Forge World Fire Up New Flyers For Warhammer 40,000
September 30, 2017 by brennon
Forge World is taking to the skies with a flyer that is no doubt meant for combat, and another which might take a bit of a beating if it should find itself being shot at. Firstly, the Legio Custodes Orion Assault Dropship.
This is one High Sci-Fi looking and indeed very swish Dropship for you to add into your games. Shown here in the gold and deep crimson of the Legio Custodes it is used to drop the Emperor's Talons right into the thick of combat.
It comes armed with an Arachnus heavy blaze cannon and Lastrum bolt cannon meaning that you will be able to turn whatever infantry stands between you and objective into slag and bloody ribbons before they know what has hit them.
I think the overall design of the ship is very good but as I say, it's very much a different vehicle than we're used to for Warhammer 40,000. A lot of the Imperial vehicles are blocky affairs whilst this is decidedly sleeker and actually, has curves!
Imperial Arvus Lighter
When I talk about Imperial engineering this is more what I had in mind.
The Arvus is the typical way that goods and such would be ferried around worlds and between ships and the planet surface. It is blocky, looks like it would get blown up at a moments notice, and has no way to really defend itself. Perfect for giving to a section of Astra Militarum soldiers then?
It is cool to see that the actual interior of the cockpit for the hapless pilot has been detailed and I think a lot of purists are going to enjoy painting every angle of this piece before dropping it into a hectic battle.
What do you think about these new flyers?
"I think the overall design of the ship is very good but as I say, it's very much a different vehicle than we're used to for Warhammer 40,000..."
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That Legio Custodes dropship looks really good and is better of those two but Arvus is not bad either. Just too blocky for my taste.
The top one looks very much like the Mantic enforcer flyer
Indeed. My thinking was this when i saw it: it would fit my homebrew xcom (based on infinity minis/rules). And yes, the mantic enforcer flyer there serves as the Avenger transport.
Yes. I was just going to comment the same thing. The top one does look like the Mantic enforcer flyer.
Odd – I thought the Arvus was an old Forgeworld kit? Maybe it was just out of production for a while. Regardless it is a nice, generic looking light shuttle that I could use in a lot of different games!
They had to re-do the mould for it, been OOP for a while
the dropship is gorgeous. it has a kind of flash Gordon retro scifi look to it that i’m really feeling.
very stylish, very cool.
I love the Arvus. I have one on the Pile of Shame™.
The Arvus is awesome although the price is criminal given how crappy they are in-game.
The price is for the 1:1 scale working model. 🙂
two interesting looking ships.
I’ve been looking for the Arvus for a while to have something that my Scouts could feasibly use as an insertion vehicle undetected in the days prior to the launch of a full assault. Something no-one would bat an eyelid at on the ground of any given imperium influenced world. I had given up hope when I kinda convinced myself a Valkyrie would work just as well – but now I’m torn again. Looking at the Arvus again however, it’s £65 – and I could just forget to put the tail on the £41 Valkyrie and I’d get pretty much… Read more »
I wonder how much their version of matic’s flyer will cost
Two hundred and seventy five of the Queen’s finest pounds…
That top one has a sleek almost Tau look to it.
The Custodes flyer is for 30k / Horus Heresy only. No 40k rules
If only the Thunderhawk was that beautiful.
These things are getting too rich for my blood. I’ve seen some gorgeous conversions of the Marvel Quinjet toy… at $12.00 a throw. That’s where my money is going, with a few GW weapon bits attached (lascannon, rocket pods, etc.). Of course, if one of these showed up in my stocking this year…