Space Wolves Are Goin’ Airbourne With Stormfang Flyer
July 21, 2014 by brennon
The Space Wolves of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 are heading into the skies with their new Stormfang Flyer that has practically JUST this minute hit the internet as a leak...
The rules for this beast, that looks a lot like the assault craft used by Space Marines for boarding actions, are going to be in this White Dwarf and will no doubt divulge if this thing is simply for gunning things down or if it will transport Space Wolves as well. It does look a lot like the board craft as I mentioned before so one hopes so.
Of course I imagine the rules for this will leak before the weekend so don't worry too much about it!
What do you think?
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OMG, that is the ugliest flyer I’ve ever seen: a sea can with utterly useless vestigial wings. Note how the lower turbines are blocked by what might be missile racks lol. Truly designed by a committee.
Good, good, let the hate flow through you…
Now THAT was funny.
Haters gonna hate lol 😉
The only time comments get over 100 (or even 50…) is if BoW is giving away a prize or there is an article on a GW product… I love our hobby and the extremes we can achieve. 😀
you can build more streamlined flyers with lego bricks, even the duplo kind
it was styled after the brick of cash bills needed to buy it?
That design is so bad that I could not help but to face palm when I first saw it.
Am I the only person who thinks this is awesome and fits in with the space wolves?
It’s a big brutish beast that looks just as capable of bashing stuff in the head as firing rockets at it.
After all, it is just a game and the fluff is all over-the-top sci-fi stuff with disruptor fields and teleportation – so why couldn’t this fly? It’s future science, that’s all we need to know lol.
No I love it too!
A flying longship! And armed to the teeth.
Looks like one of the Cestus Assault Ram concept sketches. I’d have liked the cockpit a little further forward but I’ll take it. The weapons array looks like it could handle itself and safely deliver her cargo to the thick of the fighting
Because the fluff specifically says it can’t, that’s why. The Imperium has very low tech. In fact the idea that the Dark Angels somehow have a Jet Bike is a miracle.
If you’re going to start trying to rationalise Imperium tech @poosh , then why is it they can’t build a jet bike, but they can build a landspeeder?
Likely it’s that they can’t build anymore small enough crav engine and spare parts for it that would be required for jet bike while they can make crav engine and spare parts for it that’s proper size for Land Speeder. Different sized vehicle needs different sized engine I can assume that crav technology is no different in that.
Exactly what I was thinking. Imperials can only make big grav engines, not miniature ones. Having said that, there’s plenty of servo skulls floating around so maybe we should just accept that they can make what they know how to make.
Tech so low that if you fire a rocket the back blast will shut down the lower turbine, which is already starved for intake. Hmmm… why don’t we put the missiles/rockets on hard points on the wing stubs, which obviously have nothing to do with aerodynamic performance? Duh. Why make the tech unlikely when you can make it stupid. I was trying to think what this reminded me of. Then it hit me. This is my $30 brick idea from a while back! Here was my original post: “If GW took your average home construction sixty-cent fired red brick, 2… Read more »
Total elitist crap. I couldn’t give a toss whether you like this or not. That also goes got any other miniature, rule book or any other product by any company, but when you sink to the level of taking the piss out of a company’s customers @poosh you just come across as an idiot.
Very sorry @poosh I typed your name in error in that last post. I of course meant @cpauls1 . My sincere apologies.
Not elitist at all, and obviously you do care.
My point is, if we do not hold companies like GW to a higher standard they will continue to pump out garbage designed on a cocktail napkin on a three-martini lunch. Watching people debate the fluff so they can somehow shoehorn it into a bad design is certainly entertaining, but I’d much rather see people get a pair and let GW know that they need to produce a better product.
The loyalty of GW customers is unfathomable, the envy of other game companies, and totally undeserved.
No really. I absolutely do not care whether you like this product or not. What annoys me is that you cannot admit that this is a matter of taste and that some people might actually like it. Instead @cspaul1 you assume that because you don’t like it then the people who do must be idiots rather than just accepting that different people like different things.
You’re not listening again…
No again you’re just assuming that the entire world secretly agrees with you. Debating the fluff to shoehorn in a bad design? No, I’m debating fluff to shoehorn in a design that I really, really like. As for elitism; you’re basically accusing GW customers of being undiscerning idiots willing to buy any old crap. Given that you are effectively insulting the players of the largest sci fi wargame, that seems to be the very definition of elitism. Oh if only they could all be as clever as you and see the light! The reality is that GW customers are people… Read more »
I’m entitled to my opinion as well. If you’re going to consistently position yourself on the wrong end of a non-argument, and end it with a personal attack you should rethink your comments.
Yeah that’s right, you can be an elitist jerk and insult every GW customer, then get all hurt when somebody calls you a mean word. That is your right.
I’m not at all offended. I was referring to your dignity.
actually there is a perfectly legit reason for all of that, albeit slightly convenient: they know how to build landspeeders from the Standard Template thingies, but they have lost the more advanced jetbikes etc.
GW *DID* work this stuff out. Once upon a time.
They even have a perfectly good reason for why the Imperium doesn’t use robots or AI (basically Terminator happened).
Once upon a time the Imperium did have “jet cycles” back in first edition.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v-QnkPLGATg/S3TSjVElWLI/AAAAAAAABN8/f8CiPFmKt_A/s800/jetbike1.jpg
Go on then Poosh enlighten us with your specific reference in the fluff that says that this flyer could not fly compared to a caestus assault ram that is still in active service and is used by the Space Wolves.
The Imperium do not have tech that allows them to avoid aerodynamics and all gravity, I’ve always assumed the Tau and Eldar do, and everyone else. Being able to skim across the land a few meters is the best the Imperium can do. They cannot have a heavy object fly around half the planet doing somersaults like a mofo like most can. This is because the Imperium is in a tech dark age, and for good reasons. This is also why the Tau are expanding so fast, they are not bound by the same fears. The Imperium largely goes on… Read more »
I agree with you, this needs a lot of fluff to make sense as to why it’s designed the way it is. Even the older Space Marine flyers make some sense, some were VOTL’s, but for this, there are too many things in the way. Soon as it managed to take off it would droop to the bottom and start taking a nose dive due to the front. The Caestus Assault Ram is mainly used for space boarding and designed for direct impact with another ship, so it’s design makes sense. The new Stormfang Flyer is a gunship and not… Read more »
I like it 🙂
What people seem to miss is it appears to be a variation (read Space Wolves version) of a Caestus Assault Ram, so it’s therefore designed for void warfare / boarding assaults, not flying around in the atmosphere
But then why does it have intake turbines? Is that for the widely spaced hydrogen molecules in space?
Aircon…
lol
No.
I think it looks great.
It looks like the scifi version of a beach assault boat. Almost longboat esque.
Plus it is blunt and brutish. Pure Space Wolf.
Nope I love it too. Very 40k Imperium, if you ask me. In fact I think it will be the most sensible looking thing in a SW army…;-P
Oh GW you’re funny.
i’m thinking a small battle barge in design, suits the wolves
Exactly!
So that’s what he meant by 12% of a plan …
From flying toasters to flying shoeboxes. GW will cover all your flying box needs!
hey if you give it a pistol grip and remove the mini wings it kinda looks like a bolt postol
That is incredibly ugly and I like it 🙂
GW…. what happened to you?
i like it too. I wouldn’t imagine space wolves with a sleek flyer. so I suits them fine. cant wait to see the rules.
Well its not their worst model they made, but it is still a piss poor attempt at the cestus assault ram
I think this perfectly fits SM aesthetic. All SM vehicles are boxy and crude looking. It’s all about function rather than form. After all none of the flyers in 40k really look that aerodynamic and most of their stuff breaks currently known pysics.
I’m thinking I might remove the wolfy details and skulls and stick some shields on the side like it’s a longboat.
It looks like a reject from a Village Idiot’s Lego Construction competition
Hey, village idiot’s have feelings you know! My Lego construction rejects have passion and… Lego palm trees. I did my best OK 🙁
Huh, I didn’t realise GW were making footwear now.
Oh, wait..
I wonder if that dumb “cant teleport” thing will be present in the upcoming wolfdex.
According to current rumours it’s gone
Well done on a good looking flyer GW. I actually quite like it, just my personal taste. What I don’t like is seeing people slagging off the company for releasing something that isn’t to their taste, some people like it, some people don’t, GW have done nothing wrong here.
I hope it is a strong assault vehicle, as a Blood Angel player the game is ever leaning more towards shooty armies like Tau and making it more difficult for armies that love melee fighting.
I think what they’re trying to do is give across that sort of WW2 landing craft vibe.
If it’s based on some STC that has recently been discovered with like proper sci-fi grav engines that make it fly like a TIE FIGHTER then that’s fine. It’s functional and crude: but it can afford to be.
I think that’s the point – Imperial technology is all over the place; there really is no such thing as a consistent base level of Imperial tech because each design tends to be lifted directly from – or adapted from – an STC. Add to this the way that Standard Templates seem to have been created over a significant period of time by human cultures of differing levels of technical expertise and you get a real mish mash. While it is very likely that the Mechanicus of the 41st Millennium could build or even mass produce a Tie Fighter style… Read more »
Imo, there is only one of those aspects that is truly ridiculous; fixation for melee combat in a sci-fi setting .. sure other settings have it as well but 40k is absolutely fixated with it. The almighty power of close combat disables the shooting power of that power armour mounted heavy bolter, and all because a grot with a knife came too close. Imo, 40k have way too many technical marvels in its universe to ever justify melee expertise outside guerilla operations. Despite the “dark age of technology” i still dont think GW has explained the melee fixation well enough.… Read more »
I think the novels do that wonderfully actually.
Remember we do not live in the “power armour / mech age” yet. When we do, things will be different … possibly.
Power Armour is simply too advanced for most basic ballistic weapons to deal with. Only option is to Thunder Hammer it.
Thing is they spent time developing a thunder hammer in the first place :p instead of creating a ranged weapon that can do the same thing.
I actually really like it. Just hope I can work it into my Dark Angels army, or at least some version of vanilla Marines so that I won’t have to deal with the other, more “chibi” Space Marine flyers.
That my friend is where conversion work comes in. Its part of the true fun of the game 🙂
Personally I don’t like it but I can see how it fits with the Viking puppy esthetic. Also as I play Thousand Sons and would never play the Emperor’s lap dogs, I don’t have to worry about ever getting one.
ALL NEW SPACE WOLF FLYER!!!
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No one cares what anyone thinks about the space brick, but it sure is source for hot debate and general butthurtness.
..at this point we should all just be grateful it’s not a giant flying wolf with f*cking wings and a converted drop-pod sticking out of its ass.
A drop pod up the ass is stupid .. it would leave no room for the spinning tail in the back that works to reduce the labour for the marines working in the furnace.
Now that I’d buy for a dollar!
Probably one of the ugliest models GW have let out the doors, the transport version looks slightly better but it’s still butt ugly.