Necrons win but I doubt it.

[Kirsten]

the imperials don't win every campaign, there is no reason to assume they will win this one. It is called the Fall of Orpheus after all.

[Mr Mystery]

Erm....Taros? Imperial Loss. Anphleion? Imperial Loss. Vraks? Imperial Win. Castorol GTX? Imperial loss. Malestrom one? EVERYBODY lost, except The Tyrant....

Surprise? What surprise?

[eldargal]

They win most of 'em though. IA11 was The Doom of Mymeara and said doom was averted by the eldar success so I'm not sure that is indicative. I'll be thrilled to be wrong, but I'm just not sure FW can see past Marines at the moment.