Games Workshop: 40K, Titanicus, Horus Heresy, & Battlefleet Gothic News & Plans
There was plenty of talking going on at the GW event this weekend outside of those new product pics. Here’s the latest on 40K, Horus Heresy, Titanicus and more Specialist Games.
This seminar news come from B&C’s Vogon who sat in on several Q&As with GW staff.
Thus I consider this news, that may be subject to change by GW, rather than rumors. I have broken these down by game system:
The Details:
Warhammer 40,000
There are plans for more campaign books for 40K.
Adeptus Titanicus
There will be new Adeptus Titanicus stuff coming out soon – check the community website in a couple of weeks.
They will be going Warhound size Ursus Claws. Now they have all the core weapons they will be able to make the more esoteric stuff. While chatting they dropped serious hints about a book covering the shadow crusade in Ultramar and the legions involved.
On the subject of AI and AT there are certainly plans afoot to expand on them in the seminar they mentioned there are 10,000 years of history to explore and the war of the beast and gargants could be one place to explore. They also said they would like to add tanks and ground troops (basically bringing back Epic) but this was a long way off. If they did it would likely be in the Heresy Era because that it the domain of specialist games and they can do what they like with it without having to defer to the main studios.
Horus Heresy
The Heresy train is not stopping any time soon. Next book will be coming up and the “Road to Thramas” will be on the community page for all to see.
Dark Mechanicum will be getting their own book eventually. Once they started putting it together they realised there was way too much content for cramming into another book. There will be demonically possessed machines and all the good stuff from the Black Library books.
When I spoke to Andy Hoare in the main hall we did talk about the war in the web way and the possibility of that being a campaign book. He says he wants to but that he’s not sure how. Massed ranks of Custodes would be cool. Zephon might get his own model 😉
Aeronautica Imperialis
When I asked about Eclipse class interceptors Andy said that they put things like that in the books so they can expand later, mentioning Aeronautica Imperialis so we may see models yet.
Battlefleet Gothic
Battle Fleet Gothic is still on the to do list but nothing has been started yet. Once they do it will be a multi year project before we see anything. They don’t have the resources to devote to it right now.
~Have at it folks!
