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GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:43 am
by Primarch
Love the idea or hate it, rumours are starting to flow about the 'Fliers' expansion for the summer.
Still rumored as July wd rule set
Apoc style rules, strafing/bombing runs, rapid insertion/extraction, special missions, dogfighting?
Thunder hawk is NOT likely
Codex based releases...
Dark eldar raven
Eldar night wing?
Ig hydra
Nid harpy
Non codex releases...
Ig thunderbolt
Csm hell blade
Tau remora
No necron release?
Ork fighta/bomma
No SM release?
Suspected non codex releases will only be rules...models already FW...
Necrons may get something with their codex.
Raven/night wing likely to be combined kit.
So, it'll be like spearhead but with more wings and less tracks. I'm a bit sad at the rumour that the TBolt wont be getting a plastic kit.
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:39 am
by me_in_japan
the current nightwing is very nice, so as long as they dont stray too far from that design Ill be fine with it, aesthetically.
rules wise, and fluff wise?
probly better not to ask my opinion...
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:59 pm
by AndrewGPaul
Primarch wrote:So, it'll be like spearhead but with more wings and less tracks. I'm a bit sad at the rumour that the TBolt wont be getting a plastic kit.
I'm not; I don't have room for another one
. In any case, I prefer Forge World's styling on the Baneblade, Shadowsword and Leman Russ Vanquisher. The Thunerbolt would probably be the same.
Anyway, 40K's a stupid game to use aircraft in. Play Epic if you want that sort of thing. Or Aeronautica Imperialis for that matter.
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:51 pm
by Primarch
AndrewGPaul wrote:Primarch wrote:So, it'll be like spearhead but with more wings and less tracks. I'm a bit sad at the rumour that the TBolt wont be getting a plastic kit.
I'm not; I don't have room for another one
. In any case, I prefer Forge World's styling on the Baneblade, Shadowsword and Leman Russ Vanquisher. The Thunerbolt would probably be the same.
Anyway, 40K's a stupid game to use aircraft in. Play Epic if you want that sort of thing. Or Aeronautica Imperialis for that matter.
Yeah, I like FW's style, but not their pricing structure.
I dont know about the scale though. Mount those Tbolts and Fighta-Bommas onto 5 foot poles, clear out a large room and to heck with the ground pounders I say. Tally-Ho old chap! Huns at 3 o'clock high.
40k scale aronautica would be well cool.
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:59 pm
by Admiral-Badruck
until you knock over one of the 5 foot poles and your flyer smashes in to the floor.
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:05 pm
by Primarch
Admiral-Badruck wrote:until you knock over one of the 5 foot poles and your flyer smashes in to the floor.
But it's plastic not resin, so it'll be ok. Anyway, the table kicker is gone now so I'm sure if you mount the poles correctly you'll be fine.
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:11 pm
by Admiral-Badruck
I do not know anything about mounting poles...
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:23 pm
by AndrewGPaul
Primarch wrote:40k scale Aeronautica would be well cool.
It was - saw it at Games day, but it was too busy so I didn't get a go. They had a fenced off space and staffers moved the planes as directed by the players. They even had massive versions of the manoeuvre cards.
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:26 pm
by Admiral-Badruck
could be fun but I heaps of work I do not see it happening in Japan any time soon...
Re: GW's Summer of Fliers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:52 pm
by Konrad
We'd play...augh...Dawn Patrol, Blue Max? which was it ? A WW1 dogfighting game, much the same way, 1/72 scale models on poles. The plane was on a wire mounted to a clothespin to control altitude. But yeah, not a Japan-sized sort of activity.
Unless you wait for spring and play in the park.......Get those kids out of the sandbox! We're starting a bombing run!