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So we have all heard about the new lander for the Twilight Marines, and let’s face it, wether it is the Tantalus or the Stormraven it matters little. It is going to be a nice looking space marine vehicle which considering it’s armaments is going to be very popular. Okay, so my marines can’t take them. Say hello to apocalypse and a custom datasheet for a drop pod force with landers instead of pods. Now to save up to have enough to field a force of them!

Anyone else planning on getting the new miniatures to just paint, for parts or for adding to their armies as counts as or even apocalypse only units? I am pretty much in all those camps at the moment! If the descriptions are anything to go by, I will be getting boxes to add bits to my rather huge marine collection and to add to my bits box for future conversions…

After having a read through the new space wolf codex, I am thinking of getting together an army of units that will be fun to convert and paint. Hopefully it won’t be too rubbish on the tabletop either!

My thoughts are getting a strong yet functional force broken into two parts, much like a hammer and anvil build.

Canis Wolfborn and a unit of Thunderwolf cavalry along with a unit of fenrisian wolves supported by a landspeeder squadron as an outflanking or assault element.

The other force component would be a couple of squads of grey hunters, one of wolf guard, a dread or two, a unit of long fangs and a Rune priest. Additions would be some transports for the squads or some more artillery either being more long fangs or vindicators or whirlwinds. More so whirlwinds as the vindicator might be pushing templates too close to the assault elements!

A lone wolf would be nice to use to harass the enemy or make units disengage form the main attack to deal with him.

The thunderwolf cavalry are going to be mounted on converted juggernaughts of khorne, (unless the models are out quickly) which means I get scary looking models leading the charge!

I just see this force lacking in heavy firepower, and lacking long range armor busting abilities. Perhaps it is facing guard armies that make me think of how much I need to break armor! I can see this army is going to struggle against a deathwing army, or a heavy mech list. But once in close, I don’t see it being any problem at all.

The additional options would be to include a Wolf Lord with a saga that helps to bolster the grey hunter squads whilst they fight, but I see a psychic attack option being better for the force as a whole.

Once I get a chance to write it up, I will post it (without values of course)

Rumours out of GD Germany are saying that the NEW version of Space Hulk is coming, and is due this year!

Above is the rumored cover art, but I am pretty sure it is not going to look like this. (the terminator flamer is wrong, it is first edition space hulk in design)

New Space Hulk rumor from BoardGameGeek:

I have actually seen the prototype of the new version. They are testing it out here because it’s a niche market and they hope the information wouldn’t leak.. well, too bad they ran into a BGG’er.

Anyway, the new version involves the following:

– Plastic hallway pieces that stand on small legs so you can reach underneath with magnet sticks (explained beneath).

– Each miniature has a small magnet on its base. Addionally, genestealers are fitted with a small battery which makes them move their arms

– To reinforce the “realistic experience” (as stated in the manual), you are not allowed to touch the pieces directly but have to use magnetic sticks which you stick under the boards and use them to move the figures “remotely”. This sounds ridicilous but actually works just fine. GW stated that if this catches on, they think about including “magnet sticks” in the Warhammer series.

– SH has a new ruleset that does away with those pesky ” 4 action points” and “command points” and uses a much more elegant system: you throw a little 6-sided cube with numbers 1 to 6 on it; the number you see on the top when it stops rolling is the number of “action points” you have on the turn. Genious!

Anyway I would post some pics but I don’t want to breach the signed “prototype test” contract too much.

Cheers!

These are all from http://color-crayons.blogspot.com

* Possibly an October release.
* Possibly £60 or about $90 USD (this makes sense as it fits the price point of similar big box games such as Descent from FFG)
* 10 Terminators, all differently posed (though the uniqueness of each pose may only vary slightly, much like Assault on Black Reach Terminators)
* Terminator Captain with options for Thunder Hammer/Stormshield or Power weapon/Storm bolter.
* Librarian who’ll be ‘descending a set of stairs’
* Not sure about Genestealer stuff
* The tiles are going to be card.

Stuff that was sent to me that does tie in somewhat to the above info:

* Terminators will have 40mm scenic bases included, quite possible that they will be square. (the scenic bases rumor matches what we have seen regarding the Librarian’s ‘descending stairs’ rumor)
* The scale for the board spaces will likewise increase in size from the 30mm that Space Hulk has had for the past 2 editions to 40mm or 45mm square.
* The card tiles are said to be ‘embossed’.

I have no idea who sent me this, so take these rumors with the grain of salt that merits such anonymous info. If you have any info regarding the above please do not hesitate to comment and either confirm or dispute such rumors.

But if these do turn out to be true, then there are many things that these minor rumors do bring to light.

1. The rules are seeming to be based more on 1st ed than it is on 2nd ed. This is deduced by the inclusion of the Captain and Librarian. The rules are also changing because we see the Captain can now be armed with a Thunder Hammer/Storm shield. This option was not previously possible in 1st ed in any of its expansions. So we have at least a very vague glimpse into what the rules may look like.
2. The increase in base size for the Terminators and the possibility that they will be square makes sense if GW are to include scenic bases. Scenic bases for Terminators does not seem likely on a 25mm base, especially since the newer style of terminators do not exactly fit on 25mm bases to begin with. Also it makes sense because this is a standalone boardgame and square bases should have been included in the game originally anyways since facing is so important to the Space Hulk game mechanic.
3. Genestealers may likely share this new basing scheme. This is important because Genestealers will no longer topple over because of their high center of gravity versus their comparatively small bases they previously had.
4. The embossed card tiles may be a lackluster attempt at making the game marketable towards both the hobbyist and the boardgamer alike. Rumors about what the tiles are made of are so conflicting that it might be possible that the base game will include card tiles, but that there are plastic tiles made available through hobby shops or direct order for the hobbyists who play this game (which are GW’s main bread and butter nowadays. GW makes games to sell models, not models to sell games. This is GW’s frst attempt at an actual stand alone board game in over 15 years. I find it unlikely that GW will actually not try to make as much money off of this release as they possibly can. And that means making as much stuff for the hobbyists as they can).
5. The ‘embossed’ tiles also might possibly mean that they are vacuformed plastic tiles, much like what we saw with the 40K ‘moon crater’ set.