It looks like Forge World will be releasing rules for close/closed quarters combat in the 41st millenium. It would certainly explain the rash of miniatures we have seen from FW that have a boarding party theme to them. The Assault Ram, the special HH boarding Marine etc. If you want a peak at the rules go
here. It looks very promising, I for one have always been interested in playing a boarding party, besides Space Hulk, in the 40k universe. It would be particularly cool to reenact some of the more legendary boardings from 40k. The Emperor boarding the Vengeful Spirit, Tyranids boarding the Biel-Tan Craft World, boarding of the Doom Engine etc. Just being able to have battles in underground bunker complexes would be cool. Doesn't seem like it would work out in a competitive environment but that's actually fine by me. Looks like I may have a reason to by the Caestus Assault Ram after all. Oh, and some of these too.
Here is a link
to the boarding party kits.
Cool picture from FW of the walls and a game in progress. You can find more
here.
I haven't seen those shield upgrades from FW, yet. What weapons are those?
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My Space Shark Terminators are going to do some definite boarding actions. My favorite part of Sci-fi.
You can find them here: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space_Marine-Infantry-Accessories?filter_reset=1
DeleteYa, I can't wait to have my SW board a Thousand Sons ship.
I am really interested in this. Are these the full set of rules or do we need to buy them somewhere on Forgeworld?
ReplyDeletePaul J.
It is looking like you need to buy the rules, this seems to be a sort of preliminary teaser.
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